Showing posts with label dragonfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dragonfly. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 September 2026

Twizell Woods (again)

 Middle of last month and another walk around Twizell Woods.

Hypericum Rhopalid Rhopalus subrufus.

Black & Red Rhopalid.


Hairy Shieldbug.


Common Green Shieldbug.

Orange Ladybird.

22-spot Ladybird.

14-spot Ladybird.

Green Leafhopper.

Elongated Grass Bug.

Female Southern Hawker.

Southern Hawker.




Common Darter.

Emerald Damselfly.



Large Ectemnius Digger Wasp.

Sawfly.

Darwin Wasp Sp.

Grasshopper.

Argyresthia goedatella Micro Moth.

Flies mating.


Thursday, 3 September 2026

Twizell Woods

 Another Blog from July this time Twizell Woods. The ponds there are getting very overgrown now and if they don’t get seen too before long, they will be lost for good.

Southern Hawker.




Common Darter.

Leafhopper.



Cereal Leaf Beetle.

Four-barred major Soldier Fly.

Wasp.

Bumblebee.

Grass Fly.

Grasshopper.

Alder Leaf Beetle Larva.

Wolf Spider.

Silver-washed Fritillary.


Thursday, 20 August 2026

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.