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| Archive images - June 2024 | ||
 A male Banded Demoiselle, Linslade Woods, 25 June 2024. |
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 A Longhorn beetle (Rutpela maculata), Linslade Woods, 24 June 2024. |
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 Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly on our garden pond, Alwins Field, 25 June 2024. Only the mature males have a blue abdomen, the females and immature males are yellow. |
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 Azure Damselflies on our garden pond, Alwins Field, 25 June 2024. The male grips the female by the neck while she lays her eggs in the pond weed. He is trying to stop other males from mating with her. |
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 Meadow Brown butterfly, Linslade Woods, 24 June 2024. |
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 Self-heal in flower, Linslade Woods, 24 June 2024. |
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 A Mirid Bug (Grypocoris stysi), Linslade Woods, 24 June 2024. |
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 Common spotted Orchid at Sandhouse Lane NR, 11 June 2024. |
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 Cleg Fly at Sandhouse Lane NR, 11 June 2024. This is a male Notch-horned Cleg (Haematopota pluvialis). The males don't bite but the females do - both animals and humans. |
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 Cinnabar Moth at Sandhouse Lane NR, 11 June 2024. |
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 Common Blue butterfly at Sandhouse Lane NR, 11 June 2024. This is a female: females have a variable amount of blue on their wings. |
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 Bird's Foot Trefoil in flower at Hadrian Crescent ponds (which were all dried up), 10 June 2024. Bird's Foot Trefoil is the larval food plant for Common Blue butterflies, but there were none around. |
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 A Grasshopper nymph in our garden, Alwins Field, 8 June 2024. It is a Common Field Grasshopper but is difficult to identify at this young stage. |
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 Hoverfly (Myathropa florea) on an Ox-eye Daisy, Alwins Field, 8 June 2024. |
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 Southern Hawker dragonfly just emerged and yet to fly, Alwins Field, 8 June 2024. |
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 Grey Wagtail, Grove Church, 6 June 2024. It has caught a damselfly for its chicks and was trying to find them. |
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 Grass Vetchling is almost invisible amongst other grasses until it flowers - then you can't miss it. Astral Lake, 6 June 2024. |
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 Meadow Cranesbill in flower near the Clipstone Brook in Parsons Close, Leighton Buzzard, 3 June 2024. |
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 This is a nymph of the Speckled Bush-cricket sitting in a Buttercup, Linslade Woods, 2 June 2024. |
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 Red-headed Cardinal Beetle, Linslade Woods, 2 June 2024. |
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 Black-headed Cardinal Beetle, Linslade Woods, 2 June 2024. |
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