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| Green Shieldbug, Palomena prasina |
On July 29th I found a rare moth outside my back door, the
Channel Islands Pug. In the afternoon I visited Worms Wood, Middleton-on-Sea
for the first time. This 13 hectare Woodland Trust site was planted with native
trees and shrubs in 2000 and is an area of mixed habitat. I saw Red Admiral, Large Skipper, Gatekeeper, Meadow
Brown, Speckled Wood, Comma and some interesting moths: Common Cloaked Shoot,
Maiden's Blush, Mother of Pearl, Straw Dot, Yellow Shell, Dingy Footman,
Cinnabar larvae on the ragwort and leaf mines of Stigmella moth larvae on oak leaves.
On August 3rd and 4th I returned to Worms Wood and
found several moths: Cherry Fruit Moth, Clouded Border, Mocha, Cinnabar
larvae plus butterflies: Large and Small Whites, Brown Argus, Large Skipper, Speckled Wood and Common Blues. I also spotted three
types of galls on sessile oak leaves: Spangle Gall Wasp, Red Pea Gall Wasp and
Artichoke Gall Wasp. A Common Darter rested on a twig.
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| Channel Islands Pug, Eupithecia ultimaria |
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| Daddy Long-legs Spider, Pholcus phalangioides |
Worms Wood, July 29:
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| Barkfly nymphs, Psocopterid species |
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| Cinnabar larva, Tyria jacobaeae |
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| Common Cloaked Shoot, Gypsonoma dealbana |
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| Common Green Lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea |
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| Dingy Footman, Eilema griseola |
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| Hoverfly larva |
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| Hoverfly, Myathropa florea |
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| unidentified wasp |
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| Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
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| Lesser Burdock, Arctium minus |
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| Maiden's Blush, Cyclophora punctaria |
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| Mother of Pearl, Pleuroptya ruralis |
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| Oak Mildew, Erysiphe alphitoides |
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| Psocid, Valenzuela flavidus |
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| Puffball, Scleroderma species |
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| Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta |
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| Stigmella moth species larval mine on oak leaf |
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| Stigmella splendidissimella moth leaf mine on Bramble leaf |
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| Straw Dot, Rivula sericealis |
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| Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata |
August 3,4:
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| Worms Wood |
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| Agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria |
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| Artichoke Gall Wasp, Andricus foecundatrix |
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| Brown Argus, Aricia agestis |
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| Brown Argus |
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| Centaury, Centaurium erythraea |
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| Cherry Fruit Moth, Argyresthia pruniella |
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| Clouded Border, Lomaspilis marginata |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Common Blue |
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| Common Darter ♀, Sympetrum striolatum |
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| Common Wasp, Vespula vulgaris |
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| Field Maple, Acer campestre |
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| Field Maple seed pods |
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| Green Shieldbug, Palomena prasina |
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| Harlequin Ladybird pupa, Harmonia axyridis |
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| Large White, Pieris brassicae |
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| Maiden's Blush, Cyclophora punctaria |
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| Mocha, Cyclophora annularia |
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| unidentified fibrous mass with Barkfly |
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| gall of Red Pea Gall Wasp, Cynips divisa on Sessile Oak leaf |
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| Rowan berries, Sorbus aucuparia |
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| Sessile Oak, Quercus petraea |
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| galls of Spangle Gall Wasp, Neuroterus quercusbaccarum |
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| Yarrow, Achillea millefolium |
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