A warm, sunny spring day, +18° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Usual spring stuff starts to turn up. Helina evecta muscid:
Saw a Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis). I’d say it became much scarcer here in the last 20 years:
Bookham Common
A sunny, warm day, +19° C. Been to Bookham.
Butterfly-wise, saw a couple of Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) and several Speckled Woods (Pararge aegeria). Of hoverflies, just Myathropa florea and Helophilus cf. pendulus.
Several Stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans) were basking on logs:
And plenty of various mushrooms, too! Honey Fungus (Armillaria gallica):
Pirbright Common
A warm, sunny day, +24° C. Been to Brookwood.
Craploads of both Agriphila inquinatella and Grayling (Hipparchia semele) at both Dawney’s Hill and Sheet’s Heath.
Wimbledon Common
A fairly warm, more or less sunny day, +22° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
As is usual at this time of year, a Mint patch is the main attraction point for a lot of insects.
Tachina fera tachinids are particularly abundant:
Upd. This is actually a recent addition to the British list, T. magnicornis (ID by Steven Falk):
Phasia hemiptera is much scarcer. Male:
Morden Hall Park
A warm, mostly sunny day, +21° C. Been to Morden Hall Park.
Nemophora fasciella longhorn moth, never seen it there! Apparently likes hogweed (which is a prime insect attractant at the moment):
Eliozeta pellucens tachinid fly, a recent addition to British fly fauna, parasitoid of true bugs:
Bookham Common
A warm, fairly sunny day, +26° C. Been to Bookham Common.
Lots of insects, but surprisingly nothing interesting really! Lochmaea capreae leaf beetle:
Gastrophysa viridula leaf beetle:
Wimbledon Common
A warm, mostly cloudy day with some sunny spells, +24° C. Been to Wimbledon Common.
Chrysolina hyperici leaf beetle:
Plenty of Mullein moth (Cucullia verbasci) caterpillars on mullein:
Morden Hall Park
A warm, sunny day, +19° C. Been to Morden Hall Park. Nothing special.
A patch of cuckooflower attracted a range of pierid butterflies. Small White (Pieris rapae):
Orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines) was the most plentiful (cuckooflower is one of its primary foodplants):
Epsom Common
A fairly warm, but mostly cloudy day, +16° C. Been to Epsom Common.
Lots of Cardinal beetles. The rarer black-headed Pyrochroa coccinea:
The common red-headed P. serraticornis were frequent:
Banstead Downs
A fairly warm, partially cloudy day, +19° C. Been to Banstead Downs in Belmont.
Adela reaumurella longhorn moth:
Agapanthia villosoviridescens longhorn beetle:
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