Paperback Writer - The Beatles

The old and often used cliché 'We Don't Do Micros', used here on the Blog for all too long, is now considered worn out. Lucky then that this decision coincides neatly with the purchase of this fabulous and fairly new publication which has stimulated me to begin a cautious journey into the virtually unknown. There are so many beautiful 'smaller' Insects that are simply admired before we release them with no idea as to identification, so it's now hoped that a few at least will get a name.

 Although we have never met, I know Phil Sterling

as the Dorset County Entomologist but no nothing

of his Co-Author Mark Parsons.

 On the other hand Illustrator Richard Lewington is a familiar name

to anyone who reads or uses Field Guides on most wild creatures.

Just look at those fabulous pictures!

and a few MICROS of our own. Some have Common English

names while the vast majority are described in Latin.
If indeed you should come across a mis-identification it would only
take a matter of seconds to put me right, which would be most welcome!

 MOTHER of PEARL

ENDOTRICHA FLAMMEALIS

 GOLD TRIANGLE

and good not only to see the

 MOORHENs

back on Parley Pond but also the first

 YOUNGSTERS

 of the Year.

 EMPEROR(ess) DRAGONFLY

ovi-positing.

 An unusually bold

 GREY HERON

 they rarely allow approach within 50 yards!

 ROOK

CORN MARIGOLD

7-SPOT LADYBIRD LARVAE
feeding on SPEAR THISTLE
and to end a few Moths that have been caught during the past 2 days.
* = New to the Property.

 LEAST CARPET*
one of the more scarce of the family group.

VESTAL
a migrant

 How does a creature develop to look like this

CANARY-SHOULDERED THORN

 DUSKY SALLOW*

LEAST YELLOW UNDERWING*

showing a flash of Yellow for a change.

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