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:

large emerald


scarce silver lines

pebble prominent

common rustic, garden tiger, elephant hawk moth

garden tiger

garden tiger

drinker

drinker

elephant hawk moth


Thursday 17 July 2014

Butterfly day

My herbs and buddleia have been covered in butterflies today -
comma

large white

large white


gatekeeper

gatekeeper

ringlet

ringlet

peacock

small tortoiseshell

green veined white

meadow brown


small skipper

we also had a hummingbird hawk moth briefly which I didn't manage to photograph!