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A Reed Beetle
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Adela reaumurella
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Red Kites @ Combe Haven
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Red Kites @ Combe Haven
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Grizzled Skipper Butterfly
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Unknown Hidey Hole
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Count the Tadpoles
Common Blue Butterfly
Common Toad Tadpole
Red Admiral
Micropterix tunbergella
Small Phoenix Moth
Sawfly Larva - Periclista pubescens
Red Clover
Life in a Buttercup 7
Red & Black Froghopper Love
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Cut-leaved Cranesbill
Scoparia pyralella
Crambus lathoniellus Moth
Epiblema cirsiana Moth
Epiblema sticticana Moth
Lime-speck Pug Moth
Snout Moth
Rhopalus subrufus
Fly Love
Psyche casta Moth Caterpillar
Psyche casta Moth Caterpillar
Common Lizard
Life in a Buttercup 8
Long Marsh Meadow
Tall Marsh Meadow
Hairy Tare
Tiny Vetch
Yellow Flag Wildflower
Broad Bodied Chaser Female
Tephritid Fly
Broad Bodied Chaser
Azure Damselfly Male
Small Yellow Underwing Moth
Small Yellow Underwing Moth
Red-eyed Damselfly
Holly Blue Butterfly
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Alabonia geoffrella
Southern Marsh Orchid
Grass Rivulet
Southern Marsh Orchid Flowers
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Special Relations
I'm not sure what is exactly going on here, but Ants and many other invertabrates have special relations. This could be a caterpillar of some of the UK butterflies.
I'm going to try to get ahold of someone that can help me figure it out.
This wasnt the only caterpillar being moved along the cliff edges amonst the thrift, probably being taken back to the colony for night, then will be brought back to the food source for the day. The ants harvest honeydew from them.
You can see the Ant has a careful hold on the caterpillar in its meaty parts, he was carefully carrying it along, the caterpillar seems a bit curled as they do as a defence when being handled and has a 'poo' so has been eating and seems to me alive and well.
I'm going to try to get ahold of someone that can help me figure it out.
This wasnt the only caterpillar being moved along the cliff edges amonst the thrift, probably being taken back to the colony for night, then will be brought back to the food source for the day. The ants harvest honeydew from them.
You can see the Ant has a careful hold on the caterpillar in its meaty parts, he was carefully carrying it along, the caterpillar seems a bit curled as they do as a defence when being handled and has a 'poo' so has been eating and seems to me alive and well.
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