Guernsey - three-quarters of the way..

With the forecast for the weekend looking warm and dry, I was looking forward to some hours in the field and a good increase in the total. However on Friday morning I woke up to illness, had to take the day off work and had to stay at home until Sunday lunchtime, when I just about recovered.

It didn't work out too bad though in the end as I was still able to do 2 nights of moth trapping in the garden, and then this afternoon, I went out on a recuperative walk in the sunshine. In my square there is a football club complex and I don't ever go into there as it is up a long drive and is technically private. Today I noticed quite a bit of activity and saw that there was some kind of function on, with bouncy castles, music, BBQs etc. So I strolled up there as though I was invited, nodding to folk and saying hi, before peeling off and exploring the whole area! Unlike the small, overgrown fields in most of the square, up here there were mostly very dry, open, arid fields, with a different selection of plant-life, many of which I normally associate with coastal grassland here. I shall try and get in here again...

727 - Liophloeus tessulatus (weevil)
728 - Green Silver-lines
729 - Enoplognatha ovata (spider)
730 - Malthinus seriepunctatus (soldier beetle)
731 - Scaeva pyrastri (hoverfly)
732 - Common Footman
733 - Buff Arches
734 - Lozotaenia forsterana (tortrix moth)
735 - Magpie Moth
736 - Empis livida (fly)
737 - Cape Cudweed
738 - Nemapogon cloacella (Cork Moth)
739 - Black Poplar
740 - Swallow-tailed Moth
741 - Trachycera marmorea
742 - Clouded Brindle
743 - Small Yellow Wave

744 - Dot Moth
745 - Short-cloaked Moth
746 - White Plume
747 - Uncertain
748 - Oak Marble Gall Wasp (Andricus kullari) - galls & the larvae therein
749 - Maidens Blush
750 - Tarnished Plant-bug (Lygus rugulipennis)
751 - Garden Lobelia
752 - Callicorixa praeusta (lesser water boatman)
753 - Neoascia podagrica (hoverfly)
754 - Rustyback Fern
755 - Hedge Bindweed
756 - Sea Beet - not near the sea!
757 - Sand Spurrey
758 - Small-flowered Catchfly
759 - Honesty
760 - Gypsonoma sociana
761 - Hairy Birds-foot-trefoil
762 - Corn Spurrey
763 - Meadow Brown
764 - Field Bindweed
765 - Black Horehound
766 - Pink-sorrel
767 - Selfheal
768 - Opium Poppy
769 - Purple Toadflax

This large inch-long wasp is quite common here and is notable as it flies with its hind-legs spread-eagled and so is quite spectacular. Don't know what it is though!