Wasps would chew wood
There’s a wasp busily chewing the face off a wooden sign in the woodland. It’s making paper, which wasps have been doing …
Pottering amongst the potters of Bovey Heath
In early autumn I visited Bovey Heath to meet John Walters, a fabulous entomologist, artist and speaker. He’d promised to show me …
Thistle is the life
There are thistles everywhere here in Parco della Caffarella in Rome. They are very architectural against the flowing meadows of buttercups beneath: …
Insects by the pond
It’s blisteringly hot at the Abbazia San Giusto in Tuscania in Italy today. There’s not much wind and precious little shelter. Tucked …
Wasps would chew wood
I haven’t ever needed to bite on a piece of wood, after all, I’ve never given birth. Biting on a piece of …