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

Friday 11 September 2015

Lesser Centaury

Lesser Centaury, Centaurium pulchellum, Holme NWT, 27th August 2015


Slender Club-rush

Slender Club-rush, Isolepis cernua, Hunstanton GC, 27th August 2015



Figwort Saw-fly

Figwort Saw-fly, Holme NOA, 29th August 2015


Three smart Tachinids

Nowickia ferox, Ringstead Downs, 29th August 2015


Tachina grossa, Holme NOA, 29th August 2015


Tachina fera, Holme NOA, 29th August 2015


A Bot Fly

The Bot Fly Gasterophilus intestinalis, bothering a Konic, Holme Marsh, 30th August 2015. Note eggs on hair.





Sea-aster Colletes and its parasite, the Black-thighed Epeolus

Sea-Aster Colletes, Colletes halophilus, Holme NWT, 30th August 2015





Epeolus variegatus (female), Holme NWT, 30th August 2015

Three beetles

The tortoise beetle Cassida vittata, Holme NWT strandline, 7th September 2015


Chrysolina marginata, Holme NWT, strandline, 7th September 2015


Ontholestes murinus, Holme NWT, 7th September 2015



An Old Lady and some recent migrant moths

Old Lady, Hunstanton, 30th August 2015


Rush Veneer, Holme NWT, 29th August 2015


Dark Sword Grass, Holme NOA, 29th August 2015


Scarce Bordered Straw, Hunstanton, 30th August 2015


Vestal, Hunstanton,  9th September 2015


Great Brocade, Holme NOA, 9th September 2015


The Harbour, high water, 3rd September