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| Black-striped Longhorn Beetle, Stenurella melanura |
On Wednesday at Heyshott down with Mark Colvin I saw Brimstone, Large Skippers, Meadow Browns, Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Garden Grass Veneer, Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Meadow Greys, Red Piercer, Cocksfoot Moth. There were plenty of Common Spotted Orchids and Bee and Pyramidal Ochids have just started to open. A Black-striped Longhorn Beetle was busy on a daisy.
Later we walked round Burton Mill Pond where I saw a Ringed China-Mark plus another Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle. A pretty Rush beetle appeared, then a mating pair.
On Thursday my Mill Hill transect yielded Adonis Blue 14, Grizzled Skipper, Large Skipper, Marbled White, Meadow Brown 4, Painted Lady 3, Red Admiral, Small Heath 22, Small Tortoiseshell 2, Cinnabar, Straw-barred Pearl and an unidentified green larva. It’s a second bad year in succession for the Adonis Blue, the worst since I started recording in 2011. The second brood should be better. Small Heath are having another good year, they have been steady since 2011. The Grizzled Skipper is very late, this is week 12 of the transect year and the latest I have previously recorded one is week 9.
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| Alder Spittlebug, Aphrophora alni |
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| Bee Orchid, Ophrys apifera |
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| Cocksfoot Moth, Glyphipterix simpliciella |
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| Common Rock-rose, Helianthemum chamaecistus |
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| Common Spotted-orchids, Dactylorhiza fuchsii |
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| Cucumber Green Spider, Araniella cucurbitina |
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| Dance Fly, Empis Opaca |
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| Dark Bush Cricket nymph, Pholidoptera griseoaptera |
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| Dark Strawberry Tortrix, Celypha lacunana |
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| False Oil Beetle, Oedemera nobilis |
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| Garden Chafer, Phyllopertha horticola |
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| Garden Chafer with deformed head |
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| Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella |
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| Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella |
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| Green Lacewing, Chrysopa perla |
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| Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Crambus lathoniellus |
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| Jumping spider, Heliophanus flavipes |
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| female Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
this butterfly hunkered down at the bottom of the grass.
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| female Large Skipper |
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| female Large Skipper |
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| male Large Skipper |
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| Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina |
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| Meadow Grasshopper nymph, Chorthippus parallelus |
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| Meadow Grey, Scoparia pyralella |
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| Migrant Hoverfly, Meliscaeva auricollis on Common Rock-rose |
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| Mirine bug, Capsus ater |
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| Noon Fly, Mesembrina meridiana |
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| Red Piercer, Lathronympha strigana |
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| Sailor Beetle, Cantharis rustica |
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| Spider, Metellina species |
Burton Mill Pond:
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| Chicken of the woods, Laetiporus sulphureus |
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| Chicken of the woods |
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| Common Figwort, Scrophularia nodosa |
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| Common Figwort |
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| Common Nettle-tap, Anthophila fabriciana |
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| Common Stretch Spider, Tetragnatha extensa |
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| Common Sweep pupa in case, Psyche casta |
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| Cross-leaved Heath, Erica tetralix |
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| Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle, Agapanthia villosoviridescens |
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| Ladybird, Harlequin, Harmonia axyridis |
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| Large Red Damselflies mating, Pyrrhosoma nymphula |
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| Large Red Damselfly |
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| unidentified larval 'house' |
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| Leaf beetle, Altica species |
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| Red-legged Shieldbug, final instar nymph, Pentatoma rufipes |
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| Ringed China-Mark, male, Parapoynx stratiotata |
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| Rush beetle, Donacia marginata |
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| Rush beetle |
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| Rush beetles mating |
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| Wavy Hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa |
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| Wavy Hair-grass |
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| Wavy Hair-grass |
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| White-lipped Snail, Cepaea hortensis |
Mill Hill:
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| Grizzled Skipper, Pyrgus malvae |
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| male Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
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| Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina |
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| Mill Hill |
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| Mill Hill |
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| unidentified larva |
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| Small Tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae |
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| Song Thrush anvil with broken snail shells |
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| Straw-barred Pearl, Pyrausta despicata |
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