I have seen this miniscule critter twice in my garden and despite looking up my reference books and scouring the internet, I cannot identify this bug. He is tiny, measuring about 1cm in diameter and I don’t know if he is a young butterfly/moth/grasshopper who will grow into something larger or if this is as [...]
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Since I have been out and about in my garden over the Easter weekend, I noticed a glut of grasshoppers hopping around and doing their thing in all shapes and sizes, from a discarded skin, to a tiny new nymph, to the mature adults. I have to confess though, that I ‘detest’ the adult grasshoppers and I [...]
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