Overcast and windy but warm.
Continuing with the Common Spotted Orchids:
I think these are at their most beautiful when only the lowest flowers are open. One or two of these have a touch of Heath Spotted Orchid in their mix.
Orange Tip larvae are now about 15mm. long. Notice that all of the lower seedpods have been eaten: all by the single larva.
Dog Roses are out. I always think the buds have a more intense colour than the opened flower.
And a new micromoth for the site (but astonishingly, not for Donegal) - Epiblema cynosbatella: a Rose associate.
Note the spot of fungal rust, too.
A leaf gall on Willow.
This rather attractive little moth landed on a dead leaf. Looks like a pyralid, maybe Opsibotys fuscalis.
Oh all right, since you insist. More Common Spotted Orchids:
