We had a great evening of mothing last night, with plenty of species coming in to the many lights – both actinic and mercury vapour.…

The weather in July has been really awful for insect-watching but I decided to visit the site on a mild, breezy and fairly sunny afternoon.…

In the morning I ran a workparty at Hartslock nature reserve where I decided to just do a bit of tidying up. While strolling round I…

Went up to the site today and found plenty of orchids in flower – the best of which were 6 Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera) in…

Spent the day up on the reserve showing visitors around and the day was marked by clouds of migrating Painted Lady butterflies (see right). Every…

Just a quick update on today’s conditions. It’s very wet under foot and muddy in places – especially in the lane. Very breezy with heavy…

Just punched in the figures from taday’s mapping – adding about a dozen new Monkey Orchids. This has taken all the statistics to new record…

Spent another day scouring the slope with Gerry today, and rather laboriously mapping new orchids. Most were hybrids in close proximity to the existing hybrids…

Just a reminder to anyone thinking of visiting that this weekend is probably not the ideal time to see the orchids. They have only just…

The Hartslock website has had a spring make-over – I hope you all like it. I have changed to this format because it will be…