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Monday 25 August 2014

Weekend round up

With the weather remaining changeable during the day and cold and clear at night a chance to catch up on some botany around the parish, finding several new plants for the records, taking my total to close on 100 species.
Most are common plants and expected, just haven't had time to check them and photo for identification.
These were all found on or close to Westland Green, along with good amount of bird's foot trefoil and knapweed.
Yellow loose-strife

Great mullien

Common fleabane

Hoary ragwort

Red bartsia

Silverweed


Yarrow
Marsh cudweed
Whilst messing about on all fours at Westland Green managed to come across plenty of common green grasshoppers and this lesser marsh grasshopper. In searching for these I flushed a large family of pheasants. Also, at the moth trap there was this splendid dark bush cricket. Also on The Green, plenty of grassmoths but all observed were either Agriphila straminella (below) or Agriphila tristella.
Lesser marsh grasshopper

dark bush cricket

Agriphila straminella
Whilst checking the moth trap on Friday night strange noises emanated from under the fruit trees. Further inspection led to finding a hedgehog enjoying the windfalls. Not a common mammal to see these days.
On the moth front, only new species for the year list were a spectacularly marked frosted orange and a spruce carpet. In all 22 moths of 13 species this morning, so the total garden list of moths now moves to 2987 individuals, with 182 macro species and 124 micros for the year.
frosted orange

spruce carpet

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 August 2014 at 17:52

    Nice photos as ever. Flower is Red Bartsia not bastria. Yarrow looks more like its close relative Sneezewort + the grasshopper is Lesser Marsh not Common Green (note the parallel doral keelson thorax). Hope I don't come across as a knitpicker!

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  2. Jono Forgham25 August 2014 at 18:27

    Thanks for the corrections. Poor photo of yarrow but I noted the leaves were very fine and divided, unlike the undivided ones found on sneezewort.
    Wasn't sure on the hopper, so good to get a new species.

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