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Highland Heat Wave: Butterflies at Insh Marshes and Feshiebridge

Dark Green Fritillary at Insh Marshes
Dark Green Fritillary at Insh Marshes
Ringlet Butterfly
Ringlet Butterfly at Insh Marshes
on Tormentil
Cimbicid Sawfly on Tormentil. It’s a different species from the Trichiosoma sorbi shown on InsectsofScotland.com, a useful website, but looks to be in that genus, Trichiosoma.
Hoverfly cf Volucella pellucens on Meadowsweet
The large, shiny, bumblebee mimic Hoverfly Volucella pellucens on Meadowsweet. The specific name refers to the pellucid (semi-transparent) white band at the front of the abdomen.
Chimney Sweeper Moth at Insh Marshes
Chimney Sweeper Moth at Insh Marshes – common, but difficult to approach!
Meadow Pipit with food waiting to fly to nest
Meadow Pipit with food waiting to fly to nest
Insh Marshes panorama with Ruthven Barracks
Insh Marshes panorama with Ruthven Barracks
Empid fly with long beak on Scabious
Empid fly with long beak on Scabious at Feshiebridge
Conops wasp mimic fly on Scabious
Conops wasp mimic fly on Scabious at Feshiebridge
Bilberry Bush at Feshiebridge
Bilberry Bush at Feshiebridge
Foxglove Pug moth on bracken
Foxglove Pug moth on bracken at Feshiebridge
Hoverfly Chrysotoxum bicinctum
Hoverfly Chrysotoxum bicinctum (the specific name refers to the two yellow belts) at Feshiebridge