Well, here we are having a great run of sunny weather at the moment here in the UK, so I decided on having an insect day down at Old Moor.
I was there at opening time, 9:30am, I was hoping today for some Dragonflies, after the long hot spell Hairy Dragonflies were now on the wing and seen on a previous visit and also seen today, in good numbers, and in places not seen before, so a good year for the Hairy, unfortunately I didn’t seen any today or any other Dragonfly species. Damselflies were in good numbers with Azure, Common Blue and Large Red seen.
Since luck wasn’t in on the Dragonflies I moved onto the Butterflies and other things, first joy was an Ancistrocerus Wasp Sp, butterflies seen were Green veined White, Brimstone, Dingy Skippers in good numbers, a Common Blue, and a Small Copper.
Come the afternoon things picked up on the Dragonfly front, with Four Spotted Chasers, and a Male Broad Bodied Chaser in pristine condition.
Butterfly Seen : Brimstone, Common Blue, Dingy Skipper, Green-veined White, Holly Blue, Orange Tip, Peacock, Small Copper, Speckled Wood (9)
Dragonflies Seen : Azure Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Broad-bodied Chaser, Common Blue Damselfly, Four-spotted Chaser, Hairy Dragonfly, Large Red Damselfly, (7)
Broad bodied Chaser ♂
Dingy Skipper
Four spotted Chaser
Hairy Dragonfly ♀
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