https://bugmanjones.com/2025/10/15/more-books-for-sale/2025-10-21T13:45:45+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2025/06/22/microscopes-for-sale/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_7406.jpgIMG_7406https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_7405.jpgIMG_7405https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_7404.jpgIMG_7404https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_7403.jpgIMG_7403https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_7402.jpgIMG_74022025-06-30T10:55:49+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2025/03/06/books-for-sale/2025-03-13T19:35:40+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/07/18/this-bee-broke-my-dads-arm/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/photo.jpgphotophoto2024-01-31T13:19:46+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2023/06/20/down-with-butterflies/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/glanville-fritillary.jpgglanville-fritillary2023-07-24T22:02:38+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2023/04/21/i-spied-on-the-mi6-building/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/img_6742.jpgimg 6742img 67422023-04-21T18:36:17+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2023/03/29/shieldbugs-are-simple-things-but-still-fascinating/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/screenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.49.18.pngscreenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.49.18https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/screenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.48.09.pngscreenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.48.09https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/screenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.50.21.pngscreenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.50.21https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/screenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.49.38.pngscreenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.49.38https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/screenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.49.04.pngscreenshot-2023-03-29-at-09.49.04https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/01.03.a.1.-scan003.jpg01.03.A.1. Scan0032023-03-29T09:12:31+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2022/08/06/todays-favourite-beetle/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image0.jpegimage0image02022-08-08T12:15:55+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/01/10/the-search-for-britains-rarest-beetle/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/18-mound-small.jpg18. Mound smallIt looks like the right sort of rubble heap.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/7-receptor-small2.jpg7. Receptor smallIt's just a heap of rubble.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/13-fence-small2.jpg13. Fence smallBritain's smallest (and ugliest?) nature reserve.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/7-receptor-small1.jpg7. Receptor smallIt's just a heap of rubble.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/13-fence-small1.jpg13. Fence smallBritain's smallest (and ugliest?) nature reserve.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/7-receptor-small.jpg7. Receptor smallIt's just a heap of rubble.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/13-fence-small.jpg13. Fence smallBritain's smallest and ugliest nature reserve?https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/b-sclopeta.jpgB.sclopetaBrachinus sclopeta, the streaked ground beetle, painfully beautiful and mythically rare.2022-03-21T09:58:43+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2022/01/17/i-dont-collect-stamps-but/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image0.jpegimage0image02022-01-17T14:50:43+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2021/08/26/its-my-standard-line-i-did-a-survey-there/2024-03-13T19:33:27+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2021/04/10/im-not-the-only-one-finger-tip-searching/2021-04-10T07:21:49+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2021/03/14/in-case-of-emergency-break-glass/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/screenshot-2021-03-14-at-14.22.18.pngScreenshot 2021-03-14 at 14.22.18The Viceroy (upper left) has a continuous black band across the marginal cells of the hind wing. The Monarch (bottom left) has a central cell.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/img_7685.jpgIMG_7685Cincuenta pesos y tres mariposas.2021-03-15T15:45:17+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2020/12/14/the-move-to-the-country/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/img_0008.jpgIMG_0008Mr Sims's rear view of the house, showing the stained-glass window, but also the disreputable shed and some attractive drain pipes.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/img_0009.jpgIMG_0009An aerial photo of the house. This can only be a year or two before we moved in.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/img_7235.jpgIMG_7235Torendo, captured by local artist George Sims, showing a deceptively vehicle-free Station Road, as it no doubt was in July 1968.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/torendo-stained-glass-window.jpgTorendo stained glass windowIt was quite a few years before I realized that stained glass windows don't often feature in standard family homes.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/img_7231.jpgIMG_7231A very 1930s colour scheme.2020-12-14T08:39:24+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2020/10/08/an-aside-on-church-visits/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/img_6373-2.jpgIMG_6373 2The church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting, West Sussex.2020-10-09T12:21:58+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2020/08/07/anty-climax/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/img_1464.jpgIMG_1464People tend to cross over to avoid you if you start taking photos of the pavement. But if you look really close you can just make out the winged queen I'm interested in.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/img_6381.jpegIMG_6381Winged queen ant trotting across a Catford Paving slab. 2020-08-07T11:25:28+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2020/02/23/ive-been-working-on-a-new-book/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image0.jpegimage0image02020-02-24T09:29:56+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2019/09/12/the-jones-index-of-implied-menace/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/conopidae_-_sicus_ferrugineus..jpgConopidae - Sicus ferrugineusSicus ferrugineushttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/conops-flavipes-13-vii-2007-344.jpgConops-flavipes-13-VII-2007-344Conops flavipeshttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/strangalia-maculata1.jpgStrangalia maculata1The wasp longhorn, Rutpela (Strangalia) maculata is a frequent flower visitor.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/conopid002.jpgConopid002Conops quadifasciatahttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/conopid004.jpgConopid004Sicus ferrugineushttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/volucella-zonaria.jpgVolucella zonariahttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ctenophora_pectinicornis_bl.jpgCtenophora_pectinicornis_blFor some people the creepy long legs do it, for others it's the intimidating upturned spike of a tail.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/anthicus_floralis.dorsal-e1568291089848.jpgAnthicus_floralis.DorsalAnthicus floralis does look remarkably ant-like when it runs about at tope speed on the ground. But it's hardly a thing of nightmares.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/doros.pngDorosThe 'phantom' hoverfly, Doros profuges. I've filched this as a screenshot from https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sesia_apiformis_adult1.jpgSesia_apiformis_adult1One of the clearwing moths, named for their transparent unpatterned wings which make them look very wasp-like.2019-09-13T05:17:53+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2019/08/15/hallelujah-a-beetle-larva-to-bring-me-to-my-knees/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5990.jpgIMG_5990https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/04.-aa.-drilus-flavescens-mating.jpg04. AA. Drilus flavescens matingAt the time I thought this was the first photograph ever taken of Drilus flavescens mating.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5989.jpgIMG_5989https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_5986.jpgIMG_59862022-03-21T09:06:05+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2019/07/17/why-fossils-shouldnt-really-exist/2019-07-18T23:13:12+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2019/02/21/matchbox-production-line/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/img_1791.jpgimg 1791img 17912019-02-21T21:47:11+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2019/02/13/perspective/2019-02-13T15:22:31+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2019/01/08/wasps-watch-this-space/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.24.50.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.24.50https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.24.20.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.24.20https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.23.55.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.23.55https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.23.34.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.23.34https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.22.51.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.22.51https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.20.56.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.20.56https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.17.45.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.17.45https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.16.59.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.16.59https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screenshot-2019-01-08-at-09.16.47.pngscreenshot 2019-01-08 at 09.16.472019-01-08T09:31:17+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2018/10/12/make-way-the-arachno-ambassadors-are-coming/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/screen-shot-2018-10-12-at-08-50-03.pngScreen Shot 2018-10-12 at 08.50.03And no complaints from parents, either.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/img_1147.jpgIMG_1147Each spider was lovingly handled, like it was a favourite pet. Top tip: supermarket spice jars make the best containers — solid, clear, roomy, familiar.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/img_1152.jpgIMG_1152At the beginning of the lesson some pupils claimed to be frightened of spiders. Well that all changed.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/img_1145.jpgIMG_1145Colouring in the spider also gets across the subliminal message that they have eight legs, mostly eight eyes and only teeny-tiny jaws.