Tag Archives: Jersey Tiger moth

Bugs Aplenty at GT!

Netty demonstrating how to use the Lazy Dog tool
Some of the Ladybirds we made for the children’s nature trail
Edita with everything you need for Pond Dipping
Strangalia maculata longhorn beetle, a wasp mimic
Jersey Tiger Moth at Chiswick Park Station, very hasty photo
Jersey Tiger Moth in kitchen, later in the week – must be thousands of them all over town, presumably
Small Skipper GT small meadow
Gatekeeper GT small meadow
Hot work debrambling the Small Meadow

On a sorry note, Netty spotted a small tuft of feathers, still attached to a bit of skin. The scrap was whitish, spotted brown, like a Song Thrush’s breast, torn off by a Sparrowhawk: probably one of the pair that nested here until last year, but must now be nesting somewhere nearby. I reflected that I hadn’t heard the male Song Thrush singing for a fortnight. What a sad bit of fluff to pick up.