Wednesday, 23 July 2014
A couple of dragonfly visitors today
This morning we had these two dragonflies darting about the garden, the red male seemed to prefer to fly over the lawn using the cold frame as it's perch, the green female spent most of her time in the herb garden, I think these are both ruddy darters
Sunday, 20 July 2014
Moths from last night's trap
In total we identified 67 different species of moth from our trap last night, it took far too long, having spent an hour or so before breakfast and then going back to it for at least two more hours- not finishing until lunch time!
I helped with the emptying and identifying for some of the time but kept getting distracted by the butterflies that were also floating around!
I did though manage to take some photos of my favourites including these:
I helped with the emptying and identifying for some of the time but kept getting distracted by the butterflies that were also floating around!
I did though manage to take some photos of my favourites including these:
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| large emerald |
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| scarce silver lines |
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| pebble prominent |
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| common rustic, garden tiger, elephant hawk moth |
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| garden tiger |
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| garden tiger |
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| drinker |
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| drinker |
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| elephant hawk moth |
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Butterfly day
My herbs and buddleia have been covered in butterflies today -
we also had a hummingbird hawk moth briefly which I didn't manage to photograph!
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| comma |
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| large white |
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| large white |
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| gatekeeper |
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| gatekeeper |
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| ringlet |
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| ringlet |
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| peacock |
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| small tortoiseshell |
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| green veined white |
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| meadow brown |
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| small skipper |
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