With it being a little cooler around 7:30pm, it was off across the road to give Ted a walk. With the sun dropping rapidly, there weren't too many insects about, apart from millions of midges, but I did come across 5 species of butterfly and 2 moth species.
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Green-veined White Pieris napi
2 Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
3 Marbled White Melanargia galathea
1 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
1 Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
Green-veined White Pieris napi
Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
A male Marbled White Melanargia galathea
Another male Marbled White Melanargia galathea
And a female Marbled White Melanargia galathea
Moths Recorded:
1 Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella
1 Yponomeuta sp.
A Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella
This is possibly a.................
....................Yponomeuta sp.
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Safflower fly Acanthiophilus helianthi
This is a Safflower fly Acanthiophilus helianthi and is...........
.......aka Capsule fly and Knapweed Ghost
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
8 Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha lignosa
1 Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis
A Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha lignosa
A male Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
