Off Patch: Seven from Courtyard Farm

Gatekeeper, Courtyard Farm, 13th July 2020

Eucosma hohenwartiana, Courtyard Farm, 13th July 2020

Common Stiletto, Thereva nobilitata, Courtyard Farm, 13th July 2020

Stripe-legged Robberfly Dioctria baumhaueri, Courtyard Farm, 13th July 2020

Large Scabious Mining Bee, Andrea hattorfiana, Courtyard Farm, 13th July 2020

 Brassy Longhorn, Nemophora metallica, Courtyard Farm, 13th July 2020

Forester, Adscita statices, Courtyard Farm, 13th July 2020

A walk at Ringstead Downs

I visited Ringstead Downs today to walk my weekly butterfly transect.  This year there are carpets of sweet-smelling Lady's Bedstraw but some plants such as Small Scabious seem to be less abundant than previous years.  I found 3 small plants of White Horehound and about 25 small plants of Basil Thyme in flower.

Basil Thyme

Ringlets are very numerous at the moment, especially in the long grass on the south-east bank. Also good numbers of Meadow Brown and Small/Essex Skippers.  This week I had 5 fresh Commas on the transect.  Last week I found a Comma perched on a dead Pheasant amongst the scarab beetles.

Comma

Today, although quite common, it was nice to see an Ear Moth feeding on Small Scabious (difficult to photograph as the flowers were blowing in the wind).

Ear Moth

Holmhurst Track, 27th June

Orange-spot Piercer, Pammene aurana, Holmhurst Track, 27th June 2020 

Ellipteroides lateralis, Holmhurst track, 27th June 2020

Banded General, Stratiomys potamida, Holmhurst track, 27th June 2020

Off Patch: Dingy White Plume

Dingy White Plume Merrifieldia baliodactylus, Narborough NWT, 19th June 2020

Coleophora albicosta

Coleophora albicosta, Hunstanton, 19th May 2020

Off Patch: Little Longhorn

Little Longhorn Cauchas fibulella, Courtyard Farm, 19th May 2020

Off Patch: unlocked at Narborough

Cryptocephalus aureolus, Narborough NWT, 20th May 2020

The Sawfly Cephus pygmaeus, Narborough NWT, 20th May 2020

Black-striped Longhorn, Stenurella melanura, Narborough NWT, 20th May 2020

Laced Border, Narborough NWT, 20th May 2020

Off Patch: Common Tubic

Common Tubic Alabonia geoffrella, Thursford Wood, 1st June 2020

Off Patch: Roydon Common

Yellow Horned, Roydon Common 9th March 2020

 Cheilosia albipila, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020

10 Spot Lady bird Adalia decempunctata, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020

Glow-worm larva,  Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020

Gorse Shield Bug, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020

Gorse Weevil, Exapion ulicis, Roydon Common, 23rd <arch 2020

Streak

The Streak, Holme NOA, 24th October 2019

Five saltmarsh beasties

Wormwood Case-bearer, Coleophora albicans, Holme Lavender Marsh, 30th September 2019

The Delphacid plant hopper Eurybregna nigrolineata, Holme Lavender Marsh (off Sea Wormwood), Holme 30th September 2019

Dicheirotrichus obsoletus, Holme Lavender Marsh, 30th September 2019

The Beetbug Parapiesma quadratum, Holme Lavender Marsh, 30th September 2019

Marram Pseudoscorpion, Dactylochelifer latreillei, Holme Lavender Marsh, 30th September 2019

Chocolate Tip

Chocolate-tip Caterpillar on Grey Poplar, Holme NWT, 9th September 2019

Carline Neb

Carline Neb, Metzneria asticella, in flower head of Carline Thistle, Holme NWT, 9th September 2019

An amazing find by Joan Fox - the fifth clearwing for the patch

Six-belted Clearwing, Hunstanton, 4th August 2019

Off Patch: invertebrates at Dersingham Bog

Black Darter, male, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Sundew Plume, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Banded General, Stratiomys potamida, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Wasp Spider, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Day-flying moths at Cranwich Camp

After a visit to Santon Warren yesterday I called in at Cranwich Camp on the way home.  There were lots of moths feeding on the scabious and greater knapweed flowers.

Forester Adscita statices

Six-spot Burnet Zygaena filipendulae

Longhorns Nemophora sp.

Norfolk Owlet at Holme

Norfolk Owlet, Scythris inspersella ('tent' and caterpillar on Rosebay Willowherb), Holme NWT, 29th June 2019