Work

A few images from work over the last couple of weeks. 

Red-legged/Forest Shieldbug.

Common Green Shieldbug nymphs.

Common Green Shieldbug instar.

What looks like the skeleton of a Shieldbug.

A couple of Froghoppers.

Froghopper.

Willow Flea Beetle.

Common Nettle Flower Bug.

Plant Bug.

Grasshopper.

Sphaerophoria interrupta Hoverfly.

Syrphus Sp. Hoverfly.

Common Tachinid Fly.

Ichneumon Wasp.

Lauxaniidae Sp. Fly?

Tachinidae or Rhinophoridae family of Fly.

Painted Lady Butterfly.

Nepticulidae Sp. Micro Moth.

Micro Moth.

Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar.

Chapman’s Well

 A canny walk around a small part of Chapman’s Well nature reserve at the beginning of this month. There were loads of Butterflies on the wing but unfortunately not many Shieldbugs or Dragonflies which was a little disappointing.

Early instar Bronze Shieldbug or an early instar Gorse Shieldbug?

Southern Hawker.

Common Darter.

Mating Common Blue Damselflies.

Another pair.

Blue-tailed Damselfly.

Painted Lady Butterfly.

Red Admiral.

Comma.

Holly Blue.

Small Copper.

Small Heath.

Speckled Wood.

Green-veined White.

Large Skipper.

Grasshopper.

7-spot Ladybird.

Tachinid Fly.

Another Sp. Tachinid Fly.

Syrphus Sp. Hoverfly.

Dasysyrphus Sp. Hoverfly.

Orb-weaver Spider.

Would anyone know what is covering this Hawthorn Berry, there were loads like this and yet some did not have anything on them.