Comfrey Ermel, Brimstones & Longhorns

Comfrey Ermel, Ethmia quadrillella

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On Monday I returned to Rewell Wood and saw Pearl-bordered Fritillaries, a Green Tiger Beetle, an Orange-tip, Brimstones and Green-veined Whites. Plenty of Green Longhorns were waving their antennae on Wood Spurge. I also found Vetch Piercers.

  I was disappointed when  I looked for the Orange-tip egg on the Cuckoo Flowers from the previous day. There was no sign of the flowers and I conclude that a thoughtful walker had picked them: “they’ll look pretty in a vase”. These were the only specimens in the area.

  Later I found more Moth Flies doing their leaf dance on Salix in the Arundel WWT car park. I returned yesterday and found a Comfrey Ermel micro-moth. This striking black and white moth has been found along the south coast in recent  years. I also found an unusual patterned larva of a Mottled Umber moth which appears to be forming a 'house' from a Salix leaf. An immature male Blue-tailed Damselfly rested on a twig.

Brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni

Bluebells, Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Brimstone on Bugle

Brimstone

Crab Spider, Misumena vatia with hoverfly

larva 30mm long, id needed

male Green Longhorn, Adela reaumurella

Green Tiger Beetle, Cicindela campestris

Green-veined White, Pieris napi on Bugle

Lesser Treble-bar, Aplocera efformata

Orange-tip, Anthocharis cardamines

Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Boloria euphrosyne

Pearl-bordered Fritillary on Bugle

slug - id needed

Vetch Piercer, Grapholita jungiella

Arundel WWT:

Brown Willow Beetle, Galerucella lineola

Brown Willow Beetle

Brown Willow Beetle eggs

Midge

Cucumber Green Spider, Araniella cucurbitina

Cucumber Green Spider

Moth Fly, Pericoma species

Moth Fly

Mottled Umber larva, Erannis defoliaria

Alderfly, Sialis lutaria

immature male Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans

Comfrey Ermel, Ethmia quadrillella

Common Carder Bumblebee, Bombus Pascuorum on White Dead Nettle

Common Carder Bumblebee on Comfrey

Common Winter Cress, Barbarea vulgaris

Common Winter Cress

Crab Spider, Xysticus cristatus

Cranefly - id needed

Cuckoo Bee, Nomada ruficornis

Hoverflies mating, Eristalis pertinax

Hoverfly, Eristalis pertinax

Hoverfly, Helophilus pendulus

Nettle Clustercup Rust, Puccinia caricina

Rove beetle, Paederus species

Slender Ground-hopper, Tetrix subulata

Soldier beetle, Cantharis pellucida

female St. Mark's Fly, Bibio marci

Stilt Fly, Neria cibaria

Sulphur Tuft, Hypholoma fasciculare

White-lipped Snail, Cepaea hortensis

Yellow Dung Fly, Scatophaga stercoraria