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| Greater Butterfly Orchid, Platanthera chlorantha |
On Wednesday morning I met Mark Colvin in West Sussex for an orchid hunt and we found five: White Helleborine, Fly orchid, Twyblade, Common Spotted and Greater Butterfly Orchid. Moths seen: Cocksfoot moth, Small Purple-barred, Marsh Grey, Violet Cosmet, Hook-streak Grass-veneers, Burnet Companion, Little Longhorn, Red Piercer.
Afterwards I visited Iping Common and was pleased to find a red
and black Click beetle, Ampedus
sanguinolentus, a Heath Potter wasp, plenty of Grey Gorse Piercer and
Common Heath moths, a Common Sweep case, a female Green Dock beetle and a
cluster of its orange eggs, a female Large Red Damselfly and a new micro moth,
a Light Streak, which is a good record for Sussex.
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| Common Blues mating, Polyommatus icarus |
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| beetle playing peepaboo |
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| Burnet Companion, Euclidia glyphica |
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| Click beetle, Athous haemorrhoidalis |
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| Cocksfoot Moth, Glyphipterix simpliciella on Oxeye Daisy |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Dance Fly, Empis Opaca |
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| Common Malachite, Malachius bipustulatus |
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| Dingy Skipper, Erynnis tages |
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| Fly Orchid, Ophrys insectifera |
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| Garden Chafer, Phyllopertha horticola |
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| Greater Butterfly Orchid, Platanthera chlorantha |
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| Greater Butterfly Orchid |
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| Green Shieldbug, Palomena prasina |
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| Green Shieldbug on White Helleborine, Cephalanthera damasonium |
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| Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Crambus lathoniellus |
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| Jumping spider, Heliophanus flavipes |
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| Leaf beetle, Cryptocephalus species |
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| Little Longhorn, Cauchas fibulella |
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| Marsh Grey, Eudonia pallida |
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| Ramsons Wild Garlic, Allium ursinum |
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| Red Piercer, Lathronympha strigana |
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| Sanicle, Sanicula europaea |
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| Sawfly, Tenthredo maculata |
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| Sawfly, Tenthredo maculata |
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| Scorpion fly, Panorpa species |
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| Small Barred Longhorn, Adela croesella |
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| Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus |
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| Small Purple-barred, Phytometra viridaria |
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| 4th instar Small Tortoiseshell larva, Aglais urticae |
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| Twayblade, Neottia ovata |
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| Twayblade |
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| Violet Cosmet, Pancalia leuwenhoekella |
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| White Helleborine, Cephalanthera damasonium |
Iping Common:
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| ants with larvae |
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| Click beetle, Ampedus sanguinolentus |
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| Common Heath, Ematurga atomaria |
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| Common Sweep, Psyche casta |
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| Green Dock Beetle eggs, Gastrophysa viridula |
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| Green Dock Beetle, Gastrophysa viridula |
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| Grey Gorse Piercer, Cydia ulicetana |
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| Heath Potter Wasp, Eumenes coarctatus |
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| female Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula |
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| Light Streak, Pleurota bicostella |
