Doc.B's Nature Blog

Well,this is a tricky site to navigate,trying hard to not make a pigs ear of the blog,Im sure once I get familiar with all the icons my posts will get a bit more professional-like!!

Before I get on to other interesting stuff from yesterday,today I’m multitasking like all the ladies do!!

I,E.Making some bird records from the balcony,processing todays’ moths,adding to the blog,keeping an eye on the DP World Golf final round,processing photos from last visit to my study site in Almeria province!!

So before getting on to yesterdays birds there were a few moth trap invaders to report too

Acrosternum heegeri

Have been finding plenty of these little critters in and around the traps these last couple of months or so.They only seem to be attracted to the light of the traps and nothing more

Common Rhinoceros Beetle Phyllognathus excavatus

Rescued this fella from the balcony floor as it had got stuck on its back on the tiles

When lifting up the broken up egg boxes to look for moths one needs to be careful as you dont want to grab 1 of these or its an early wake up call!! Ive had 2 this week.It has various English names,European Wasp,German Wasp or German Yellowjacket.In Latin Vespa germanica.Amazing what flies around in the dark but helped by all the extraneous lighting.Its not dead,just slightly torpid as has had just less a minute in the freezer to calm it down for the photograph.it soon warmed up and flew off.