hoggers and David M..... if you plant, they will come, I have had small copper in both gardens that i have had. I have had them every year here so far. no idea where they come from.

Chris

Susie wrote:Oh! Now I'm envious! She looks full of eggs too.

hmmm..... it is a dilemma.... my grasshoppers are precious. do i want a garden full of agriope......... oh the joys of wildlife gardening

the small copper is still loitering for a third day
but the find of the day for me in the front "lawn", the gorgeous wasp spider.....chuffed

Lovely Small Copper and Common Blue Chris :D What's the butterfly total now? Have a goodun Wurzel for the garden as a whole? 28 species. :) but Dingy skipper, brown argus, small heath and green hairstreak have all been singletons that i know of. one possible purple Hair but that isn't included in t...

count me in.

redshank?

well i thought the year for the front garden was pretty much done after the butterflies but little did i know.... when darkness came it was a whole new ball game, the entire lawn was like this. https://www.flickr.com/photos/60372134@N07/14879599799/ an today i was checking the craneflies and hoppers...

a subject very close to my heart and as far as i am concerned a very often misrepresented subject, i hasten to add I am no expert though. one thing i would say though, do not limit your selections for butterflies only, a cloudy day and your garden could end up a fairly quiet place. so my list for bu...

cheers Neil.... I thought i was losing the plot.

Chris

Dusky thorn i would say.

Chris

Standing outside work today and a butterfly landed about 10 foot away. My immediate thought was oh wow, a green hairstreak, what's it doing here? it didn't stop for long and only as i was walking back into work i thought hang on..... it's a bit late. Is it unheard of?

Thanks
Chris

Kleidocerys resedae Birch Catkin Bug, by no means a definitive ID but a place to start.
http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteropte ... sedae.html

Chris

brown argus for me.apart from the general aggressive stance, there is normally white in the orange lunules on the hind wing of com. bl..

hebrew character possibly

no comma?

cracking list, both breeding and non-breeding.....

yep one of the house spiders, tegenaria sp.

large yellow underwing and mother of pearl

Dusky sallow

thanks Wurzel, sorry i missed your post. I have been decidedly slacking in my diary this year, mainly due to not really getting out and about, but today prompted me to. so the story of the front garden. The front garden was never a bowling green like many of the lawns down my road and every year i a...

yep from me too