Stairfoot walk along the Dearne 13th Sept 2.30-4pm
16
degrees, sunny intervals slight breeze
We
went looking for migrating butterflies and hoverflies after watching a video by
Trevor Pendleton on the Youtube channel 'Ramblings of an Entomologist'. See link
below if you would like to watch.
https://youtu.be/eobOGqYFjxA?si=itQN-q0OpCOZaA9b
We
certainly didn’t get a Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) but we did see a Large
White (Pieris brassicae) in a hurry heading in the Sheffield direction, was it migrating?? There
were however a few Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas), a Small White (Pieris
rapae), a couple of Speckled Woods (Parage aegeria) and a Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) in amongst the bramble, not sure they were going anywhere.
On the Hoverfly front:
3♀
Common Banded (Syrphus ribesii), Batman (Myathropa florea) 3♀+1♂, Common Dronefly
(Eristalis tenax), Eupeodes sp
♂= male ♀=female
Other Notable species seen:
Common Hemp
Nettle seed heads (Galeopsis tetrahit),
Water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper) which was new to me and Water forgot me not (Myosotis scorpiodes) which was new to my species listing unless I have seen and forgot to record it.
Not unusual, especially this year, but nevertheless nice to see was the 7 seven spot ladybirds seen on the thistle, how many can you see?
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