Large Skipper, Meadow Brown, moths and orchids

Large Skipper, male, Ochlodes sylvanus

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Yesterday afternoon I spent two hours at Fairmile Bottom looking for moths. I found 11 species:  Bright Bell, Cinerous Pearl, Common Yellow Conch, Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Five-Spot Burnet, Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Little Longhorn, Red Piercer, Satin Grass-veneer, Thistle Bell, Yellow Shell.

I was also pleased to find 3 butterflies: Large Skipper, Meadow Brown, Small Heath. There were Common Spotted Orchids, including a white form, and Southern Marsh Orchids.

Alder Spittlebug, Aphrophora alni

Bright Bell, Eucosma hohenwartiana

Cinerous Pearl, Anania fuscalis

Common Spotted-orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Common Yellow Conch, Agapeta hamana

Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans

Cricket Bat Orb-weaver, Mangora acalypha

Dark Bush Cricket nymph, Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Celypha lacunana

Face Fly, Musca autumnalis

male False Oil Beetle, Oedemera nobilis

Five-Spot Burnet, Zygaena trifolii

Five-Spot Burnet on Common Spotted Orchid

Five-Spot Burnet on Bramble

Five-Spot Burnet on Marsh Valerian, Valeriana dioica

Green Lacewing, Chrysopa perla

Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Crambus lathoniellus

Large Rose Sawfly, Arge pagana

Little Longhorn, Cauchas fibulella

Meadow Brown, male, Maniola jurtina

Red Piercer, Lathronympha strigana

Rush Veneer, Nomophila noctuella

Satin Grass-veneer, Crambus perlella f. warringtonellus

Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus

Southern Marsh Orchid, Dactylorhiza praetamissa

Thistle Bell, Epiblema scutulana

White Common Spotted-orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii

White-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus lucorum

Wild rose, Rosa species

Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata