Beautiful Demoiselles and Clouded Yellows

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

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On Tuesday I visited Mill Hill for my weekly transect with these results:  Brimstone 1, Chalkhill Blue 19, Clouded Yellow 2, Common Blue 34, Gatekeeper 69, Green-veined White 1, Holly Blue 1, Meadow Brown 126, Painted Lady 1, Red Admiral 3, Small Tortoiseshell 1, Small White 1, Wall 2. The Clouded Yellows flew at mach 1 all over the hill but one finally stopped to refuel.

Later at Woods Mill reserve I watched Beautiful Demoiselles dancing around a stream and a Migrant Hawker zoomed along a path. I found a tiny case-bearing larva 4mm long walking on my camera which turned out to be a Green Lacewing larva. A Turtle Dove called and settled on a tree stump - a first for me. The sun was right behind it. A Median Wasp settled on a window sill at home.

Adonis Blue, Lysandra bellargus

Brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni

Cinnabar larva, Tyria jacobaeae

Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus

Clouded Yellow at mach 1

Common Carpet, Epirrhoe alternata

Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis

Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus shares airspace with a model airplane

Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana

Pearl Veneer, Agriphila straminella

Ploughman's-spikenard, Inula conyzae

Ploughman's-spikenard, Inula conyzae

Round-headed Rampion, Phyteuma orbiculare

Self-heal, Prunella vulgaris

Straw Dot, Rivula sericealis

Striped Snail, Cernuella (Cernuella) virgata

Treble-bar, Aplocera plagiata

elderly Wall, Lasiommata megera

Yellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata

Woods Mill:

female beautiful Demoiselle, Calopteryx virgo

male Beautiful Demoiselle, Calopteryx virgo

male Beautiful Demoiselle, Calopteryx virgo

case of Green lacewing larva, Chrysopidae species

Green lacewing larva with case, Chrysopidae species
4mm long

male Migrant Hawker, Aeshna mixta

Turtle Dove, Streptopelia turtur

Median Wasp worker, Dolichovespula media

Median Wasp worker, Dolichovespula media

Median Wasp worker, Dolichovespula media