Walking towards Bedford Gap
These are the butterflies
and flowers that we recorded.
Butterflies
|
Flowers (in no particular order)
|
Brimstone
|
Thyme
|
Large white
|
Rockrose
|
Small white
|
Horseshoe
vetch (seed pods)
|
Small
tortoiseshell
|
Squinancywort
|
Small
skipper
|
Dropwort
(gone to seed)
|
Meadow
brown
|
Lady’s
bedstraw
|
Ringlet
|
Hedge
bedstraw
|
Peacock
|
Greater
knapweed
|
Gatekeeper
|
Black
Knapweed
|
Marbled
white (2)
|
Dwarf
thistle (‘Picnic’ thistle)
|
Chalkhill
blue (perhaps 200 or more?)
|
Tuberous
thistle
|
Carline
thistle
|
|
Moth
|
Harebell
|
5 spot
Burnet moth
|
Kidney
vetch
|
Quaking
grass
|
|
Common
milkwort
|
|
Ragwort
|
|
Teasel
|
|
Small
scabious
|
|
Field
scabious
|
|
Yarrow
|
|
Wild
parsnip
|
|
Pignut
|
|
Bryony
|
|
Agrimony
|
|
Wild
mignonette (or weld?)
|
|
Dark
mullein
|
|
Goatsbeard
(Jack go to bed at noon)
|
|
Oxeye daisy
|
|
Salad
burnet
|
|
Juniper
|
|
Sweet briar
|
|
Privet
|
|
Elder
|
Burnet Moth (photo JH)
Chalkhill Blue (photo JH)
Chalkhill Blues (photo JH)
Skipper
Small White
Ringlet
Skipper
White-tailed Bumble Bee
(photos PB unless noted)
