Carymoor centre in spring
Crab sider: Misumena vatia, guarding ox-eye daisy petal
Clouded Yellow: aberation Helicae
Large Skipper
Mating pair of Banded Demoiselle damselflies
Emperor dragonfly dining on a Common Darter
Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly (female)
A Small Blue (female) settled on its foodplant Kidney Vetch
The striking caterpillar of the Vapourer moth
A Brown Argus
A Pyramidal orchid
A Peacock butterfly enjoying an early spring nectar source (Blackthorn) after long months of hibernation
A summer medly of wildflowers in the centre environs,including Knapweed, Tufted Vetch, Lady's Bedstraw and the last of the Ox-eye daisies
Lackey moth caterpillar
Hoverfly: Helophilus pendulus
Orange Tip
Grizzled Skipper
Frosty Rosehips
Carmoor in the snow
Rose Chafer beetle on Ox-eye daisies
Hornets feasting on a rotting apple in the compost
Meadow grasshopper, sporting a pink livery!
Green Carpet moth
Red Admiral, underside
Green-veined White nectaring on Ragwort
Dingy Skipper
Humming Bird Hawk moth nectaring on Vipers Bugloss
Speckled Wood nectaring on Hawthorn blossom
Hoverfly: Leucozona lucorum
Double rainbow at the centre
Small Heath butterfly
Clouded Yellow nectaring on Field Scabious
Dragonfly emerging from nymph case: scupture by Fiona Campbell
Male Brimstone nectaring on Field Scabious
Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly (male)
Four-spotted Chaser dragonfly
The diminutive Mint moth
Orb Web spider: Araneus quadratus
Orb Web spider: Araneus quadratus
Autumnal landscape at Carymoor
Bee orchid on the translocated bank
Marbled White
Comma enjoying ripe Blackberry juice
A mating pair of Azure damselflies
A pair of Small Tortoisehells
Autumnal landscape at carymoor
Back-lit Garden Spider
Nursery Web Spider Pisaura mirabilis
Kidney Vetch growing in the Wildflower Collection
Sheepsbit growing in the Wildflower Collection
Silver-washed Fritillaries
Biting stonecrop growing in the Wildflower Collection
The Wildflower Collection
Six-spot Burnet moth nectaring on Knapweed
Wasp spider and the stabilimentum, the zig-zag silk pattern characteristic of its web
Gatekeeper, male
Meadow Brown, female
Not a dead leaf, a Lappet moth!
Red Admiral, female
Painted Lady, female
A confused Dogrose - is it spring or autumn?
Hawthorn berries
A Spindle tree putting on a crimsom display of both leaves and berries
The Sensory Garden in evening light
Male and female Small Skippers
A Garden Spider at the centre of its web
A Wasp Spider in its dewy web
A Migrant Hawker dragonfly, male
A Peacock
The Sensory Garden in evening light
A Large Red damselfly
A Green Hairstreak
Fox cub
Autumnal Bramble leaves
A Beautiful Demoiselle damselfly (male)
A hoverfly mimicking a Bumble bee! Volucella bombylans
No popular name for this rare bug: Corizus hyoscyami
A Black-tailed Skimmer (female)
Back-lit web and Teasle
Field and Meadow grasshoppers
Cowslip
Blackthorn blossom
Autumnal Bramble leaves
A hoverfly: Eristalis arbustorum
Painted Lady, underside
A House spider
Flesh fly
Spring, looking over Upper Dauntsey field
Small Blue (male)
Cinnebar moth
Large Skipper nectaring on Birdsfoot Trefoil
Red Admiral, female
Orange Tip pupae ready to emerge (male)
Newly emerged male Orange Tip
Newly emerged Orange Tip drying its wings
A female Orange Tip breaking out of its pupae casing
Green-veined White resting on Hawthorn blossom
Orange Tip resting on Dandelion seed head
Rear view of a Wasp spider
A Labyrinth Spider
A hoverfly mimicking a Hornet! Volucella zonaria
Wasp spider from the side
A Brimstone (female)
Common Blue, male
A Sycamore moth caterpillar
Spindle berries
Rosehips
A Small Copper nectaring on Common Fleabane
A female Orange Tip nectaring on Red Campion
A tangle of dewy cobwebs
A Bee fly: Bombylius major
The spectacular Pale Tussock moth caterpillar
A Southern Hawker (male)
Autumn colours viewed from the centre
A Grizzled Skipper
A Beautiful Demoiselle damselfly (female)
Common Bog hoverfly
Common Darter (female)
Horsefly Tabanus sudeticus
Gatekeeper (underside) nectaring on Bramble blossom
Orange Tip and spring flowers
Hoverfly: Episyrphus balteatus
Tachnid fly
Long-winged Conehead Cricket
Dewy cobweb
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Elephant Hawk moth caterpillar
Red-veined Darter (immature male)
Wintery scene at Carymoor
Common Field Grasshopper
Drone Fly Eristalis pertinax
Hoverfly Helophilus trivittatus
Common Darter male
Hibernating Comma
Primroses and Coltsfoot
Angle Shades moth
Elephant Hawk moth caterpillar
Migrant Hawker dragonfly female
Small White on Verbena bonariensis
Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
Frosty Hogweed
Banded Demoiselle damselfly (male)
Holly Blue (female)
Common Blue (female)
Male and female Common Blue on Ox-eye daisy
Startled Roe Deer, female and fawn
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The photographer - Jules Cross
As Reserve Officer I spent a lot of my time practically managing the habitat creation projects on the reserve. I always carried my camera with me. I use a top range compact digital as it is easier to use spontaneously and less bulky than an SLR. For the relatively low financial outlay, it produces excellent results.
I inherited my deep appreciation of butterflies from my father but I have expanded my interest to include most invertebrates. Perhaps because of my art training, I am always looking to improve the quality of my images, both technically and in terms of composition. I am painfully aware of the temporal nature of ecosystems and I hope my photographic record of my observations will be a testimony to our work at Carymoor in the early 21st Century.
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