Wildlife sightings -July 2010

14.07.10

Ringlet and cabbage white butterflies
Violet ground beetle

24.07.10 (Bug Hunt Event)


Roesel's cricket, speckled bush cricket, dark bush cricket, immature oak bush cricket
Meadow grasshopper
Gatekeeper, meadow brown, peacock, large white, red admiral and ringlet butterflies
A blue butterfly (not a holly blue)
Vapourer moth caterpillar
Sawfly lavae
Large brown mirid bug and green mirid bugs including Lucerne mirid bug
Froghoppers
A round green aphid quartered with black spots
Forest bug (a type of shield bug)
Harvestmen including leiobunum rotundum
Xysticus cristatis crab spider
Red spider mite
Woodlice
Earwigs
Ladybirds
Hoverflies including tiger striped hoverfly, episyrphus balteatus
Soldier beetles
Large blue dragonfly, probably a southern hawker
Ichneumen and gall wasps
Red tailed and buff tailed bumble bee
Shell of a fruit fly covered with hairy fungus filaments