June 2026 – Warwickshire Wildlife/Nature

Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.

Animals

Fallow Deer

Butterflies

Painted Lady Butterfly

Large Skipper Butterfly

Damselflies

White-Legged Damselfly (Immature Male)

Dragonlflies

The bottom RHS picture shows the female placing a clutch of eggs onto vegetation just below the water surface

Broad-bodied Chaser (Male)

Broad-bodied Chaser (Female)

Insects

Spotted Longhorn Beetle (Leptura maculata)

Thick legged (Male) flower Beetle

Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)

Chrysotoxum verralli Hoverfly

Common banded Hoverfly (Syrphus ribesii)

Hairy-Sloe Shieldbug

The Adult and Young Plum thistle Aphids are on a Feverfew Plant just below the emerging flower heads. The attending Ants milking the young Aphids on a regular basis.

Plum-thistle aphid (Brachycaudus cardui)

Plum thistle aphid - Adult

Plum-thistle aphid Young

Whilst looking at the sawfly Galls on this Willow leaf I turned it over to the underside and found the larval stages of the Imported Willow leaf beetle feeding on the leaf underside.

Willow Leaf

Imported Willow Leaf Beetle (Plagiodera versicolora)

Imported Willow Leaf Beetle Larvae (Plagiodera versicolora)

Leafminers

Honeysuckle Leaf mined by the Aulagromyza hendeliana or Aulagromyza cornigera Fly.

Honeysuckle Leaf mined by the Aulagromyza hendeliana or cornigera Fly

The Burdock Leaf Miner is a tiny fly and while you might never see the adult fly, the larval stage leaves intricate silvery trails winding across Burdock leaves.

Burdock Leaf Miner (Phytomyza lappae)

Mildews

Oak Leaf Mildew (Erysiphe alphitoides)

Oak Leaf Mildew - Close Up

Moths

The males shown here of this longhorn moth have extremely long antennae about three time the wing length. The female antennae are about half the length.