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/img_1144.jpgIMG_1144What's in the jars? Why spiders of course. Everyone loves spiders.2018-10-12T09:41:45+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2018/08/15/seeing-through-the-caricature/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2560px-twelve-spotted_skimmer_male.jpg2560px-Twelve-spotted_Skimmer,_male12-spotted skimmer, image filched from Wikipedia.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/img_0652.jpgIMG_0652What is this thing doing in Ham House?2018-08-15T20:30:54+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2018/06/19/anatomically-correct-a-challenge-is-issued/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0362.jpgIMG_0362The wings of the thistle stem gall fly, Urophora cardui were a bit of a challenge, and I was running out of batter, so here's the gall instead.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0361.jpgIMG_0361Fluffy is difficult, but at least the proportions of the bee-fly, Bombylius major, are right, and the proboscis.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0355.jpgIMG_0355Hawthorn shieldbug, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale, showing the dominant scutellum plate.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0356.jpgIMG_0356Graphosoma italicum is a shieldbug to look out for on brownfield sites, just a vagrant so far in the British Isleshttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0357.jpgIMG_0357Water scorpion, Nepa cinerea, though breathing tube siphon is a bit stout.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0360.jpgIMG_0360Lobster moth caterpillar, surely the ugliest insect, but still a damn tasty pancake. https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0359.jpgIMG_0359Inspiration from the feline at my feet in the form of one of his fleas.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0358.jpgIMG_0358Rhododendron leafhopper, Graphocephala fennahi, I really need green for this one, but you get the idea.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_9566.jpgIMG_9566Ant — triangular head, narrow thorax, bulbous abdomen, geniculate antennae.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_9564.jpgIMG_9564Default bee-type thing — large front wings and small hind wings.2018-07-04T09:13:36+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2018/06/14/horse-and-stable-door-cat-and-bag-caterpillar-and-eradication-programme/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0274.jpgIMG_0274Caterpillar of Lymantria dispar, the gypsy moth.2018-06-14T16:44:42+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2018/06/08/were-back/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0171.jpgIMG_0171Everyone left clutching their precious certificate. https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_1176.jpgIMG_1176This is the cause of all the angst — Steatoda nobilis, a noble creature sadly darkened by being called a 'false widow'.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0172.jpgIMG_0172You'll notice the hornet on my back. And what're they near my neck? Neck-biting deer flies, obvs.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0168.jpgIMG_0168Featuring the all-new displays, bug-bunting and bags of large pebbles to stop the gazebo blowing about.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0166-2.jpgIMG_0166 2The photo-shoot before the rush. Please note the insect-themed cowichan-style jumper I'm sporting — that's a minotaur beetle and a stag beetle you can just make out on the front.2018-06-08T16:59:10+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2018/03/02/are-you-an-actor/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_9557.jpgIMG_9557Part of the newsletter from the South London Gallery explaining what the shed and its contents was all about.2018-03-07T12:53:03+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/about/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fonc2012-portrait.jpgFONC2012 portraitTrust me, I'm an entomologist.2020-09-29T12:49:02+00:00weekly0.6https://bugmanjones.com/2017/12/28/rare-versus-obscure-2/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/img_9109.jpgIMG_9109Small, but perfectly formed, except in the eye department.2017-12-28T17:28:51+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/11/29/shameless-plug-alert/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_9115.jpgIMG_9115Hardback and paperback; a minor rejig of the ladybird group, but otherwise a matching pair.2017-12-03T00:44:22+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/09/25/rare-versus-obscure/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizerender-15.jpgFullSizeRender 15At 5 mm long, narrow, and black, Pseudisobrachium subcyaneum is understated, to say the least.2017-09-25T10:59:46+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/09/03/ive-been-rather-busy/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/screen-shot-2017-09-03-at-09-44-41.pngScreen Shot 2017-09-03 at 09.44.412017-09-08T14:15:53+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/07/02/suddenly-my-office-is-full-of-entomologists/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/curious-entomologist.jpgCurious EntomologistOpen to all.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-12.jpgFullSizeRender 12Work in progress. Many specimens have already been extracted, identified and incorporated into my and others' reference collections.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-11.jpgFullSizeRender 11The Pinocchio weevil, Rhopalapion longirostre, the female, with her unfeasibly long nose.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-9.jpgFullSizeRender 9The elegant pubescent form of Lagria hirta, one of the darkling beetles.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-10.jpgFullSizeRender 10Mordellistena neuwaldeggiana, a nationally scarce skipping flower beetle.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-8.jpgFullSizeRender 8The gothic gargoyle of Issus coleoptratus, Britain's plumpest leaf-hopper.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-7.jpgFullSizeRender 7A Urophora — we had a good crop of picture-winged flies.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-6.jpgFullSizeRender 6One of the many Tephritis species on thistles.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizerender-5.jpgFullSizeRender 5Ant size differential — Leptothorax (left) and Myrmica https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_7614.jpgIMG_7614Suddenly my office is full of entomologists.2017-07-02T06:51:04+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/06/20/hey-did-you-know-i-was-on-the-telly/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-15-at-21-37-24.pngScreen Shot 2017-06-15 at 21.37.24https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-15-at-21-37-10.pngScreen Shot 2017-06-15 at 21.37.10https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-15-at-21-29-46.pngScreen Shot 2017-06-15 at 21.29.46Chris reads an extract to an obviously enthralled Lindsey Chapman 2017-06-21T20:48:06+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/04/28/messing-with-the-data/2017-04-28T16:47:05+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/03/08/digging-up-a-minotaur-is-really-quite-a-feat/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/img_6335.jpgIMG_6335In a hole in the ground there lived a .....https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/img_1308.jpgIMG_1308A dung beetle in the hand is worth....https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/img_1307.jpgIMG_13072017-03-08T08:51:40+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2017/01/19/nature-calls/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/fullsizerender-9.jpgfullsizerender-9I'll go withhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/15936396_10154877833488210_5389102982384289114_o-2.jpg15936396_10154877833488210_5389102982384289114_o-2A tasty menu to get the intellectual juices flowing.2017-01-19T08:58:01+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/11/23/roll-up-roll-up-last-available-hardbacks-flying-off-the-shelves-they-are/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img_5915.jpgimg_5915Soon to be collectors' items.2017-05-01T14:47:01+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/05/15/i-give-you-the-farting-beetle/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-1.jpgphoto-1Well of course a bombardier beetle word search will have the word 'bottom' in it.2016-11-16T15:23:44+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/11/13/benhs-2016-less-of-the-same/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-13-59-42-e1479064539808.jpg2016-11-12-13-59-42Not lunch, part of a sawfly exhibit.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-13-59-19.jpg2016-11-12-13-59-19Having been passed by for decades, maybe ichneumons will be the next burgeoning interest group.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-13-58-03.jpg2016-11-12-13-58-03View 4.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-13-57-56.jpg2016-11-12-13-57-56View 3.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-13-57-48.jpg2016-11-12-13-57-48View 2.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-13-18-11.jpg2016-11-12-13-18-11My specimen of ???? is photographed for the Society's journal. Despite being misidentified. More later....https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-12-47-38-e1479064365293.jpg2016-11-12-12-47-38I'm always super impressed by this spectacular moth; never found one myself.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-12-43-27.jpg2016-11-12-12-43-27This lovely insect is spreading far and wide now, after arriving about 8 years ago.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-12-38-52.jpg2016-11-12-12-38-52If you find a spider in the bananas you call the Daily Mail, if you find a psychid larval case you exhibit it here.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-12-12-36-25.jpg2016-11-12-12-36-252016-11-13T21:41:15+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/10/17/beetling-in-public/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/screen-shot-2016-10-17-at-09-16-51.pngscreen-shot-2016-10-17-at-09-16-51A pretty rubbish picture of Chrysolina americana, the rosemary beetle, but clearly showing the metallic red and green stripes.2016-10-17T13:28:15+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/08/04/that-time-i-nearly-killed-my-grandmother/2016-09-27T07:50:11+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/09/26/curiouser-and-curiouser/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender31.jpgfullsizerender3A Psylus parasitoid wasp, possibly P. cornutus, greeted by cries of "urgh, evil-looking thing" down the microscope. Easy to see where Ridley Scott got his inspiration for the Alien movies.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender21.jpgfullsizerender2Rhyzobius chrysomeloides, only recognized as British in 1996, and distinguished from the ubiquitous R. litura by the angle at which the pronotum meets the shoulders of the wing-cases.