Monday 21st September 2009 Pegwell
Bay
I saw 4 Clouded Yellows today - all heading north - 3 on the Country
Park and 1 in Stone Lees. I have only seen two others all year. (Phil M)
Saturday 19th September 2009 Newington Ramsgate
I found this nice Western Conifer Seed Bug in my hallway today - no
doubt it had crawled indoors through an open window overnight? I've been
seeing them on the Portland Observatory website this past couple of years -
they are rather smart things. They are nearly an inch long with bright
yellow tiger stripes on the abdomen which is hidden on the settled insect
underneath the wings. They can fly pretty well too. It's only the second one
I've ever seen after one which I found in one of my moth traps during the
summer. (Phil M)
Wednesday 9th
September 2009 Broadstairs Thanet
Monday 7th
September2009:Reading Street area. A specimen of the spectacular hornet like
hoverfly Volucella zonaria flew into my kitchen today. Although at
one time a great dipteran rarity it is now much more abundant although this
is only my third Thanet sighting . (Mike Longdon)
Sunday 6th September 2009 Sandwich
bay Area
A few Small Whites a Comma
and a Speckled Wood were all the butterflies that I noted around the
elms and gully's, a few Common Darters and Migrant Hawkers
were seen on Restharrow. (Gadget)
