CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

We have all three of the commonest food plants for orange tip butterflies in the garden - hedge garlic ( Alliaria peti...

Lady's smock Cardamine pratensis , the native wild flower also known as cuckoo flower, is a food plant for the delightful .... ...

Back at the beginning of June orange tip butterflies were laying eggs on Jack-by-the-hedge (aka garlic mustard, aka hedge garlic) in our g...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes the way in which orange tip butterflies always seem to roost in the open, usually perched on a...

I've never seen an insect actually hit by a raindrop but I did once read an eyewitness account (of dubious reliability) o...

Back in May I posted some pictures of the very egg that this orange tip caterpillar hatched from and since then, with its hedge garlic pla...

There are two reasons for posting this picture of the familiar orange tip butterfly. The first is that thirty years ago, when I first moved ...