On my 2 latest visits to darland banks, last friday (with ian) and Mon (on my own) I saw loads:
Friday:
My first ever slowworm
Loads of cinnebar adults
a cinnebar moth caterpiller
This pregnant female
Common Lizard - about 30seconds after Ian said "we wont se any reptiles today, its to windy and late in the day" - she must have heard him lol
This odd Grasshopper
A common? blue
A labyrinth spider -used the old twitching grass trick again, either ive got better or this species is really gullable!
And it was so good I went back monday when i need to kill time before I could get the train where I saw:
this
Common Lizard under a log pile me and Ian missed on monday! and looking at the photo there was a toad I didnt see, well not that time...
But then I came back to the log pile after walking round and turned a few more over and found this fella, who is probaly the same one as the photo above
A
Brown Argus
some chalk hill blues - we saw these friday too, but they were more cooperative and numerous monday
Also - this ill annoy Ian - I found a solitary
Marbled White, after finding none friday. And yet 3 weeks befor they were everywhere
This site was really good for butterflies with 3 blue species that I could see and atleast 3 whites. Also there was lots of mating cinnebars, they were suprisingly hard to see but I saw 3. 2 of which where on this grass with black ooze on

looking at it is it the chryslis/pupa of the moth adn its just recently emerged?