Worry not, TO - no cane toads here! Just thought it might make 'em useful for a change! And it would give the Aussies something else to export...
I can relate to that! Wouldn't eat frogs' legs on principle, though - the animals aren't humanely killed, and there have been pest problems in...
The French eat a number of different species, including the one most commonly found in the UK - the Garden Snail (Helix aspersa, I think is its...
Bad luck, Pip. Wasn't meant to be, perhaps! Maybe something better's just around the corner... so better luck next time.(And I've been there -...
Looks like a mirid bug.... Don't know much about them, but I think it's one called Calocoris stysi:...
Great shot, Glen! Can't get near a single nest this year - I'm dead envious!
A Terry Pratchett link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_PratchettDone OK, hasn't he?!!!
Nicely done. LoL! I can't get the blighters to sit still long enough for the camera to focus!!!
Ah, Terry Pratchett.... He writes the "Discworld" novels - fantasy stories about highly comical witches and wizards and such stuff - with many a...
Vanessa cardui - the Painted Lady. (An easy one for a change!!!)LoL - we "crossed in the post"!You can tell flutterbys from moffs by the...
Having seen the flowers, Shiney, I'm now totally convinced by the Valeriana officinalis ID. Looks completely like the ilustrations in my...
Agreed! That's what made me uncertain - they look like single leaves, too, not several coming from a central stalk. Very sambucus-like, though, so...
Hi, K-G! I'm pretty sure it's not willowherb, but after that - I'm not sure. Could be Dwarf Elder (Sambucus ebulus) which is a tall and hefty...
Salut, le mec! Ã?â?¡a gaz? Chouette, ce forum, n'est-ce pas? [img]Yep - they're right - Catalpa bignoides, and very popular here, too. Our...
Been an odd year - the Orange Tips - usually the first butterflies, were late but lots of 'em. Then the usual range of species but fewer in...
Just for the record - a peck is TWO GALLONS!!! Like, sixteen pints.... seems rather a lot to me! Must be about four fluid ounces a year.......
Looks like a Garden Tiger Moth caterpillar - often called a "Woolly Bear" for obvious reasons....Colours are right, and it's found throughout...
Hi, Roders! Were these covered in water when you took the pic? They look like sea anemones waiting for the next tide so they can put their...
They're Soldier Beetles, Kryssy - Rhagonycha fulva - (and some would say doin' what soldiers have got a bit of a name for...!)We used to call...
Hmm... yes - see what you mean! I have to admit I don't have any ID guides which are pan-European, just UK ones. It's certainly related to the UK...
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