We have started recording Butterflies, moths, hoverflies, dragonflies and damselfies and anything of interest like this Send your records to HF, month by month and I will add them with your initial, date a statement of the weather – you can see how we record them from the table.
Happy hunting.
| Date | weather | habitat | description | ident? | number | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18.07.23 | light overcast, then sunny | GV | ||||
| open grass/around trees and shrubs, very busy | large white | Lrg White? | lots | GV | ||
| ditto | smaller white | Small White? | lots | GV | ||
| settled briefly around hemp agrimony? On edge of memorail garden) | blue; undersides silvery blue | Holly Blue? | 1 | GV | ||
| open grass | Tortoiseshell | 1 | GV | |||
| open grass | Red Admiral | 1 | GV | |||
| 29.07.23 | sun and intermittent clooud | |||||
| buddleia | peacock | 2 or 3 | GV | |||
| flying low around plant cover eg forget-me-not, spurge | very small brown with spots around edge, V shaped | mint moth? | a few | GV | ||
| 07.23 | Sunny | Buddleia | unmistakable | Volucella zonaria | 5 | HF |
| 07.23 | marjoram | hornet hoverfly | 1 | GV | ||
| 07.23 | sunny | pond | common darter | 2 | HF | |
| 07.23 | Sunny | pond | wide bodied chaser | 2 | HF | |
| 07.23 | overcast | outside memorial resting on nettles | Comma | 1 | HF | |
| 05.08.23 | sunny | Memorial, resting on laurel | Jersey Tiger Moth | 1 | FD | |
| 05.08.23 | sunny | Sunderland St | Red Admiral | 1 | HF | |
