Silver-studded Blue, Scalloped Hook-tip and Tortoise Bug

Silver-studded Blue, Plebeius argus

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On Wednesday I joined Mark Colvin at Stedham Common for a Silver-studded Blue hunt. We found one, first flying then obligingly resting when the clouds came over. We saw many moths including Speckled Yellows, Common Heaths, Scalloped Hook-Tip, Yellow-barred Longhorns and a Sharp-angled Peacock. We also inspected the sundews and watched a hornet which landed and crawled under the plant cover. A toad rested under a rotting damp log. A female green variant of Azure Damselfly flew around the comfrey by the car park. A Tortoise Bug also posed in the same area.

Oblong-leaved Sundew, Drosera intermedia

Yellow-barred Longhorn, Nemophora degeerella

ant nest showing larva and pupae. Id needed please

Azure Damselfly, female variant (green form), Coenagrion puella

Common Toad, Bufo bufo

Heath Rush, Juncus squarrosus

Scalloped Hook-tip, Falcaria lacertinaria

Scalloped Hook-tip

Scalloped Hook-tip

Lacehopper, Tachycixius pilosus

Lacehopper, Tachycixius pilosus

Hornet, Vespa crabro

Ground beetle. Id needed

Sharp-angled Peacock, Macaria alternata

Sharp-angled Peacock

Silver-studded Blue

Tortoise Bug, Eurygaster testudinaria

Yellow-barred Longhorn