Monday 11th May 2015 Insect Update

1100 - 1300 sunny but breezy, 18c : Orange Tip 5m, Large White 2, Small White 3, Green-veined White 3, Speckled Wood 6 (including mating pair), Peacock 5, Holly Blue (seen at Rushall), Metallic Longhorn 6, Tortrix moth Grapholita Lunulana, Green Flower Beetle 6 (of 2 species), Orange Carder Bumblebee 2, Harlequin Ladybird 3 (very variable), Hoverflies of four species, to be determined. Also seen - Blackcap 2, Whitethroat 2, Willow Warbler, Swallow 3, LBB Gull 7, Lapwing, Kestrel.

Photo's show Bee-Wasp (nomada), Green Flower Beetles, Carder Bee, Speckled Wood mating pair, male Orange Tip, Tortrix (G. lunulana), Harlequin Ladybird.