CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Throughout June many of the plants in the garden have been decorated with 'cuckoo spit', the frothy bubbles ...

Some recent garden insect visitors during the last week.  Thanks to Africa Gomez, author of the always fascinating  BugBlog  for IDing some ...

Some insects in our garden undergrowth (it's a jungle out there!) An anxious cabbage white butterfly, checking that the coast is ...

During this heatwave, the best time of the day to be in our garden is between 6am., when the sun creeps over the hedge, and 8am. when the d...

There has been a sudden emergence of these colourful froghoppers Cercopis vulnerata recently. These were photographed in Teesdale yest...

Too hot today to do anything except sit in the shade with a cool beer within easy reach and a camera with a macro lens, watching the frog...

Several bloggers have recently posted images of this gaudy little froghopper  Cercopis vulnerata , which reminded me that it's a long ti...

There were somedays over the Bank Holidays when it was so hot that, rather than plod all over the landscape in search of wildlife, I decided...