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Saturday, 4 July 2026

Twizell Woods

 A visit to Twizell Woods near to the end of last month didn’t produce any dragons or damsels but it did produce some canny insects.

Black-and-yellow Longhorn Beetle.

Take off.

Mating pair.

With Bumblebee and Speckled Longhorn Beetle.

With two Speckled Longhorn Beetle.

Speckled Longhorn Beetle.

In flight.


Final instar Red-legged Shieldbug.

14-spot Ladybird.

Alder Leaf Beetle.

Pollen Beetles.


Raspberry Beetle?

Common Froghopper.

Common Green Grasshopper.




Slender Groundhopper?

Tephritids Sp. of Fly.

Large Skipper Butterfly.

Yellow-barred Long-horn Moth.

Garden Grass Moth.

Wolf Spider carrying newly hatched spiderlings.

Wolf Spider with egg sack.

Spider.

Nursery Web Spider.

Sawfly.


Thursday, 4 June 2026

Twizell Woods

I seem to be way behind again because these images were taken towards the end of last month at Twizell Woods. 

Anchomenus dorsalis Ground Beetle.


Common Green Shieldbug.


A pair of Nettle Weevil.

Nettle Weevil.


Ground Beetle.

Willow Leaf Beetle?

Froghopper.


Soldier Beetle.


Common Red Soldier Beetle.

Large Red Damselfly.



Large Red in tandem.

Azure Damselfly.

Small Yellow Underwing Moth.

Silver-ground Carpet Moth.

Epiblema or Pammene Sp. of Moth.

Common Clothes Moth.

Green Longhorn Moth.

Green Looper Caterpillar?

Caterpillar of the Mottled Umber Moth.

Possibly Larva/Case of a Leaf Miner.

Speckled Wood Butterfly.

Downlooker Snipe Fly.

Clusiidae?

Yellow Swarming Fly.

Alder Fly.

Female German Scorpionfly.

Spider.



22-spot Ladybird (looks like I will have to wash the car).