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August 10th to 17th

Sunday, 10th August, and an early start to the day with a coughing fit. Cool now but promising to get very warm later, yesterday reached the mid 30's C and this morning there is not a cloud in the sky. Already there are several photos from yesterday to place in the diary.

I managed to take 3 different spiders, the smallest of which appeared on my washing basket after I had got the washing in and the largest, the one which appears to be all legs, in the pond on a plant. The garden orb spider was taken just to show how different the colours of these spiders can be, compare the orangy one of the week before last with this one. I believe the little one to be a woodlouse spider, dysdera crocota, and the large one to be a house spider, tegenaria gigantea, so quite what it was doing in the pond I do not know.

The variety of moths that I have managed to capture on film ( or whatever the equivalent is for digitally) continues to grow with the Brimstone Moth, Opisthograptis luteolata, to the left and one of the plume moths, Stenoptilia pterodactyla, I think, to the right.

Later this morning before we went to church we discovered another moth. This is the Carnation Tortrix Cacoecimorpha pronubana.

However in searching for him I came across the correct identification for a moth from last week, the picture of which I once again include. This is a shaded broad-bar, scotopteryx chenopodiat.

Don't forget that clicking on the picture will usually open up a larger version.

Monday, 11th August and another hot and sunny one. Yesterday evening I began to wonder of the crickets ever managed to get together because at almost the identical time to that at which the male appeared last Saturday night the female dark bush cricket appeared. She has no virtually no wings and can be told apart from the male because of the large sabre-like ovipositor. Also in the evening a new moth appeared on the patio windows, it had a beutiful yellowy sheen to it and I think that it may be agapeta haman.

Managed to go to Wicken Fen this afternoon and took some photos of the large red damsel fly, pyrrhosoma nymphula as well as various butterflies and moths and a grasshopper. I simply include the pictures.

And then I almost forgot this morning's find which was a black-and-yellow cranefly, nephrotoma maculosa. All the pictures open out.

Tuesday, 12th, and two other new moths appeared last night, the orange swift, hepialus sylvina, to the left and an as yet unidentified one to the right.