Wingate Quarry.

 After a visit to Bishop Middleham, we then went onto Wingate Quarry. Not many Marbled White out but I did manage to get some images of the two we saw. On the way back home, we stopped off at Chester-le-Street in the hope of seeing White-letter Hairstreak I was lucky enough to see one.

Marbled White Butterfly.

Blackneck Moth.

Weevils.

Click Beetle.

White-letter Hairstreak.

Large Skipper.

Ringlet.

Yellow Shell Moth.

Garden Grass Veneer.

Possibly Pammene fasciana Moth.

Banded Demoiselle.

Orange Ladybird.

Sawfly.

Bishop Middleham Quarry

 A look up to Bishop Middleham Quarry a couple of weeks ago produced some canny butterflies unfortunately I’m not sure if I have Brown Argus or Northern Brown Argus or a mixture of both. There was a profusion of Bee Orchids, I have never seen as many and, once again, I took far too many pictures.

Dark Green Fritillary.

These next few is where I fall down, Brown or Northern Brown Argus?

Common Blue Butterfly.

Female Common Blue Butterfly.

Dingy Skipper.

Six-spot Burnet Moths.

Bee Orchid.

Twizell Woods

 A visit to Twizell Woods near to the end of last month didn’t produce any dragons or damsels but it did produce some canny insects.

Black-and-yellow Longhorn Beetle.

Take off.

Mating pair.

With Bumblebee and Speckled Longhorn Beetle.

With two Speckled Longhorn Beetle.

Speckled Longhorn Beetle.

In flight.

Final instar Red-legged Shieldbug.

14-spot Ladybird.

Alder Leaf Beetle.

Pollen Beetles.

Raspberry Beetle?

Common Froghopper.

Common Green Grasshopper.

Slender Groundhopper?

Tephritids Sp. of Fly.

Large Skipper Butterfly.

Yellow-barred Long-horn Moth.

Garden Grass Moth.

Wolf Spider carrying newly hatched spiderlings.

Wolf Spider with egg sack.

Spider.

Nursery Web Spider.

Sawfly.