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Wildlife illustrator, photographer and invertebrate enthusiast - A Curious Bug-er from Oxfordshire. F.R.E.S. - President of Abingdon Naturalists’ Society www.richardlewington.co.uk
Thanks Adrian
07.12.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and thanks for your help, David.
06.12.2025 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0G. bimaculatus can't survive British winters but would be a silly idea to randomly release any
05.12.2025 20:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Vanna
05.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Official or unofficial, tell me more?
05.12.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Glassy looking wings suggest a teneral female Banded Demoiselle
05.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing
05.12.2025 14:45 — 👍 151 🔁 39 💬 6 📌 4Yes, Alan, agree with Satellite.
09.11.2025 08:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's my pocket guide to butterflies.
02.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Unexpected 3rd brood Holly Blue in the garden this morning.
02.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 47 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Marc. It will be available in the spring, just as the first dragons are emerging
29.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Out in the spring, in time for the first dragonflies of the year
28.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proofs of Field Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of GB&I have arrived and look good. Written by Steve Brooks & Steve Cham with many new artworks, photos and detailed maps, make it the most complete guide to British Odonata. The 6th edition in 28 years
28.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 74 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
It seems that Robins are partial to Box Tree Moths!
17.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 144 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1Yes, the spider is a Xysticus, which doesn’t burrow or make a web. The holes have been excavated by wasps or bees.
05.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Linden
02.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Queen Alexandra's Birdwing - Ornithoptera alexandrae, the world's largest butterfly, male wingspan 19cm female 24 cm. Swallowtail - Papilio machaon, Britain's largest butterfly, wingspan 7cm. Print from a recent painting www.richardlewington.co.uk/album.php?id...
01.10.2025 16:18 — 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
I've just added a few original invertebrate originals to my website www.richardlewington.co.uk/album.php?id...
01.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0It’s a Pieris species, I’d say Large White - Pieris brassicae
26.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The holy grail this morning and then it was away - Clifden Nonpareil
18.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 65 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0That makes sense
18.09.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice Matt. What’s the camera?
18.09.2025 06:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Could do with a bit more detail
13.09.2025 21:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I agree,Tim, its size and with that notched head, make it a certain Peppered Moth
08.09.2025 20:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Vanna. Yes, the long delayed grasshoppers books is now with the repro house and I’m expecting proofs fairly soon. It’s looking good.
02.09.2025 21:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s a caterpillar of the Herald moth.
24.08.2025 21:09 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, looks like Mint Moth caterpillar
29.06.2025 20:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not certain and I haven’t got access to my caterpillar book at the moment
25.06.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Little male Yellow Loosestrife Bee - Macropis europaea on its host plant by the garden pond
22.06.2025 17:14 — 👍 46 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Not Painted Lady but a larval web of the Small Eggar moth. Nice find.
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