Blewbury, Chilton, Upton, East Hagbourne
From the path up to Chilton, from Blewbury, two views:
Long Wittenham
Blewburton Hill
Between Chilton and Upton, the bridge over the old railway line
Patterns in the field
St Andrews, East Hagbourne
In front of the church, a bush. Hypericum calycinum: Aaron’s Beard, Creeping Aaron’s Beard, St. John’s Wort
And in the churchyard, Autumn Flowering Cyclamen hederifolium
On the way back to Blewbury
Ivy is “in flower” at the moment, and on the bridge over the railway and in the churchyard, it was swarming with wasps, bees and flies.
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) and probably a housefly
This is a bee, maybe a Colletes (plasterer bee) a ground-nesting bee
Three species here. A fly, several small fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) and a slightly larger bug which I can’t identify
Here’s the unknown bug
Got to finish with this beauty, resting on my back door when I got home. Nigma walckenaeri is a green cribellate spider up to five millimetres long. While most of the body is a somewhat yellowish, the abdomen is a shining green. In Great Britain, until 1993, it was only found in London and the Home Counties. It may originally have been imported into Kew Gardens.
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