balders's Journal

Dates: 11th - 17th September

Amphibians:
Common Toad

Bats (dawn to dusk survey):
Brown Long-eared Bat
Common Pipistrelle
Grey Long-eared Bat
Noctule Bat
Soprano Pipistrelle
Whiskered Bat

Beetles:
Black Sexton Beetle

Birds:
Swallow
Woodpigeon

Butterflies (On transects):
Large White
Meadow Brown
Painted Lady
Red Admiral
Small Tortoiseshell
Small White
Speckled Wood

Caddis flies:

Dragonflies:
Common Darter
Migrant Hawker

Flowering plants:
Devil's Bit Scabious
Scarlet pimpernel

Harvestmen:

Hymenopteran (Bees & wasps):

Isopoda (Woodlice):

Lacewing:

Mammals:
Grey Squirrel

Millipedes:

Moths (Heath Trap):
Angle Shades
Autumnal Rustic
Brimstone Moth
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Burnished Brass
Centre-barred Sallow
Common Wainscot
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Rustic agg.
Copper Underwing
Delicate
Dark Sword-grass
Depressaria daucella
Double-striped Pug
Dusky Thorn
Eudonia mercurella
Flounced Rustic
Frosted Orange
Green Carpet
L-Album Wainscot
Large Fruit-tree Tortrix
Large Ranunculus
Large Yellow Underwing
Lesser Yellow Underwing
Light Emerald
Maiden's Blush - New species
Mecyna asinalis
Mullein Wave
Pinion-streaked Snout
Pink-barred Sallow
Rosy Rustic
Rush Veneer
Rusty Dot Pearl
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Silver Y
Small Square-spot
Small Wainscot
Snout
Square-spot Rustic
Twenty-Plume Moth
Vestal
Willow Beauty

Orthoptera:
Dark Bush Cricket

Reptiles:
Adder
Grass Snake
Slow-worm

Scorpion flies:

Spiders:

True bugs:
Dock Bug
Red-legged Shieldbug

True flies:
Enicospilus combustus - New species

Records are from my land within the North Devon AONB:

Birds:
Canada Goose - 02/03/23
Hoopoe - 27/03/23
Northern Wheatear - 06/09/23
Whitethroat - 30/04/23
Yellowhammer - 01/05/23

Beetles:
Cantharis cryptica - 24/05/23
Chequered Weevil - 18/07/23
Lagria hirta - 08/07/23
Malthinus flaveolus - 14/07/23
Margarinotus merdarius - 04/06/23
Rough Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus problematicus) - 05/06/23
Strawberry Root Weevil (Sciaphilus asperatus) - 23/05/23
Woodland Dor Beetle - 09/09/23

Butterflies:
Small Heath - 03/09/23

Caddis flies:
Agrypnia varia - 07/06/23
Mystacides azureus - 05/09/23

Dragonflies:
None

Fungi:
Wrinkled Fieldcap - 30/05/23
Turkeytail - 30/03/23

Hymenopteran:
German Wasp - 13/08/23
Hairy Footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes) - 10/05/23
Hawk's-beard Mining Bee (Andrena fulvago) - 16/06/23
Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa) - 05/06/23
Short-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsata) - 04/04/23
Spiny Mason Wasp (Odynerus spinipes) - 01/06/23

Isopoda:
Common Rough Woodlouse - 30/06/23
Common Shiny Woodlouse - 02/07/23

Lacewings:
Giant Stream Lacewing - 05/07/23

Mammals:
Hazel Dormouse - 08/07/23

Mayfly:
None

Molluscs:
Arion ater agg. - 10/05/23
Strawberry Snail - 14/06/23
White-Lipped Snail - 14/05/23
Yellow Slug - 07/05/23

Millipedes:
Common Pill Millipede - 15/08/23

Moths:
Acleris variegana - 31/07/23
Aethes cnicana - 12/06/23
Aethes rubigana - 04/07/23
Anania fuscalis - 11/06/23
Annulet - 12/08/23
Black-banded - 06/09/23
Bryotropha terrella - 07/07/23
Bulrush Wainscot - 14/08/23
Calamotropha paludella - 27/07/23
Carcina quercana - 02/08/23
Celypha striana - 08/07/23
Chocolate-tip - 06/05/23
Cochylichroa atricapitana - 06/09/23
Cream-spot Tiger - 17/05/23
Delplanqueia dilutella/inscriptella - 16/06/23
Depressaria daucella - 23/07/23
Devonshire Wainscot - 20/07/23
Dusky Thorn - 24/08/23
Eudonia pallida - 19/08/23
Garden Pebble - 23/06/23
Heath Rustic - 22/09/23
Hedya pruniana - 29/06/23
Hoary Footman - 14/08/23
Least Yellow Underwing - 04/08/23
Lilac Beauty - 06/09/23
Maiden's Blush - 14/09/23
Marsh Marigold Moth (Micropterix calthella) - 11/05/23
Marbled Green - 05/09/23
Marbled Orchard Tortrix - 18/06/23
Minor Shoulder-knot - 14/07/23
Mottled Rustic - 04/07/23
Mullein - 26/06/23
Northern Rustic - 11/06/23
Old Lady - 02/09/23
Olindia schumacherana - 22/05/23
Pammene aurita - 05/07/23
Pempelia palumbella - 16/07/23
Pebble Hook-tip - 23/07/23
Phtheochroa inopiana - 30/05/23
Portland Ribbon Wave - 08/09/23
Pseudoswammerdamia combinella - 01/06/23
Scarce Blackneck - 05/08/23
Tortricodes alternella - 19/03/23
Turnip Moth - 13/05/23
Variegated Golden Tortrix - 03/07/23
Vestal - 06/09/23
Wainscot Veneer - 20/07/23
White-line Snout - 28/06/23
White-spotted Pug - 17/08/23
Ypsolopha parenthesella - 13/07/23

