Very nice to find 150+ fruiting bodies of Nail Fungus on one 'deposit' in the New Forest today

I've never seen hair ice before today but there was loads around this morning. Caused by the fungus Exidiopsis effusa

This Cuckoo nestling, ringed in a Meadow Pipit nest last summer by Ellie Ness of our #BTO nest recording group in the New Forest was recaptured just 33 days later on the German island of Helgoland. Only the 5th British ringed Cuckoo to be found in Germany.

The mine of the rare, and rarely recorded Phyllonorycter staintoniella on Hairy Greenweed (Genista pilosa). Found in three 1km squares in Cornwall today

Appalling behaviour from a formerly reputable magazine and not the only evidence of a decline in standards

Confused or just hedging its bets?

One of 62 Bright Wave seen yesterday at the recently established colony in West Sussex. I would place money on there being other undiscovered colonies along the south or east coasts. Any nutrient poor habitat with frequent trefoils is worth looking at.

Didn't find my target species this afternoon but the combination of Nightjar, Lunar Hornet Moth, Buttoned Snout larva, Field Cricket and singing Turtle Dove was pretty impressive for Hampshire

Really poor results for mid-July in the moth traps last night but mission accomplished; Feathered Beauty in a new 10km square.

Went to check on the Phiaris schulziana colony at what may be its only remaining southern England site and stumbled across a couple of Sundew Plume Buckleria paludum, the first VC12 record since 1928.

I must have seen thousands of Coleophora vibicella larval cases over the years. Normally they are black but sometimes there are rings of paler material. Never seen anything like this before though. The important question is, did the larvae in the blonde cases have more fun?

Our annual trip for Plumed Prominent was a success, including our first ever female

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This seems an oddly open location for a Brimstone to hibernate but it was well and truly out for the count.

Thanks for yet another forecast that could hardly have been more wrong BBC Weather If I was as crap at my job they wouldn't have to sack me as I'd resign in embarrassment

A brief distraction during a meeting this morning resulted in a healthy brood of five Nightingales on a Butterfly Conservation 🦋 reserve

Most definitely not what I was expecting to catch on Islay

I wasn't looking for the Hayling stick insects this evening but this one kindly climbed up the bush next to me and posed. Bacillus rossius.

The rarely recorded (or rarely looked for?) larva of Coleophora squamosella. It feeds within the seedheads of Blue Fleabane.

Have I lost six months somewhere? Caught in Hampshire this evening.