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender11.jpgfullsizerender1Pogonochaerus hispidus, a small (4.5mm) longhorn, beautifully camouflaged on a lichen-coloured tree trunk. Distinguished by the small spines at the tip of the wing-cases and the all-black scutellum. Not easily visible in the field, even with a hand lens.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender4.jpgfullsizerenderNephus quadrimaculatus, a tiny (1.8mm) ladybird, and until recently considered very rare; it appears to be increasing in central and south-eastern England, where it is sometimes beaten from ivy.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5601.jpgimg_5601https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5599.jpgimg_5599https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5597.jpgimg_5597There's a mild frisson of excitement looking for insects down the side of a public golf course, but there were no injuries today.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5596.jpgimg_5596Soon everyone had got this looking-into-nets thing off pat.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5595.jpgimg_5595More looking into nets.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5594.jpgimg_5594Learning how to look down into a net is an important skill.2016-09-26T08:21:53+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/06/08/the-power-of-dressing-right/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_4338.jpgIMG_4338The entomologist poses with his net.2016-09-16T19:50:01+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/09/12/dacres-wood-first-of-the-new-batch-of-curious-entomologists/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/screen-shot-2016-09-12-at-06-16-53.pngscreen-shot-2016-09-12-at-06-16-53Easy equipment and materialshttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/screen-shot-2016-09-12-at-06-19-00.pngscreen-shot-2016-09-12-at-06-19-00List of entry-level books to get started.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/screen-shot-2016-09-11-at-22-42-20.pngscreen-shot-2016-09-11-at-22-42-20Setting styles and data labelshttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender2.jpgfullsizerenderFemale wasp-nest beetle, Metoecus paradoxus, found dead, possibly caught in a spider web.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender1.jpgfullsizerenderChorisops nagatomii, one of the soldier flies. Ostensibly the scarcer of the two species in this genus.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender.jpgfullsizerenderThree (possibly four) species of the distinctive goggle-eyed rove beetle genus Stenushttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5498.jpgimg_5498My favoured T-shaped desk arrangement. I can demonstrate on the stem of the T and the trailing extension lead to power the lights can be draped under my feet.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5489.jpgimg_5489This is my portable laboratory. It contains everything I need: hand lens, pins, gum, fine paint-brushes, card, mounting strips, tweezers.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_5496.jpgimg_5496Someone with an insect net, and it's not me. Dacres Wood is, as its name suggests, mostly woodland, but there is a pond-cum-marshy area too.2016-09-12T08:32:27+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/08/10/more-curious-entomologist-workshops-in-the-offing/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/screen-shot-2016-08-10-at-14-14-00.pngScreen Shot 2016-08-10 at 14.14.00Three prime localities in Lewisham are set to host the first workshops.2016-08-11T19:02:34+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/08/01/they-wanted-answers-i-left-them-with-questions/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_5015.jpgIMG_5015Butterflies? Moths? They're all the same to me.2016-08-01T21:06:28+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/07/19/a-spider-eating-fly-is-nearly-as-good-as-a-man-biting-a-dog/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/screen-shot-2016-07-18-at-06-47-24.pngScreen Shot 2016-07-18 at 06.47.24https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fullsizerender2.jpgFullSizeRenderLook at the dark-edged squama on that thing.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fullsizerender1.jpgFullSizeRender[1]The microcephalic hunchback that is Ogcodes pallipes.2016-07-19T08:44:55+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/07/04/nice-weather-for-water-beetles-not/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fullsizerender-2.jpgFullSizeRender-2A tiny weevil, Acalles misellus; not necessarily scarce, but secretive, and new to me. A 'dead hedge' species, declining in an age when dead hedges are https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fullsizerender-3.jpgFullSizeRender-3Female of Eucera longicornis. A more obviously long-horned male turned up further down the railway line, at Hither Green, in 2008. Good to know there are established colonies in this area.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/lesser-stag.jpgLesser stagThe lesser stag beetle, Dorcus, handsome, and always a pleasing find.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4537.jpgIMG_4537A bright shirt always brightens up the day too.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4535.jpgIMG_4535Ringlets moved into this part of South London about 20 years ago.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4533.jpgIMG_4533https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4531.jpgIMG_4531Actual short-sleave weather.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4520.jpgIMG_4520Collaboration and competition in equal measure.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4519.jpgIMG_4519https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4518.jpgIMG_45182016-07-05T12:22:38+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/06/12/not-a-powerpoint-presentation-in-sight/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ckqmq-owgaawobu-jpg-large.jpegCkqMq-OWgAAWoBU.jpg-largeFull of superb pictures and concise clear text, you can see how much wear my copy has had.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2740.jpgIMG_2740All you need is a basic (and cheap) stereomicroscope with low power, nothing fancy.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2741.jpgIMG_2741https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2731.jpgIMG_2731https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2723.jpgIMG_2723https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2717.jpgIMG_2717https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2716.jpgIMG_2716https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2708.jpgIMG_2708Vigour is everything with the net sweep.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2705.jpgIMG_2705https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/v4i0981.jpg_V4I09812016-06-12T20:52:57+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/05/22/it-may-be-indoors-but-its-not-a-household-creature/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fullsizerender2.jpgFullSizeRenderPhymatodes testaceus is sometimes testaceous (reddish) sometimes metallic blue, sometimes both, but always striking.2016-05-22T19:25:08+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/05/15/acting-in-a-suspicious-manner-is-all-in-a-days-work/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fullsizerender1.jpgFullSizeRenderHere's one we found earlier — the lesser stag, Dorcus. Charming, chunky and chewing it's way through a log.2016-05-16T05:05:34+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/03/21/call-of-nature-the-secret-life-of-dung/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/call-of-nature-the-secret-life-of-dung-800px2.jpgCall-of-Nature-The-Secret-Life-of-Dung-800pxElephant trumpeting = calling; there's a visual pun thing going on here too.2016-03-21T15:11:09+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/03/11/well-im-calling-it-the-woodhopper/2016-03-11T17:19:02+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/03/06/the-first-click-is-the-loudest/2016-03-06T22:05:13+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/02/26/my-head-just-grew-two-sizes-bigger/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-26-at-22-11-19.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-26 at 22.11.19I keep going back to check that it really is a review of my book.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cbf0p9gw0aad6fw-jpg-large.jpegCbF0P9gW0AAd6Fw.jpg-largeThe young paperbacks are released out into the wild. 2016-02-29T07:45:49+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/01/29/dung-what-could-be-more-natural/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_3378.jpgIMG_3378https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_3374.jpgIMG_3374https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_3380.jpgIMG_33802016-01-29T13:08:09+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2016/01/09/the-curious-incident-of-the-dung-beetle-in-the-night-time/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/aphodius-reitter-3-copy.jpgAphodius Reitter 3 copySome handsome dung beetles. Aphodius rufipes is top right.2016-01-10T11:58:47+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/11/15/this-year-i-was-feeling-guilty-so-i-did-take-an-exhibit-along/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2841.jpgIMG_2841I just fancied this moth. Pretty. Do I imagine I see some image on the white wings? Weird.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fullsizerender5.jpgFullSizeRenderSmall, and last-minute, but proof that I did actually take an exhibit along this year.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2835.jpgIMG_2835Brilliantly bizarre galls caused by the brilliantly named midge Agathomyia wankowiczii, on Ganoderma bracket fungus. Still not seen this recent colonist.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2834.jpgIMG_2834Hymenopterists this was a disgrace. Two, count them, two exhibits.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2833.jpgIMG_2833Starting to thin out now.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2832.jpgIMG_2832https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2831.jpgIMG_2831https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2839.jpgIMG_2839https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2838.jpgIMG_2838https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_2837.jpgIMG_28372015-11-15T19:00:53+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/08/12/a-proof-louse/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-20-07-56.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 20.07.562015-11-03T20:10:58+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/11/09/the-insects-of-holborn/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-50.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.50I'm not the only one finding the gypsy moth in the London area.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-44.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.44Either Mr Telfer is showing off by exhibiting a bit of a beetle, or he muffed his setting.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-36.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.36Identifying someone by the back of their neck is a useful skill.