A warm, though cloudy day, +18° C. Been to Wimbledon Common, or Putney Heath to be more exact.
Saw a Sargus bipunctatus soldier fly, but couldn’t take a photo. Also saw some yellow-and-black slow-flying fly, which escaped without a more precise ID.
Udea ferrugalis crambid moth, saw quite a few of those:
Birch catkin bugs (Kleidocerys resedae) are everywhere:
A moderately sunny, warm day, +19° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Found a tiny rare Eliozeta pellucens phasiine tachinid, a parasitoid of true bugs. It was only first reported from Britain in 2019:
As well as Britain’s largest hoverfly, Volucella zonaria:
A sunny, fairly warm day after many cold rainy ones, +20° C. Went to Wimbledon Common.
Stenurella melanura longhorn beetle:
Rutpela maculata longhorn beetle:
A warm, overcast day, +19° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
A Chrysolina oricalcia leaf beetle at the same spot as last year:
A Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata):
At last a fairly warm day! +16° С and sunny. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Lots of Andrena bees on Sallow catkins:
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:
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!
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:
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:
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:
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