hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Aug 21, 2009, 7:04 am
During the middle of the week when the weather was warmer and calmer traffic levels were up slightly but not by as much as I had hoped.  I have lots of drunken hoverflies and the occasional sozzled R...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Aug 17, 2009, 2:45 am
Although the weather here has been reasonable – not actually warm let alone hot but fairly bright and with light winds, the moth visitation level has dropped right away. In terms of number of in...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Aug 9, 2009, 5:02 pm
Actually, a couple of evenings; the pickings are too lean to justify frenetic blogging each morning. But last night, though the numbers were not high I had a disproportionate number of new species. Th...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Aug 6, 2009, 3:07 am
Between them the past two days have produced a crop of moths almost worth mentioning and one really tremendous find. The weather has been calmer and warmer, in fact quite humid and the forecast out u...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Aug 2, 2009, 2:42 pm
The lack of posting shouldn’t be taken to reflect a diminution in my attentiveness. But there are only so many photographs of hoverflies I can bring myself to take. Conditions are distinctly mi...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Aug 2, 2009, 2:32 pm
What a strange month July was. A  mixture of the scarce and notable on the one hand, some nights when I could barely keep up, and a long barren patch at the end. Since about the twentieth of the mont...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Jul 28, 2009, 5:18 am
I have had a number of careers now, none of them illegal anywhere in the world as far as I’m aware – though management consulting is not a universally admired occupation.  For a while af...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Jul 25, 2009, 3:03 am
It wasn’t obvious but the weather of earlier in the week was building to a crescendo which broke over head about an hour before what would have been sunset – last night, had the sky not al...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Jul 22, 2009, 7:00 am
The past couple of nights have been very quiet indoors. I spent a while last night watching a Common Emerald bobbing back and forth across the outside of the bathroom window; that was the nearest I ca...
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hapless housewife posted an article on Bugs in my bathroom - Jul 20, 2009, 2:12 am
I’m in a far, far sunnier mood this morning. Why? The weather is better, we’re in with a shout in the test match and, after yesterday’s tribulations over three small moths, I do hav...
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