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| This month's images - June 2025 | ||
 Large White butterfly, Linslade Woods, 30 June 2025. |
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 Gatekeeper butterfly, Sandhouse Lane NR, 29 June 2025. |
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 Common Spotted Orchid, Sandhouse Lane NR, 29 June 2025. |
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 Pyramidal Orchid, Sandhouse Lane NR, 29 June 2025. |
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 Creeping Cinquefoil, Sandhouse Lane NR, 29 June 2025. |
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 Tall (or Yellow or Golden) Melilot, Sandhouse Lane NR, 29 June 2025. You can also see the backside of a Bumblebee with lots of pollen. |
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 This is a Sawfly, a female Tenthredo omissa, at Sandhouse Lane NR, 29 June 2025. She looks very like a wasp but has no wasp-waist and no sting. |
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 This is a Median Wasp, a real wasp, at Sandhouse Lane NR, 29 June 2025. The yellow lines on the thorax that look like the number seven help to identify her. |
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 This Blackbird has caught a large moth caterpillar and is about to feed it to his chick, Alwins Field, 27 June 2025. |
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 Common Darter dragonfly at Weston Avenue Allotments, 26 June 2025. This one is immature. |
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 Nymph of a Long-winged Conehead (a type of Bush-cricket) at Weston Avenue Allotments, 26 June 2025. Crickets have very long antennae and continually swing them around. |
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 Female Banded Demoiselle, Clipstone Brook in Parsons Close, 25 June 2025. The female has no bands of colour on the wings |
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 Common Blue Damselfly, Clipstone Brook in Parsons Close, 25 June 2025. This is a "green-form" female. |
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 Comma Butterfly, Linslade Woods, 23 June 2025. |
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 Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata), Linslade Woods, 23 June 2025. |
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 Meadow Brown Butterfly, Linslade Woods, 19 June 2025. |
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 A small, female parasitic wasp (Aritranis director) on Hogweed in Linslade Woods, 19 June 2025. This wasp uses its ovipositor to lay eggs into moth larvae. |
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 Scarlet Tiger Moth, Alwins Field, 18 June 2025. |
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 Azure Damselflies mating in our garden pond, Alwins Field, 18 June 2025. |
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 Azure Damselflies laying eggs in our garden pond, Alwins Field, 13 June 2025. |
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 A Southern Hawker dragonfly emerging from our pond, Alwins Field, 13 June 2025. |
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 Hedgehog visiting our garden and captured on trail-cam, Alwins Field, 13 June 2025. |
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 Common Frog taken at night, Alwins Field, 12 June 2025. |
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 White-tailed Bumblebee feeding on Knapweed, Alwins Field, 11 June 2025. |
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 Two damselflies on our pond, Alwins Field, 11 June 2025. The one on the left is a Large Red and the one on the right is an Azure Damselfly. |
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 Nymph of the Common Field Grasshopper, Alwins Field, 11 June 2025. |
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 Juvenile Rook screaming at mum for some food, Alwins Field, 1 June 2025. |
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