Thursday 20 June 2013

Silver-studded Blue and Clouded Buffs

Yesterday afternoon Mark phoned with the news that Silver-studded Blues were finally showing at Stedham Common. I disappeared out of the door PDQ and at 4pm was happily walking towards the heathland. There were plenty of Common Heath, Treble-bar and Grass Wave moths plus large yellow ones later identified as Clouded Buffs. I tried to avoid breaking the spider webs in the heather. After nearly two hours of searching under a cloudy sky in diminishing light I finally located a Silver-studded Blue fluttering near the path.
Clouded Buff, Diacrisia sannio
Clouded Buff, Diacrisia sannio
Common Cottongrass, Eriophorum angustifolium
Common Cottongrass, Eriophorum angustifolium
Grass Wave, Perconia strigillaria
Garden Spider, Araneus diadematus
Garden Spider, Araneus diadematus
Silver-studded Blue, Plebeius argus
Silver-studded Blue, Plebeius argus
Silver-studded Blue, Plebeius argus
Silver-studded Blue, Plebeius argus
Silver-studded Blue, Plebeius argus
Slow-worm, Anguis fragilis
Gorse Orbweaver, Agalenatea redii

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful Pictures and blog, a pleasure to view! I think your Common Heath is in fact a 'Grass Wave' (Perconia strigillaria).

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  2. Quite right, thanks for your correction!

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