Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus
Comma - Polygonia c-album
Little Grebe - Tachybaptus ruficollis
Eristalis pertinax - Female
Pied Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta
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Green-Veined White - Pieris napi
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Banded Demoiselle - Calopteryx splendens
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Gatekeeper-Pyronia tithonus
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Chaffinch - Fringilla coelebs
Bee on Balsam
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Leafcutter Bee - Megachile centuncularis
Dunnock - Prunella modularis
Common Blue Damselfly - Enallagma cyathigerum
A Winters Day
Marmalade Hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus
Autumn Flight
Common Wasp - Vespula vulgaris
European Goldfinch - Carduelis carduelis
Pied Wagtail Caught In The Sunlight
Alder Leaf Beatle - Agelastica alni
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Smew (male) - Mergellus albellus
Great Spotted Woodpecker - Picoides major
"Yikes... I'm Going .. I'M GOING!!!!"
Asian Water Monitor - Varanus salvator
Eurasian Blue Tit - Parus caeruleus (or Cyanistes…
"Yes? .... Can I Help?"
Eurasian Nuthatch - Sitta europaea
Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus
Oriental Fruit Fly - Bactrocera dorsalis
Common Darter (female) - Sympetrum striolatum
Common Pheasant (male) - Phasianus colchicus
Mute Swan - Cygnus olor
Spotted Forest Skink - Sphenomorphus maculatus
Myathropa florea - Female
Brown Pelican - Pelecanus occidentalis
Indian Pond Heron - Ardeola grayii
Misty Moorings
Red-Whiskered Bulbul - Pycnonotus jocosus
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Harlequin Ladybird - Harmonia axyridis


The Harlequin Ladybird - Harmonia axyridis - is one of the UK's largest ladybird at 8mm and is widespread across the UK. One of the most invasive insects in the world, it is of Asian origin and first arrived in the UK in 2004, rapidly becoming one of the most common in the country as it can have multiple broods throughout the spring, summer and autumn. It is also a predator being able to out compete native species for food and also eating their eggs and larvae. To explain, it took 100 years for the Grey Squirrel to spread though the UK ... it took the Harlequin less than 10 years. Over 100 different colour patterns have been recorded so identification can be awkward at times. This one was seen at Pennington Flash, Leigh.
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