Explore the diverse flora and fauna on the Downs from season to season through personal observations and photographs

Saturday, 13 Dec 2025

Common Earwig

Lovely sunshine again, but much colder this morning. The temperature firmly in wintry single digit territory. I tried peeling back a piece of bark on a dead birch tree and was rewarded with mixed age group of variably coloured Common Rough Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber) and my first ever sighting on the downs of a Common […]