Bixley/Flatropers Woods

2nd April 2007, Monday

Comma, Bixley Wood 2-4-07.jpg
Today, 2 April, male Brimstone, 5 Commas, 20+ Peacocks. Several huge active wood ant colonies, also 2 female craneflies Tipula vittata ovipositing - see photo of wing; cf. www.bioimages.org.uk/html/ T32056.htm. A Shuttle-shaped Dart in moth trap (Rye).

Tipula vittata left wing, Flatropers Wood 2-4-07.jpg