It was another walk around my local patch and the same/different Chiffchaff was calling from the same spot as yesterday. Overhead two House Martins drifted slowly south.
I also recorded 12 butterfly species, which included a Wall Brown Lasiommata megera and a Small Blue Cupido minimus.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
2 House Martin
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Chiffchaff (calling again)
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
5 Large White Pieris brassicae
5 Small White Pieris rapae
1 Green-veined White Pieris napi
1 Wall Brown Lasiommata megera
1 Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
6 Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
1 Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
1 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
1 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (seen again)
1 Small Blue Cupido minimus
10+ Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
6 Chalk Hill Blue Polyommatus coridon
And finally, just to show that sometimes you don't have to go looking for insects. If you just wait awhile they will come to you. A male Common Blue and a hoverfly, possibly a Common Spotted Field Syrph Eupeodes luniger on my trainer.
And finally, just to show that sometimes you don't have to go looking for insects. If you just wait awhile they will come to you. A male Common Blue and a hoverfly, possibly a Common Spotted Field Syrph Eupeodes luniger on my trainer.
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
10+ Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
1 Ophionine Ichneumon Wasp Enicospilus ramidulus
Hoverflies Recorded:
1 Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
5 Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
1 Pied Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri
Below are a few images and a video of a Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea on Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare.
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
Common Green Bottle Fly Lucilia sericata
Fly Tachinidae sp.
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Dark Bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
And a male Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus. Click here for a plate showing three different morphs.
Plants:
Bramble Rubus fruticosusa
Buddleia Buddleja davidii
Common bird's-foot-trefoil Lotus corniculatus
Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra
Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris
Common Teasel Dipsacus fullonum
Greater Burdock Arctium lappa
Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna
Hemp Agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum
Large Bindweed Calystegia silvatica
Lesser Burdock Arctium minus
Wild Clematis Clematis vitalba
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare
5 Large White Pieris brassicae
5 Small White Pieris rapae
1 Green-veined White Pieris napi
1 Wall Brown Lasiommata megera
1 Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
6 Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
1 Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
1 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
1 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (seen again)
1 Small Blue Cupido minimus
10+ Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
6 Chalk Hill Blue Polyommatus coridon
This was as good as it got with a photograph of a Wall Brown Lasiommata megera
Just the one Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria seen today.
Here are.........
........a few......
.............Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina seen today.
Just one Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta seen this afternoon.
A Small Blue Cupido minimus..................
..........seen along Old Quarry lane..
And a short video of the Small Blue on the Blackberries.
This a male Common Blue Polyommatus icarus and.............
..........this a female.
This is a male Chalk Hill Blue Polyommatus coridon and............
...............this is a.......
.............female.
Moths Recorded:
20+ Six-Spot Burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae
20+ Six-Spot Burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae
1 Tawny Sycamore Piercer Pammene aurita
1 Rosy Knot-horn Oncocera semirubella
10+ Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella
Below are a few of the 10+ Rush Veneers Nomophila noctuella recorded this afternoon.
Bees Recorded:
Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
10+ Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella
Six-Spot Burnet moths Zygaena filipendulae
A Tawny Sycamore Piercer Pammene aurita
It has been quite sometime since Ive seen a Rosy Knot-horn Oncocera semirubella. The last one I recorded was 10 Sep 22.
Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Common Yellow-face Bee Hylaeus communis
A Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
A Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum on Common Teasel Dipsacus fullonum.
On this Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare is a Common Yellow-face Bee Hylaeus communis
10+ Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
1 Ophionine Ichneumon Wasp Enicospilus ramidulus
A Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris and............
.........another one. Both on Wild Fennel
This is an Ophionine Ichneumon Wasp Enicospilus ramidulus
1 Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
5 Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
1 Pied Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri
1 Hoverfly Syrphus sp.
1 Meadow Field Syrph Eupeodes latifasciatus
20+ Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea
A Pied Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri
A Hoverfly syrphus sp.
And a Meadow Field Syrph Eupeodes latifasciatus
Many unidentified flies
Common Green Bottle Fly Lucilia sericata
Fly Tachinidae sp.
Yellow-legged Tiger Crane fly Nephrotoma flavipalpis
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
7-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata
1 Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis - form succinea
1 Lucerne Bug Adelphocoris lineolatus
A Common Green Bottle Fly Lucilia sericata AKA Sheep Blow Fly
Fly Tachinidae sp.
And a Yellow-legged Tiger Crane fly Nephrotoma flavipalpis
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
7-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata
1 Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis - form succinea
1 Lucerne Bug Adelphocoris lineolatus
1 Rose Chafer Cetonia aurata
A 7-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata
Not a 7-spot Ladybird missing a few black spots, but a Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis - form succinea
A Lucerne Bug Adelphocoris lineolatus
Below are a few photos and a video of a Rose Chafer Cetonia aurata on Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Dark Bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
Common Field Grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus
A Dark Bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera
A Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
A Common Field Grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus
Spiders Recorded:
Nurseryweb Spider Pisaura mirabilis
Nurseryweb Spider Pisaura mirabilis
A Nurseryweb Spider Pisaura mirabilis
Plants:
Bramble Rubus fruticosusa
Buddleia Buddleja davidii
Common bird's-foot-trefoil Lotus corniculatus
Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra
Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris
Common Teasel Dipsacus fullonum
Greater Burdock Arctium lappa
Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna
Hemp Agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum
Large Bindweed Calystegia silvatica
Lesser Burdock Arctium minus
Wild Clematis Clematis vitalba
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare
Apples Malus domestica
Ted:
Apples Malus domestica
Ted playing.......
............hide and seek.
Yes I'm coming Ted.