The nature of lockdown
Polly Hoskin reports on the Wharfedale Naturalists Webinar April 6th 2021: The Nature of Lockdown Part 2 “IT was similar to a wildebeest giving birth on the plains of Africa.” This is how Anne Riley introduced a photograph of an event in her Burley in Wharfedale garden last summer. The event? The live birth of an aphid which emerged and then quickly scuttled away. This statement and the detailed photographs which accompanied it demonstrate Anne Riley’s love and enthusiasm for insects. During lockdown last year Anne took numerous photographs of the insects living in her garden which ...