Tag: Insects
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Dragonfly
Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) beside garden pond.
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Pale Tussock Larva
Vapourer moth larva? Found dead and partly decomposed, on a hawthorn plant. Edit: Pale Tussock larva Calliteara pudibunda – thanks James.
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Sawfly larvae
After chewing their way through about 50% of the leaves on the birch tree next door the sawfly larve have transferred into my garden. They’ve also appeared on a small hazel tree which was planted a few months ago.
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Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper butterfly, Pyronia tithonus, in the garden at lunchtime. It settled on some spurge plants for a few moments but flew off again before I could take a photo. Lots of white butterflies about, and a fairly large moth which I didn’t get a chance to identify.
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Thirsty gulls and more crickets
Heavy rain this morning at about 8.45 am. Two juvenile gulls on a nearby roof were throwing their heads back and apparently drinking it – something I’ve never seen before. At the same time a woodpigeon on another roof seemed to be having a bath – cocking up first one wing then the other and…
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Cricket
A buzzard was calling at about 11.30 am this morning. Went to the postbox this afternoon and saw some ripe blackberries on a patch of waste ground outside someone’s garden fence. A good crop of rowanberries on all the trees and the lime flowers have set seed. A Green Bush Cricket seems to be living…
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Peregrine and dragonfly
A peregrine was flying about and calling near the house all morning – could be a young one turned out by the parents to fend for itself? Emperor dragonfly on garden pond, and a different type of damselfly to the usual ones – black body/blue tail.
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Damselflies
Red Damselfly spotted on 22nd May and several Blues on 24th – the Blues not wasting any time but mating already. Also a Poplar Hawkmoth found on the garden fence again on 24th May – possibly a new specimen, although still with the distinctive dark patch on the head, quite unlike the illustration in the…