saw this app on the woodland trust web site, and thought it may be useful to any of you smartphone users wanting to id trees, i dont have a smartphone, so cant comment on its use i'm afraid, so it may or may not be what anyone is looking for ..read more

Hi forager Had a look at the link...the one most like the bug is cicadella viridus....but it is described as large .....the bug I found was about 1cm. Although I placed it in the beetles forum I dont think it had wing cases. I think those are wing structures we are seeing. One last thing I neglected to mention ...it was a phenomenal jumper ..read more

they do look nice and very cheap too ..read more

worth a look at this SITE for some very reasonably priced books on wild flowers and grasses i think ..read more

i saw one today, on one of our our lavender bushes, first one of the year too so i went back indoors to find a jar to put it in while i compared it to the chart, but it had disappeared by the time i got back ..read more

its a great bit of kit to have i don't know how I'd manage without it myself plus it saves me huge amounts of space on my hard drive too, converting a 3888x2592 2.92mb image down to say, 800x600, results in a pic of about 200kb, without much noticeable loss in quality and if you are like me, and tend to save all your images that you take, then its a sizeable part of your hard drive space you have saved (must sort all those pics out one day, as lotss of them are not worth saving ..read more

Thanks, must get on this ..read more

well spotted that man ..read more

i can see that being a very helpful link to have too insects have never been one of my strong points, so something like this is always a help, all i have to do now is find a ladybird ..read more

yes, a very useful tool while i knew there were lots of different ladybirds, i hadn't realized just how many ..read more