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  Archive images - July 2025

Common Damsel Bug
  Common Damsel Bug, Linslade Woods, 29 July 2025. This was caught in a pot at the Greensand Trusts's Bug Lab.
 




Tree Damsel Bug
  Tree Damsel Bug, Linslade Woods, 29 July 2025. This was caught in a net at the Greensand Trust's Bug Lab.
 




22-spot Ladybird
  22-spot Ladybird, Linslade Woods, 23 July 2025. This is a very small ladybird.
 




Large White Butterfly
  Large White Butterfly, Linslade Woods, 23 July 2025.
 




Green Shieldbug
  Green Shieldbug (not fully adult), Linslade Woods, 23 July 2025.
 




Red-tailed Bumble-bee queen
  Red-tailed Bumble-bee, Alwins Field, 21 July 2025 feeding on Marjoram.
 




Honey Bee
  Honey Bee, Alwins Field, 21 July 2025 collecting pollen from Marjoram flowers.
 




Smooth Newt close-up
  Smooth Newt close-up, Alwins Field, 19 July 2025.
Late evening and this young newt has left the pond and is looking for a new home.
 




White-lipped Snail
  White-lipped Snail, Alwins Field, 19 July 2025.
The rain from today has brought out the snails, especially at night.
 




Red Kite
  Red Kite, Astral Lake, 14 July 2025.
 




Small Copper butterfly
  Small Copper butterfly, Astral Lake, 14 July 2025.
 




Six-spot Burnet moth
  Six-spot Burnet moth, Stanbridge Meadows LNR, 13 July 2025.
 




Turnip Sawfly
  Turnip Sawfly, Astral Lake, 13 July 2025.
 




Jackdaw
  Jackdaw, Alwins Field, 11 July 2025.
 




Rook
  Rook, Alwins Field, 11 July 2025.
 




Jersey Tiger Moth
  Jersey Tiger Moth, Alwins Field, 11 July 2025.
Jersey Tigers have been spreading north.
 




Plant bug - Issus coleopteratus
  Plant Bug that strayed into our kitchen, Alwins Field, 10 July 2025.
Its name is Issus coleopteratus; it is quite common and lives on trees.
 




Purple Hairstreak butterfly
  Purple Hairstreak butterfly, Linslade Woods, 8 July 2025.
 




Peacock butterfly
  Peacock butterfly, Linslade Woods, 8 July 2025.
 




Large Skipper butterfly
  Large Skipper butterfly, Linslade Woods, 6 July 2025.
 




Banded Demoiselle
  Banded Demoiselle, Linslade Woods, 6 July 2025.
He is feeding in the woods, quite a long way from the river where he was born and will later breed.
 




Common Darter dragonfly
  Common Darter dragonfly, Alwins Field garden pond, 5 July 2025.
This dragonfly has just emerged and not yet flown.
 




Common Earwig
  Common Earwig, Alwins Field, 5 July 2025.
This one is a male, shown by the strongly curved forceps.
 




Green-veined White butterfly
  Green-veined White butterfly, All Saints church, 4 July 2025.
 




Gatekeeper butterfly
  Gatekeeper butterfly, Soulbury Road, 2 July 2025.
 


 

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