Another one of those windy days where there was a mixture of sun and cloud. At least it was dry.
Much the same as yesterday with a walk around the meadow and tracks across the road from the cottage. Main highlights today were an Emperor Dragonfly and a Mother Shipton moth, both firsts for the year, and a new moth for me on Portland a Dark-barred Tortrix (Syndemis musculana).
Here are a few images from this afternoon.
I was photographing a Great Green Bush Cricket, not realising it had already gone, but looking at the image I realised there were 2 Artichoke Beetles in the shot. Top left and centre bottom (The red "blobs")
Later in my Wakeham back garden a pug moth and a Woodlouse Spider (Dysdera crocata).
Birds Recorded: Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, House Sparrow and Chaffinch.
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded: Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)
Butterflies Recorded: 1 Holly Blue, 3 Speckled Wood and 5 Meadow Brown.
Moths Recorded: 1 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella), Mother Shipton (Euclidia mi), 2 Hook-streak Grass-veneer moth (Crambus lathoniellus), a Small Fan-footed Wave (Idaea biselata) and a Dark-barred Tortrix (Syndemis musculana)
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees, Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum), Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) and Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
Wasps Recorded: 1 Potter Wasp (Odynerus melanocephalus)
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded: 2 Amblyteles armatorius and 2 Ichneumon sarcitorius
Hoverflies Recorded: Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) and an Epistrophe diaphana.
Flies Recorded: Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga sp.)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: Lesser Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Ischnomera cyanea), Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis), 2 Common Green Shieldbugs (Palomena prasina), 1 Harlequin Ladybird nymph (Harmonia axyridis), 2 Common Green Capsid (Lygocoris pabulinus) and several Artichoke Beetles (Sphaeroderma testaceum)
Slugs and Snails Recorded: White-lipped Banded Snail (Cepaea hortensis) and a Garden Snail (Cornu aspersa)
Grasshoppers and Crickets Recorded: Dark Bush-cricket nymphs (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) and a Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
Caterpillars Recorded: Brown-tail Moth
Spiders Recorded: Woodlouse Spider (Dysdera crocata)
From Wakeham looking west along the track.
Along the hedgerow a Marmalade hoverfly
A Holly Blue
Speckled Wood
Another Speckled Wood and looking very worn
Meadow Brown
A Brown-tail Moth caterpillar
A pair of Common Green Shieldbugs mating
A Harlequin Ladybird nymph
In the grass a female Common Blue
And a side view
The gate that separates the track and one of the 2 meadows.
A Flesh Fly
Yesterday there was a juvenile Dunnock posing on a post and today one of the parents on a bramble.
Wakeham Meadow
A bit of a surprise was this Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)
A close-up of the head.
In the grass a Mother Shipton moth
Another new moth, sadly not a brilliant shot but a Dark-barred Tortrix (Syndemis musculana)
I finally found the Great Green Bush Cricket and noticed the Burnet Moth caterpillar in the frame as well.
A slightly close shot of the Great Green Bush Cricket
Two Common Green Capsid
A Honey Bee
A male Ichneumon Wasp (Ichneumon sarcitorius)
The Ichneumon sarcitorius again. Note white bands on this individual, yet on this.......
...........male the bands are yellow.
An overhead shot of the male Ichneumon Wasp (Ichneumon sarcitorius)
Another Ichneumon Wasp, this time an Amblyteles armatorius
This is Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus)
And a close-up. More on this plant Here
This flower The Self Heal, Prunella vulgaris. More on this plant Here.
A Small Fan-footed Wave
A Woodlouse Spider hunting out hunting.
Birds Recorded: Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, House Sparrow and Chaffinch.
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded: Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)
Butterflies Recorded: 1 Holly Blue, 3 Speckled Wood and 5 Meadow Brown.
Moths Recorded: 1 Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella), Mother Shipton (Euclidia mi), 2 Hook-streak Grass-veneer moth (Crambus lathoniellus), a Small Fan-footed Wave (Idaea biselata) and a Dark-barred Tortrix (Syndemis musculana)
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees, Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum), Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) and Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
Wasps Recorded: 1 Potter Wasp (Odynerus melanocephalus)
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded: 2 Amblyteles armatorius and 2 Ichneumon sarcitorius
Hoverflies Recorded: Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) and an Epistrophe diaphana.
Flies Recorded: Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga sp.)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: Lesser Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Ischnomera cyanea), Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis), 2 Common Green Shieldbugs (Palomena prasina), 1 Harlequin Ladybird nymph (Harmonia axyridis), 2 Common Green Capsid (Lygocoris pabulinus) and several Artichoke Beetles (Sphaeroderma testaceum)
Slugs and Snails Recorded: White-lipped Banded Snail (Cepaea hortensis) and a Garden Snail (Cornu aspersa)
Grasshoppers and Crickets Recorded: Dark Bush-cricket nymphs (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) and a Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
Caterpillars Recorded: Brown-tail Moth
Spiders Recorded: Woodlouse Spider (Dysdera crocata)