Another glorious sunny day here on Portland and another visit to the meadows opposite the cottage.
The number of Marbled Whites and Meadow Browns are just starting to drop off, but the number of Gatekeepers and Ringlets seem to be increasing.
Quite a few moths about with Six-Spot Burnets, Garden Grass-veneers and a Silver Y all seen.
Unsurprisingly an Emperor Dragonfly was seen hawking down the track looking for butterflies.
New for me on Portland was a Parasitic Wasp (Gasteruption jaculator)
Here are a few images from today:
A Six-Spot Burnet Moth with a small bee coming in fast above it.
The Six-Spot Burnet on a Common Knapweed, Centaurea nigra
A Silver Y and..........
...........a very flighty one at that.
One of the many Garden Grass-veneers in the meadow.
The track leading back to Wakeham. On the right Wakeham Wood.
Along the track a Meadow Brown and...................
...........several Gate Keepers now appearing.
A Marbled White.
A Holly Blue on a Bramble
Here it is again with wings closed.
A Large Meadow Mining Bee on a Knapweed.
This is a Long Hoverfly.
Another hoverfly, this one a Dead Head Fly
This is a Parasitic wasp, Gasteruption jaculator and..........
..........and a first for me on Portland.
On the same umbellifer were these two flies.
Birds Recorded: Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, 2 Swift, Dunnock, Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush singing, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow and House Sparrow.
Butterflies Recorded: Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Large White, Small White, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Marbled White, 1 Holly Blue and 1 Common Blue
Moths Recorded: Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella), 1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma), 2 Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae) and a Brown-tail Moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea)
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees, Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum), Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius), White-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus lucorum) and a Large Meadow Mining Bee (Andrena labialis)
Parasitic Wasps Recorded: 1 Gasteruption jaculator
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded: 1 Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)
Hoverflies Recorded: Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus), Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta) and a Dead Head Fly (Myathropa florea)
Flies Recorded: Solieria sp. and fly sp.
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis) and Common Red Soldier Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva)
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