I tried again but to no avail - I think I will have to invest in a fluorescent light if I'm going to have another go. Martin - I haven't been invited to a barbecue since the "newt incident". I can hardly blame them; the hostess was of a nervous disposition, and I think the newt was rather ...

(The "great unwashed" - any PE sites near Glastonbury?) Glastonbury Festival would only attract PE's if they've developed a liking for Range Rovers, air-conditioned yurts and organic venison burgers I know my grandfather employed pig manure as an attractant (in the pursuit of Iris, obviou...

quite frankly, with a description like this, it should be a controlled substance; "Belacan, a Malay variety of shrimp paste, is prepared from fresh tiny shrimp of a species known as geragau in Malay. These are mashed into a paste and buried for several months. The fermented shrimp are then dug ...

Cheddar Caveman - I have sent you a PM about this!

this brings me neatly to a question I wanted to ask but forgot about! family Satyridae (browns) is not given it's own listing on the UK butterflies title page - are they not considered to be a separate family? I was a bit confused because they're listed as a separate family in some of the books I've...

Hello, Cheddar Caveman! What's your local hunting ground? I'm quite near you, and wondered where you saw the Green Hairstreak? (I tried the name of the place you gave but could not get any results on multimap or google maps) Marble White is family Nymphalidae (I assumed it was under Pieridae too unt...

Felix - are you ever going to put us out of our misery?

I should've known when I started this topic that it would encourage some healthy debate! Patrick - your photos on flickr are far and away above what I would expect to be able to take - I was really impressed with your results, thank you, and everybody else who posted photos and points-of-view for co...

yeah, me and my limited 3D capabilities got a kind of "morph" effect too...

Sussex Kipper wrote:We also 'kicked off' the Purple Emperor season, with 'canopy sightings' of 3 males in Southwater Woods; 2 over the reliable 'Dogbarking' Master Trees and 1 brief glimpse in the Madgelands area.
Neil

I like the new title that M Oates has bestowed upon you on the PE website

thanks, JKT - I didn't get round to trying again last night, instead I went to bed early with a mug of Horlicks!

I'm thinking of trundling over to my parents' garden either tonight or tomorrow to try there instead.

we're talking 20 years ago here - whether that makes any difference. And in the semi-countryside. I'm not bad for lights around me where I am - of course being next to the sea helps, and the council ensure the street lights don't work half the time :lol: I've noticed that quite a few moths congregat...

I must admit, Trev, that I was consoled by the fact that if I did not attract any moths I had probably at least averted a shipping disaster

Used to do it all the time in my parents' garden with just a sheet and a torch with great results

Well, that went very poorly. I did not attract anything!

I didn't have much time after dusk as I had to go out at 11pm (after which I attracted more moths onto the front grill of my car than I'd seen at home all night).

Change of tactic tonight - I'm going to try the landward side of the building.

I've decided that tonight I'm going to take part in BC's "Moths Count" survey of garden moth life Unfortunately I do not have a garden - I live on the third and fourth stories of a Victorian block right on the beach - so I will be opening one of my sitting room windows and lowering out a t...

went up to Collard Hill yesterday - two Large Blues (my first! - thanks to the warden John Ankers for pointing me in the opposite direction to where all the other people were!), two Marbled Whites, two Common Blues, several Ringlets and Speckled Woods and many, many Meadow Browns. A superb morning, ...

Well, the weather in Somerset has been grotty for the last two days, and doesn't look like getting much better for the rest of the weekend - so I'm going to head up there early to try and get the best of the (possible) clear spells tomorrow

PS: Annie... You were talking about the fish weren't you? :cry: and you seemed such a nice person in your photo. Trev yes, I was talking about the fish :lol: ps I cropped my photo so you can't see my gigantic man-sized hands holding the trophies. Honestly, the original photo looks like I've had a h...

Sussex Kipper wrote:Hi all,
We actually (perhaps surprisingly!) look like quite a normal bunch - although the 'shockers' may yet expose themselves! Fantastic perch Trev! I'm guessing that's a 4 plusser from the Ouse?
Neil

I thought it was one of those singing Billy Big Bass things

here's me - I won the trophies for sword-fighting up Old Winchester Hill - I beat this really girly-looking chap with long hair and a leather jerkin