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