These photos are from several visits to my favourite local meadow. It's along the clifftops above Weston Mouth. I believe that it is specially managed as a traditional hay meadow. If only there were more like it! I visited a lot in the early summer of 2020 with all the restrictions on travelling that were in place at the time. In late June it was absolutely swarming with Meadow Brown butterflies, definitely the most I'd ever seen in one place. There were thousands! Plenty of other insects too...
In early June the dominant flower is Ox-eye Daisy, later to be replaced by Knapweed...
...very popular with the pollinators.
Eighteen Meadow Browns
An aberrant Meadow Brown with a partially white hindwing.
Standard version
Meadow Brown and Five-spot Burnet Moths
Meadow Brown - Maniola jurtina
Dingy Skipper - Erynnis tages
Large Skipper - Ochlodes sylvanus
Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae
Small Skipper - Thymelicus sylvestris
Seven-spot Ladybird - Coccinella septempunctata
Musk Mallow - Malva moschata
Anthophora bimaculata
Yellow-legged Mining Bee - Andrena flavipes
Beetles Galore!
Also known as the Weevil Hunting Wasp. You can see it in action hunting Weevils in one of my old posts here
A very nice example of cumulonimbus.
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