Paxton East Scrub Survey

On Tuesday, our monthly survey was in the East Scrub area at Paxton. Despite the overcast conditions, our group recorded over 100 species of invertebrate in the couple of hours. The area is dominated by nettles - rich in all kinds of insects including one of my favourites - the Speckled Bush Cricket - here a very small first instar with its wonderful stripey legs

More Small Invertebrates

Pruning the Buddleias yesterday took a very long time as each branch needed to be beaten to dislodge any insects etc, some of which I photographed and most of which were minute like this exquisite Leafhopper and the Rough Woodlouse. The Spider and Centipede were dislodged from our low brick wall while tidying the ivy - wonderful brick coloration!