Saturday 28 August 2010

August

Late summer at Frog End has brought an abundance of wildlife and the insect lists for the garden are growing rapidly. Unfortunately, even longer is the list of species I've yet to identify.

Speckled woods are only absent at night and when it rains:

We had a wall brown a couple of weeks ago, taking the butterfly species count up to 18, of which we've seen 17 in 2010:

After a poor mid-summer the dragonflies are about again and so far this last week we've had a golden-ringed dragonfly (that refused to be photographed), a common darter:

and a migrant hawker:


This large hoverfly Volucella inanis seems to like the buddleia flowers:

and the goldenrod is covered with green shield bugs of all sizes and stages of development:

4 comments:

Amila Kanchana said...

Beautiful critters,never seen anything like that green bug,it looks like a UFO!

JRandSue said...

Love the Wall Brown and the Migrant Hawker, haven't seen one for ages. Sue

Captain Shagrat said...

love the colouring on those shield bugs

Graham Edwards said...

I was going to say that my favourite was the Migrant Hawker then I thought about the Hoverfly and then again the Shield Bug's rather cute. So it's back to indecision time. Fortunately it's not a matter of life and death so....