Natural History Insects on Thursley Common 15 August 2019 Ian Alexander Common Blue butterfly on Bell Heather Don’t eat me! Emperor moth caterpillar being eaten by ants Thursley Common scene looking across bog with dead Pines, open lake with Canada geese, encroaching Birch scrub and Pine forest in the distance Goldfinch atop Pine tree Tailless Lizard on boardwalk Honey-scented banks of Bell Heather, Gorse, Birch on Thursley Common Bee-Wolf with Bee prey Small Ammophila Sand-wasp, scurrying about in the heather searching for prey Thursley Common: managing the heather by mowing irregular strips Black-Tailed Skimmer Keeled Skimmer Black Darter, a tiny dragonfly Common Darter Thursley Common – the sandy paths full of sand-wasps and bee-wolves, the heather full of bees and grasshoppers Also saw Common Blue Damselfly, Southern Hawker, Emperor Dragonfly.