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Sunday 31 July 2016

Hoppers and Crickets

What's lovely about looking at the sightings and lovely photos on the Swindon Birds and Wildlife  Blog is that you get to hear about the lovely places there are to visit within a 10 mile radius of Swindon. So today I spent a wonderful hour in the fields at Wanborough Here. after reading about Martyn Jelley's visits there recently.

There were a few birds about with Red Kite, Wood Pigeon, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Dunnock, Robin, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit,
Treecreeper, Wren, Magpie and Goldfinch.

Butterflies seen: Large Whites, Small Whites, Green-veined Whites, 6 Small Skippers, dozens of Meadow Browns and 2 Gatekeepers.

Also: 1 Roesel's Bush Cricket (Metrioptera roeselii), Common Green Grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus), Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus), lots of Green Leaf-hopper (Cicadella viridis), Hogweed Bonking Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva), Common Blue Damselflies, Southern Hawker and Greater Water Boatman (Notonecta glauca)

Here are a few photographs of what I found:

Gatekeeper

Meadow Brown

Meadow Brown

Small Skipper

Small Skipper

Ringlet

Common Green and Meadow Grasshoppers on a mole hill. It wasn't just this molehill either, as others were providing heat! for many more grasshoppers.
Common Green and Meadow Grasshoppers

Roesel's Bush Cricket

Roesel's Bush Cricket

Green Leaf-hopper

Hogweed Bonking Beetles

Greater Water Boatman

Common Blue Damselfly

Common Blue Damselfly

Thursday 28 July 2016

More Moths

A totally different night with the moth trap. There was a light wind and there were dozens of micro moths, some "mini" water-boatman, several Caddis Flies and a small beetle.

I had 75 moths with about 46 different species, but I'm really struggling to identify a good number of them. This is going to take awhile

Large Yellow Underwing (3)
Silver Y (2)
Grass Veneers (5)
Marbled Beauty (6)
Magpie (1)
The Rustic (6)
Pale Prominent (1)
Common Emerald (2)
Apple Ermine, Yponomeuta malinellus (3)
Long-horned Flat-body, Carcina quercana (1)
Knot Grass, Acronicta rumicis (3)
Grey Dagger (1)
Elder Pearl, Anania coronata (1)
Willow Beauty (1)
Small Blood-vein (2)
Shuttle-shaped Dart, Agrotis puta (1)
Eudonia sp.  (6)

Ones I have now identified as of 3 Aug 16
Common Footman, Eilema lurideola (1)
Common Grey, Scoparia ambigualis  (8)
Diamond-back Moth, Plutella xylostella (1)
Groundling sp. (1)
Common Rustic, Mesapamea secalis (3)
Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata (3)
Slender Pug, Eupithecia tenuiata (2)
Grey Pug, Eupithecia subfuscata (2)
Small Fan-footed Wave, Idaea biselata (3)
Square-spot Rustic, Xestia xanthographa (2)
Mother of Pearl, Pleuroptya ruralis (1)

Large Yellow Underwing

Large Yellow Underwing


Pale Prominent

Pale Prominent

Marbled Beauty
  
Silver Y

Long-horned Flat-body, Carcina quercana

Rose Tortrix, Archips rosana

Small Blood-vein

Small Blood-vein

Knot Grass, Acronicta rumicis

Knot Grass, Acronicta rumicis

Knot Grass, Acronicta rumicis

Grey Dagger

Grey Dagger

Elder Pearl, Anania coronata

Willow Beauty

Willow Beauty

Grass Veneer

Possible Apple Ermine, Yponomeuta malinellus

Possible Apple Ermine, Yponomeuta malinellus

Possible Apple Ermine, Yponomeuta malinellus

Possible Apple Ermine, Yponomeuta malinellus


Common Grey, Scoparia ambigualis

Common Grey, Scoparia ambigualis

Common Grey, Scoparia ambigualis

Common Grey, Scoparia ambigualis

Common Grey, Scoparia ambigualis

Common Footman, Eilema lurideola

Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

Slender Pug, Eupithecia tenuiata

Moth 5

Grey Pug, Eupithecia subfuscata

Mother of Pearl, Pleuroptya ruralis

Small Fan-footed Wave, Idaea biselata

Small Fan-footed Wave, Idaea biselata

Small Fan-footed Wave, Idaea biselata

Shuttle-shaped Dart, Agrotis puta

Shuttle-shaped Dart, Agrotis puta

Moth 11

Moth 11

Moth 11

Moth 12 

Moth 12

Moth 13 


Moth 14

Square-spot Rustic, Xestia xanthographa

Moth 16

Moth 17

Common Rustic, Mesapamea secalis

Moth 19

Moth 20

Moth 21

A Groundling sp. Approximately 4mm in length.

Moth 23

Moth 24

Moth 25

Moth 26

Moth 27

Moth 28

Diamond-back Moth, Plutella xylostella

Moth 30

Caddisfly!

Caddisfly!

Water boatman!

A very tiny beetle

Gone.................