8 x Orange Tip, male. 6 x Green-veined White. 1 x Tortoiseshell.
Bright early, dull later.
The inaugural flight of a worker Carder Bumblebee? The pollen baskets are pristine and the rest of the bee was squeaky clean.
A fantastic new micromoth - Eucalybites auroguttella. New to the website and new to Donegal. It makes mines on Hypericum sp., so I'll have to look out for those. About 8mm long.
A couple of tiny (5mm) Weevils on Nettle.
The Ichneumonid on the left is a fantastic wine colour and the right-hand shot shows the wing veins and the characteristic black spot.
The third Bibio species in a couple of weeks - Bibio marci, and the much larger Bibio hortulanus is also flying in great numbers.
The Large Red Damselfly is out. I've heard reports of Common Blues and others, so I'll go to the quarry later in the week.
Two spiders. The second has captured a Tipulid much larger than itself.
A Melastonoma hoverfly on Corn Spurrey.
Male Orange Tips were out in force today. This one kindly stopped for a photo opportunity.
A Capsid bug of some kind. The long proboscis can just be seen.
A little shot of 2 male Orange Tips.
I spotted this Woodlouse rummaging in the dead vegetation.
And just to finish, a humerous shot of some Dandelion achenes caught in a spider's web.