5 Aug 24

Old Quarry Lane, Wakeham Meadows and Wakeham Wildlife Site

What an odd day, despite it being very cloudy and windy, it was pretty humid. And with the cloud cover there was noticeably more butterflies and moths about.

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


Butterflies Recorded:
Large White
Small White
Green-veined White
1 Speckled Wood
30+ Meadow Brown
5 Gatekeeper
5 Common Blue
3 Chalk Hill Blue

A female Common Blue

A male and...........

.........female Chalk Hill Blue

Moths Recorded:

Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata)

Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)

Common Marble (Celypha lacunana)

Straw Conch (Cochylimorpha straminea)

Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)

And a Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata)

These are both...........

.............Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)

A Common Marble (Celypha lacunana)

These two are.....

.............Straw Conch (Cochylimorpha straminea)

Bees Recorded:

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)

Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)

Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)

And a Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

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

Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)

Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Greenbottle (Lucilia sp.)
House Fly (Neomyia sp.)
Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)
Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides)

Orange Muscid Fly (Phaonia pallida)

Top left a Greenbottle (Lucilia sp.) and bottom a House Fly (Neomyia sp.)

A Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)

Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides)

This an Orange Muscid Fly (Phaonia pallida), not to be confused with Thricops diaphanus

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)

Potato Capsid (Closterotomus norwegicus)

A Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)

And this is a Potato Capsid (Closterotomus norwegicus) and a new capsid species for my Portland list.

Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

A Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Spiders Recorded:
Crab Spider (Misumena vatia)
Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)

Crab Spider (Misumena vatia)

Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)

Leafhoppers Recorded:

Leafhopper (Eurhadina loewii)

And this odd looking insect is the Leafhopper - Eurhadina loewii and another new species for my Portland List.

Ted:

Which way are we going Ted!!