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Gunnersbury Triangle Bug Day – Purple Hairstreak, Rove Beetle

Purple Hairstreak found in pond (worth a look at full size, click and see)
Bug Day pond dipping – water level alarmingly low
(Prob. Southern) Hawker Dragonfly Nymphs, Pond Snails. We also saw plenty of Ramshorn Snails, a flatworm, a leech, small diving beetles, damselfly nymphs, water fleas, Greater Water Boatmen (Backswimmers), young newts (with 4 legs and gills) and more.
Identifying Birch Catkin Bugs
Cream-Spot Ladybird
Devil’s Coach Horse (Ocypus olens) – a Rove Beetle (Staphylinidae), splendidly fast and wriggly
The magnificent Fibonacci spirals of a Teasel flowerhead
Urban Green-Veined White on Buddleia
Young Entomologist at Work