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| This month's images - June 2019 |
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 A Box Bug (Gonocerus acuteangulatus) on the handle of a wheelie bin in our garden, Alwins Field, 14 June 2019. The first report of this bug in Bedfordshire occurred in 2009. |
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 A White Plume Moth in our garden, Alwins Field, 14 June 2019. |
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 A Speckled Wood butterfly at Sandhouse Lane NR, 9 June 2019. |
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 The Black Snipefly is a carnivore. This female was at Sandhouse Lane NR, 9 June 2019, sitting on Japanese Knotweed, waiting to pounce on a smaller insect passing by. |
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 A Large Skipper butterfly feeding on Red Clover in Linslade Woods, 6 June 2019. |
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 A bee-mimic hoverfly (Volucella bombylans) in Linslade Woods, 6 June 2019. |
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 A Little Egret in the Ouzel, seen from the Town Bridge, 5 June 2019. |
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 A caterpillar of a moth known as "The Mullein". There were several of these on a Great Mullein on Alwins Field allotments, 5 June 2019. |
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 A Reed Bunting singing at Astral Lake Park, 3 June 2019. |
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 Mother Shipton Moth at Astral Lake Park, 3 June 2019. Mother Shipton was a Yorkshire "witch" and the moth gets the name from the apparent image of her face on its forewing. |
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 This Yellowhammer was in a ditch, where it seems to have had a bath, at Astral Lake Park on 3 June 2019. |
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 A pair of Large Red Damselflies by the pond in our Alwins Field garden, 2 June 2019. The male clasps the female by the neck and does not let go until they have mated and she has laid her eggs. |
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 The larva of a 7-spot Ladybird, Alwins Field garden, 2 June 2019. |
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 A Hedgehog in our Alwins Field garden at 3 am, 2 June 2019. |
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