Went out for a walk this morning up the lane and through a couple of the plentiful meadows here. Plenty to see starting off with a micro there is a picture of below. I then went up the lane and further up just past some Hemp Agrimony I spotted this Geometrids' caterpillar feeding on a Wild Rose (see pic). I carried on through the centre of the village (we live further down at the bottom on the main road) and out on to one of the many meadows that surround us here. There was lots to see here with Chimney Sweepers and Meadow Browns (both no pics) but the main purpose of going there was to check up on our local Six Spot Burnet Moth colony, in just 5mins of searching, two chrysalis' were found (see pic) one was hatched one not. Carried on to Shaw Lane, not a driveable one and spotted a Speckled Wood (see pic) and an orange moth , WS15mm, flying around the holly bushes (no pic). I came back throught the village and on to the lane I started on seeing a Large Skipper (see pic) and the n back home.
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| Large Skipper, Rishworth, 22nd June |
I was very very happy with this picture
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| Six Spot Burnet Chrysalis, Rishworth, 22nd june |
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| Speckled Wood, Rishworth, 22nd June |
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| Geometrid Larva on Wild Rose, Rishworth, 22nd June |
8 comments:
your orange moth was probably Yellow Shell , saw loads today..
Are you sure its 6 spot and not 5 spot..??
I watched a few displaying Nemophora degeerella today on bramble well worth keeping an eye out for there pretty common.....
Yellow Shell exactly what I thought. Yep six spot. Nice nemophora.
I think the larva is a pug???
Definitely NOT a Six Spot Burnet chrysalis!
It's a cocoon :-)
very good Charlie!
i OBSERVED THE ADULT BURNETS LASST JULY
A lot of the Burnet colony's are a mix of 5 and 6's .....
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