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Last autumn my neighbour asked if he could trim back my lilac tree that was overhanging his garden. I agreed, went off to work, and came back to discover that not only had he cut the lilac down to th ...

Reading M. Mille's message, I thought that maybe it's time I bought the book. Do you still have any copies or will I have to get it from Amazon or elsewhere? I would like the authors to get some mon ...

Happy New Year to all you hoverfly enthusiasts, and I hope you all see some wonderful insects this year. (And manage to get some wonderful photos of them as well!)

This year my garden has a magnificent ragwort plant in flower (and a smaller one flowering as well), loads of buddleia flowers, long grass, stagnant water in a bowl, brambles in flower... in short, ev ...

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a564/angelathorne/PhotobombingHoverflyApril2014_zps05a51233.jpg

You wait ages for one, then another one comes along and pushes into the picture!

Excuse my ignorance, but can someone please tell me why hoverflies all seem to have such short antennae?
Most of the insects I have come across have much longer ones, presumably for a reason. (And ...

Hello all.
I am glad to report that this year I have already had a lot of hovers in the garden. I haven't been able to identify most of them, and my camera has gone a bit odd so I have no in-focus ...

Hopefully this will be the photo of the speedy hover as mentioned in my previous message...

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a564/angelathorne/Hoveronthenewflower10-8-2013_zps8f0aa108.jpg

I'd just bought a flowering plant and put it by the back door. A small hoverfly was on its way past, going to the fuchsia in the hanging basket, and I could see it almost screech to a halt and change ...

Unfortunately Roger, I haven't seen them again after that one romantic encounter. We don't have so many flowers left now for them to be attracted to the garden, but I will keep an eye on the few rema ...

I don't know how hovers are doing generally this year, but we seem to have had quite a few in the garden over the last two or three days. My most interesting sighting was two Volucella zonarias, not ...

Aha! Lovely beast. This is a link to Jean's Back Garden Moths picture (not the writing):

http://back-garden-moths.co.uk/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=60285&d=1374938771

Any chance of getting one of the photos of this onto the website? Having read the thread, I am fascinated to see it! (I have always thought that horseflies look marvellous, despite their horrible li ...

Hello there.
How are you getting on with the spam now? There seems to be nothing unwanted on the site, but is that because they've stopped or is it because of all your hard work?

Thanks Roger, a homely little creature then. Smile