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-30.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.30More stooping.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-24.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.24Stooping.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-19.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.19Despite the disreputable grubbiness of Mr Foster's glass, the long forehead horn of Odontaeus is clearly visible.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-12.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.12Beer was available.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-40-06.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.40.06Actually not Trypocopris (=Geotrupes) vernalis, so what is it?https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-39-59.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.39.59Must look out for this Mongolian invader.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-39-54.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.39.54I have a great affection for Doros, this one found by Richard Dixon in Hampshire. It was in the first exhibit I ever brought to the exhibition (in 1976 I think), when I saw it in several places all over Sussex. Never seen it since.2015-11-03T20:04:24+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/02/10/how-many-coleopterists-are-there-anyway/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-13-00.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.13.00Oxford University Museum of Natural History.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-12-53.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.12.53The forbidden section at Hogwarts.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-12-46.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.12.46An stereotype entomologist in comedy bow-tie.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-12-37.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.12.37Maggot identification — a must.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-12-29.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.12.29https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-12-21.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.12.21https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-19-12-15.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 19.12.15https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_9891.jpgIMG_9891https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_9890.jpgIMG_9890https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_9889.jpgIMG_98892015-11-03T19:29:03+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/07/22/more-curious-entomologists/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-51-12.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.51.12https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-50-58.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.50.58https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-50-40.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.50.40https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-50-12.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.50.12It all looks very professional.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-50-01.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.50.01https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-49-50.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.49.50The old climb-in-with-them technique of collecting flies.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-49-36.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.49.36https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-18-49-10.pngScreen Shot 2015-11-03 at 18.49.10First set up your laboratory.2015-11-03T19:09:07+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/11/02/small-but-perfectly-puzzling/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fullsizerender-2.jpgFullSizeRender-2What's this then?2015-11-03T11:14:12+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/08/19/at-first-i-thought-we-had-a-pet-hornet/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/img_2037.jpgimg 2037img 20372015-08-19T13:33:41+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/08/05/another-larder-invasion-and-a-lesson-in-biogeography/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/img_1788-e1438763440294.jpgIMG_1788https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/img_1787.jpgIMG_1787Ah, so not the grain weevil after all. But I was close.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/img_1789.jpgIMG_1789"Richard — do you know what this is? They are ant size and invading my kitchen and I can't work out where they are coming from or what to do about them.2015-08-05T08:45:39+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/07/17/if-you-go-down-in-the-woods/2015-07-17T15:59:32+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/06/03/the-horror-has-emerged-and-its-quite-pretty-really/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/fullsizerender-1.jpgFullSizeRender-1The ladybird survived for just one more day, but the adult wasp emerged after a fortnight.2015-06-03T09:28:45+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/03/18/please-never-say-poo-unless-youre-addressing-3-year-olds/2015-05-26T07:11:52+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/05/17/the-good-the-bad-and-the-downright-nauseatingly-disgusting/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/fullsizerender.jpgFullSizeRender"What's this ladybird cuddling?"2015-05-21T07:30:00+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/02/11/dont-mention-the-unmentionable/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-02-11-at-11-59-16.pngScreen shot 2015-02-11 at 11.59.16https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-02-11-at-11-54-57.pngScreen shot 2015-02-11 at 11.54.572015-02-11T13:12:00+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/01/30/amiable-but-authoritative-boffin-speak-my-signature-style-is-defined/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_9730.jpgIMG_9730Sometimes good things get added to the to-do list.2015-02-04T18:48:35+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/03/20/how-to-startle-a-chemist/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/picture-5.pngAsiraca clavicornis J.W. DouglasI wonder if there is still a chemist near Dartford station?2015-01-26T12:02:18+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/01/16/ooh-look-what-the-postman-just-brought/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/10922690_915370788497346_6968443680708206927_n.jpg10922690_915370788497346_6968443680708206927_nOne person's irritating larder infestation is another's amusing after-dinner anecdote.2015-01-16T10:23:21+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2015/01/09/i-am-now-immersing-myself-in-dung/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_9701.jpgimg 9701img 97012015-01-10T17:50:52+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/12/20/every-library-should-have-some-books-on-sewage/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/s-norwood-sewage-works001.jpgS. Norwood Sewage Works001The London Naturalist, 1961, pp 102-114.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/photo.jpgphotoThese books are full of themselves.2014-12-29T15:52:03+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/11/14/in-which-i-am-showered-with-gifts-well-a-gift/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/photo.jpgphotophoto2014-11-15T23:27:06+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/10/29/pillbox-joke-anyone/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12014-10-30T00:10:30+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/10/16/not-a-man-eating-clam-child-eating/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/photo.jpgphotophoto2014-10-20T20:49:02+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/10/11/i-just-cant-remember-a-time-before-insects/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/july-1983015.jpgJuly 1983015https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/selsey-v-60028.jpgSelsey v.60028https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2-year-old-jones.jpg2-year-old JonesTwo-year-old me.2014-10-14T07:26:28+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/09/15/the-ghosts-of-collections-past/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photo-2.jpgphoto 2https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photo-12.jpgphoto 12014-09-15T20:11:09+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/09/10/can-you-tell-whether-im-a-cat-person-or-a-dog-person/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gallery-206c.jpgGallery 206cDo house guests include cats and dogs?https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gallery-206b.jpgGallery 206bDo house guests include cats and dogs?https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gallery-206a.jpgGallery 206aDo house guests include cats and dogs?https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gallery-206.jpgGallery 206Do guests include cats and dogs?2014-09-10T14:15:53+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/09/04/what-a-difference-three-decades-makes/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photo-11.jpgphoto 1Docklands Light Railway, Poplar, 4 September 2014.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photo-1.jpgphoto 1https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/poplar-6-viii-1984.jpgPoplar 6.viii.1984Disused railway line, Poplar, 6 August 1984.2014-09-04T21:21:26+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/08/28/anyone-in-britain-seen-a-map-lately/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-28-at-21-13-22.pngScreen shot 2014-08-28 at 21.13.22Map2014-08-28T20:55:20+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/08/25/the-working-copy/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/photo.jpgphotophoto2014-08-28T08:36:12+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/07/24/snatched-from-the-jaws-of-death/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12014-07-24T17:06:51+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/07/17/less-is-more-or-small-is-beautiful-but-certainly-two-is-a-colony/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/photo-7.jpgphoto-7Nathrius brevipennis is too small to have an English name, but at 4 mm I'm thinking "short longhorn".2014-07-17T09:21:35+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/06/03/ivydales-insect-day/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo-2.jpgphoto-2Agrilus laticornis, confirmed by examination of the shape of the prosternal plate behind the front coxae.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7505.jpgIMG_7505The only reason to stop was to have a tea and coffee break.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7520.jpgIMG_7520Everyone was taking pictures on their phones.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7517.jpgIMG_7517Harriet takes a closer look.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7515.jpgIMG_7515A bioblitz escapee; Coreus marginatus, the very gothic brown shieldbug.