Last month we travelled to the southern counties of England on the lookout for insects including some rarer ones. At Kingcombe it was moth trapping along with outings for butterflies, We failed on Purple Emperor but had success with Southern, and Scarce Blue-tailed, Damselflies as well as commoner species like Gatekeeper. It was hot but not suffocatingly so. In the New Forest we were very pleased to see Nightjar hawking at sunset. This picture is of a female Marbled White against the pink of Rosebay Willowherb. |