Bathroom visitor last night - magpie moth.

Don't recall seeing one before, although I read it's reasonably common in Brighton, not too far away.

When I let it out it flew immediately onto the outside of the window pane.

Enjoying my lunchtime walks in my local fields. Nothing unusual to see but just so good to break up the WFH day and get out of the house. Think that's a fully-winged female Roesel's Bush Cricket that's had an accident with its antennae, but I may very well be wrong. It was chunky whatever it was. Th...

There's a decent patch of wild mint quite close to the stream at the western border of our local field. There's nothing quite like it on a warm summer's morning because not only can it be alive with butterflies but it also smells sooooo good. In the space of 3 minutes, I saw the following species ne...

Quite a lot of fresh-out-the-box small ones in my local fields yesterday. Two Brown Argus and a Small Copper were very close together in a small area - leading to what the late Eddie Waring would have called many a frack-ass , making them very hard to snap. Saw my first fresh Common Blue there too (...

My lunch hour WFH walk was mostly spent hoping to see the White Admiral paying a repeat visit (no such luck). Did see this beautifully coloured box fresh Small Copper. Seems to have more yellow on it than the others I've seen. A quick trip back after work and I got a Ringlet - with nearly the full M...

What was I saying about no fresh Small Coppers in our local fields yet..... Was also amazed and delighted to see a White Admiral in the same fields on my WFH lunch hour walk. Especially as we're well away from any mature woods. That takes it up to 29 species I've snapped in those fields. I'm going t...

Did exactly what I did yesterday in that I went no further than doing the rounds of my local fields. But what a difference a bit of sun makes. Nothing unusual, but very good numbers. I saw very big numbers of golden skippers, Meadow Browns, Gatekeepers, 20+ of both Marbled White and Ringlet, 4 or 5 ...

Hi All, Doing the rounds of my local fields today, I noticed a couple of small skippers both showing pale yellow patches. The marks seem symmetrical (apologies for one very out of focus snap that at least shows this) on both individuals, so could this be from water damage, or maybe just a sign of ag...

With the weather as it is I just went for a walk round the group of 3 fields behind our local pub. Light wasn't great but pretty sure I got my first Essex Skippers. Think I just needed to wait a bit longer for them to emerge. If they are then that takes the total to 28 species I've photographed in t...

Many thanks for that Trev !

And if you'll kindly allow me to throw in a supplementary question.

This spider had caught a pair of tasty treats in the same field.

Almost dragonfly-like markings on its back.

Anyone know this one ? I think it's too early for a type of Garden Spider ?

(Both seen this evening, I'm in mid Sussex)

Hi all,

Saw these on my walk round my local fields this evening.

They were under a leaf of a relatively small oak tree. Very small and looked fresh out.

Assume must be a very common moth.

Thanks as always for any ID help.

I'm going Small Skipper, Otep. Not seeing the checkerboard effect to make it Large. Don't think you've quite got the right view of the inside of the antennae pads to say if it's an Essex. Looking more head-on and slightly from below (if I can) is what I find best - having said that I've a lot of suc...

Went out yesterday to my local fields (more like meadows now). Been doing my research on Purple Hairstreaks. Fly late on hot evenings....and they kindly were. There is one in this pic - honest. Once again, not a great photo but 'scuse the indulgence - good enough to open a new species folder for me....

Ringlets definitely growing in number in our local fields.

Saw my first Gatekeepers of the year there today too.

Plus what I'm assuming are ladybird eggs in an ear of grass ?

Took another walk on the Weald side today (OK, technically yesterday again). Plenty about, but bar Meadow Brown, Golden Skippers and Marbled White everything else was in single figures. Working backwards in numbers seen: Comma, Small Heath, Speckled Wood, Small White then one each of Ringlet, Red Ad...

When I looked back at my snaps of the labyrith spider....the very last one showed that the web had done its job !

I took a few snaps of the badger, but then switched to vid. Got about 30 secs of footage until I think he got scent of me (I didn't take it personally but did have a shower when I got back) and he sauntered back into the wood. He was only about 12-15 feet from the edge of the wood. I was out for a l...

Lovely day today (or yesterday technically) walking locally around the mid Sussex weald. At a conservative estimate I saw 1500 butterflies of which 1400+ would have been Meadow Browns. They were swarming in some places. Also the best single day for Small Tortoiseshells I've had for at least 35 years...

Lunchtime walk around my usual fields - saw my first Small Skippers of the year.