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7511.jpgIMG_7511First aid for a tired bee; Bombus hypnorum takes a sip of sugar water,https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7514.jpgIMG_7514Ready to rumble.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7504a.jpgIMG_7504aThis way; past stinging nettles, trailing brambles, and mud.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_7504.jpgIMG_7504This way; past stinging nettles, trailing brambles and mud.2014-06-03T11:15:21+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/05/21/almost-the-first-bug-hunter-back-and-we-have-a-kill/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-51.jpgphoto 5They're all looking at something weird, or horrible.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-5.jpgphoto 5As usual Lillian wrote out the certificates.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-3.jpgphoto 3Almost certainly a centipede trying to bite me.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7392.jpgIMG_7392Lillian hates wasps, but she's happy to have Dorcus, the lesser stag beetle, claw its way over her hand.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7387.jpgIMG_7387The biggest spider of the day.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7386.jpgIMG_7386Lots of cardinal beetles.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7385.jpgIMG_7385Dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, with muscid victim.2014-05-21T19:50:47+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/05/07/pollinators-are-like-well-cyclists-really/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7191.jpgIMG_7191Where have all the pains au chocolat gone? I had to make do with salmon bagels.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7189.jpgIMG_7189I suspect the House of Commons takes a dim view of visitors making off with crockery souvenirs.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7185.jpgIMG_7185I was worried that the damn fog would play havoc with all my touristy selfies.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7199.jpgIMG_7199Barry Gardiner, honorable member for Brent North, and Shadow Environment Minster, gets lessons in bumblebee wrangling. A useful skill for any MP, I would have thought.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7198.jpgIMG_7198A pollinator. AKA a honeybee.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7195.jpgIMG_7195There are definitely bees at work in the background here.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_7193.jpgIMG_7193Steven Falk prepares to lead a pollinator walk in Victoria Tower Gardens next door to the Palace of Westminster. You can tell he's an entomologist, by his hat.2014-05-08T21:02:04+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/04/27/this-is-now-my-favourite-daft-looking-critter/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/img_7114.jpgIMG_7114Definitely also the ungainliest insect I have ever seen — a female black oil beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus.2014-05-08T07:50:42+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/04/07/i-dont-work-in-a-museum-but/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/hockney-homage.pngHockney homageI couldn't actually find one of those, so maybe this art gallery portrait by my daughter Lillian, might suffice.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/best-blog.jpgbest-blog2014-04-07T20:05:15+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/04/02/stolen-goods-an-acceptable-habitat/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/photo-1.jpgphoto-1Tiny, but highly distinctive, pseudoscorpions are easily overlooked, unless you are looking closely ... very closely indeed.2014-04-02T17:43:33+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/03/27/no-wonder-mr-darwin-was-so-pleased/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/photo.jpgphotoJust one of several of Darwin's beetle finds, recorded in Stephens' monumental Illustrations of British entomology.2014-03-27T20:31:47+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/03/15/the-womanly-bow-wing/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/toxoneura-muliebris037.jpgToxoneura muliebris037Toxoneura muliebris, pen and ink, by Verity Ure-Jones.2017-10-14T08:04:43+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/03/06/verrall-time-is-here-again/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6695.jpgIMG_6695The organizer Simon Leather is heckled.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6694.jpgIMG_6694And the Verrall Swiss roll.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6693.jpgIMG_6693https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6692.jpgIMG_6692https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6691.jpgIMG_6691https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6690.jpgIMG_6690https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6689.jpgIMG_6689https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6688.jpgIMG_6688https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6687.jpgIMG_6687https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/img_6686.jpgIMG_66862014-03-06T22:02:54+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/02/22/my-middle-name-is-ant/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo.jpgphotophoto2014-02-24T21:28:59+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/02/05/asian-longhorn-not-today-thank-you/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-11.jpgphoto-11Asian longhorn, Anoplophora glabripennis. Lovely, but not welcome here.2014-02-05T10:57:02+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/02/01/didnt-we-have-a-lovely-time-the-day-we-went-to-oxford/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6504.jpgIMG_6504For the uninitiated, this is what a beetle willy looks like.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6512.jpgIMG_6512Nice day for it.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6506.jpgIMG_6506Darren Mann's workshop was a load of excrement.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6503.jpgIMG_6503Roger Booth on how to dismember rove beetles.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6500.jpgIMG_6500Roger Hawkins, looking at rubytails — not beetles.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6499.jpgIMG_6499Reprints being given away, a bit like a jumble sale for coleopterists.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6496.jpgIMG_6496Elater ferrugineus is a fabulous beast, but isn't pheromone trapping cheating?https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6493.jpgIMG_6493Dave Bilton injects a few holiday snaps of south European streams to illustrate his talk on water beetles.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6487.jpgIMG_6487The museum was closed for roof repair, but is reopening soon.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_6486.jpgIMG_6486Richard Comont on harlequin ladybird parasitoids.2014-02-01T21:35:15+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/01/28/scared-of-insects-fine-just-please-dont-squeal/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/entomophobia001.jpgEntomophobia001I've helpfully annotated this diagram, just so people know where I stand.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/photo-12.jpgphoto-1I've annotated this diagram, just so people know where I stand.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/photo-11.jpgphoto-12014-01-28T23:35:37+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/01/26/ticker-tape-parade/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/stegobium-noodles.jpgStegobium noodlesEven quicker cooking now, with all the added holes.2014-01-26T23:10:12+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/01/17/a-woodlouse-as-big-as-a-hens-egg-it-seemed/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sea-slater-dept-7v98.jpgSea slater Dept 7v98It could have been the Kraken.2014-01-17T21:11:25+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2014/01/06/paying-lip-service-to-earwigs/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/photo-1.jpgphoto-1Not your average earwig.2014-01-24T13:35:19+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/12/27/the-most-obscure-entomological-christmas-present-ever/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo.jpgphotoDoes not produce a musical note when blown.2014-01-03T15:17:21+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/12/18/not-a-bad-review/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/screen-shot-2013-12-18-at-10-53-47.pngScreen shot 2013-12-18 at 10.53.47It's always gratifying to think someone can guffaw when they read what you have written.2013-12-18T11:02:42+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/11/30/insective-adjectives/2016-02-01T19:43:47+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/11/17/more-peering-into-glass-topped-cases-is-called-for/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6098.jpgIMG_6098https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6096.jpgIMG_6096https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6095.jpgIMG_6095https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6093.jpgIMG_6093https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6092.jpgIMG_6092https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6090.jpgIMG_6090https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6089.jpgIMG_6089https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6088.jpgIMG_6088https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6087.jpgIMG_6087It's a dangerous business being an entomologist. A serious allergic reaction to oak processionary moth caterpillar hairs.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_6086.jpgIMG_6086President-elect Claudia Watts claimed the cat ate her homework. In fairness all it did was release the moths and play with them a bit until one fell into the washing up water.2013-11-18T13:17:30+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/11/14/surely-its-a-bit-late-to-find-new-things-in-the-garden/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo.jpgphotoFieberiella florii.2013-11-22T19:31:38+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/01/26/i-am-wallaces-werewolf/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mosquito-page-72.pngMosquito page 72https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mosquito-page-71.pngMosquito page 71https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mosquito-page-70.pngMosquito page 70https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mosquito-page-69.pngMosquito page 69https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mosquito-page-68.pngMosquito page 682013-11-07T21:24:39+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/10/30/top-snail/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/p1020824.jpgP1020824Still as dainty as ever, but now Trochoidea elegans.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/helicella-elegans1.jpgHelicella elegans1Helicella elegans, aptly named for its elegant conical form.2013-10-30T07:14:12+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/10/23/a-spider-with-hairy-legs-you-couldnt-make-it-up/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/screen-shot-2013-10-23-at-21-36-57.pngScreen shot 2013-10-23 at 21.36.57The number of fatalities is currently hovering near the zero mark.