Sunday
Jul202014

Agrimony

Flowers of agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria.

The leaves look like this:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-06.

Saturday
Jul192014

Tachinid Fly

A tachinid fly from a couple of years back: probably Pales pavida (Diptera: Tachinidae).

Photos taken in Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-10-09.

Friday
Jul182014

Dragonfly

A male black-tailed skimmer dragonfly, Orthetrum cancellatum (Odonata: Libellulidae).

Photo taken on the dam at the lower end of the large lake, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-01.

Thursday
Jul172014

Butterfly

A ringlet butterfly, Aphantopus hyperantus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-07-06.

Wednesday
Jul162014

Another Moth

Another Noctuid moth from our living room at night: an Amphipyra sp, either Amphipyra pyramidea or Amphipyra berbera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), both are about equally common and are rather difficult to distinguish from photos alone (see here).

Photo take in Reading, UK, on 2014-07-12.