Willington Insects

 There is always a good variety of insects at Willington and Friday was no exception with lots of banded Demoiselles, White-legged Damselflies, Gall flies. Pond Skaters and butterflies

Wasp Spiders at Royston

A party of 12 from CCC visited Royston Heath yesterday in search of Wasp Spiders and Chalkhill Blues. Once the cloud cleared a bit, there were plenty of butterflies and to our delight abundant wasp spiders. I was particularly pleased to find one with a grasshopper in the web - its stated prey, though Chalkhill blues were the most abundant corpses in the webs

 

A Hot Morning in the Woods

The Woodland Belt at Wimpole is closed except one short path through Eversden Woods. I hope these infrared images give a feel of the almost impenetrable wildness of ivy and undergrowth that is developing in the undisturbed parts of the wood.

Wimpole Infrared

I took my Sony RX IR converted camera on a walk to Wimpole Folly today. The second image is the original jpeg from the Sony, profile produced in camera with whites set to neutral. All the colour changes to give blue skies  etc done in Lightroom.

Paxton July Survey Butterflies and Dragonflies

Saturday was our monthly survey at Paxton Pits of butterfly and dragonfly numbers. Here a few of those recorded - Small Copper, Green-veined White, Small skipper, Essex Skipper, Ruddy Darts, Migrant Hawker, Blue-tailed damselfly, Emerald Damselfly, Emperor Dragonfly and Scarce Chaser