Beamish Hall & Black Plantation

 Coffee and scone in the Coach House at Beamish with some friends then a walk around the grounds. The pond held a nice surprise in the form of a distant male Broad-bodied Chaser. A few other water bourn insects were also on the pond. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get any images of the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterflies at Black Plantation as not one of them would settle. I did however get a Golden-ringed Dragonfly (thanks Brian for the info).

Broad-bodied Chaser.

Common Pond Skater.

Whirligig Beetle.

Backswimmer.

Golden-ringed Dragonfly.

Large Skipper Butterfly.

Plant Bug.

Hoverfly hovering.

Bloch-winged Hoverfly hovering?

Common Yellow Sally.

Sawfly.

Work

A few images form work last month. 

Harlequin Ladybird.

A pair.

14-spot Ladybird.

Black-and-yellow Longhorn Beetle.

Potato Caspid.

Plant Bug.

Yellow-faced Bee mating.

Ichneumon Fly. 

Grasshopper.

Tortricidae family of Micro Moth.

Common Marble Moth?

Marmalade Hoverfly hovering.

Marmalade Hoverfly.

Fly.

An Aphid which has been parasitized by a Wasp.

Bug Hunting

 A couple of days ago as the weather was good, I went bug hunting and wasn’t disappointed.

Birch Shieldbug.

Hairy Shieldbug covered in something.

Hairy Shieldbug.

Gorse Shieldbug.

Hawthorn Leaf Beetle.

7-spot Ladybird

Ladybird.

Platycheirus albimanus Hoverfly hovering.

Drone Fly.

Common Carder Bee.

Common Greenbottle.

Spider.

Stigmella aurella moth?

Burdon Moor

 Still way behind with the processing of all the images (I haven’t even seen some of them yet) I have taken over the last couple of months so much so that these go way back to June at Burdon Moor.

Grasshopper.

Two-spot Ladybird.

Common Rhogogaster.

Black-backed Sawfly.

7-spot Ladybird.

Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Moth.

There were quite a few Large Skippers around.

Scaeva selenitica hovering.

Meadow Brown Butterfly.

Bumblebee coming into land on a Foxglove.