June 2025

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

Beetles

Thick legged (Male) flower Beetle

Birds

The Little Egret and Heron are on the same dead tree overlooking a river. Just below the Little Egret was another so presumably a mating pair. Just a 100 metres upstream were another two Little Egrets presumably both males as one was chasing the other away from his river location.

Little Egret
Grey Heron

This Crow fledging is in exactly the same place as the one found last year - see June 2024 photograph.

Crow - Nest Fledging

Butterflies

Large Skipper Butterfly
Large Skipper Butterfly Male & Female Mating
Peacock Butterfly well worn
Brimstone Butterfly
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Speckled Wood Butterfly
Meadow Brown Butterfly
Meadow Brown Butterfly
Comma Butterfly
Red Admiral Butterfly

Damselflies

Beautiful Demoiselle Male Mature
Azure Damselfly (Male)
White-Legged Damselfly Male

Dragonflies

Scarce Chaser (Male) with catch
Scarce Chaser with catch - Close up
Hairy Dragonflies mating

Flies

Scorpion Fly

Ladybirds

Yellow 14 Spot ladybird (Propylea 14-punctata)

The Harlequin Ladybird lays an egg which turns into a lavre then into various pupa stages before into a Ladybird once more.

Harlequin Ladybird Lavre
Harlequin Ladybird Pupa
Harlequin Ladybird Pupa

Leafhoppers

2mm-3mm in length found on a Hawthorn leaf. Most likely to be Empoasca vitis but not certain beyond doubt.

Empoasca vitis
Empoasca vitis - Close up

2mm-3mm in length found on a Potata leaf.

Potato Leafhopper (Eupteryx aurata)

Moths

Common Carpet Moth (Epirrhoe alternata)
Cinnabar Moth (Tyria jacobaeae)

Ferns

Soft Shield Fern (Polystichum setiferum)
Soft Shield Fern (Polystichum setiferum) - Topside
Soft Shield Fern (Polystichum setiferum) - Underside
Common Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
Common Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) -Topside
Common Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) - Underside

Fungi

Dryad's Saddle (Polyporus squamosus)

Frog Spit

This strange bubbly froth is called frog spit. Nothing at all to do with a frog as the cluster of small transparent bubbles in a whitish foam is caused by an insect called a spittlebug or froghopper. There is a small pale green to yellow insect hiding inside the foam cover. 
Frog Spit
Frog Spit - Close up

Galls

There can be between 500 to 1000 galls on a single leaf usually on the upper surface. Growth begins in June with the galls maturing in early Autumn.

Maple Leaf with Eriophyd Mite Galls

Ones that escaped the camera lens this month

a) Fox.

b) Roe & Muntjac Deer.

c) Marbled White Butterfly.

 

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