Snippets to Intrigue

they introduced themselves as Suzanne and Dick from Luton. After discussing how they should join BC, I shook hands and carried on back to the car, passing two people walking eleven dogs! From a Chihuahua to a Labra-Doodle and all in between.A gorgeous day although a cool breeze was probably the reason why the dukes were sheltering. A fantastic site: Green Hairstreaks, a few Small Heaths, lots of Small Blues and Dingy Skippers everywhere and of course the Duke of Burgundy.

The journey back took well over 2 hours after sitting in a roadworks queue in Hitchin for 30 mins.

Duke of Burgundy by Trevor Goodfellow

Discovered by Rob Parker

In his journal, Charles Darwin notes that a German scientist was charged with heresy in Chile as late as the 1830s because he could transform larvae into butterflies.

If you have heard the deafening wall of sound male cicadas create in southern climes, bear in mind that it would be twice as loud if the females joined in, but as an ancient Greek saying has it: “Blessed are the Cicadas because they have voiceless wives”. Read “Extraordinary Insects” by Anne SverdrupThygeson, (Harper-Collins, 2019) for more intriguing quotes, such as:

“Nature is nowhere as great as in its smallest creatures”

PLINY THE ELDER Naturalis historia 11, 1. 4, Ca.79 CE