David Holland's photos

Eurasian kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, Elmley Marshes

European hare (Lepus europaeus),Elmley Marshes

European hare (Lepus europaeus),Elmley Marshes

Southern Green Shield Bug (Nezara viridula) Ravensbourne Road Bromley The approximate real size of the left antennae is 1.39 mm, magnification is 6.02

Southern Green Shield Bug (Nezara viridula) Ravensbourne Road Bromley The approximate real size of the left antennae is 1.39 mm, magnification is 6.02

Southern Green Shield Bug (Nezara viridula) Ravensbourne Road Bromley The real size is 1.95 mm, magnification is 4.12 stack of 4 photos

Southern Green Shield Bug (Nezara viridula) Ravensbourne Road Bromley just after hatching The real size is 1.51 mm, magnification is 6.02 stack of 4 images at f/8 160 s

16-spot Ladybird (Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata) stack of three shots, The real size is 2.39 mm, magnification is 4.62 Ravensbourne Road Bromley, A vegetarian ladybird Biology Habitats: 16-spot ladybirds are commonly found in grassland. There are also records from scrub, saltmarsh and dune systems. Host plants: Most 16-spot ladybird records are from grasses and other low plants, including reeds, nettle, dandelion, knapweed, hogweed, cow parsley and buttercup. This species has also been recorded from shrubs, including gorse, and from Scots pine. Food: pollen, nectar, fungi. Overwintering site: 16-spot ladybirds overwinter in low herbage, on gorse, in plant litter, on logs, fence posts and stone walls, often in extremely large aggregations.

Eristalis arbustorum (most likely) or abusiva Hutchinson's bank 15/08/2026

Maybe Bronze Furrow Bee (Halictus tumulorum), Hutchinson's bank

Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum), Hutchinson's bank

achina ferox Hutchinson's bank From Steve Falk One of our most familiar tachinids, a medium-large (body length 10-14 mm), robust species with an orange abdomen bearing a conspicuous dark medium stripe (about one-quarter the width of the abdomen but variable) and a weak pattern of dusting on the thorax. Females have the legs (including all femora) orange with darker fore tarsi, but males have the femora black except the tips. The male frons is about one-quarter the head width, that of the female is about one-third, and the male frons rarely has any orbitals. The tarsi of all legs are generally orange throughout, and the front tarsi of females are clearly broadened. The male front and mid tarsi have the claws almost as long as the 4th and 5th tarsal segments combined. T. magnicornis is extremely similar but with much darker tarsi (the female fore tarsi not as broad as female T. fera), a broader frons (that of female about two-fifths the head width, that of male one-third or slightly more), the male frons with 1-3 proclinate orbitals and female femora black at the base. T. fera is widespread and common, often the most conspicuous tachinid at a site. It occurs in a variety of habitats including woodland, wetlands, heathland. post-industrial sites, field margins and urban settings, especially where the vegetation is lusher. Adults fly from April to October and can be especially common in late summer and early autumn. They visit a tremendous range of flowers including spring-blossoming shrubs, umbellifers, mints, scabiouses, thistles, ragworts, knapweeds, goldenrods, Yarrow, Hemp Agrimony, Ivy and assorted garden Asteraceae and sedums. Hosts are noctuids including Ceramici pisi (Broom Moth), Cosmia trapezina (Dun-bar) and Orthosia cruda (Small Quaker).

Honeybee, Hutchinson's bank

Green-veined White Pieris napi, Hutchinson's bank From UK Butterflies This is a common butterfly of damp grassland and woodland rides and is often mistaken for its cousin, the Small White. It can be found from spring through to autumn in parks and gardens, as well as less-urban areas such as meadows and woodland rides. The so-called green veins on the underside of the adults are, in fact, an illusion created by a subtle combination of yellow and black scales. This is one of the most widespread species found in the British Isles and can be found almost everywhere although it is absent from Shetland and areas of the Scottish Highlands. It is also a highly-variable species and populations have been distinguished based on an analysis of androconial scales as documented in Warren (1967), Warren (1968), Thomson (1970b) and other articles.

Sphaerophoria sp. (f), Hutchinson's bank

Garden Rose Tortrix Acleris variegana, Hutchinson's bank From UK moths website Wingspan 14-18 mm. An extremely variable species which occurs commonly throughout Britain. The larvae feed on rose (Rosa) bushes, as the name suggests, but also on a range of other trees and shrubs. Flying from July to September, it is mainly nocturnal and is attracted by bright lights.

Eristalis species Hutchinson's bank

Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus Hutchinson's bank From UK Butterflies The Holly Blue is primarily found in the southern half of the British Isles, and is a frequent visitor to gardens. This species is renowned for fluctuating wildly in numbers, forming a predictable cycle over a few years, believed to be caused by parasitism from the wasp Listrodromus nycthemerus whose sole host is the Holly Blue. The wasp lays its eggs in Holly Blue larvae, with a single adult wasp eventually emerging from the Holly Blue pupa. In England and Wales this species is widespread and common, south of a line running from Cumberland in the west to County Durham in the east. This species is also found on the Isle of Man and throughout Ireland, but is absent from Scotland except as a scarce vagrant. (Bombus pascuorum), Hutchinson's bank