The purpose of this website is to illustrate as many of these as possible, since they are. Poorly covered by popular field guides. The availability of digital cameras has now made recording images of insects easier than ever before - but remember this can never be a substitute for collecting a voucher specimen. Tristan Bantock and Joseph Botting 2013.

Recently I have been helping with a project called Orchid Observers, at the Natural History Museum. The aim is to get members of the public to send in photos of 29 key species and also participate in a crowd sourcing project to help us check transcribed data on old herbarium sheets and help to confirm .

Life cycle of butterflies in Provence. In 2006 we began filming the behaviour and biology of butterflies in our region, in particular the vulnerable ones. We observed the interdependence between ants and caterpillars of different species of Lycaenidae. Our documentaries show the various stages of development of the species in their natural habitat. Thank you for visiting Filming VarWild,. Pieter Kan and Brigitte Kan - van Limburg Stirum. Liste rouge Rhopalocères et zygènes PACA.

Thursday, March 19, 2015. Which means that my writing time is going elsewhere and not here. The core of the work is the Blondelia.

Musings on natural history and nature photography including macro-photography, photos through the microscope and digiscoping. Thursday, July 03, 2014. Most are based on reading the EXIF data from a pho.

Diptera are the true, or two-winged flies. They are a sadly neglected group but with over 7000 species in the UK, there are plenty of opportunities to study and record them. Friday, 2 December 2016. Another new Cranefly for Northants. In mid-September I was sweeping under some willows next to a dried up pond in a former sand pit near Yardley Hastings when I took a small insignificant-looking cranefly. Back at home I keyed it out as a male Ormosia bicornis.