"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Saturday 3 May 2014

Other goodies from Saturday 3rd May

Butterflies on the wing today were:

Holly Blue (1)
Green Hairtsreak (7)
Small Copper (5)
Wall (1)
Speckled Wood (3)
Orange Tip - many
Green-veined White - many
Large White (1 - and first of year)
Red Admiral (1)
Small Tortoisehell (5)
Peacock (6)

Speckled Wood, Holme Marsh, 3rd May 2014


Robert and I used his sweep net to find the Shieldbug Bishop's Mitre and the coastal grassland bugs Chorosoma schilling (a small hemipteran shaped like a stick-insect) and several of the also elongated bugs Myrmus miriformis.

Bishop's Mitre, Aelia acuminata, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Plants new in flower today were: Bittersweet, Pedunculate Sedge, Sycamore, Upright Hedge Parsley, Prickly Sow-thistle and Mouse-Eared Hawkweed.

Mouse-eared Hawkweed, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


 Red Campion, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Rough Sow-Thistle, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Upright Hedge Parsley, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Wall,  Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Green Longhorn, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Ladybird ??? Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Green Hairstreak, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Cranefly ?? Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Mystery bug, with red mite, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


Giant Cranefly, Tipula maxima, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2014


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