Treking around after Dragons and Tree Bumbles

Still trekking around the fell looking for new species and it's going quite well with the list now up to 586. The moth trap had nearly 30 species the other night including a couple of less than annual species such as Poplar Kitten and Figure of Eighty but the dragonflies on Wanister Bog were the best performers with over 100 Large Red Damselfly, 20 Four-spotted Chaser and 6 or so Azure Damselfly.
A couple of Tree Bumblebees feeding on the alien Wall Cotoneaster near the village was the best of 35 new species I saw today and at last I saw a Comma as I had missed the over-wintering ones earlier in the year.

Only 414 species to go

Four-spotted Chaser

Large Red Damselfly

The latest additions for the year

514 Volucella bombylans (a hoverfly) 15-Jun 515 Pilosella aurantiaca (Fox-and-cubs) 15-Jun 516 Gerris lacustris (Water-skater) 15-Jun 517 Calystegia silvatica (Large Bindweed) 15-Jun 518 Prunus domestica (Wild Plum)   15-Jun 519 Geranium pusillum (Small-flowered Crane's-bill)   15-Jun 520 Carex rostrata (Bottle Sedge) 15-Jun 521 Deschampsia flexuosa (Wavy Hair-grass)  15-Jun 522 Dipsacus fullonum (Wild Teasel) 16-Jun 523 Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane's-bill)  16-Jun 524 Hesperis matronalis (Dame's-violet) 16-Jun 525 Lycaena phlaeas (Small Copper) 16-Jun 526 Potentilla anserina (Silverweed 16-Jun 527 Calystegia sepium subsp. sepium (Hedge Bindweed) 16-Jun 528 Linum catharticum (Fairy Flax)  16-Jun 529 Colostygia pectinataria (Green Carpet) 16-Jun 530 Autographa pulchrina (Beautiful Golden Y) 16-Jun 531 Deilephila porcellus (Small Elephant Hawk-moth) 16-Jun 532 Lype phaeopa (a caddisfly) 16-Jun 533 Cantharis livida (Soldier Beetle) 16-Jun 534 Melolontha melolontha (Common Cockchafer) 18-Jun 535 Coleophora albicosta (a micro-moth) 18-Jun 536 Furcula bifida (Poplar Kitten) 18-Jun 537 Agriphila tristella (a micro moth) 18-Jun 538 Eupithecia exiguata (Mottled Pug) 18-Jun 539 Apamea crenata (Clouded-bordered Brindle) 18-Jun 540 Eupithecia linariata (Toadflax Pug) 18-Jun 541 Selenia tetralunaria (Purple Thorn) 18-Jun 542 Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple Moth) 18-Jun 543 Apamea monoglypha (Dark Arches) 18-Jun 544 Laothoe populi (Poplar Hawk-moth) 18-Jun 545 Tethea ocularis (Figure of Eighty) 18-Jun 546 Xestia triangulum (Double Square-spot) 18-Jun 547 Hepialus fusconebulosa (Map-winged Swift) 18-Jun 548 Oligia strigilis (Marbled Minor) 18-Jun 549 Scoparia pyralella (a micro-moth) 18-Jun 550 Aphelia paleana (Timothy Tortrix) 18-Jun 551 Coenonympha pamphilus (Small Heath) 19-Jun 552 Cynosurus cristatus (Crested Dog's-tail)   19-Jun 553 Rhinanthus minor (Yellow-rattle) 19-Jun 554 Vicia cracca (Tufted Vetch)   19-Jun 555 Dactylorhiza purpurella (Northern Marsh-orchid)   19-Jun 556 Juniperus communis (Juniper)   19-Jun 557 Scrophularia nodosa (Common Figwort)  19-Jun 558 Eupatorium cannabinum (Hemp-Agrimony) 19-Jun 559 Tanacetum vulgare (Tansy) 19-Jun 560 Crambus ericella (a micro-moth) 19-Jun 561 Libellula quadrimaculata (Four-spotted Chaser) 19-Jun 562 Coenagrion puella (Azure Damselfly) 19-Jun 563 Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)   19-Jun 564 Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good-King-Henry)   19-Jun 565 Schedonorus arundinaceus (Tall Fescue) 19-Jun 566 Propylea quattuordecimpunctata (14-spot Ladybird) 19-Jun 567 Carex leporina (Oval Sedge) 19-Jun 568 Carex binervis (Green-ribbed Sedge) 19-Jun 569 Agrostis canina (Velvet Bent) 19-Jun 570 Danthonia decumbens (Heath-grass) 19-Jun 571 Carex pilulifera (Pill Sedge) 19-Jun 572 Phleum pratense (Timothy) 19-Jun 573 Carex pendula (Pendulous Sedge)  19-Jun 574 Barbarea vulgaris (Winter-cress)  19-Jun 575 Cotoneaster horizontalis (Wall Cotoneaster)  19-Jun 576 Rosa caesia subsp. vosagiaca (Glaucous Dog-rose) 19-Jun 577 Ochlodes faunus (Large Skipper) 19-Jun 578 Polygonia c-album (Comma) 19-Jun 579 Pegomya solennis (a fly) 19-Jun 580 Eristalis arbustorum (a hoverfly) 19-Jun 581 Phyllobius pomaceus (Nettle Weevil) 19-Jun 582 Bombus hypnorum (Tree Bumble Bee) 19-Jun 583 Phaonia pallida (a fly) 19-Jun 584 Papaver pseudoorientale (Oriental Poppy) 19-Jun 585 Lapsana communis (Nipplewort) 19-Jun 586 Epilobium obscurum (Short-fruited Willowherb)   19-Jun

Azure Damselfly Tree Bumble Bee Comma hiding up a tree