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- Sat Aug 24, 2024 4:30 am
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2024
- Replies: 99
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Re: August 2024
Yesterday started drizzly but cleared through quickly. A fairly sunny day with variable cloud & a stiff breeze. Decided to give Denbies a try to catch up with some chalk specialists. In all 11 species recorded: 110+ Meadow Brown 4 Speckled Wood 3 Small Heath 2 Small White 2 Brimstone Red Admiral...
- Sun Aug 18, 2024 4:22 am
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2024
- Replies: 99
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Re: August 2024
Some American Painted Ladies photographed on a Pembrokeshire coastal Path yesterday. Look very fresh. Too fresh to have come across the Atlantic? What is the thinking on the origins of these. Don't see any reason to doubt them being genuine. We've had some recent warm southerlys that could have bro...
- Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2024
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Re: August 2024
We did a circuit on the northern part of Chobham Common. Good numbers of Grayling (27 counted) only outnumbered by Gatekeeper (52). Low numbers of other species with 6 Meadow Brown, 3 Small/GV White, 2 Large Skipper, 2 Peacock & singletons of Comma & Small Copper. Good variety of Odonata inc...
Re: July 2024
My first Jersey Tiger moth of the summer seen today as well. Another honorary butterfly...JT1 230724.JPG Dave I saw my first last Sunday morning. Always look so colourful in flight. As it was flying it was almost a gonner as a Whitethroat flew up out of some brambles, attempting to snatch it, but j...
Re: June 2024
Yesterday was yet another of those days with a glorious sunny start but by 10.30 was largely overcast & pretty dismal in the afternoon. At the time mentioned I started to lead a wildflower walk in a west London cemetery. Despite the cloud we did see c10 Meadow Brown, 6 Marbled Whites, Holly Blue...
Re: July 2024
Some warm, settled weather is badly needed or this year could go down as one of the worst ever for butterfly numbers... I agree. Here on the Isle of Wight it has been atrocious. I was in Pembrokeshire for 4 days last week where there wasn't a heatwave but pleasantly warm & managed 6 Meadow Brow...
Re: June 2024
Yesterday morning was warm & sunny until lots of cloud moved in around noon. I walked to Horsenden Hill near home in west London to look for White-letter Hairstreak as one had been filmed here on bramble flowers a couple of days back. No joy. One of the best areas most of the elms were dead but ...
Re: June 2024
A general lack of most insects which is concerning. Same here unfortunately - mostly just a few Meadow Brown [rather than the 100s] and Small Heath in the open grassland within the flood plain, waiting for the first Small & Essex Skipper, although finally saw my first Ringlet yesterday. Banded ...
Re: June 2024
Visited the northern part of Chobham Common yesterday. Sunny when I arrived by late morning but high cloud cover soon after midday (not what was forecast). I did see 24 fresh male Silver-studded Blues, which when cloudy posed well on young Bell Heather plants. Didn't see any females though other peo...
Re: June 2024
I wonder if your plant might be Red Bartsia? I've never seen one this colour but the general form looks right. Managed my first Ringlet yesterday morning while on a flora survey in Richmond Park. Otherwise small numbers of Meadow Browns & Small Heaths plus a female Brimstone in the car park as w...
Re: June 2024
With reasonable spells of sunshine on the cards yesterday I decided to pop over to the London Wetland Centre. My main quest was to see Norfolk Hawkers (at least 7 seen & the most common dragonfly proper, just nudging ahead of Emperor & Black-tailed Skimmer) & delighted to find a Downy Em...
Re: June 2024
Holly Blue ovipositing on Tufted Vetch Vicia cracca in the meadow at Meadgate Fields Open Space yesterday after pretending she was a Common Blue for a while searching for just the right plant to lay her eggs on: 2024.06.14 Holly Blue Meadgate Fields.jpg I've watched Holly Blue oviposit on Goat's Ru...
Re: June 2024
I can't remember a drearier start to the butterfly season here in the south-east- certainly not for many years! Getting out to my local Sunday west London patch yesterday morning soon after 7 am it was gloriously sunny if cool. By 10.30 largely overcast & just heavy cloud & cool the rest of ...
Re: May 2024
Paid a visit across town to Hutchinson's & Chapel Banks, my first dedicated butterfly trip of the year. Overall butterfly numbers seemed lower than normal despite warm, sunny conditions for a second day. 2 Green-veined White 2 Small/GV White 17 Brimstone 3 Speckled Wood 7 Small Heath male Common...
- Mon May 20, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Can someone identify these 2 bugs
- Replies: 2
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Re: Can someone identify these 2 bugs
Both are dipterans.
Top is the hoverfly, Rhingia campestris.
The other is a snipe fly, Rhagio sp.
Top is the hoverfly, Rhingia campestris.
The other is a snipe fly, Rhagio sp.
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Lincs garden May 24
- Replies: 8
- Views: 503
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:23 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Lincs garden May 24
- Replies: 8
- Views: 503
Re: Lincs garden May 24
I would concur with Large White for the second. The black is too extensive for a Small White.
Cabbage white is a generic term used by gardeners/farmers for whites that lay their eggs on brassicas, so incorporates both Small & Large Whites.
Cabbage white is a generic term used by gardeners/farmers for whites that lay their eggs on brassicas, so incorporates both Small & Large Whites.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:39 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Bee/Wasp ID?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 438
Re: Bee/Wasp ID?
Halictus rubicundus.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Bee/Wasp ID?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 438
Re: Bee/Wasp ID?
Agree it's Nomada sp, but I don't think that species as I can see some red on the first abdominal segment.