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/screen-shot-2013-10-23-at-21-32-15.pngScreen shot 2013-10-23 at 21.32.15Spider with hairy legs.2013-10-23T21:31:02+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/10/17/now-im-feeling-smug/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/screen-shot-2013-10-17-at-09-22-06.pngScreen shot 2013-10-17 at 09.22.06Mosquito — review from Bulletin of the History of Medicine.2013-10-17T11:23:23+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/10/16/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-an-open-letter/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-2.jpgphoto 2https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-1.jpgphoto 12013-10-17T17:27:10+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/10/12/the-greatest-bug-show-on-earth/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5786.jpgIMG_5786Lime hawkmoth plate from the broken odd volume of Donovan.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5783.jpgIMG_5783I resisted Mouffet's opus, 300 years older than me, but £1850https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5780.jpgIMG_5780https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5779.jpgIMG_5779Always useful to try out a selection of microscopes before buying one.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5778.jpgIMG_5778A crystal-filled geode was a good choice.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5776.jpgIMG_5776https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5775.jpgIMG_5775Plenty of insect-themed sweets.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5774.jpgIMG_5774https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5773.jpgIMG_5773My first serious purchase, Joy's Practical Handbook, 1975, £30, several weeks earnings from paper-round and supermarket shelf-stacking after school. Now £185.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_5771.jpgIMG_57712013-10-14T08:16:22+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/10/02/its-the-size-of-a-full-stop-must-be-interesting/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-3.jpgphoto-3Sericoderus lateralis, female (they're all females).2013-10-07T13:41:18+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/09/28/a-painful-death-from-a-dangerous-spider-that-can-kill-you-with-a-single-bite-no/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/picture-2.pngPicture 2Give me strength.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/photo-1.jpgphoto-1The noble spider.2013-09-28T21:12:55+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/09/14/cabinets-of-curiosity/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1-type-cabinet.jpg1. Type cabinetAnd here's one of the most curious.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/picture-1.pngPicture 1Jones, R.A. 2013. Cabinets of curiosity. Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. 26: 149-155.2013-09-14T20:29:34+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/09/09/a-pragmatic-acceptance-of-pain/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wasp-queen-portrait-small.jpgWasp queen portrait smallHandsome beast or villainous foe? You decide.2013-09-23T00:04:10+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/08/30/dulwich-parks-rhododendrons/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mildew.jpgMildewhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mildew-2.jpgMildew 2https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/graphocephala.jpgGraphocephalahttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/graphocephala-skins.jpgGraphocephala skinshttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/dead-branches.jpgDead brancheshttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cottony-scale.jpgCottony scale2013-08-30T20:51:27+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/08/13/post-apocalyptic-entomology/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5356.jpgIMG_5356https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5355.jpgIMG_5355https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5353.jpgIMG_5353https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5352.jpgIMG_5352https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5349.jpgIMG_5349https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5347.jpgIMG_5347https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5346.jpgIMG_5346https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5345.jpgIMG_5345https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5344.jpgIMG_5344https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5342.jpgIMG_53422013-08-13T21:05:11+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/07/22/ivydale-school-bestiary-top-trumps/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-7.pngPicture 7https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-6.pngPicture 6https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-5.pngPicture 5https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-4.pngPicture 4https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-3.pngPicture 3https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-2.pngPicture 2https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/picture-1.pngPicture 12013-07-22T20:39:00+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/07/12/then-it-was-stag-beetle-time-again-here/2013-08-26T16:42:08+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/07/08/caterpillar-caterpillar/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/caterpillar-4a.jpgCaterpillar 4ahttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/caterpillar-3a.jpgCaterpillar 3ahttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/caterpillar-2a.jpgCaterpillar 2ahttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/caterpillar-1a.jpgCaterpillar 1a2013-07-09T09:58:48+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/06/17/the-curious-incident-of-the-ferret-in-the-night-time/2013-06-17T14:05:18+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/06/11/obeying-the-call-of-nature/2013-06-11T14:07:40+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/05/26/golden-chafers/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/quetzel-chafer-ouch3small.jpgQuetzel chafer ouch3smallhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/picture-6.pngPicture 6Even reduced to black and white, the golden beetle keeps its beauty and power.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/quetzel-chafer-ouch2small.jpgQuetzel chafer ouch2smallhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/quetzel-chafer-ouch1small.jpgQuetzel chafer ouch1small2013-05-27T19:50:52+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/05/08/lets-just-forget-about-habitat-destruction-shall-we/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/picture-4.pngPicture 4Green blandness captured in Anville. With apologies to Dr Seuss, I've grabbed this screen image from the Universal Pictures adaptation of The Cat in the Hat.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/picture-2.pngPicture 2Blandness captured. With apologies to Dr Seuss, I grabbed this screen picture from the Universal Pictures version of The Cat in the Hat2013-05-08T08:23:59+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/04/25/a-most-serendipitous-insect/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picture-1.pngPicture 1Mostly, distribution maps show the distribution of searchers, not what is being sought.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo.jpgphotoAt 4 mm, Bethylus boops is not large; dainty, more like.2014-05-15T08:35:33+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/04/18/ive-been-a-bit-tardy-on-this-one/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picture-3.pngPicture 32013-04-18T08:50:46+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/04/10/trespassers-w/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_4441.jpgIMG_4441Come on in.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_1977.jpgIMG_1977Keep out.2013-04-10T08:19:45+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/04/06/house-guests-house-pests/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picture-10.pngPicture 10https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picture-9.pngPicture 9https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picture-8.pngPicture 8https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picture-7.pngPicture 7https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picture-6.pngPicture 62013-04-06T20:52:57+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/03/30/now-how-did-that-get-in-there/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/photo2.jpgphoto2photo22013-03-30T19:53:37+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/03/25/despite-the-fur-coat-she-was-having-a-hard-time/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12013-03-25T21:18:27+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/03/07/the-verrall-supper-2013/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-13.jpgVerrall 2013 (13)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-12.jpgVerrall 2013 (12)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-11.jpgVerrall 2013 (11)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-10.jpgVerrall 2013 (10)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-9.jpgVerrall 2013 (9)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-8.jpgVerrall 2013 (8)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-7.jpgVerrall 2013 (7)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-6.jpgVerrall 2013 (6)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-5.jpgVerrall 2013 (5)https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/verrall-2013-4.jpgVerrall 2013 (4)2013-03-07T21:25:13+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/03/03/rat-dissection-at-ivydale-school-natural-history-club-gets-a-mixed-reception/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rat-dissection-5.jpgRat dissection 5Digestive tract, heart and lungs, and a kidney removed.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rat-dissection-4.jpgRat dissection 4I kept a straight face, most of the time.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rat-dissection-3.jpgRat dissection 3OK, it was rather bloody.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rat-dissection-2.jpgRat dissection 2Reactions varied from 'wow' to 'barf'.2013-03-03T21:50:09+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/02/27/specimen-number-1/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/photo-1.jpgphoto-1Specimen number 1. Liparus coronatus.2013-02-27T12:40:43+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/02/18/why-do-i-have-a-collection-of-ladybirds/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/photo.jpgphotoLadybirds to the left, 'others' to the right.2013-02-21T06:45:07+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/02/02/benhs-coleoptera-meeting-2013/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sundry004.jpgSundry004Left to right: My father Alfred W. Jones (back towards the camera), A.A. Allen (just peeking out), Peter Hodge (arms crossed), Mark Colville and Eric Philp. Not sure who are the three bods stooping over a display at the back of the room.