On seeing the first butterflies of Spring…
Perhaps it would be better to say that I saw the first butterflies I had noticed this Spring. The unassuming Small Tortoiseshell was the butterfly in question, and like the…
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Perhaps it would be better to say that I saw the first butterflies I had noticed this Spring. The unassuming Small Tortoiseshell was the butterfly in question, and like the…
Here’s an extraordinary character, Lionel Walter Rothschildfrom the Nigeness blog a few years back: Lately I’ve been browsing in the biographies [of The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors]…
From the Straffan Butterfly Farm page: The small mountain ringlet: A famous butterfly collector called Mr Edwin Birchall claimed to have collected a series of these butterflies halfway up Croagh…
Originally posted on dispatches from the undergrowth:
Conservationists constantly worry about how to ‘keep things going’ – be it a bird, butterfly, or some other organism teetering on the brink.…
I only recently realised that my book review on wolves in Ireland isn’t actually my only “natural history” piece. This is in fact my first piece published in a proper, non-student publication.…