My new moths of 2022
UPDATE: 2 Sep 2022 We (I) took the LepiLED with a portable trap to the New Forest in August and added 12 or so moths to the list, when we returned from our trip, first night lighting up we saw a Convolvulus Hawk-moth turn up to nectar on the Nicotiana (garden tobacco plants) before diving into the home garden moth trap. Another turned up later that evening and another on night of 1st September.
One of 2 or 3 seen in the garden this year for the first time – Convolvulus Hawk-moth
It was four years in July 2022 that I had been mothing in our back garden with a 40W actinic/UV trap. In that time I’ve photographed w...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
The new moths of 2022
It was four years in July 2022 that I had been mothing in our back garden with a 40W actinic/UV trap. In that time I’ve photographed well over 400 species of macro and micro moth. I keep logs for the County Moth Recorder, so it’s not only a photographic venture it’s citizen science too.
The Blackneck at Devil’s Dyke, Cambs
By 2020/2021 I felt like I had probably seen most of the species of moth that are in this area, but there are always surprises that turn up and in those years there were 31 and 37 species that turned up that I hadn’t seen before. It’s the middle of August and so far in...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
The Yarrow Pug, Eupithecia millefoliata
In my effort to add some “wild” patches to our garden, I’ve got a lot of yarrow growing this year. A Yarrow Pug, Eupithecia millefoliata, turned up in the garden last night. This moth brings the new for me total for 2022 to 38 so far. I’ve logged 280 species of moth in the garden this year; not including the butterflies.
Yarrow Pug
The Yarrow Pug is quite a scarce species only been in the British Isles since the 1930s. Usually, only seen on the south coast from Essex to Dorset but it’s spread along both sides of the Thames Estuary and beyond. First recorded here in Cambridgeshire in 1978. Pugs...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 22, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
The wildflower meadow myth
What could be more natural more evocative, more quintessentially English than a wildflower meadow nestled in the countryside, teeming with bees and butterflies, day-flying moths and countless other pollinators perhaps home to some ground-nesting birds and dozens of tiny mammals, a complete ecosystem when coupled with the natural reservoir in the neighbouring field?
And your wilding projects? Often the packs of seeds we scatter in our gardens to create a wild area or on roadside versions are cultivated mixes of cornflower, ox eye daisy, borage, (bizarrely) California poppy, and a few others. That said, I’ve tried to g...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 25, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Botany Source Type: blogs
Flash diffuser
I just made the least flash flash diffuser imaginable. I cut a hole in an old, plastic ostrich-burger box we have used to store Xmas tree baubles in for the last seventeen years and fitted it to the camera with a redundant ring flash adapter. I switched away from ringflash earlier this year as it’s simply not good enough for decent entomological macro shots.
Mimulus #PondLife
Viper’s Bugloss
Periwinkle
Red Valerian
Poppy
Cornflower
Ceanothus fruit
Yarrow flower buds
Anyway, been testing the ad hoc diffuser with some random macro shots of flowers in the garden – Mimulus (#PondLife), cornflower, wet poppy,...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 5, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Bombus pratorum on Cynoglossum officinale
This is an “Early Bumblebee”, Bombus pratorum, feeding on a kind of borage (Boraginaceae) but with puce flowers, Cynoglossum officinale, on the flood plain of the Old West River, a couple of miles North of Cottenham. It’s growing wild and free and in abundance there.
The plant has several common, folk, or vernacular, names among them houndstongue, houndstooth, dog’s tongue, gypsy flower, and “rats and mice” due to its odour).
Also sighted there this morning, first Common Blue butterfly of the year for me, a male Polyommatus icarus. Lots of the white-flowered wildflower around, but not e...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs
Wilding the garden with Seedball
The lovely people at Seedball sent me a small sack of their products, a great mix of wildflower seeds embedded in clay pellets with natural fertilisers, minerals and chilli (to keep the invertebrates off until germination takes place). I’ve mentioned them before. I did some “wilding last year. This year, I’d planned to scale up, but maybe not quite the completely wilding the garden I’d initially thought about. I’ve previously shared details of the contents of the sack.
Bag clips for the seeds harvested from garden plants and the allotment at the end of last summer
Anyway, I’ve scooped ou...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 20, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Wilding our gardens with Seedball
A nice big package has arrived from the lovely people at Seedball. As I mentioned previously I am hoping to wild two patches of our front and back gardens to provide a couple of localised ecosystems for invertebrates, such as bees, butterflies, and moths and also to invest in those for the sake of the bats and birds.
Indeed, the various mixes that have arrived after discussions with Seedball are their bee mix, butterfly mix, shade mix, and a bat mix. Each has a wonderful mix wildflower seeds in their clay seed ball system that one simply spreads over the surface of a roughly prepared patch of soil (or in tubs). The balls h...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 27, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Is Hoof Maker cream for horses really good for your nails? Episode 111
This study is often quoted as saying it worked better than or as well as 4% hydroquinone but 4 weeks is not long enough to judge that and again, and this was not about hexylresorcinol itself .”
Finally, the website Truth in Aging says…
”HR’s ability to target pathways in the skin that lead to hyperpigmentation has propelled it into the skin lightening ingredient category. There is also thought that Hexylresorcinol has more benefits as well, including an ability to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, increase protection against UVB and UVA rays, and improve the skin’s barrier against pollution an...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
This surprising folk song will inspire you to get a colonoscopy. Really.
Did you know that Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul & Mary, sang the Colonoscopy Song? You do now, and here it is.
Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 3, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Admin Tags: Video Cancer GI Source Type: blogs
How to tell if your makeup primer is worth it. Episode 71
This week Randy and I explain how to test your makeup primer to see if it’s worth the money.
Improbable products
You know this game – I look for beauty products that are just too ridiculous to be true, then I make up one that’s even more ridiculous and challenge Perry to guess which one is fake. Can you spot the phony?
The HeMan nail brush
If you’re too macho for those dainty plastic brushes that women used to scrub their fingernails then you’ll love this new brush made from an actual galvanized box nail with bristles attached to one side.
The iBrush
There’s nothing worse than wanting to sn...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
The Yijing in Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice – Part 1
Editor’s Note : This is the first in a series of posts by Jonathan Edwards about the use of the Yijing (I Ching) in Chinese medicine clinical practice. A new topic for the site – it should be an interesting read!
Part 1: The Clinician’s Golden Compass
Welcome to the first in a series of articles on applying the Yijing in clinical practice. For those not familiar, the Yijing (or I Ching) is an ancient Chinese oracle, or system of divination, with close ties to Classical Chinese Medicine.
Speaking as it does in very compressed symbols, the oracle has a reputation for being hard to understand. That’s one of th...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 23, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Delta, Hope, Maple Ridge, New Westminister, North Vancouver City and North Vancouver District Libraries Will Have ADHD Awareness Week Book Displays
Post from: Adult ADD Strengths
Volunteers from my Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group and I have had a great response by Lower Mainland BC Libraries in participating in raising awareness of ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for ADHD Awareness Week Oct 14-20th.
We did this last year and we’re doing it again this year, asking Libraries and bookstores in BC’s Lower Mainland to have ADHD Book displays to raise awareness of ADHD in BC.
They’ll consist of ADHD books, books by authors who have ADHD, our ADHD Awareness Week Poster and Brochures on the only 2 ADHD support group in all of BC, My Vancouve...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - October 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Awareness Source Type: blogs
