A bit of a circular this afternoon with a walk into Easton and then back through the old railway cuttings, the meadows and the wood track.
Still lots of Painted Lady's about with at least 10 along the cuttings and a further 7 in the meadows and wood track. Also plenty of Marbled Whites on the wing with 8 noted along my walk. Also in the cuttings were 2 Red Admirals, a Speckled Wood and a Large White. In the meadows just the 1 Common Blue.
A few moths about with 3 Six-Spot Burnet Moths, a Burnet Companion and the usual Garden Grass-veneers.
Here are a few images from this afternoon:
The old Easton Railway Cuttings.
I managed to count at least 10 Painted Lady's in the Cuttings today.
A Mimic Bee Hoverfly - Volucella plumata
The Lackey Moth caterpillar
The meadow at Wakeham
Close to the meadow an adult Slow Worm and a youngster. In fact there were two youngsters when I first looked..
A Marbled White and on the right what I think is a Common Green Capsid.
Another Marbled White
A Six-Spot Burnet Moth and the caterpillar of the same species in the background
White-tailed bumblebee on a Mallow
Hmm a hoverfly I think. One to ID later.
A Marmalade Hoverfly
Great Green Bush Cricket
A pair of Nephrotoma quadrifaria Craneflies
Nursery Web Spider
A male Ichneumon Wasp - Ichneumon sarcitorius
Cinnamon Bug
A Honey Bee
Common Green Shieldbug
A Dock Bug
Mullein Moth caterpillar
The gate into Wakeham, behind me the track leading to the meadows and Easton Railway Cuttings.
Along the track another Painted Lady
Also along here a Long Hoverfly and ...............
..........one of the Eupeodes hoverflies possibly a Migrant Hoverfly - Eupeodes corollae...........
..........also here The Footballer hoverfly
A Dark Bush-cricket
Another Nursery Web Spider
A 7-spot Ladybird and just for good measure its nymph below it.
Not the nymph of a 7-spot Ladybird but of a Harlequin
A Lacewing. I've not seen to many of these on Portland.
A Wolf Spider possibly Trochosa terricola
Birds Recorded: Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Blackbird, 2 Common Whitethroat, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Linnet and Goldfinch.
Reptiles Recorded: 3 Slow Worms
Butterflies Recorded: Large White (Pieris brassicae), 30+ Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina), 8 Marbled White (Melanargia galathea), 2 Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), 17 Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) and 1 Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)
Moths Recorded: 10+ Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella), 2 Hook-streak Grass-veneer (Crambus lathoniellus) and 3 Six-Spot Burnet Moth (Zygaena filipendulae) and a Burnet Companion (Euclidia glyphica)
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees, Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum), Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius), White-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) and Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded: A male Ichneumon sarcitorius.
Hoverflies Recorded: Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus), 3 Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta), 1 Migrant Hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae) and The Footballer (Helophilus pendulus)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: Lesser Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Ischnomera cyanea), Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis), Common Green Shieldbugs (Palomena prasina), 1 Cinnamon Bug (Corizus hyoscyami), Common Green Capsid (Lygocoris pabulinus), 7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) and 2 Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus).
Slugs and Snails Recorded: White-lipped Banded Snail (Cepaea hortensis) and a Garden Snail (Cornu aspersa)
Grasshoppers and Crickets Recorded: 1 Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
Lacewings Recorded: Lacewing sp.
Moth Caterpillars Recorded: Six-Spot Burnet Moth, 3 Mullein and The Lackey
Spiders Recorded: 2 Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) and a possible Wolf Spider (Trochosa terricola)
Portland Marina
A quick visit to to the boat this afternoon, to measure up for some seats and as I was leaving I managed a glimpse of 3 Black-faced Blenny's (Tripterygion delaisi).
A Black-faced Blenny
Wakeham
The unmistakable Hummingbird Hawk-moth
A Common Pug.
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