Bang, crash!!

 

Many thanks to CP for the above

We were having a cuppa and there was a huge bang. Nothing shook, but it was like a not too distant explosion. There is a firing range not too far away, so that was a possibility. However, it was shortly confirmed that this was a close-by, but not very powerful, earthquake. The epicentre was by the appropriately named Shaky Bridge in Glen Lednock, very close by. The print out from the nearby Earthquake House shows the 'quake.

Many thanks to CP for the images.

Lots of IT issues of late... our dish through which we receive our internet (a local system, not via Mr Musk) died suddenly, and took a few days to fix as the local tech' was away (many thanks to SMcK for fixing it yesterday). Now Blogger is not loading images directly, I have to save them to Google Photos in order to upload them to the blog.... 

Whilst without t'internet for a few days we found a DVD player that worked and dug out some discs we had never watched. Actually, it was rather good watching films this way. Richard II from the Hollow Crown series is pretty phenomenal.

 Our other Bang, crash!! Is the work on our roof, scaffolding still here, banging, sawing and other sounds of re-construction continuing! 

I've set the light traps a couple of times, and they are also out tonight. Best from the 3rd September was a copper underwing. These are not the easiest things to ID without dissection, but I'm not keen to kill them unnecessarily. There is a lot of rubbish around about how to ID these. Even the usually reliable UK Moths re-iterates the labial palps colouring which is not a determining feature. The paper to look at is this "Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var. 134 (2022)", it's available online via Research Gate, (but posting the URL is causing Blogger issues...). (But the reference is here, at the bottom of the page - https://literateherringthisway.blogspot.com/search?q=copper+underwing I've demonstrated that the palps issue is no good via my own dissections, there's a not very good post in this blog previously.

Anyway, here's the latest one, including a palps image. It was a tad worn but my view would be that this is Copper Underwing Amphipyrea pyramidea, as always happy for other views to be expressed via "Comments".

 There were some interesting "intruders" from 3rd, including this large bark-louse, which was new for me.

 

Seriously rubbish image of Psococerastis gibbosa

From the 8th I captured two moths that were new for the garden and NFM, excellent. 

Lathronympha stigana, quite a small micro.

Oblique Carpet

Also in the traps...

Black Rustic

Frosted Orange
 

Not a lot of moths but quality.

Roe doe in next door's garden, just a few metres from our kitchen window.

 

The two Red Deer stags can also be seen regularly just over the fence in the Earthquake Field.

A wander in the woods produced a few of these which I'd looked for earlier in the year. Bird's Nest Orchid seems easier to find as seed heads.

Bird's Nest Orchid

A wander around the stubble fields outside of the village produced 

Eristalis arbustorum

Field Woundwort

Large-flowered Hemp-nettle

 

A field of yellow Smooth hawk's-beard Crepis capillaris.