Several Chalk-hill Blues on West High Down today blown along on a very stiff wind.Hopefully in a few days numbers will steadily increase an...

  Today at Wheelers Bay both Essex and Small Skippers were to be seen sharing the same habitat at the foot of the cliffs. These two...

A hike up to West High Down this morning in the hope of seeing my first Chalk-hill Blue of the year. I was to be disappointed as despite a ...

A surprise sighting yesterday at Shepherds Chine on the Islands' south west coast was a late Glanville Fritillary. The first sighting w...

Quite a common butterfly on Isle of Wight downland is the Dark Green Fritillary.It is also found in our woodlands too.One of the areas I li...

This National Trust copse  at Newtown village boasts a good selection of  flora and fauna and I took an extended wander through it today. ...

After seeing a first of the season Small Skipper last week,today while walking along the cliff top at Whale Chine I came across another mal...

We are enjoying a settled period of hot, early summer weather and butterflies are certainly responding to the conditions by emerging a litt...

I do not think that I have wandered along the revetment at Wheelers Bay since first seeing the Glanvilles at the end of April.So on a hot,s...

A quick visit to Walters Copse today in the hope of seeing some new species for this year. It was a very sunny late morning with a light br...

Hearing that a Silver-washed Fritillary had been spotted  in Bouldnor Forest,Yarmouth yesterday  I was hopeful for  a sight of one when I a...

While visiting a local area of marshland yesterday I came across a nest of Small Tortoiseshell caterpillars on a Water Dropwort plant.Alway...

To the north of the village of Niton are the hamlets of Southford and Roud and between them flows the River Yar which at this point is no m...