2 Sep 22

Old Quarry Lane and Wakeham Meadow

After the morning rain had passed, it turned out to be a warm and muggy afternoon. As the sun made its appearance, so did a few butterflies, moths and hoverflies.

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


Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
1 Common Darter


Butterflies Recorded:
3 Large White
3 Speckled Wood
4 Meadow Brown
5 Common Blue

Speckled Wood

Meadow Brown

Moths Recorded:
1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
4 Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)
6 Rush Veneer (Nomophila noctuella)

A very well camouflaged Silver Y (Autographa gamma)

And a very worn Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)

One of six Rush Veneers (Nomophila noctuella) I came across in the meadow

Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)

I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but this one and the following "bumblebee" images are all.....

............Common Carders. I guess the older you get........

...........the paler you become, as in these....

.......two!!!

Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

Lots of Common Wasps about this afternoon.

Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Tapered Dronefly (Eristalis pertinax)
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Plain-faced Dronefly (Eristalis arbustorum)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)

Best I get this right. A Common Dronefly on Wild Fennel

Unfortunately this was the only shot I got of this female Plain-faced Dronefly (Eristalis arbustorum)

A Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea). So named because of the skull-like face on its thorax.

Another Common Dronefly, with "friends". Possibly 2 Ichneumon sps. and a miridae sp.

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis)
Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)

miridae sp.

Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) - form succinea

Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)

miridae sp.

Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Lacewings and Scorpionflies Recorded:
lacewing sp.


Ted:

When I call him, he knows exactly what I'm going to do. Six Ted's today.