There was a Colorado beetle on our deadly nightshade plant today. There's no sign on our potatoes, so no need to panic yet.

There were three Mullein moth caterpillars on a mullein plant - each at a different instar. I couldn't find the really small one when I returned wirh my camera, so I only got a photo of two of them.

The weather has changed and is much colder and rainy. Coupled with the fact that a huge flock of sheep arrived a couple of days ago and have completely wiped out all plant life on the fields around our garden - any hopes of a resurrection of forester moths and purple-shot copper butterflies this year are now gone.

Our little garden in the middle of it all will hopefully be an island for anything escaping the sheep.

Sadly, there wasn't much going on in the garden today - but I did record a new beetle species for the garden, Clanoptilus elegans, enjoying our only white iris flower along with another beetle, Stenurella nigra, which is not a new species for the garden but I seem to have missed recording it in the website.