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| This month's images - September 2018 |
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 The first year that this species has been seen in the area, this is a male Willow Emerald Damselfly (Chalcolestes viridis) at Sandhouse Lane NR on 16 September 2018. These damselflies have been spreading from the East over the past few years. |
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 The egg mass created by absorption of water to make a jelly from a number of Caddis fly eggs laid on a reed, Sandhouse Lane NR, 12 September 2018. |
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 A small hoverfly (genus Sphaerophoria) at Sandhouse Lane NR, 12 September 2018. |
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 A flower of Water Mint (Mentha aquatica) at Sandhouse Lane NR, 12 September 2018. |
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 A toadlet (baby Common Toad) at Sandhouse Lane NR, 12 September 2018. |
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 Common Frog out at night in our garden, Alwins Field, 9 September 2018. |
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 A Rhodedendron Leafhopper at Rushmere CP on 4 September 2018. (It's actually quite small - about 10mm - and was introduced with its host plants from the USA in the early 1900s.) |
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 Purple Loosestrife flowering near the education pond at Stockgrove, 4 September 2018. |
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 An unusual Mallard drake with a pompom hair-do on Stockgrove Lake 4 September 2018. The pompom has been bred into a particular domesticated variety of Mallard and it is properly called a crest. |
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 A small Rudd in Stockgrove Lake, 4 September 2018. |
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 A Small Copper butterfly at Sandhouse Lane NR, 1 September 2018. |
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 A Ruddy Darter dragonfly at Sandhouse Lane NR, 1 September 2018. |
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 A Common Darter dragonfly hanging around our garden pond, Alwins Field, 1 September 2018. |
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 A Rhopalid bug (Corizus hyoscyami) in our garden flowers, Alwins Field, on 1 September 2018. |
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