Friday 3 September 2021

 At the end of August the annual moth list stood at 323 species which was 53 short of the number at the same stage last year. However there have been a couple of garden firsts since my last post: Bordered Beauty and a couple of Gypsy Moths. A female Southern Hawker Dragonfly also turned up in the garden, and at Dungeness I saw my first Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket-a final instar (not quite an adult) and a Southern Oak Bush-cricket (Both courtesy of Dave Walker).  

Bordered Beauty

 
Gypsy Moth
 
Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
 
Southern Oak Bush-cricket

Southern Hawker (f)