Wildlife mid 2009

[mark smyth]

Gerry if I was in your situation I would try to feed them rat poison or lead

[Anthony Darby]

Spotted this heavily disguised as a twig.

[Paddy Tobin]

Anthony,

Found one of these on my T-shirt today in the garden. Have a photograph in the camera; must post it here when I can get round to it. Have you a name for it?

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

This is the caterpillar of the Peppered moth (Biston betularia). I must admit, I had to look at it twice, and that was on a bare road surface. It's not just the moth that has adapted to fool predators through natural selection. It had fallen from a Pussy Willow (Salix caprea) tree and looked for all the world like a twig. (BTW the head is at the left end.)

[ranunculus]

Anthony,
 Have you a name for it?
Paddy

Lesley Hornby?   

[Lesley Cox]

Anthony,
 Have you a name for it?
Paddy

Lesley Hornby?   

Who is?

[ranunculus]

Anthony,
 Have you a name for it?
Paddy

Lesley Hornby?   

Who is?

It will Google and all will be explained, Lesley!   

[David Shaw]

Gorgeous

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony,
 Have you a name for it?
Paddy

Lesley Hornby?   

AKA Twiggy

[Lesley Cox]

Of course. I'd completely forgotten abut that lady. Thanks.

[Paddy Tobin]

And here's Twiggy, photographed in the garden yesterday afternoon after I discovered her clinging onto my T-shirt as I was going back into the house. These women; I simply have to beat them off.

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

These women; I simply have to beat them off.

Paddy
Count your blessings Paddy.

[ranunculus]

I suppose the other end could also be described as the 'business end', Paddy?   

[Paddy Tobin]

Perhaps, part of the business continuum.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

A new wildlife programme 'Living the Wildlife' has started on RTE1/Sky 161 in Ireland. Well worth watching at 20.30 on Mondays.
http://www.rte.ie/tv/livingthewildlife/av_index.html to catch up