Wakeham
An early morning walk around the meadows today and the main highlights were a Silver Y moth and 3 Common Green Lacewing (Chrysoperla carnea). The latter new for me on Portland.
Here are a few images from this morning:
Just 4 Marbled Whites in the meadows today.
A tatty looking Common Blue
And another one.
Green-veined White
A pair of Gatekeepers mating and an interloper.
Speckled Wood
Six-Spot Burnet.
Silver Y
A male Red-tailed Bumblebee
A Common Red Soldier Beetle.
A female Swollen-thighed Beetle.
A Harlequin ladybird
Alder Spittlebug, Aphrophora alni
And a Common Green Lacewing (Chrysoperla carnea), in fact I came across 3.
And here's another.
Tout Quarry
A late morning walk around Tout Quarry and lots of butterflies especially Chalk Hill Blues. Also 5 Grayling, the first for me this year. Other butterflies seen were Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Large White, Green-veined White, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Marbled White, 1 Painted Lady, Peacock, Common Blue and Chalk Hill Blue
Also seen a Hummingbird Hawk-moth.
Here are a few images from this morning:
One of the 5 Grayling I found this morning.
And another.
A Six-Spot Burnet Moth
Having found my first ever Chalk Carpet on 14 Jul this year, I managed 2 more today in Tout Quarry.
Here is the second Chalk Carpet.
A Hummingbird Hawk-moth, always on the move.
Never keeping still for more than a second.
A brief couple of seconds for a half decent shot and then probably my best................
........opportunity, but alas its just going out of the frame.
A photo of one of the more picturesque spots in Tout Quarry.
This is a Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris)
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