It was a beautiful afternoon for our stroll through Bridgend Woods today and there was a good turn out of all ages for this activity. We saw Coal Tits, Green-veined White, Peacock and Small White Butterflies, Common Darter, Common Frog, Wolf Spider, Frog Hopper, hoverflies, Buff-tailed Bumblebee and Common Carder Bee. Right at the end of the session a few of us were slightly peturbed by the sight of a giant stinged flying insect. I later identified it as a Giant Wood Wasp
(Urocerus gigas). Thanks for coming everyone!
Becky
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Orla smells Meadowsweet |
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Our butterfly was made very rapidly at the end of the session |
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Hoverfly_1 (Sericomyia silentis) |
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Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) |
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Examining a Common Frog |
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Some of the Woodland Wonders explorers. |
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