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Spent some time enjoying the sunshine yesterday and I was not the only one insects were loving it too! Picked up so many species in short stretch of hedge just outside visitor centre accompanied by cuckoo, common tern, blackcap, bullfinch and Mediterranean gull calls, gulls hawking for insects and red kite drifting over.
I'm still working on identifying many of the insects but thought I'd share some with you, so if you can offer any suggestions please do comment.
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I did finally mange to get a shot of one of the Cuckoo wasps, think its one of the Chrysis ignita group with their metallic blue/green head and thorax and pink/red abdomen, they are a treat to see. There was also a good emergence of damsels (red and blue species), managed a decent shot of a large red damselfly and my first time seeing the swollen abdomen of the female green dock beetle! With a whole host of other bugs, bees, beetles, flies, spiders, butterflies, wasps and moths it was amazing to see and now to continue the fun of identification!