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Sunday, 7 July 2024

A local walk

My wife and I did an afternoon circular walk around the outskirts of our village (a few weeks ago now) and this is what we saw while we were out. 

We had just started our walk when my wife spotted this female Roe Deer on the path just ahead of us so we stood still while it looked at us. It must have thought that we weren’t a threat as it slowly walked off leaving us to carry on our walk.

A pair of Large White Butterflies.

Wall Butterfly.

Ancylis badiana Moth.

Longhorn Moth possibly Adela reaumurella.

Small Yellow Underwing Moth.

A pair of Syndemis musculana Moth.

Common Carpet Moth.

Cydia ulicetana Moth.

Glyphipterix species of Moth.

Gorse Shieldbug.


7-spot Ladybird.

A couple of 7-spot Ladybirds.


A 7-spot sitting on a Snail shell.

Still quite a few of these Froghoppers around while we were out.

Female German Scorpionfly.

Male German Scorpionfly.


A pair of Robberfly.

Possibly Baccha elongata Hoverfly.

Common Greenbottle.

Nettle Tap.

Walking down the bank back into the village near the end of our circular walk the same female Roe Deer that we saw at the beginning was there to greet us.

Flying above the house when we got back was a Red Kite. 




Friday, 14 June 2024

Hook Norton day one part three

 Still at Otmoor and around the cottage. Once again, any help with identification would be most welcome.

Male Azure Damselfly.


Female Azure Damselfly.

Nurseryweb Spider with its egg-sac.

Possibly Tetragnatha or Long-jawed orbweb spider.

Two possible Long-jawed orbweb spiders.

Female Common Scorpionfly.

Male Common Scorpionfly.

? Robberfly.

Carder Bee. I love the way the Ant looks as though it is telling the Bee to politely go away.

Hoverfly. A Bumblebee mimic?

Great Pied Hoverfly.

Hoverfly Leucozona lucorum.

Hoverfly Myathropa florea.

Four-spotted Cranefly?

Cranefly.

Empis livida.

Sawfly.

Flower Beetle.



Common Malachite Beetle.

Caterpillar of the Mottled Umber Moth.

Caterpillar of the Orchard Ermine Moth?

This was tiny and I haven’t got a clue as to what it is.