Strawberry season at Houghton Forest

Wild Strawberry, Fragaria vesca

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Yesterday I wandered around the outside of Houghton Forest and saw plenty of Wild Strawberries. Marbled Whites, Meadow Browns and Ringlets were in the meadows and a Speckled Wood appeared on a path by the wood. There were large and small peacock larvae on nettles. Moths seen: Brown Plume, Common Nettle-tap, Common Sweep pupal case, Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Garden Grass-veneer, Sharp-angled Peacock.

all photos taken with 18-55mm lens with ring flash or Canon powershot G9.

14-spot Ladybird, Propylea 14-punctata

Artist's Bracket, Ganoderma applanatum

tiny beetle - id needed

Blue Bottle Fly, Calliphora vomitoria

Bumblebee, Bombus species

Brown Plume, Stenoptilia pterodactyla

Common Green Shieldbug, 2nd instar nymph, Palomena prasina

Common Nettle-tap, Anthophila fabriciana

Common Stretch Spider, Tetragnatha extensa

Common Sweep pupal case, Psyche casta

Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Celypha lacunana

Deadly Nightshade, Atropa belladonna

Deadly Nightshade

Fly, Phaonia pallida

Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella

Harlequin Ladybird pupa, Harmonia axyridis

Harvestman, Mitopus morio

Hoverfly, Syrphus ribesii

Lauxaniid flies mating

male and female Lauxaniid flies

Meadow Plant Bug, Leptopterna dolabrata

Mirid bug, Grypocoris stysi

female nymph of Mirid bug, Orthonotus rufifrons

Mirid bug, Plagiognathus arbustorum

Muscid fly, Helina species

Peacock larva, Inachis io
the thread may be the start of a cocoon

Peacock larvae, Inachis io

early and late stage Peacock larvae, Inachis io

late instar nymph of Pied Shieldbug, Tritomegas bicolor

Plant bug, Closterotomus fulvomaculatus

Red Soldier beetle, Rhagonycha fulva

Rust fly, Psila fimetaria

Sawfly larva

Sawfly larva

female Scorpion fly, Panorpa species

wing of Sharp-angled Peacock, Macaria alternata 

Speckled Bush Cricket, Leptophyes punctatissima

Wall Lettuce, Mycelis muralis

Wall Lettuce