u/Deinonychus-sapiens

I have a small field which has been used for grazing for at least a century. It has an area that despite the weather has remained mostly green this summer, and in spring was very boggy. The area is also full of rushes. I can’t find it on any older maps, but my assumption is that this was a stock pond which has been filled in. It is about 3m above the stream which runs across the bottom boundary, and the land appears to form a small valley from where this pond would be down to the stream.
The neighbour has a wildlife pond which is to some extent damp all year from the same seep/spring. We have a lot of clay in the soil and a hole dug anywhere will hold water for several days.
How should I go about recovering this pond? I had planned to just go for it with a digger at what looks like the middle and work my way outward, but I worry that I might dig too far or in the wrong place if this was previously a stock pond or even natural?

My dude has been pacing round his enclosure staring at her for a week. I hope I have made it so he can get to her sneakily and get away without losing his head. She is a food monster though so I don’t know… 😬

I have a male and female H. Venosa which were purchased at L3 and both kept in almost identical enclosures at the same temperature and fed the same. I believed this meant it was likely the male would molt to adult one instar before the female, which wasn’t ideal. They have consistently molted within 4 days of each other the whole time, and yesterday both got their wings within 12 hours of each other.
Yay! But I thought that didn’t work that way? She also isn’t much bigger than him. Heavier, but I’d say they are close to the same length.

The land behind my house has been farmland for at least a few hundred years, and part of my house is the original farmhouse from I think 1830ish. I have started detecting and field walking and found this piece of pottery. Is it possible to identify what type and age it is?

All on a 3 for 2 deal as well. I got a bit carried away, especially as I have never played gaslands!

Found this big dude in the tropical plant section. About 11mm body length, 20mm overall. Much larger than any UK natives I know of! I couldn’t find any others or where it came from. Any ideas?

Roughly 11mm head and body length, 20mm legs and antennae included. Found on the ground in the tropical section of a plant nursery in south east United Kingdom. I highly suspect it has come in on a plant, though I could not see any others (or I would have bought the plant they were in!). Our largest native worker ants are Formica Rufa but this appears larger. The lines on the paper are spaced 8mm apart for scale.