This Red Admiral has clearly been in the wars.
Admin1 is reading Mixing with Murder by Ann Granger (another silly book, with idiots and ludicrous coincidences). Admin2 is reading It’s a Battlefield by Graham Greene. We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Tag: butterfly
Buddleia, Butterfly, Bee
A lovely sunny day brings the insects out.
Kaffi dagsins: Ethiopian Kochere Yirgacheffe; woody with a fruity aftertaste and yummy.
Admin1 is reading Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill (frivolous and uninvolving, with irritating neologisms; Hill isn’t as funny as he thinks he is). Admin2 is reading The Day Is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
Butterflies
Comma
Speckled Wood. Check its indignant stare.
Some butterflies at last on our first sunny day for ages. July was not as sunny as June; we had our second hottest July day but coldest July night since our records began in 2010. Roll on August.
Admin1 is reading Bad Blood by Arne Dahl.
Critter of the Day: Large White
Pieris brassicae
Admin1 is reading The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross. Admin1’s first Laundry Files book, and his last.
We scored seven, ok, five, on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Critter of the Day: Small Tortoiseshell
Aglais urticae on a yellow flower.
And here it is in the closed-wing pose.
Admin1 has been watching Alias.
Our solar panels have made over a MWh so far this year.
Butter/Fly
Critters of the Day: Two Dogs and a Peacock
Critter of the Day: Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta visting our buddleia
Admin2 is reading The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, a murder mystery in which a mathematician and a physicist lock horns over whether an insoluble problem is easier to create or to solve.
Critter of the Day: Gatekeeper
Pyronia tithonus, also known as the Hedge Brown. Admin1 is reading Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes. Admin2 is reading Capital by John Lanchester. We are watching True Detective.
Critter of the Day: Small Tortoiseshell
Aglais urticae. It declined in numbers but is now on the up again. Admin1 is reading Blind Fury by Linda LaPlante.
Butterflies and Babies
The hot sunny weather has brought out many butterflies, including this large peacock…
…and our shubunkin goldfish have had babies! We saw two, and just managed to photograph one:
Critter of the Day: Meadow Brown butterfly.
Maniola jurtina on a Cranesbill.
Admin2 is reading The Red House by Mark Haddon.
We are watching Breaking Bad.
Critter of the Day: Cinnabar Moth
Tyria jacobaeae.
Admin2 is reading Out by Natsuo Kirino. Over the last couple of days Admin1 has binged-watched The Lord of the Rings (extended edition).
Critter of the Day: Garden Carpet moth
Xanthorhoe fluctuata sleeping on the wild garlic.
Critter of the Day: Easter butterfly
First Speckled Wood of the year.
Admin1 is reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
Critters of the Day
Sunny and Bright: Red things in flight
First Aglais Io of the year alights on an early dandelion…
…a model plane takes off…
…and Milvus milvus joins in the fun. What a lovely day!
Admin1 has been reading Home before Dark by Charles Maclean. Admin2 has been reading Flesh and Blood by John Harvey and Stars and Bars by William Boyd. Now Admin1 is reading Flesh and Blood and Admin2 is reading Home before Dark.
Critter of the Day: Speckled Wood Butterfly
Pararge aegeria in our kitchen.
Admin1 is reading Before the Frost by Henning Mankell.
Critter of the Day: Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta, an addition to the fine selection of butterflies this year. Check out its striped antennae and cool robot legs.
Critter of the Day: Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui
Admin1 is reading The Terrorists by Sjowall and Wahloo and Admin2 is reading Cop Killer by the same.
Critters of the Day: 2 Old Ladies
Mormo maura camouflaged as pavement and risking being trodden on.
We had nice visitors this weekend; thank you guys.
And What Became of It
Nom nom
Araneus diadematus enjoying a crunchy snack
Critter of the Day: Large White butterlfy
Pierus brassicae, one of the many butterflies attracted by our buddleia this summer.
Admin1 is reading The Emperor of All Things by Paul Witcover. Admin2 is reading The Locked Room by Sjowall and Wahloo.
Critter of the Day: Comma
Polygonia c-album, the proofreader’s butterfly.
Admin1 is reading Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch. Admin2 is reading Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen.
Critter of the Day: Peacock butterfly
Inachis io enjoying our buddleia.