Buckingham
to Slonk Hill South: A27
Motorway Embankment
19
June 2004
On
an overcast breezy day with showers and rumblings of thunder, it was the
Pyramidal
Orchids that had taken over from Spotted
Orchids on the southern bank of the A27
Shoreham By-pass (Buckingham to Slonk
Hill South) and the only
butterflies
in flight were a couple of Meadow Browns.
The Spotted Orchids
seem to change from mauve to a paler lilac-white as they aged.
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There
was one Burnet (or Cinnabar) Moth
in flight and one Burnet Moth caterpillar seen crawling up the stalk
of a tall (24 cm) Greater Bird's Foot Trefoil
plant.
It was not clear which species was in flight or which species caterpillar.
Burnet
Moths (notes)
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