It was a mega day in the back garden with lots of weeding, grubbing out a Budleia, mowing the lawn and many other jobs I have neglected over the past few weeks.
Breaks were good and an opportunity to see what wildlife was about. I even found my first Common Candy-striped Spider sensu stricto (Enoplognatha ovata sensu stricto) on Portland, with several on and around the Lavender.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
3 Swift
10+ House Martin
Dunnock
Blackbird
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
1 Azure Damselfly
A male Azure Damselfly
4 Large White
2 Small White
1 Meadow Brown
1 Gatekeeper
2 Red Admiral
A Meadow Brown sat in Fig Tree
A Gatekeeper
One of the two Red Admirals on the Budleia
Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
A Silver Y
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
bee sp.
The Honey Bees were busy on the Lavender
Incoming!!!
And another one.
A bee sp on a California Poppy
Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
I'm not sure if this Common Wasp is the same...........
..........individual as this one, as they were photographed over an hour apart.
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded:
Ichneumon sp
An Ichneumon sp
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Semaphore Fly (Poecilobothrus nobilitatus)
Broad Centurian (Chloromyia formosa)
A male Broad Centurian (Chloromyia formosa)
And lift off.
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina)
A Common Green Shieldbug 3rd instar nymph. More on Common Green Shieldbugs and their instars here.
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
A female Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Spiders Recorded:
Common Candy-striped Spider sensu stricto (Enoplognatha ovata sensu stricto)
.......there were several on the Lavender. More on this spider here.
This was a week ago
And today's new look