2023 August 28

Butterfly Walks

Details about the CRD Butterfly Walk tomorrow can be found at
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=CRD+butterfly+walk
Meet at Mill Hill Park, Atkins Road, 10:00 am

Details about the VNHS September Butterfly Walk this coming Sunday will be posted in a few days’ time on this site.

Here are a few more insects photographed by Ian Cooper recently

Dirt-coloured seed bug, just possibly Valtissus sp.
(Hem.: Rhyparochromidae)
Ian Cooper

The unprepossessing English name is a literal translation of the Family name.

Hover Fly Eupeodes volucris (Dip.: Syrphidae) Ian Cooper

Leaf-cutter Bee (Hym.: Megachilidae) Ian Cooper

Agapostemon virescens (Hym.: Halictidae)  Ian Cooper

Following suggestions by Cheryl Hoyle, we believe the insect below is probably the ichneumonid wasp Pimpla sanguinipes

Pimpla (probably sanguinipes) (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)  Ian Cooper

We thank Dr Cara Gibson for identification of the Green Lacewing below.  Cara identified it to species from the dark double-spot on the gena.  In case you don’t know what the gena is (it was a new word for me, Jeremy Tatum) it’s where you see the double-spot.

Green Lacewing Chrysoperla carnea (Neu.: Chrysopidae)
Ian Cooper

And we thank Claudia Copley for identification of the two wasps below.

Dolichovespula arenaria (Hym.: Vespidae) Ian Cooper

Potter Wasp Ancistrocerus (Hym.: Vespidae – Eumeninae)
Ian Cooper

You can (I hope) see a wonderful video of some of Ian’s recently-photographed insects by looking on Facebook for Random Pollinators – E&N Trail – Aug27 2023

Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a Paddle-tailed Darner from Knockan Hill, August 27.  Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for confirming the identification.

Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Gordon Hart