July

A busy month, with butterflies, moths, bees, hoverflies, beetles all making the most of fair weather and available food.

Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus, enjoying the sun.

Common Blue Butterfly, Polyommatus icarus, feeding on Bird's-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus.

Red-tail Bumblebee, Bombus lapidarius, male, taking nectar from Wild Marjoram, Origanum vulgare.

One of the Leaf Beetles, Galeruca tanaceti, on grass seed head.

Gall fly of Burdock, Terellia tussilaginis, on Burdock.