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| Bee Orchid, Ophrys apifera |
During a visit to Ditchling Common yesterday morning I joined dozens of Black Hairstreak hopefuls who were waiting for the sun to appear. When the clouds cleared in the afternoon there was quite a bit of activity high up and I got a good view of this elusive butterfly.
I found a Brown Hairstreak larva, saw Large Skipper, Small Heath and 12 moths: Garden Grass-veneer, Straw Dot, Yellow-barred Longhorn female, a tiny Brindled Argent (Argyresthia curvella) under an apple leaf, Brown Silver-line, Burnet Companion, Common Yellow Conch, Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Large Fruit-tree Tortrix male, Marbled Orchard Tortrix, Speckled Fanner, Variegated Golden Tortrix.
There were large clusters of Bee Orchids and Common Spotted Orchids
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| 7-spot Ladybird, Propylea 7-punctata |
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| 14-spot Ladybird, Propylea 14-punctata |
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| Alder Spittlebug, Aphrophora alni |
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| Black Hairstreak egg, Satyrium pruni |
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| Black Hairstreak pupa |
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| Brindled Argent, Argyresthia curvella |
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| Brown Hairstreak larva, Thecla betulae |
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| Brown Silver-line, Petrophora chlorosata |
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| Bug hopper, Aphrophora species nymph |
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| Burnet Companion, Euclidia glyphica |
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| Coleophora species |
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| Coleophora species |
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| Common Yellow Conch, Agapeta hamana |
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| tiny Dustywing species |
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| Dyer's Greenweed, Genista tinctoria |
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| Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella |
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| Green Lacewing, Chrysopa perla |
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| Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis |
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| Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis |
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| Hemiptera bug eggs |
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| Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Crambus lathoniellus |
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| Large Fruit-tree Tortrix male, Archips podana |
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| Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
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| Marbled Orchard Tortrix, Hedya nubiferana |
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| Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa - foodplant of the Black and Brown Hairstreaks |
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| Common Spotted-orchids, Dactylorhiza fuchsii |
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| Common Spotted-orchid |
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| Yellow Iris, Iris pseudacorus |
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| Red-headed Cardinal Beetle, Pyrochroa serraticornis |
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| Red-legged Shieldbug final instar nymph, Pentatoma rufipes |
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| Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus |
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| Speckled Bush Cricket nymph, Leptophyes punctatissima |
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| tiny Speckled Fanner, Glyphipterix thrasonella |
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| Straw Dot, Rivula sericealis |
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| unidentified Tortrix moth |
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| Variegated Golden Tortrix, Archips xylosteana |
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| unidentified wasp |
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| Wolf spider species carrying spiderings on her back |
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| Wolf Spider ♀ with cocoon, Pardosa lugubris |
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| Yellow-barred Longhorn, female, Nemophora degeerella |
