Marbled Whites, Painted Ladies and Meadow Browns

Orange Ladybird, Halyzia sedecimguttata

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Yesterday I did my Mill Hill Transect and found plenty of Summer butterflies: Adonis Blue 1, Brimstone 1, Common Blue 1, Large Skipper 1, Marbled White 4, Meadow Brown 5, Painted Lady 2, Peacock 1, Red Admiral 1, Small Heath 14, Small Tortoiseshell 6, plus 2 moths: Yellow Shell, Treble-bar. I then called at Steyning Rifle Range in the vague hope of another Swallowtail and saw Large Skippers, Common Nettle-tap moths and a Yellow-spot Tortrix. I also found some new insects - a Common Malachite beetle and a Planthopper nymph.

Mill Hill:

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

very worn specimens, difficult to tell if they are Common or Adonis Blues

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus

Leaf beetle, id needed please!

Many green leaf beetles look similar

Marbled White, Melanargia galathea

The temperature was 29 degC and the butterflies closed their wings on landing

worn Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui

Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis

Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta

Treble-bar, Aplocera plagiata

Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata

Steyning Rifle Range:

Common Green Capsid, Lygocoris pabulinus

Common Malachite, Malachius bipustulatus

Ladybird, Harlequin, Harmonia axyridis

Orchid Beetle, Dascillus cervinus

Planthopper mid-instar nymph, Issus coleoptratus

sawfly larva, id needed!

Speckled Bush Cricket nymph, Leptophyes punctatissima

Yellow-spot Twist, Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

Common Nettle-tap, Anthophila fabriciana