A cool, overcast day, +18° C. Been to Brookwood.
Plenty of Colletes sp. bees at Dawney’s Hill, probably C. hederae:
Some small crane-fly:
Wimbledon Common
An overcast, warm day, +20° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Not much around, but the Mint patch is busy with flies and wasps.
Phasia hemiptera female, a parasitoid of shieldbugs:
Misumena vatia crab spider was taking advantage of that:
Pirbright Common
A warm, overcast day with some sunny spells. +22° C. Been to Brookwood.
A Potter Wasp (Eumenes coarctatus):
Heath Sand Wasp (Ammophila pubescens) drags a caterpillar she just paralyzed towards her burrow, where her grub will slowly eat it alive:
Hutchinson’s Bank
A hot, sunny day, +27° C. Went to New Addington.
Found a huge and beautiful Callicera aurata hoverfly. The Small Scabious flowerheads drooped under its weight!
Plenty of Small Blues (Cupido minimus) at the site:
Bookham Common
A warm, rather overcast day, +21° C. Been to Bookham.
Quite a lot of Brown Hairstreaks (Thecla betulae) on Angelica flowers:
Some blue-black sawflies were also frequent:
Wimbledon Common
At last, after three weeks of crappy weather, a sunny, hot day, +30° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Marbled Whites (Melanargia galathea) appear to have established there:
Got a very dark Rutpela maculata longhorn. When I first caught it, I even thought it was Anoplodera sexguttata!
Wimbledon Common
A warm, sunny day, +22° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Hogweed starts its flowering season and attracts a lot of stuff, like this Stenurella melanura longhorn beetle:
Lots of green-eyed Anthophora bimaculata feed on Bramble flowers. Very skittish and hard to shoot:
Wimbledon Common
A warm, but rather overcast day, +23 ° C. Been to Wimbledon Common. Nothing much around.
Chrysomela populi leaf beetle larva:
Tons of Tortrix viridana moths are flying around Oak trees:
Bookham Common
A warm, sunny day, +27° C. Been to Bookham Common.
Lots of people there, walking and cycling!
Ctenophora flaveolata crane-fly female, a Red Data Book species in Britain:
Phaeostigma notata snakefly:
Wimbledon Common
A very fine, sunny and warm day, +25° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Found a colony of Chrysolina oricalcia leaf beetles on Cow Parsley:
Gymnosoma ?rotundatum tachinid:
