Pryfed gwyrdd - Green fly.
They are on a leaf of silver birch - Mae nhw ar dail o bedwen.
Almost a good picture i think but the flies are a little less than sharp. Of course the sun is shining through the leaf and shows how well camouflaged they are. Cuddliw - camouflage.
Tegeirian Brych - common spotted orchid / dechrau blodau rwan - started flowering now.
Teigr y Benfelen - The cinnabar. i suspect the welsh name is of the caterpillar (will hope to image them soon).
Agapanthia villosoviridescens - Golden bloomed grey longhorn.
Long names in Latin and English i’m afraid so not much use here, but oh what a beauty.
As usual, click on images for full size.
Well, my dictionary has: to be impressed by something = cael argraff dda o rywbeth
and: to make an impression on someone = gwneud argraff ar rywun
but also: impressive = trawiadol
It does make sense for the same root word (argraff) to be used for printing, because the machinery that prints is a printing press
Another Fibonacci Quilt found outside! My mother made this one. Vertical stripes go 1,2,3,5,8, 1,2,3,5,8. The diagonal ones do the same. It’s technically a much better quilt than mine, but then she is a much better quilter than I am. Eight years of leaning Welsh for me, 30 years of Chinese for her.
And of course books come out in first (, second, third, etc) impressions.
So the concepts of printing and impression (in a literal and figurative sense) are clearly related in English. I wasn’t sure if that was the case in Welsh, but it seems so, at least to some extent.
In a coincidental thread-overlap, I noticed in a dictionary today that “camargraff” is “false (or wrong) impression”. (Although “camargraffu” is to “misprint”).
Well i respect that is a view of many but i’m not sure we can actually make a difference, anyway i try to report what i see. (Himalayan balsam seems the same, so much we can never eradicate (or maybe i’m wrong)).
Y bengaled - common knapweed. (i think) lots about to flower.
I actually agree, but I suppose how I feel depends on the species. We still have red squirrels and I detest grey tree-rats and would cull on sight, had I the where-with-all, and should one venture into this area!! I am very fond of our native ladybirds, but I find a lot of non-native plants O.K., although Japanese knotweed is not kind to houses!!!
Elinog - woody nightshade. this has rather small but beautiful flowers (not sure my image does them justice).
Sgimiwr llinell ddu benywaidd - Black lined skimmer female.(showing how camouflage depends on background).
Note (Orthetrum cancellatum) Latin name as it seem to have changed to black tailed skimmer but not in my Welsh book.
Mursen fawr wych (gwrywaidd) - Banded demoiselle (male).
Pryf giach - snipe fly s.p. (it looks like one but i’m not at all sure about species).
I was concentrating on getting an image of the fly but when i got home and looked at images i noticed the fly is sitting on a thistle leaf (dail ysgallen) next to a orchid (tegeirian). Lucky moments.
It’s been a long and splendid day which started quite early opening a moth trap.
Adain ddeifiog - Scorched wing.
Ermin gwyn - White ermine.
On route to heathland i grab some breakfast and the day is starting to heat up and lucky timing as some summer butterflies are starting to emerge.
Gwibiwr mawr - large skipper.
Gweirloyn cleisiog - Marbled white.
While looking around some woodland i came upon a fellow i had met before and we discussed what we had seen so far today. I finished “with to my surprise i think i have photographed a bee orchid” , his response was if so it’s a first for this area (acid heathland) i offered to show him where it was and we both admitted to not being plant experts but yes that does look like a bee orchid. (i will get some advice from people who know more than me as soon as i can and hope the cows don’t eat the plant in the mean time).
Tegeirian y wenynen - Bee orchid (i think).
I have had this happen before with a fungus find that like the orchid should be on chalk soil, the possible solution is that as this was an airfield, lots of concrete was laid down (which has been broken up) and the cement contains a lot of lime which has negated the natural acidity of the soil in places.
Now the day did contain many many species (to many to put here) but late afternoon by the canal i was most surprised to notice a moth which i can only assume had just emerged and climbed up a reed to dry it’s wings.
Blaen brigyn - Buff tip, (this moth is perfectly disguised to look like a broken birch (bedwen) twig so rather out of place, but a real beauty, if anyone is unsure the head is to the right in this image.
Click on images to view full size and do check any species names on the net for comparison images.
It certainly looks like one to me!! And your airfield idea makes sense!! I suppose taking a little soil to test is a bit of a bother???
p.s. Are there chalky sites nearby with bee orchids for it to have come from?
Tarianbryf y coedwig - forest bug.
One of the shield bug family, a fairly late instar (having shed it’s skin a few times) but not the final adult yet so no wings.
