Wednesday
Aug032011
Butterflies
Wed 2011-08-03 
A pair of mating gatekeeper butterflies, Pyronia tithonus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2011-07-31.
Entries from August 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011
Wed 2011-08-03 Tuesday
Aug022011
Ichneumon Wasp
Tue 2011-08-02 
A female Ichneumon wasp, possibly of the genus Ephialtes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), ovipositing into a thistle flower-head (Cirsium sp).
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2011-07-31.
Monday
Aug012011
Moth
Mon 2011-08-01 
What I think is a carnation tortix moth, Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). It took me quite a while to identify this, but I eventually matched the rather faint downward-pointing arrow marking on its back with one of the images on the page linked to above.
Photo taken in the woods between the mouth of the River Kennet and the car park of the Napier Road Tesco's, Reading, UK, on 2011-04-24.
