Monday 31 August 2015

Southern Oak bush cricket, 31st August

Found a male Southern oak bush cricket in the house this morning.1st record of this species for me!

 Southern oak bush cricket

Sunday 9 August 2015

Yoesden Bank, Bucks, 9th August

We decided to head for Yoesden bank in the Chilterns today. It's a reserve that I've never been to before but always wanted to go to. The main reason was to see if we could find any Great green bush crickets that occur here. After a bit of a walk around I managed to find a cracking female one on some bushes. Adonis blue also occur here but no 2nd generations were seen today. A few Chalkhill blues were flying around and 3 Small blue were also seen. A striped lychnis moth caterpillar was seen feeding on Mullien.

 Great green bush cricket

 Great green bush cricket

 Great green bush cricket

 Great green bush cricket

 Great green bush cricket

 Small blue

 Striped lychnis caterpillar