Brushed the cobwebs off the moth trap last night..............

Buff Tip

Cockchafer

I spent some time looking around Witley Common today. Whilst crouched down looking for invertebrates, this beetle flew in and landed beside me.

Rhagium bifasciatum

Some dodgy looking characters have been hanging around my Osmia rufa nestboxes.......... This tiny fly is Cacoxenus indagator. They lay their eggs in the pollen left in the cell by the bee.

Cacoxenus indagator

Osmia rufa

OK, so it's been over a year since I blogged................
Why the new interest? Well, the first Pan Species Listers' weekend is almost upon us and I have been looking at the blogs of my fellow listers.

Yesterday I went to Coates Common to see the Field Crickets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohIWEShJiY

I am struggling with a 'new' camera. For many years I took great (for me!) macro photos with a Canon Sureshot  S5. I scratched the lens and, eventually, got round to buying another. As yet, I have not managed a macro shot which is in focus.............