Roe Deer encounter and Powdered Knot-horn

Roe Deer, Capreolus capreolus

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Last Tuesday 1st July I completed my Mill Hill butterfly transect with the following results: Adonis Blue 1, Marbled white 25, Meadow Brown 17, Ringlet 1, Small Heath 4, Small Tortoiseshell 5, Speckled Wood 1. Judging by previous years, the Adonis is a late 1st brood emergence.

Then I visited Southwater Woods where I enjoyed a close encounter with a Roe Deer which grazed 20 metres away after staring hard at me. I watched Silver-washed Fritillaries zooming around. I was following a Garden Grass-veneer micro moth when it was suddenly carried off by a Dance fly which suspended itself from a leaf by one leg. Other moths seen: Clouded Border, Common Sweep pupa, Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Green Oak Tortrix, Powdered Knot-horn (rarely recorded), Small Fan-footed Wave, Straw-barred Pearl and Yellow Shell.

Adonis Blue, Lysandra bellargus

Clouded Border, Lomaspilis marginata

Common Sweep pupa, Psyche casta

Dance fly, Empis livida captures Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella

Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Celypha lacunana

Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella

Green Oak Tortrix, Tortrix viridana

Hazel buds, Corylus avellana

Powdered Knot-horn, Pempeliella dilutella

Roe Deer, Capreolus capreolus

Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis paphia

Small Fan-footed Wave, Idaea biselata

Straw-barred Pearl, Pyrausta despicata

Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata