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We met at Teresa's to admire the moths
Cream-Spot Tiger Moth |
 The Passenger a noctuid |
 Spanish Puss moth |
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 Willow Beauty |
We stopped by a verge that was full of orchids. Rachel was with us for the day |
 Slender Scotch Burnet |
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 Ophrys scolopax - Woodcock orchid |
 Quaking grass |
 Anacamptis pyrimidalis - Pyramidal orchid |
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 Bee orchid |
 Fly Orchid |
 Ophrys scolopax - Woodcock orchid |
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 Ophrys scolopax - Woodcock orchid |
 Ophrys scolopax - Woodcock orchid |
 Anacamptis pyramidalis |
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 Rose |
 Melittis melissophyllum |
 Equisetum telmateia |
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 Dactylorrhiza fuchsii |
 Campanula patula |
 Echium vulgare |
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Most of the buildings seem to be made of stone; looking at the one on the far right possibly by rule of thumb and homemade. |
 Papaver rhoeas |
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 Nettles are the food plant of peacock butterflies commas, red admirals and tortoiseshells |
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Stachys recta |
 Slender Scotch Burnets mating |
 Cocoon |
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 Ceterach officinarum |
 Silene latifolia |
 Silene vulgaris |
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 Knapweed |
 Fighting spiders |
 Fragrant Orchid |
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 Astrantia major |
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 Orobanche |
 Eyebright |
 Ophrys fusca |
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 Eryngium bourgatii a young flower which will blue up a bit. There is a selection on sale in England called 'Picos Blue' I have not seen anything as blue in the wild. Example below from my garden
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 home.clara.net/ammodytes/WILDLIFE2003.htm İAndrew Easton |
 Glow worm rushed past better photo on the left from the web |
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 Orobanche |
 Man Orchid and striped snail |
 Petrocoptis pyrenaica ssp. glaucifolia |
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 Orchis provincialis |
 Echium vulgare |
 Aquilegia vulgaris |
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 Antirrhinum braun-blanketii |
 Veronica beccabunga - brooklime |
Serapias |
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 Burnt orchid |
 Meadow with serapias by Richard |
 Pulsatilla rubra hispanica by Richard |
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Pulsatilla rubra hispanica |
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 Carduncellus mitissimus |
 Butterfly orchid |
 Marsh Fritillaries mating on pulsatilla |
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 Yellow birdsnest - Monotropa hypopitys |
 Orange Swift? |
 Where are Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf? |
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 Ichneumon |
 Coeloglossum viride - Frog orchid |
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 Into the clouds |
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 Awaiting some stone cladding? |
 Centaurea calcitrappa |
 Sambucus ebulus |
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 Antirrhinum braun-blanketii |
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 Dianthus hyssopifolius ssp. hyssopifolius |
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 Anarrhinum bellidifolium |
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 Ross |
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 Peter by the stone catching nets |
 Carduus carlinoides |
 Grasshopper |
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 Brimstone |
 Violet Bird's nest Orchid |
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 Leuzea conifera - cone knapweed |
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