3 Aug 22

Old Quarry Lane and Wakeham Meadow

After a really busy day, it was an early evening walk with Ted. Main highlight was a Wall Brown in the Meadow. A butterfly species I've only seen here on a few occasions.

Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Goldfinch


Butterflies Recorded:
3 Large White
1 Wall Brown
2 Meadow Brown
1 Red Admiral
3 Common Blue
5 Chalk Hill Blue

Wall Brown

Common Blue

Chalk Hill Blue


Moths Recorded:
Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)
Rosy-striped Knot-horn (Oncocera semirubella)
moth sp.

Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)

Rosy-striped Knot-horn (Oncocera semirubella)

moth sp.


Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)

Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) on Buddleia

Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum) on Knapweed


Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)

Marmalade Hoverfly

A Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea) with slightly deformed abdomen. Possibly it is has just emerged and is still taking "shape"!!


Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
22-spot Ladybird (Psyllobora 22-punctata)
Rough-Haired Lagria Beetle (Lagria hirta)

A 22-spot Ladybird (Psyllobora 22-punctata) on Lesser Burdock

A Rough-Haired Lagria Beetle (Lagria hirta) just peering at me from behind a leaf. I moved slightly and it was gone in a flash. This is what they look like Here.


Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)


Lacewings and Scorpionflies Recorded:
lacewing sp.


Spiders Recorded:
spider sp.

A spider sp. on Knapweed


Leafhoppers Recorded:
Empoasca vitis

A leafhopper Empoasca vitis


Plants:
Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)
Old Man’s Beard (Clematis vitalba)
Wall Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis)
Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
Wild Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum)
Common Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
Provence Rose (Rosa gallica)
Lesser Burdock (Arctium minus)


Ted:

Sorry Ted are you bored!!