What's outside

Sorry folks, today has a lack of welsh names.

lindys (caterpillar) of the scarlet tiger moth, they over winter (gaeaf cysgu) as tiny tots then feed when the weather warms, the early spring is showing in how forward wild life is. oh and they sure are beautiful moths.
(click on image for full size, note 3 pairs of legs at the front (to the right), the four pairs of apparent legs in the middle are pseudo legs and the pair at the back are known as anal claspers, these are all modified body segments that have developed like suction pads, they dissapear when the caterpillar pupates into adult which will have just the 6 legs (isn’t nature marvelous)).

Dail tafol - broad leaved dock is a common plant and host to some insects.

The green dock beetle (mae drw gen i, dim enw yn cymraeg).

Eggs of the green dock beetle.

Cheers J.P.

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Well let’s make them up.
How about “baban pili pala”? :smile:

I like your style.

Bydd 'na anterliwt byr rwan, tra dw i’n endrych o gwmpas tresaith am beth tu allan.

Hwyl J.P.

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Hwyl fawr i ti ac @mikeellwood. Pippa

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I’m ashamed to say that my interest in dock up to now has been rubbing it on stinging nettle stings for instant relief!! My progress through the countryside used to be accompanied by squeals of “Where’s a dock leaf!”

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Behind our back garden we made and fenced off gardd gwyllt - a wild garden. It’s fenced to stop our dogs jumping in the pond. The last couple of nights, my pup has been going bananas at ‘a monster’ out back!! We realised it was a deer and I thought, from a glimpse, a hind. Last night I saw it much more clearly and realised it’s a roe deer and I can’t be sure it was a doe, not a buck, as I thought I saw antlers!! (They have long ears, so I’m not certain!). We often have red deer round here. I was surprised to see a roe, so ‘googled’ it and found that when roe deer went extinct elsewhere in Britain, they survived in west Scotland! You learn something every day! Now, I believe roe deer are commoner down south!! Sorry no picture - no time, no light!!!

Just back for bootcamp, will post some pic’s soon i hope and answer private messages.

Cheers J.P.

Some welsh wildlife.

Pidyn y gog - Arum now in flower.

Chwilen y gwaedlif - Bloody nosed beetle.

Cheers J.P.

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Jac Y do - jackdaw. (two collecting nesting material (dried seaweed on sea wall)).

Cheers J.P.

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Malwen wefus wen - White lipped snail.

This common species is well studied for the complexity of it’s genetics, genes that control it’s base colour, colour of bands, number of bands (if any), and whether the bands are continuous or not.
So very much to learn in Welsh.

Cheers J.P.

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Brithribin gwyrdd - Green hairstreak.
A quick (low quality) snap of this beautiful butterfly that just landed by me and disappeared again.
(will hope for a better image soon as they really are a treat for the eye).
I had been busy trying to get a reasonable image of this.

Pryf sgorpion - scorpion fly (despite it’s name, harmless).

Cheers J.P.

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Brithribin gwyrdd - Green hairstreak.

So very lucky today when this returned, and then another first for the year which i couldn’t get as close to.


Copor bach - small copper (the large is extinct in this country).

And then something really eye catching.

Nemophora metallica - Fairy long horn moth (day flying moth).

I have put the Latin name as for now i don’t have a welsh one, click on image for full size to get an idea of just how long the antennae are.

Cheers J.P.

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Firstly an image not very interesting in itself, but if i’m right this will develop into something colourfull that i was asked about in Tresaith last week (time will tell).


Marddanhadlen felen - Yellow archangel.

Pryf sgorpion - scorpion fly, (this time a side view of male showing the rear abdomen shapped like a scorpions tail).

Pryf gwyrdd - Greenbottle.

Cheers J.P.

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I have been asked about how to upload an image to the forum so the best i can think of is to go through the steps here of uploading an image of what i think is a robber fly but not sure of species (there are a lot).

The first important thing is to have your images in a place on your computer where you know to look for them.

The next important bit is that many modern cameras take images of physical and or code file size to large for the forum to accept.

I use screen capture software but for ease it’s possible to open your images in the windows paint programme and resize or crop as you wish then importantly save the result as an .jpg file type, these are much smaller.

Now to place an image on the forum, either start a new thread or to put one in a current thread, click the reply button.

And a window will open for comments, half way across the top is a square symbol that looks like a little mountain with a black dot upper left, click on this to add an image.

A window will open that looks like this.

Where is says choose file [no file chosen] click on the choose file and a window will open for files on your computer, navigate to where your images are and double click on the one you want to put on the forum.

The window should now look something like this (replace your image name for where your see robber flysp ).

Now click on the blue upload button and miraculously your image will appear as a line of code in the original reply message box, click enter to move the cursor to a new line and write your message.

Note the code for your image appears in this window, but you will be able to see the image in the preview window to the right of the message box.
When you have finnished writing, click the reply button below the message box and your post including image will appear as part of the thread.

Cheers J.P.

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Cantharis rustica, i’m afraid no name English or Welsh i know of (but pretty none the less).

Gwydd wyllt gyda cyw - Graylag goose with chicks.

Cheers J.P.

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This is my first effort at following John’s excellent help. It is the pond in our gardd gwyllt (wild garden) and if you look carefully you can see the tadpoles (penpwla). It was taken on 2nd April.

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Penbwl = Tadpole (from the middle of your image they are abundant). thanks for posting.

Cheers J.P.

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Chwilen y bwm - cockchafer.


Eupeodes nitens - Latin name only.

Chwilen bicwn - wasp beetle.

Llyffant y gwair coch a du - froghopper sp. (the sp indicates one of probably several that look the same, as per the book i’m using).

Tegeirian y waun - Green winged orchid.

Cyclophora albipunctata - Birch mocha. Latin and English name, no Welsh name thus far.

A bit about the books i’m using, the welsh book has maybe 10% of British moths but seems fairly complete on butterflies and dragon/damsel flies. I have one titled the complete British insects but i still don’t believe that and it still contains entries of (.sp.spp) indicating a specialist area where many look the same or being specific is still uncertain. So please take what i write as names, as the best i can fathom from various sources for now.
(it all adds to the fun).

Cheers J.P.

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  1. Thanks a million for the improved picture!! Clearly I need software for that sort of thing!!
  2. Thanks for gently correcting my typo!! Penbwl… is ‘penbwla’ the plural?
    p.s. If we ever happen to see the baby frogs setting forth in convoy, well that will make a lovely pic!!
    p.p.s. Have you seen a little bird with a black on white chest like a great tit, and just in every way like a great tit, but with a greyish-brown head?? I couldn’t find it in my bird book.

The paint software is free with windows
I have “penbwl a penbyliaid” , don’t worry about typo’s, they are a regular event for me.
Frog convoy sounds a great image.
Not sure about the bird.

Melyn brych - speckled yellow (a day flying moth).

Alaw - white water lily.

Chwilen ysgarlad sp. - Cardinal beetle sp.

Gwybedyn mai. sp. - Mayfly.sp. (just emerged from water and hanging from nettle leaf inflating wings for first flight). (click on image to enlarge one of natures wonders).

Cheers J.P.

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