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Timble Ings, 16/04/11

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Wednesday, 20 April 2011

I went to Timble to see if any damselflies had emerged but only saw several Peacock, Comma and Orange Tip butteflies. Walking back to the car I heard a rustle in the undergrowth and to my surprise a couple of small Common or Viviparous Lizards appeared. The scientific name was Lacerta vivipara but it's recently been changed to Zootoca vivipara.

Common or Viviparous Lizard

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Prince of Wales Park, Eldwick, 09/04/11

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Back out in the field at last. I went to see what was taking advantage of the unseasonal warm , sunny weather and managed to see a few Andrena fulva and one of their cleptoparasites, a Nomada bee, presumably N.flava but confirmation by photograph is not always possible. The female A.fulva had just deposited a pollen ball in it's underground nest. The micro moth, Eriocrania subpurpurella, was also about in small numbers.

Andrena fulva

Nomada sp. (presumably N.flava)

Eriocrania subpurpurella

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Timble Ings 04/09/10

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Saturday, 4 September 2010

I had a quick photo session at Timble Ings today. The weather conditions were far from ideal but I managed to photograph some of the dragons and damsels that were present.

Black Darter

Emerald Damselflies in copula

Emerald Damselfly in close-up

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Bastow Wood 27/06/10

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Monday, 28 June 2010

I lead a Butterfly Conservation field trip to Bastow Wood, Grassington on Sunday. We had an excellent day, with plenty of species seen and fantastic, hot, sunny weather. The highlights were nineteen Northern Brown Argus Aricia artaxerxes, twelve Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja and five Cistus Forester Adscita geryon moths.

Northern Brown Argus

Dark Green Fritillary

Cistus Forester

Green Carpet

Chrysoteuchia culmella

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Mill Hill, Shoreham 28/05/10

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Sunday, 6 June 2010

Following on from the morning visit to Oaken Wood, I carried on to Mill Hill which overlooks the R.Adur at Shoreham. I was hoping to see Adonis Blue butterflies and I wasn't disappointed, recording over 180 along with the odd Dingy Skipper or two.

Lysandra bellargus (m)

Lysandra bellargus (f)

Erynnis tages

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Oaken Wood 28/05/10

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Oaken Wood on the Surrey/Sussex border is a great place to see all sorts of invertebrates, particularly Wood White and Grizzled Skipper butterflies. However, I was pleased to finally see one of the bees that I've been searching for...the Long-Horned Bee, Eucera longicornis.

Eucera longicornis

Leptidea sinapis

Pyrgus malvae

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Front room window, 14/05/10

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Friday, 14 May 2010

A visitor appeared on my window this evening, a Twenty-plume moth Alucita hexadactyla. Unfortunately it flew off before I could get a pic from the usual angle.

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Birk Crag, Harrogate 01/05/10

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Saturday, 1 May 2010

Buglife organised a Chestnut Click Beetle Hunt at Birk Crag, Harrogate today. Birk Crag is one of only two sites in Britain where the Chestnut Click Beetle Anostirus castaneus can be found. Unfortunately, we didn't manage to find any today but there's always next year.

However, I did manage to get a couple of pics of one of my favourite solitary mining bees, the Grey Mining Bee Andrena cineraria.

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Prince of Wales Park, Eldwick, 24/04/10

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Sunday, 25 April 2010

An hour spent in Prince of Wales Park on Saturday afternoon produced a couple of mining bee species and more Eriocrania subpurpurella but still no Green Hairstreaks.

Eriocrania subpurpurella

Andrena cineraria

Andrena fulva - male and female (the male is the smaller of the two)

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Prince of Wales Park, Eldwick, 18/04/10

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Sunday, 18 April 2010

I went to Prince of Wales Park, Eldwick today to look for Green Hairstreaks and bees. I didn't spot any Hairstreaks but did manage to photograph various species of bumblebees and this Cuckoo bee, Nomada goodeniana (I'm reliably informed) which is a cleptoparasite of various species of Mining bee.

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Nostell Priory, 05/07/09

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Sunday, 5 July 2009

I took a group of Butterfly Conservation and National Trust members around the Obelisk Lodge meadow at Nostell Priory (NT), Wakefield today. In all we had twelve species of butterflies, three species of moths and six species of dragonflies. The highlight of the day was not one but two Hummingbird Hawkmoths nectering on bramble within a couple of feet of one another.

Ruddy Darter Sympetrum sanguineum (immature male).