
Insect life from the South Devon sites
A very big thank you to Geoffrey Foale, one of our volunteers in the South West who has sent in this fantastic array of photos this is what Geoff has said
This year, once again, I have been regularly recording insect life from the South Devon sites of Aveton Wood and Woodleigh Wood. Here are just a few recent sample images from Aveton Wood (TQ7 4DS) and Woodleigh Wood
The record of a Little Thorn Moth is particularly interesting. They are uncommon and normally occur in two small areas. Hampshire west to the eastern side of Dorset and part of North Somerset to Herefordshire. This year a few have appeared scattered through Devon.
Moth – Little Thorn – Cepphis advenaria
Fantastic photos thanks Geoff and what an amazing array of insects living in our woods. If you have any photos of any wildlife, flowers in our wood then please do send them to amandabealing@woodlandtrust.org.uk and then they can appear on whittle
Beetle – Oxyporus rufus Brown Silverhorn Caddis Fly – Athripsodes albifrons Candy-stripe Spider – Enoplognatha ovata Celery Fly – Euleia heraclei
Cicadella viridis Cixius nervosus Common Awl Robberfly – Neoitamus cyanurus
Dark-winged Blood Bee – Sphecodes gibbus Denticollis linearis Figwort Sawfly – Tenthredo scrophulariae
Figwort Weevil – Cionus scrophulariae Garden Chafer – Phyllopertha horticola Goodens Nomad Bee – Nomada goodeniana
Grass Snake Green Shieldbug – Palomena prasina Grypocoris stysi
Harvestman – Leiobunum rotundum Horned Treehopper – Centrotus cornutus Hoverflies – Microdon myrmicae or mutabilis
Hoverfly – Volucella inflata Lacewing – Chrysopa perla Leafhopper – Allygus modestus
Marsh Damsel Bug – Nabis limbatus Meadow Plant Bug – Leptopterna dolabrata Moth – Celypha lacunata
Moth – Garden Grass-veneer – Chrysoteuchia culmella Moth – Lackey – Malacomosoma neustria Moth – Little Thorn – Cepphis advenaria
Picture-winged Fly – Terellia tussilaginis Potato Capsid – Closterotomus norwegicus Sawfly – Athalia rosae
Silver-washed Fritillary – Argynnis paphia Skipper on Birds-foot Trefoil Southern Hawker – Aeshna cyanea
Stiltbug – Metatropis rufescens Thick-headed Fly – Physocephala rufipes