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4080.jpgIMG_4080https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4079.jpgIMG_4079https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4078.jpgIMG_4078https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4077.jpgIMG_4077https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4076.jpgIMG_4076https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4075.jpgIMG_4075https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4074.jpgIMG_4074https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4073.jpgIMG_4073https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_4072.jpgIMG_40722013-02-03T15:52:36+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/01/15/the-insects-of-the-septic-fringe-another-reason-to-ignore-brownfields/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/what-a-waste-scan003.jpgWhat a waste scan003The brownfield jungle, once septic fringe?2013-01-15T09:48:16+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/01/10/its-lice-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/photo-1.jpgphoto-1Lepinotus patruelis, bottom drawer of pull-out larder, in spilled flour, 8.i.2013.2013-01-15T15:36:11+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2013/01/02/so-whats-a-codling-moth-doing-flying-about-in-the-kitchen-on-christmas-eve/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/photo.jpgphotophoto2013-01-02T13:27:03+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/12/20/another-museum-another-comb/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12012-12-25T22:00:36+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/12/17/first-published-review-of-mosquito/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/photo.jpgphotophoto2012-12-17T20:03:03+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/12/11/a-pest-for-how-much-longer/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ash-borer001.jpgAsh borer001The ash borer, Hylesinus fraxini, delightfully pointing out (a) the "mother" galleries.2012-12-11T10:36:20+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/12/01/at-least-its-not-called-the-fag-bug/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/lasioderma0011.jpgLasioderma001https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/lasioderma001.jpgLasioderma0012012-12-01T21:54:00+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/11/22/memories-of-a-chainman/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12012-11-22T08:30:40+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/11/21/the-best-insect-on-earth/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/entsoc-debate-poster1.jpgEntsoc debate posterI do quite like the Buz Czar tag, though.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/entsoc-debate-poster.jpgEntsoc debate posterI do quite like the Bug Czar tag, though.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-4.jpgphoto-4Well, this is the Oxford Entomological Society gleefully voting out my suggestion of Wallace's golden birdwing, Ornithoptera croesus, from their X-Factor "What's the best insect on Earth". Philistines.2012-11-22T06:10:43+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/11/16/less-is-more/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo.jpgphotophoto2012-11-17T21:34:23+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/09/how-to-be-a-curious-entomologist/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/creekside-workshop-1.jpgCreekside Workshop 1First Creekside entomology workshop, 30 June 2012.2014-09-10T21:08:33+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/11/09/i-found-a-new-bug-but-it-took-me-2-years-to-recognize-it/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-3.jpgphoto-3Head and shoulders of Rhaphigaster nebulosa.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-2.jpgphoto-2Rhaphigaster nebulosa, not a great picture, but taken down the barrel of the microscope on my phone.2012-11-09T11:42:17+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/11/03/what-is-the-collective-noun-for-entomologists/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3453.jpgIMG_3453https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3452.jpgIMG_3452https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3451.jpgIMG_3451https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3442.jpgIMG_3442https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3441.jpgIMG_3441https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3440.jpgIMG_3440https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3439.jpgIMG_3439https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3438.jpgIMG_3438https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3436.jpgIMG_3436https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_3435.jpgIMG_34352013-04-06T20:18:43+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/27/look-what-they-found/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_3275.jpgIMG_3275Late-in-the-season finds from Ladywell Fields.2012-11-27T14:43:22+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/25/oh-oh-unwelcome-visitor-in-the-collection/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo2.jpgphoto2photo22012-10-25T11:04:35+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/24/the-four-spot-ladybird/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12012-10-24T20:55:06+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/19/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2012/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/neriids.jpgNeriidsEven this pretty picture mentioned that the flies were feeding on gecko droppings.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mosquito.jpgMosquitoOne of only two insect pictures. Bad press for flies.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ice-cream.jpgIce creamThe coolest ice-cream, served on a bed of dry ice.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/diplodocus.jpgDiplodocusDiplodocus in the dining area.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/candles.jpgCandlesCandles to light the way.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/audience.jpgAudienceThey're all packed in, and the chat level is deafening.2012-10-21T09:39:19+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/15/how-to-be-a-curious-entomologist-3/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ladywell-collection1.jpgLadywell collectionSeveral people felt inclined to take photos of the final collection.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ladywell-lime-tree1.jpgLadywell lime treeA lime tree provided several colour morphs of the harlequin ladybird.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ladywell-riverside1.jpgLadywell riversideA river runs through it, even.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ladywell-sweep-net2.jpgLadywell sweep netYou can't beat a sweep net.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_4056c.jpgIMG_4056chttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_4052c.jpgIMG_4052chttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_4047c.jpgIMG_4047chttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_4045c.jpgIMG_4045chttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_4044c.jpgIMG_4044chttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_4043c.jpgIMG_4043c2012-10-15T15:55:31+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/11/what-to-do-with-the-left-overs/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/duplicate-specimens.jpgDuplicate specimensThere's no room in the reference collection for everything.2012-10-11T14:15:38+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/09/peekaboo/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo.jpgphotophoto2012-10-09T17:36:24+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/05/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_29901.jpgIMG_2990The stuffed fox is for decoration rather than identification.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_2990.jpgIMG_2990The stuffed fox is for decoration rather than identification.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_2992.jpgIMG_2992The Angela Marmot Centre, part of the new Darwin wing of the Natural History Museum.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_2991.jpgIMG_2991It's not just insects, here Stuart Hine shows us a pretty, if slightly archaic, display of British lichens.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_2989.jpgIMG_2989There is plenty of laboratory bench space, enough to house visiting groups from natural history societies when not being used for coffee breaks.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_2988.jpgIMG_2988There are plenty of practical identification guides and manuals, actually the library of the London Natural History Society.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_2987.jpgIMG_2987Anything with a skull on it is cool for a 7-year-old2012-10-06T19:49:36+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/10/01/run-iguana-run/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/iguana002.jpgIguana002Perhaps the ugliest reptile in Central America: baggy, flaccid and ungainly. But they can move some.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/iguana001.jpgIguana001The usual cabin roof iguana mascot, ready for a day's head-bobbing.2012-10-01T20:13:51+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/09/16/you-just-cant-beat-gruesome/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/photo.jpgphotophoto2012-09-19T08:57:35+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/09/18/i-found-a-psychedelic-toothbrush/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12012-09-19T19:35:55+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/08/31/the-woodworms-revenge/2012-08-31T21:50:31+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/08/25/trichodes-apiarius-in-east-dulwich-well-nearly/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/photo-6.jpgTrichodes apiariusA bit of a beetle, but a distinct bit nevertheless.2012-08-25T20:26:17+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/08/16/grass-stars-winkies-adenosine-triphosphate-and-the-possible-childish-wonder-of-cro-magnon-hunter-gatherers/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12012-08-16T16:51:59+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/08/05/not-a-bad-photo-taken-on-my-phone/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/photo.jpgphotophoto2012-08-05T19:58:12+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/29/how-to-be-a-curious-entomologist-2/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo-4.jpgphoto-4https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo-3.jpgphoto-3https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo-2.jpgphoto-22012-07-30T08:14:46+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/28/the-empty-hoverfly/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo3.jpgphoto3photo32012-07-28T12:14:03+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/27/it-was-only-the-first-jersey-tiger-of-the-year-the-beetles-were-much-more-interesting/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo-1.jpgphoto-1https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo2.jpgphotoWednesday's moth was the version with orange hind wings.2012-07-27T08:44:37+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/21/and-still-the-stag-beetles-keep-coming/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/female-stag-21-july.jpgFemale stag 21 JulyThen, this one today 21 July.