took a trip to chicksands wood looking for white admiral, purple emporer and white letter hair streak. We saw 2 of the hope for species but missedd out on the emporer.
Butterflies:
Comma and it's larvae:


Small Skipper:

Large Skipper:


Speckled Wood:

White letter hairstreak:

Large White:

Gatekeeper:



Other insects:
Longhorn beetle:

Weird flies that look as if they were wearing ice hocky masks:

Common Darter:


As well as the butterflies photographed we saw small white, white admiral, ringlet. Also brown hawker.
This gives us 10 species of butterfly which we were very happy with.
Dan
1 comment:
Hi Dan,
I think that your 2 masked flies are Sicus ferrugineus, which have a fascinating life cycle to look up!
Best wishes,
Steve Plummer.
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