Port and Wey: 13 Aug 23

Old Quarry Lane and Wakeham Meadows

A not so sunny day, still windy but at least it was dry. Lots of invertebrates about including another "blue" female Common Blue butterfly.

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

Butterflies Recorded:
Large White
Small White
Green-veined White
1 Speckled Wood
2 Meadow Brown
4 Gatekeeper
1 Red Admiral
4 Common Blue

A Speckled Wood on Common Ragwort

A female Common Blue

And another female Common Blue, this time the blue form.

Moths Recorded:
1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
2 Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
1 Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)

1 Straw Conch (Cochylimorpha straminea)

A record shot of a Silver Y deep inside a bramble bush

A Six-Spot Burnet moth on a Teasel

And another Six-Spot Burnet moth, this time on a Common Knapweed

And a Straw Conch (Cochylimorpha straminea)

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

A Honey Bee on Common Ragwort

And a male Red-tailed Bumblebee sat on top of an ants nest!!

Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)

A Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)

And a Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta) doing a nose dive into this Common Ragwort

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Red Spotted Parasite Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata)

Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides)

Root Maggot fly (Anthomyia pluvialis)

Four-banded Beegrabber (Conops quadrifasciatus)

fly sp.

A Red Spotted Parasite Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata) on Common Ragwort

And another Red Spotted Parasite Fly this time on Hemp Agrimony

A Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides) on an umbellifer

And another Yellow Bellied Fly sat on the leaf of a Wild Clematis (Clematis vitalba)

A Root Maggot fly (Anthomyia pluvialis)

I originally thought this was a hoverfly, then a wasp, but it's...........

............Four-banded Beegrabber (Conops quadrifasciatus). It is one I have seen before, but only a few.

fly sp.

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina)
Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum)
Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)

Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) - 3rd instar nymph

Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum) - nymph

A female Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)

Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeselii)
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)