B.V.N.R.

 A trip to Kibblesworth Brick Ponds at the end of last month looking for Dragonflies. Black-tailed Skimmer, Emperor and Four-spotted Chaser all put on a good show and there was a canny supporting cast of butterflies, beetles etc.

Black-tailed Skimmer.

This Emperor Dragonfly flew back and forth trying to protect its patch from all threats.

However, this Four-spotted Chaser had a good go at chasing it off.

Four-spotted Chaser being harassed by an Azure Damselfly.

Four-spotted Chaser.

Burnet Moth in flight.

Five-spot Burnet Moth.

Painted Lady Butterfly.

Meadow Brown.

Small Skipper.

Ringlet.

Speckled Wood.

Dark Arches Moth?

Nursery Wed Spider.

Weevil.

Frog Hopper.

Rough-haired Darkling Beetle?

Leaf Hopper.

Common Flower Bug.

Plant Bug.

Eupeodes corollae Hoverfly.

Twizell Woods

 Looking around Twizell Woods recently for Large Red Damselflies which unfortunately I didn’t find. I did however find loads of other wildlife.

Helophilus pendulus Hoverfly.

Syrphus Sp. Hoverfly.

Epistrophe eligans Hoverfly.

Flower Fly?

Platycheirus Sp. Hoverfly.

Platycheirus Sp. Hoverfly hovering.

Flower Fly?

Shaerophoria Sp. Hoverfly.

Syrphus Sp. Hoverfly hovering.

Baccha Sp. Hoverfly.

Yellow Swarming Fly.

Leaf Beetle.

Leaf Beetle.

Flea Beetle.

Reed Beetle.

Weevil.

Leaf Hopper.

Nymph of a Planthopper.

Another Nymph.

14-spot Ladybird.

Anthomyia genus.

Crane Fly.

St Mark’s Fly in water.

A not very good picture of a Lace Hopper.

Tree Bumblebee.

Buzzards.