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Welcome to Apple Wildlife

In this website I aspire to include a page for every wildlife species I encounter. These will contain photos and often comment about identification - particularly if it's something I've struggled with, or if I've learned something that I didn't think was clear from published literature. My aims are:

For me: a kind of diary of my learning, a handy way of reminding myself when I encounter something another time.
For verifiers: for taxa I'm less familiar with, explaining how I've identified something or showing evidence for that identification, which I hope will help county recorders or others to verify (or indeed correct) my records.
For other naturalists: I hope my photos or my experiences with identification challenges will be useful for other people.

By including things in this website I am not claiming expertise. It's inevitable that some mistakes have crept in, particularly for taxa that I'm less familiar with. If you notice any errors or things that could be improved/clarified (or confirmed where I have expressed doubt), please get in touch with me.

Eventually I hope to use this website for other things too, like information about the wildlife in my local area (North Elmham in Norfolk, UK), but it will be a while before I progress that.

I'm building the site with a two-pronged approach:

Systemmatically:
- Lacewings, snakeflies, alderflies and scorpionflies (because I'm the county recorder so they're of special interest to me)
- Sawflies, jumping plant lice and starting to work on beetles now (in order to support my records submission)
- Birds (in progress: because these are what I've known longest and have most material on)
Ad hoc: I'm also using these pages as a sort of diary of my learning when I come across new things, so you'll also find a fairly random selection of a whole variety of other taxa covered (scroll down).