Tag Archives: Silver-Spotted Skipper

Aston Rowant butterflies of high summer

Aston Rowant, full of chalk grassland flowers and insects, the Cretaceous escarpment above the Oxford Clay (Jurassic) plain

Male Adonis Blue

Female

Silver-Spotted Skipper Hesperia comma

Sphecid digger wasp

Meadow Grasshopper, a fine insect

Harvestman cf Platybunus triangularis

Red Kite overhead … and a moment later, a Raven, calling loudly, too