Natural History, Natural Patterns, Nature Reserves Gunnersbury Triangle Bug Day – Purple Hairstreak, Rove Beetle 25 July 2018 Ian Alexander Purple Hairstreak found in pond (worth a look at full size, click and see) Bug Day pond dipping – water level alarmingly low (Prob. Southern) Hawker Dragonfly Nymphs, Pond Snails. We also saw plenty of Ramshorn Snails, a flatworm, a leech, small diving beetles, damselfly nymphs, water fleas, Greater Water Boatmen (Backswimmers), young newts (with 4 legs and gills) and more. Identifying Birch Catkin Bugs Cream-Spot Ladybird Devil’s Coach Horse (Ocypus olens) – a Rove Beetle (Staphylinidae), splendidly fast and wriggly The magnificent Fibonacci spirals of a Teasel flowerhead Urban Green-Veined White on Buddleia Young Entomologist at Work