Dave O'Brien

Before we started!

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Primrose showing feeding damage from Duke of Burgundy caterpillars

Had a great day out with @bcyorkshire.bsky.social
coppicing Hazel at a Duke of Burgundy site nr Hawnby. There was lots of Primrose coming through underneath, and lots of it with feeding damage from Duke larvae.
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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

My new favourite band!
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For #SundayYellow here's a backlit Brimstone from August last year.
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Gorgeous photo!

Wasp Spider from Aston Rowant NNR.
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A few more Adonis Blues from Aston Rowant NNR.
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Silver-spotted Skippers, seen yesterday at Aston Rowant NNR, Oxon.
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Yes, even on an overcast day the vivid blue is stunning!

Thanks! Adonis Blue was a new species for me.

Adonis and Chalkhill Blues from Aston Rowant NNR, Oxon, and Common Blue from Hazelborough Woods, Northants today.
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That's a female Common Blue. It has the extra spot on the crossing and no figure-8 on the hindwing. Sorry!

Thanks!

I think the unopened buds of Devil's-bit Scabious are as attractive as the flowers.
#wildflowerhour

And yet, just 2 days earlier I counted over 140 Peacock, plus lots of Painted Lady, Red Admiral, and Small Tortoiseshell at a N. Yorkshire site.

A single Brown Hairstreak seen at Arnside Knott yesterday, along with some Painted Ladies and a Small Tortoiseshell. Despite the fine weather there weren't many butterflies about.
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Thanks!

Happy World Lizard Day to those who celebrate!
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Brimstone, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, and Small Tortoiseshell seen today at Harwood Dale Forest, nr. Whitby.
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Golden-ringed Dragonfly today at Harwood Dale Forest, nr. Whitby.
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Thanks! Smardale Gill is such a beautiful site, and I try to visit every year.

Plenty of Peacocks & Red Admirals, and a couple of Comma too!

Scotch Argus from my annual visit to Smardale Gill NNR.
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Brimstones from Pickering today.
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Nice selection, but that's a Large Skipper.

Meadow Brown on Field Scabious, Barnack Hills & Holes NNR.
#wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals

Flowering Dodder, seen at Barnack Hills & Holes NNR earlier this week.
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I'll put them on iRecord tonight.

My (conservative) count was 45. Do you take the records from your website or would you like me to submit them to iRecord?

Plenty of dragonflies too at Barnack Hills & Holes; Common Darter, Migrant Hawker, and Southern Hawker. I also found the pink form of Common Meadow Grasshopper.
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Brimstone butterfly nectaring on Buddleia

Brown Argus.

Green-veined White on Knapweed.

Meadow Brown on Field Scabious.

Some more Barnack Hills & Holes butterflies!
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