Just a quick update on today’s conditions. It’s very wet under foot and muddy in places - especially in the lane. Very breezy with heavy showers makes it quite a bad day to see the plants. Two hybrids have been lost to snails but the rest are flowering well, as are the Lady and Monkey orchids, though the Lady is starting to look a little pale.
On a more positive note I have just seen 2 Club-tailed Dragonflies on the slope and Zophomyia temula, a nice parasite fly 
No Grizzled but there are still Dingy Skippers and more Common Blues.
Sunday update: weather very bad all day - site very muddy :( Gerry and I spent a very wet and windy day on the hill mapping in a dozen new orchids. The new figures are very impressive
Some of my photos from the weekend:
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- Actia sp. (a parasite fly)
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- (possible) Aplomya confinis (a parasite fly specialising in Adonis & Chalk-hill Blues)
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- Arge cf pagana sawfly ovipositing into a rose stem
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- Chafer beetle
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- Conops vesicularis
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- Empis tesselata
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- Eudasyphora cyanella
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- Heliophanus cupreus (a jumping spider)
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- Leptarthrus brevirostris (male) (note the long, thin hind leg)
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- Leptarthrus brevirostris (female)
