National Insect Week

We joined a Nature Walk on the Crossness Nature Reserve. A wet start to the day but it brightened up just as we got going. Although the focus was on Insects, it being National Insect Week, we looked at all and anything. As such, we noticed a number of Bindweed flowers with patterned holes viz.

Subsequent enquiries identified the Caterpillar of the Common Plume Moth as the probable culprit.

Insect-wise, species identified included:

Andrena species (Bee)

Bombus pratorum (Bee)

Buff/White-Tailed Bumblebee

Honey Bee

Megachile ligniseca (Bee)

Comma Butterfly

Large Skipper Butterfly

Speckled Wood Butterfly

Unidentified White Butterfly

Flea Beetle

Red Soldier Beetle

Swollen-Thighed Flower Beetle

Weevil species

Eristalis tenax (Hoverfly)

Eristalis species (Hoverfly)
Tropidia scita (Hoverfly)

Blue-Tailed Damselfly

7-Spotter Ladybird