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| White Admiral, Limenitis camilla |
On Tuesday I conducted my
Mill Hill butterfly transect: Gatekeeper 38, Large White, Marbled White 16,
Meadow Brown 17, Painted Lady, Small Heath 4, moths: Six-spot Burnet, Yellow Shell,
Garden Grass-veneer, Cinnabar larvae, Straw-barred Pearl. I then visited
Woods Mill reserve where I found Gatekeepers, Silver-washed Fritillaries (a male
plus a female laying on a birch trunk), a Dingy Dowdy moth, Comma, Essex
skippers mating in a meadow, small Skippers, a Large Skipper, Common
Nettle-tap, two White Admirals fighting , Meadow Browns, Beautiful
Demoiselles and a Spotted Longhorn Beetle.
Mill Hill:
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| Centaury, Centaurium erythraea |
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| Cinnabar larva, Tyria jacobaeae |
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| Field Scabius, Knautia arvensis |
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| Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella |
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| Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus |
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| Harlequin ladybird, pupa, Harmonia axyridis |
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| Marsh Thistle, Cirsium palustre |
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| Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui |
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| Red Soldier beetle, Rhagonycha fulva |
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| Satyr Pug, Eupithecia satyrata |
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| Six-Spot Burnet, Zygaena filipendulae |
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| Straw-barred Pearl, Pyrausta despicata |
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| Wild Marjoram, Origanum vulgare |
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| Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata |
Woods Mill:
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| Beautiful Demoiselle, female, Calopteryx virgo |
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| Comma, Polygonia c-album |
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| Common Froghopper, Philaenus spumarius |
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| Common Green Capsid, Lygocoris pabulinus |
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| Common Nettle-tap, Anthophila fabriciana |
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| Dingy Dowd, Blastobasis adustella |
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| Dotted Loosestrife, Lysimachia punctata |
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| Essex Skippers mating, Thymelicus lineola |
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| Honeysuckle, Lonicera caprifolium |
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| male Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
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| Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina |
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| Meadow Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis |
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| Mute Swans and cygnets, Cygnus olor |
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| Purple Toadflax, Linaria purpurea |
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| Red Soldier beetles mating, Rhagonycha fulva |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary, female, Argynnis paphia |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary, male, Argynnis paphia |
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| Small Skipper, male, Thymelicus sylvestris |
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| Spotted Longhorn Beetle, Rutpela maculata |
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| Thick-headed Fly, Sicus ferrugineus |
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| White Admiral, Limenitis camilla |
The White admiral spent some time high up checking his territory then occasionally came down to nectar on the brambles. A second one came into his territory several times and dogfights ensued.
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| White Admiral |
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| White-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus lucorum |
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