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:
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:
Bookham Common
A warm, sunny day, +28° C. Been to Bookham.
Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris) and Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) are the main nectar sources at the moment, with Mint also never disappointing.
Turnip Sawflies (Athalia rosae) mating:
Got this unidentified sawfly with dilated hind tibiae:
Bookham Common and Epsom Common
At last a hot, sunny, summer day, +34° C. Been to Bookham.
Nothing interesting to shoot!
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta):
Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum):
Bookham Common
A warm day that started out sunny but became cloudy in the afternoon, +19° C. Been to Bookham.
A local Brachypalpus laphriformis hoverfly, one of those that breed in rotting wood. It was last recorded at Bookham in 1953:
Gastrophysa viridula dock leaf beetles:
Bookham Common
A sunny, but windy day, +13° C. Been to Bookham.
Much less wildlife here than at Brookwood yesterday!
Gorse Shieldbugs (Piezodorus lituratus) were congregating around the few Gorse plants at the location:
Gymnocheta viridis tachinids bask on tree trunks:
Bookham Common
A warm, sunny morning, +24° C.
With a Herculean, all-out effort got up early and went to Bookham to try and get photos of the Purple Emperor (Apatura iris).
None were seen. Not a single one!
The Silver-washed Fritillaries (Argynnis paphia) are abundant.
A female:
A male:
Bookham Common
A hot, sunny day, +29° C. Been to Bookham.
Lots of insects around, but nothing interesting 😦
Purple Emperors (Apatura iris) are not uncommon, but fly high up in the tree crowns. I guess I’ll have to come there very early in the morning to get a shot of these. Plenty of Purple Hairstreaks (Quercusia quercus).
A Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) male:
Common Emerald Damselfly (Lestes sponsa) male:
Bookham Common
A mostly cloudy, but warm day, +20° C. Been to Bookham.
Chrysopilus asiliformis snipe-fly:
Viviparous Lizard (Zootoca vivipara):
Bookham Common
A very warm, sunny day, +27° C. Been to Bookham.
Quite a lot of Orange-tips (Anthocharis cardamines) flying, but couldn’t get a decent shot. Also lots of St Mark’s Flies (Bibio marci) everywhere.
Saw quite a few Coleophora lutarea micro-moths on the flowers of Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea), which blooms en masse on all clearings and road edges:
A gravid female Common Earwig (Forficula auricularia):
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