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The Beyonder

Lonely country lanes prove a daily inspiration

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Other Photographs

Flowers of three cornered leek seen in Totnes on December 27th 2024
Recnt Photographs
Burnet moths on water mint at Dawlish Warren, August 4th 2024
Fleabane tortoise beetle, Dawlish Warren, August 4th 2024
Common blue butterfly on meadow vetchling, Totnes August 19th 2021
Long-horned bee, seen below East Prawle June 4th 2020
Pantaloon bee (Dasypoda hirtipes) seen at Dawlish Warren, August 5th 2019
The first Wool carder bee of the season, seen in the Leechwell Garden, Totnes June 17th 2019
Common carder bee feeding from bluebell (Slapton, April 3rd 2019)
The first page of my article on solitary bees in the July/August edition of Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine showing a male hairy-footed flower bee.
Resting Nomada Marshamella bee seen at Totnes May 11th 2018
Green Hairstreak Butterfly seen at Gara Rock 13th May 2018
Sicilian Honey Garlic (Nectaroscordum siculum) seen by the roadside on May 5th 2017 between Dartington and Totnes
Autumn Crocus growing through grass on Dartington Estate in Devon, October 16th 2016
A Bombus pratorum worker meets a white crab spider and the end is not a good one for the bee, May 30 2016
A Bombus pratorum worker meets a white crab spider and the end is not a good one for the bee, May 30 2016
Tadpoles in Leechwell Garden, Totnes - February 20th 2016
Buff tailed bumblebee (B. terrestris) worker on grevillea, Torquay, December 9th 2015
Juvenile Common Lizard seen in Dorset, August 2015, photo by Hazel Strange
Red-tailed bumblebee queen seen towards the end of March 2015 in South Devon
An Ivy Bee seen on October 14th 2014 near Paignton in Devon
An Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar, seen in Staverton, Devon, September 2014. Photo by Hazel Strange. The shoe is there for size comparison.
We saw this Great Green Bush Cricket in August 2014 in Dorset. It is at least 4cm long!
Saw this plant growing in cracks between the stones on the Cobb at Lyme Regis in Dorset. I think it is Rock Sea-Spurrey. The photograph was taken by Hazel Strange (August 2014).

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  • About
  • Blogs
  • Dorset Apple Cake
  • Fishchowter’s Lane
  • My YouTube Channel
  • Other writing
    • “Strange Science” in Devon Life Magazine
      • The state of Devon’s bees (Devon Life Magazine)
      • Thomas Newcomen (Devon Life Magazine)
    • BBC Wildlife Magazine Blogger of the Week
    • Canary – a literary journal of the environmental crisis
    • Cornwall Today Magazine
    • Dark Mountain
    • Dorset Life Magazine
    • Dorset Magazine
    • Guardian
    • Into the Red
    • LabLit
    • Land Lines Project
    • Leechwell Garden
      • Leechwell Garden Spring Highlights
    • Lockdown Nature Walks
    • Marshwood Vale Magazine
    • Naked Scientists
    • National Brain Science Writing Prize
    • National Trust
    • NatureWriting
    • Occam’s Typewriter Irregulars
    • Reconnect Magazine
    • Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine
    • Science Seekers
    • Short Form Nature Writing
    • The Beyonder
    • The Clearing
    • The Curlew
    • Two Million Blossoms Magazine
    • West Country Voices
    • Zoomorphic Magazine

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