The weather was hot and humid with a good breeze making photography difficult. On a Hogweed flower was a wasp -- is it a male Ichneumon or a Spider-hunting Wasp? I guess probably the latter.
There were dozens of Chalkhill Blues about.
This moth is yet to be identified. Please let me know if you can name it.
This looks like a Chalk carpet moth.
The "Pride of Sussex" the County flower of Sussex, Round-headed Rampion is beautiful now.
Marbled whites enjoyed a Greater Knapweed. Not the blood-gorged mites on the back of one of them.
Common Green Grasshoppers lived up to their name in being extremely numerous in their hundreds. This one posing elegantly on a Pyramidal Orchid.
Note the number of blood-filled mites on the Small Skipper above on a Scabious flower.
This walk was very hot and very enjoyable.
As a bonus a pair of Linnets settled briefly on a bush.
Cinnabar Moth caterpillars munching through Ragwort whilst Hogweed bonking beetles bonk away unperturbed.
Arrowhead, Sagittaria sagitifolia with Blue-tailed damselfly. RSPB Pulborough Brooks 2 July 2024
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