(Originally posted summer 2018).
The hot summer has obviously been good for insects. The Reserve (and Pennycroft, which we are monitoring for the In at the Start project) has been alive with grasshoppers, butterflies and dragonflies.
The pictures above show a comma butterfly, a brown hawker dragonfly, a red darter dragonfly, a silver Y moth, and an elephant hawkmoth caterpillar.
A wonderful year for insects