Crowle Moor NR & Some ID's Needed

Tormentil · #1 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 09:24 PM

Roger (Ollie) and I had a great day to day at Crowle Moor. The weather was just about perfect light-wise, if w wee bit on the warm side.

We were quite pleased when within an hour we'd spotted a Bog Bush Cricket...

But by the end of the day we must have seen, at least, a dozen.

Black Darters were, once again, in profusion and we even had a go at some "inflight" shots of them; though not exactly brilliant, this is the best I got...

We also had a go at Southern Hawkers "inflight" and one ovipositing.....

Here's some that I we need ID-ing...

1. This lovely green beetle

2. These 2 Ichneumon Wasps

3. 2 Spiders

4. A Moth, that had very colourful underwings

5. This Hoverfly that I think may be Eristalis intricarius

6. Anyone now what caused this gall on this thistle.

Finally, the best "inflight" shot of the day....

which, considering I only had me macro on, aint too bad.

I'm not sure what Roger puts in his coke, but he seems to be developing a propensity to fall into dykes !!!

All in all we had a good, if somewhat, tiring day.

Ollie · #2 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 09:31 PM

Hi Ben.

The spiders are Orb Web Spider - Araneus quadratus but can't help with the others.

That Hawker in flight isn't bad at all.

Talking of falling in dykes. You know now why Sue won't let me go to Crowle moor on my own. There are just to many of them dykes for me to get in

I will post my best ones in the Gallery tomorrow cause I'm on my upload limit at the moment.