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A Suffolk Garden in July – Insects Part 1

08 Fri Aug 2014

Posted by Clare Pooley in Insects, plants, Rural Diary

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azure damselfly, blackfly aphid, blue-tailed damselfly, brown hawker, burnet moth, buttercup, comma butterfly, Essex skipper, feverfew, greenbottle, helicopter, ichneumon wasp, insects, July, meadow brown butterfly, migrant hawker, oedemea nobilis, peacock butterfly, Red Lily Beetle grub, rhagonycha fulva, Ringlet butterfly, robber fly' bindweed, ruddy darter, sawfly, small skipper, Small Tortoiseshell, small wolf spider, speckled wood butterfly, spotted crane fly, Suffolk, white butterfly

006Speckled Wood butterfly

A Speckled Wood butterfly

I realise that we are now a week into August but better late than never.  There were so many different insects about last month that I will have to make more than one post to cover them.  I have also included some photos of insects that I saw during June most of which were still about in July.  I will list the insects in the order in which I saw them or was able to photograph them.  I am not including the dragonfly, damselfly and butterfly photos that I have already posted but I may include different photos of the same type of insect.

The Speckled Wood shown above had a little bit of its wing missing but was quite a bright, new-looking insect.  The next photo is of something none of us want in our gardens.

014Red Lily beetle grub

A Red Lily Beetle grub – yeuch!

These nasties chomp their way through lilies and fritillaries and do it very quickly too.  They cover themselves in their own excrement.

021Male oedemea nobilis

A male Oedemera nobilis – only the males have the swollen hind-legs. They feed on pollen and this one is eyeing up his next meal

The next two photos are of the same unidentified insect and the photos aren’t that clear either.   Ichneumon wasp or sawfly?002Ichneumon wasp probably

003Ichneumon wasp probably

Note the extremely long ovipositor!

005Small wolf spider

A Small Wolf Spider carrying its eggs in a silk ball

I realise that spiders aren’t insects but I’m still including this one here nevertheless.  Because these spiders do not make webs and live a nomadic life, the female has to carry her eggs around with her.  Some wolf spiders even carry their spiderlings about with them too.  When the spiderlings are due to hatch, the female spins a large ‘nursery web’ in the vegetation and puts the egg sac there.  Wolf spiders run down their prey like their namesakes.

006Greenbottle

Greenbottle

027Azure damselfly

Azure Damselfly

028Azure damselfly

Azure Damselfly

Here are some more little insects that gardeners could do without.  This photo also shows how good feverfew is at attracting them.

022Feverfew with blackfly

Blackfly aphids on Feverfew

048Spotted cranefly

Spotted Cranefly

058Buttercup with beetle

Unidentified insect (sawfly?) on a buttercup

067Small tortoiseshell sipping nectar

Tortoiseshell butterfly sipping nectar

015Meadow brown butterfly

A Meadow Brown butterfly on a very windy day

005Ringlet

A Ringlet butterfly on another windy day

009Ruddy darter

A Ruddy Darter dragonfly

001Rhagonycha fulva

Rhagonycha fulva I thought at first that this was a Cardinal Beetle but they have different antennae and are much redder.

002Burnet moth caught in web

A Burnet Moth caught in a spider’s web

006Blue-tailed damselfly

A Blue-tailed Damselfly

009Bindweed flower with unidentified fly and pollen beetle

An unidentified fly (robber fly?) on a bindweed flower

020Helicopter

A military helicopter It looks like an insect!

033Ruddy darter

Another photo of a Ruddy darter

058Migrant hawker

A Migrant Hawker dragonfly

 

011Peacock butterfly on lobelia

Peacock butterfly on lobelia

028Small or Essex Skipper on Common Bird's Foot Trefoil

Small or Essex Skipper on Common Bird’s-foot-trefoil

The Small and the Essex Skipper butterflies are very similar.  The difference is that the Essex Skipper is greyer underneath and its antennal tip is black underneath.  I don’t think I will ever be able to tell the difference.

034Comma on bramble

Comma butterfly

033Comma on bramble

Comma butterfly

042Dragonfly

Spot the dragonfly! I think this is a Brown Hawker

045White butterfly on bramble

An unidentified white Butterfly. I am having a lot of trouble identifying the white buttterflies

There will be more insects in the next post.

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