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Tuesday 21 August 2018

Luddenden Dean and Midgley Moor, 20th August 2018

Not many birds about on a walk taking in the Dean and the Moor, but quite good for insects.  Best butterfly was a wall below Crow Hill, also small copper, speckled wood and a fox moth caterpillar. Plenty of hover-flies too when the sun came out, including, Cheilosia illustrata, Leucozona glaucia and Scaeva selenitica.
                                            Speckled wood
                                            Cheilosia illustrata
                                            Scaeva selenitica
                                            Fox moth caterpillar
                                            Leucozona glaucia and small copper below
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3 comments:

  1. David Sutcliffe22 August 2018 at 12:13

    Very nice shots Chris. Especially like the Speckled Wood. It seems to have been a good year for hoverflies. Fantastic little insects.

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  2. Steve Blacksmith22 August 2018 at 21:32

    Great post Chris, thanks.
    You were lucky to spot a Wall Brown Butterfly.
    Any chance of captioning the photos?
    I can do the butterflies for you this time, but not the hoverflies!

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  3. ChrisJB23 August 2018 at 09:37

    Thanks for the kind comments both. Photos now captioned!

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