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During our weekly bird survey, Steve Wilson a fellow member of the Conservation and Wildlife Action Group (CWAG) spotted this lovely Treecreeper Certhia familiaris resting on the trunk of a tre...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2023/03/03/i-wish-i-was-special/

Although as a child birds were my first true love and I spent many many hours drawing them obsessively. As an adult l’m only an ‘every now and again’ sort of birder. Insects, particularly b...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2023/02/05/squealing-in-the-reeds/

One of the pleasures of being the Wiltshire county recorder for Coleoptera is receiving emails from fellow recorders, particularly when they’ve found something interesting on their patch. For e...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2021/03/01/pure-gold-2/

I often meet up with Paul Darby ex Wiltshire Wildlife Trust for a pint and a bag of twiglets and inevitably our conversation turns to wildlife. Recently he brought along a couple of his old insec...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2018/03/07/pure-gold/

I was recently commissioned to design a nature board for a meadow in Hampshire. I’d hoped to get Richard Lewington to do the illustrations but unfortunately he was too busy working on other pro...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2017/10/22/rutpela-maculata/

I’ve made a conscious effort this year to improve my botany skills. That’s just a posher way of saying I’m endeavouring to put a name to some of the plants I see when I’m out looking for ...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2017/09/27/blue-fleabane/

Until 2004, the Blue Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni was thought to be very rare in Britain, possibly extinct although there were some historical records from southern England. Then in 2004 it...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2017/06/22/invasion/

I photographed this Four-banded Flower Bee Anthophora quadrimaculata during a weekend bee workshop run by Steven Falk, author of the recently published Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain ...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2016/09/10/four-banded-flower-bee/

The Small Blue Cupido minimus is the UK’s smallest resident butterfly. Females are chocolate brown whilst males, like the one pictured above photographed recently at Martin Down, have a silver...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2016/06/09/our-smallest-resident-butterfly/

While sorting through some old photos from 2008 I discovered this photo of a Sexton or The Common Burying Beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. These are useful beetles that bury the carcasses of...

https://entomacrographic.co.uk/2016/03/17/buried-but-not-forgotten/