Three of the six Blue-winged Grasshoppers found at Reculver (North Kent coast) on 25th July.
A new ladybird for me - Ant-nest Ladybird (Platynaspis luteorubra) at Covert Woods, SE Kent, 29th July.
A couple of Scymnus frontalis found at Covert Woods, SE Kent, 29th July.
Sadly, I came across this deceased Spurge Hawk-moth larva today (24th July) on the dunes at Sandwich Bay (East Kent). Loads of Sea Spurge in the area.
Forget-me-not Shieldbug from Barham allotments (near Canterbury), 11th July. Good numbers of both adults and nymphs have been found this year.
Two Cow-wheat Shieldbugs from East Blean Woods, near Canterbury, today (12th July)
Rhyzobius lophanthae, one of the micro ladybirds - and a lifer. Pegwell Bay (East Kent), 1st July. About 3mm - roughly the size of a 16-spot Ladybird.
Another sighting of Erythraeus phalangoides (a mite) - this one at Pegwell Bay (East Kent) approx 6Km north of the ones I recently founs at Sandwich Bay - today (1st July)
A species I don't see often enough - Spiked Shieldbug (adult and nymph) - Barham Downs (SE Kent) - 29th June.
Forget-me-not and Blue Shieldbugs nymphs on my allotment plot - SE Kent. 27th June.
Single Lesser Streaked Shieldbug and Fallen's Leatherbug found under the same small Storksbill plant at Sandwich Bay (East Kent) on 24th June. However, I wasn't able to find any Greater Streaked, Heath and Sandrunner Shieldbugs.
I'm buzzing! Excuse the pun! Not a rare species, I know, but in the 26 years I've lived where I am now, I have never seen a Wool Carder Bee here. Last summer, on the IOW, I bought a Stachys with the sole intention of attracting one and today, one turned up - SE Kent, 22 June.
I found this unspotted ladybird near Stodmarsh (East Kent) on 16th June. It looks like a 24-spot without it's spots but the possibility of it being a Cynegetis sp (probably C. impunctata) has been suggested elsewhere - which if it was, would, I think, be a first for the UK.
Three 'good' ladybirds from Stodmarsh, East Kent on 16th June. Two of 7 Water Ladybirds, 1 of 2 Spotted Red Marsh and a single Red Marsh Ladybird, which is the first time I've found this species at this site.
I have spent many an hour searching countless Wood Spurge plants looking for the spurge bug, Dicranocephalus medius with no success, until the 8th May 2026, at Samphire Hoe, Kent, when I found this individual. I'm not sure what the two white patches are - probably chalk.
I came across this female Sympetrum fonscolombii (Red-veined Darter) at Samphire Hoe on 8th May. It may yet prove to be the first British record for 2026.
A rather smart fungus weevil - Platystomus albinus - from Covert Woods in SE Kent - 7th April
Three of six Cream-streaked Ladybirds found in Lympne (SE Kent) on 6th April.
My first Anthophora plumipes (Hairy-footed Flower Bee), a male, was seen on the garden on the 9th March. This male is one of two seen in the garden today (11th March). SE Kent.
A nice leafhopper from Betteshanger CP (East Kent) on the 2nd March, this year - Idiocerus herrichi. There were four scurrying about on the trunks of White Willow (Salix alba).
A couple of Juniper Shieldbugs and a single Oedemera femoralis found on the Lawson's Cypress in the garden today - the latter was later photographed on Box. (24th Feb).
It took many years to find my first adult Spiked Shieldbug, but I've had three this year. This is the third, from Covert Woods, SE Kent in 9th October.
14 adult Trapezium Shieldbugs were found at Samphire Hoe, near Dover on 10th Aug 2025.
A Blue-winged Grasshopper at Cheriton on 10th Aug (2025) was my second UK record, following one on there on 14th July (2025). Both different individuals.
One of nine Green Tiger Beetles seen at Covert Woods, near Barham, SE Kent, today (3rd April)