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/four-stags-19-june.jpgFour stags 19 JuneOK, I posed them on the wooden sleeper edge of the pond, but they were all together in the grass when I found them.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/first-stag-30-may.jpgFirst stag 30 MayYay, the first stag beetle of the year, 30 May 2012.2012-07-29T21:39:27+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/18/pernicious-weeds/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo1.jpgphoto1photo12012-07-19T10:53:15+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/17/this-is-a-pretty-one/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/photo.jpgphotophoto2012-07-17T15:26:18+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/07/07/there-is-a-housefly/2012-07-07T12:27:49+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/06/15/a-walk-in-the-park/2012-06-16T07:02:20+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/06/11/a-gnat-infested-woodland-near-polegate/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/picture-1.pngPicture 1Screen grab from the current Ordnance Survey map of the south-east section of Abbot's Wood.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/4-8-gnat-wood001.jpg4.8 Gnat Wood001Gnat Wood, near Polegate from the mid-19th century Ordnance Survey map.2012-06-11T09:29:42+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/05/21/another-year-another-bug-hunt/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bug-hunt-2012-queue.jpgBug Hunt 2012 queueBut we soon get hemmed in by the bug-hunters.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bug-hunt-2012-behind-the-scenes.jpgBug Hunt 2012 behind the scenesIt's usually a sedate and easy start.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/raj-lillian-2012.jpgRAJ & Lillian 2012For the last three years Lillian has been my amanuensis.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/jones-bughunt-2002.jpgJones bughunt 2002https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/r-jones-long-hair1-1990.jpgR.Jones long hair1 1990The 1990s was all about big hair and shoulder pads.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/r-jones-short-hair1-19881.jpgR.Jones short hair1 1988Pleasing simplicity from 1988https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/r-jones-short-hair1-1988.jpgR.Jones short hair1 1988Pleasing simplicity from 19882012-05-24T11:07:05+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/05/10/i-like-cheese/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/img_7745.jpgIMG_77452012-07-29T20:48:06+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/05/02/the-streaked-bombardier-beetle-needs-you-now/2012-05-02T10:01:41+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/04/17/bricking-it/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/civet-coffee.jpgCivet coffeeCivet coffee. Yum.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/owl-pellet.jpgOwl pellethttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/water-vole-dung.jpgWater vole dungWater vole droppings.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fox-dung.jpgFox dungFox dung is smaller, smoother and more fragrent.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/lego-dung1.jpgLego dungAll it needed now was a couple of dung beetles.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/lego-dung.jpgLego dungAll it needed now was a couple of dung beetles.2012-04-17T11:39:32+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/04/04/caution-entomologists-at-work-or-is-it-play/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/porter-drane-wicken001.jpgPorter & Drane Wicken001What's that drying on Tony Drane's water net?https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/drane-in-drain001.jpgDrane in drain001Tony Drane beetle hunting in a drain.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/hodge-porter-wicken002.jpgHodge & Porter Wicken002David Porter (left) and Peter Hodge display the usual beetle-collecting attitude — head down finguers in the turf.2012-04-05T07:43:45+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/03/30/what-did-biscuit-beetles-eat-before-humans-invented-the-custard-cream/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/stegobium-noodles.jpgStegobium noodlesMy noodles have been ticker-taped by biscuit beetles.2012-04-02T10:39:18+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/03/13/real-entomologists-use-aspirin-bottled/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/picture-21.pngPicture 2They must have closed it down because of the strange behaviour of some of the clientele.2013-01-14T17:09:13+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/03/12/what-a-waste-what-is-the-biodiversity-value-of-urban-brownfields/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/what-a-waste-scan0061.jpgWhat a waste scan006Bulldozed piles of rubble, twisted metal and rubbish — ugly, dirty, smelly, dangerous. Brownfields have an real image problem.2012-03-13T08:01:25+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/03/08/verrall-supper-2012/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall99.jpgVerrall99https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall21.jpgVerrall21https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall20.jpgVerrall20https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall19.jpgVerrall19https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall18.jpgVerrall18https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall17.jpgVerrall17https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall16.jpgVerrall16https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall15.jpgVerrall15https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall14.jpgVerrall14https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/verrall13.jpgVerrall132012-03-08T11:13:26+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/02/28/me-and-my-rocket-launcher/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/what-a-waste-extra007.jpgHoovering the roof.Hoovering the roof.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/what-a-waste-extra005.jpgSedum mattingSedum at Canary Wharf, a red/green carpet for the delight of office workers looking down from above.2012-03-01T22:02:32+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/02/22/mummy-is-that-a-tramp/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/raj-and-awj-plumpton-21-feb-2012.jpgRAJ and AWJ Plumpton 21 Feb 2012Jones Senior, and Jones Very Senior Indeed.2012-02-22T10:29:12+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/01/23/the-wind-blows-across-the-sacred-beacon-hills-of-my-childhood/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img_6826-beacon-small.jpgIMG_6826 beacon smallIt's probably many years since this trig point was used for surveying.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img_6817-sunken-way-small.jpgIMG_6817 sunken way smallNo machinery cut this way, just the passing foot traffic of — how long? Certainly many centuries, possibly several millennia.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img_6811-view-small.jpgIMG_6811 view smallWho could resist stepping over this style and being swept off on an adventure in the meadows and copses of the Sussex Weald?2012-02-20T21:27:25+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/02/17/entomologists-love-all-insects-except-this-one/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ctesias.jpgCtesias serra larvahttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/garden-wildlife001.jpgAnthrenus verbasciCute, but despised, Anthrenus verbasci is the bane of entomology.2012-02-18T07:55:21+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/02/08/were-all-going-on-a-quetzal-hunt/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/quetzel-in-tree1small.jpgQuetzel in tree1smallOne wet quetzal, sitting in a tree.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/quetzel-chafer-ouch1small.jpgQuetzel chafer ouch1smallStill one of the greenest insects I have ever seen.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tour-de-guatemala1small.jpgTour de Guatemala1smallThe Vuelta a Guatemala. Still the only international cycling road race I have witnessed first hand.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/jones-quetzel-biotope1small1.jpgJones Quetzel Biotope1smallAt the time I thought I looked rather smart. Only my pith hat was missing.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/jones-quetzel-biotope1small.jpgJones Quetzel Biotope1smallI thought I looked rather smart. Only my pith hat was missing.2012-02-09T14:59:41+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/02/01/four-rabbits-make-one-felt-hat/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cover-small1.jpgCover smallhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/toad-small1.jpgToad smallhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/red-squirrel-small1.jpgRed squirrel smallhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/badger-small1.jpgBadger small2012-02-08T11:58:55+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/01/16/our-lego-giraffe-necked-weevil-is-a-triumph/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/deaths-head-small.jpgDeath's head smallhttps://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/trachelophorus.jpgTrachelophorusOur giraffe-necked weevil was a triumph.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/forficula-small-21.jpgForficula small 2Not much chance of this Forficula auricularia crawling into your ear.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/forficula-small-2.jpgForficula small 2Not much chance of this Forficula auricularia crawling into your ear.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/forficula-small.jpgForficula smallNot much chance of this Forficula auricularia crawling into your ear.2012-02-10T12:49:38+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/01/12/life-is-sweet/https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img_67791.jpgIMG_6779Adult and early stages of Eristalis tenax, plate 1 from 'The natural history of Eristalis tenax or the drone fly' by George Bowdler Buckton, 1895.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img_6779.jpgIMG_6779Adult and early stages of Eristalis tenax, plate 1 from 'The natural history of Eristalis tenax or the drone fly' by George Bowdler Buckton, 1895.https://bugmanjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/22-tate-lyle.jpg22. Tate & LyleAbram Lyle would be pleased at his architectural legacy.2012-01-12T21:06:39+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.com/2012/01/03/new-blog/2012-01-06T21:01:19+00:00monthlyhttps://bugmanjones.comdaily1.02025-10-21T13:45:45+00:00