Speaking of bees. Another benefit of night time garden patrols is finding out what day flying insects do at night. Loads of the sedum heads have snoozing bees tucked up under them. Mostly male bees as far as I can tell which makes sense as they don't have a nest to go back to. Here's a male red tailed bumblebee.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My potatoes are being munched to death by bright–line brown-eye moth caterpillars. I'm not sure why it needs such a long name but I've put off harvesting the one bed until they've pupated. They will eat docks and other weeds though apparently so maybe I can move them off elsewhere. Or I could keep some in a container and feed them my split tomatoes I suppose. I probably shouldn't be encouraging a 'pest' species but there's tons of them and they're not making much of a dent in this crop. 'scuse the phone photo.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We have had bright-line brown-eye moths in the moth trap recently and didn't even know there was such a moth until we identified this in our reference book. Thank you for showing us the caterpillar @wild edges
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Is this a normal grasshopper? Why is he climbing up my window? 🧐
Lovely pic. We very rarely see them here, so I've no idea if he's normal or not!
@Papi Jo or @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool might be able to help.
That's gorgeous @pitter-patter. We apparently get them up here, but I've never seen one. Lovely
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.uksafari.com/jpeg3/speckledbc04.jpg
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Cool. Cheers Alan.