Port and Wey: 16 Aug 25

Old Quarry Lane and Wakeham Meadow

Highlights again in the meadow were the two female Wasp Spiders, which were a bit harder to photograph as they had both moved their webs to slightly different positions.

Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull

Wood Pigeon

Collared Dove

Blackbird

Magpie

Carrion Crow

Jackdaw

House Sparrow

Chaffinch

Goldfinch

Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon

Butterflies Recorded:
2 Large White Pieris brassicae
2 Small White Pieris rapae
4 Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
1 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
1 Common Blue Polyommatus icarus

A Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria

Just the one..............

......Common Blue Polyommatus icarus seen. Well it was gone 6pm.

Moths Recorded:

1 Yellow-spot Tortrix Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

8 Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella

1 Common Nettle-tap Anthophila fabriciana

It has been a great Summer for Rush Veneers Nomophila noctuella with many seen daily now for a good couple of months.

And here is another.

A Common Nettle-tap Anthophila fabriciana

Bees Recorded:

Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Honey Bee Apis mellifera

Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius

Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum

On this Buddleia Buddleja davidii is a very vibrant looking Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum

Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:

Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris

Hoverflies Recorded:

2 Glass-winged Syrphus Syrphus vitripennis

5 Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus

1 Long Hoverfly Sphaerophoria scripta

1 Pied Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri

1 Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea

6 Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax

A Glass-winged Syrphus Syrphus vitripennis and another...........

.........one on Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris. This hoverfly also goes by the name of Lesser Banded Hoverfly and Black-thighed Flower Fly