Plants:
Barren Strawberry - 03/04/23
Common Bent - 25/06/23
Common Calamint - 26/06/23
Common Field-speedwell - 26/05/23
Common twayblade - 10/05/23
Creeping Buttercup - 18/05/23
Crested Dog's-Tail - 14/06/23
English Stonecrop - 17/06/23
False Brome - 15/05/23
Field Rose - 18/06/23
Great Willowherb - 19/08/23
Long-stalked Crane's-Bill - 11/05/23
Marsh Cudweed - 11/08/23
Marsh Thistle - 21/05/23
Musk mallow - 23/05/23
Navelwort - 24/01/23
Pineappleweed - 19/05/23
Soft Shield Fern - 15/05/23
Spear Thistle - 07/04/23
Square-stalked St John's-Wort - 26/06/23
Thrift - 05/06/23
Thyme Leaved Speedwell - 07/05/23
Viper's bugloss - 01/06/23
Yorkshire Fog - 25/06/23

Reptiles:
Adder - 19/07/23

Spiders:
Castor Bean Tick (Ixodes ricinus) - 30/05/23
Flower crab spider (Misumena vatia) - 07/05/23
House Crab-Spider (Philodromus dispar) - 03/06/23
Long-bodied Cellar Spider (Pholcus phalangioides) - 17/06/23

True bugs:
Lucerne Bug - 05/09/23
Portland Spurgebug - 14/06/23
Red-spotted Plant Bug - 05/07/23
Three Spotted Nettle Bug (Liocoris tripustulatus) - 25/05/23
Tree Hopper (Centrotus cornutus) - 20/05/23
Two-spotted Grass Bug (Stenotus binotatus) - 23/06/23

True flies:
Black Snipefly (Chrysopilus cristatus) - 05/06/23
Bumble Bee Hover Fly (Volucella bombylans f. plumata) - 02/06/23
Cabbage White Parasitoid Wasp - 14/08/23
Cheilosia illustrata - 15/05/23
Cidaphus atricillus - 19/08/23
Common Green-Tenthredo (Tenthredo mesomela) - 17/05/23
Empis tessellata - 18/05/23
Enicospilus combustus - 12/09/23
Enicospilus ramidulus - 12/07/23
Ferruginous Bee-Grabber (Sicus ferrugineus) - 30/05/23
Hornet Mimic Hover Fly - 12/07/23
Iridescent Centurion (Sargus iridatus) - 22/06/23
Minettia longipennis - 03/07/23
Nephrotoma quadrifaria - 19/05/23
Ophion minutus - 19/06/23
Ophion Variegatus - 16/02/23
Perithous albicinctus - 22/09/23
Phytomyza lappae - 08/09/23
Semaphore Fly - 05/07/23
Spilothyrateles punctus - 30/06/23
Tipula oleracea - 29/01/23
Turnip Sawfly (Athalia rosae) - 04/06/23
Two-banded Wasp Hoverfly (Chrysotoxum bicinctum) - 24/05/23

The number of verified species recorded on my land is 945.

Records are from my land within the North Devon AONB

Brimstone - 22/03/23 to 27/05/23; 12/07/23 - 09/09/23
Brown Argus- Not seen in 2023
Brown Hairstreak - Not seen so far in 2023; seen in mid-September
Clouded Yellow - Not seen so far in 2023; occasionally seen between August & October
Comma - 03/04/23 to 08/04/23; 07/06/23 to 19/08/23; 10/09/23 - 29/09/23
Common Blue - 29/05/23 to 23/06/23; 07/07/23 - 19/07/23; 14/08/23 - 08/09/23
Dark Green Fritillary - Not seen in 2023
Dingy Skipper - Not seen in 2023
Gatekeeper - 29/06/23 - 02/09/23
Green Hairstreak - 03/06/23 to 05/06/23
Green-veined White - 06/05/23 to 03/06/23; 23/07/23 - 26/08/23
Holly Blue - 06/05/23 to 21/05/23; 24/07/23 - 03/09/23
Large Skipper - 23/05/23 to 07/07/23
Large White - 13/05/23 to 07/06/23; 15/06/23 to 29/09/23
Marbled White - 23/06/26 - 29/06/23
Meadow Brown - 30/05/23 to 13/09/23
Monarch - Rare migrant recorded once on 02/10/19
Orange-Tip - 29/04 to 03/06/23
Painted Lady - 04/08/23 - 29/09/23
Peacock - 26/01/23 to 30/05/23; 12/07/23 - 15/09/23
Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Not seen in 2023
Purple Hairstreak - Not seen in 2023
Red Admiral - 06/05/23 - 23/09/23
Ringlet - 22/06/23 - 28/07/23
Silver-washed Fritillary - 26/06/23 - 01/09/23
Small Copper - 20/05/23 to 05/06/23; 05/07/23 to 25/07/23; 17/08/23
Small Heath - 03/09/23 - New species
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - 20/05/23; 02/09/23
Small Skipper - 22/06/23 - 11/07/23
Small Tortoiseshell - 15/06/23 to 17/06/23; 08/07/23 - 22/09/23
Small White - 27/05/23 to 25/06/23, 09/07/23 - 23/07/23, 30/08/23 - 11/09/23
Speckled Wood - 29/04/23 to 26/06/23; 23/07/23 - 23/09/23
Wall Brown - 12/05/23; 16/08/23