Along a path verge at Westhay Moor

A short walk along a path at Westhay Moor, just for about 100 metres, revealed profuse and strange strange hidden life, including the common flower fly (a type of hover fly), root maggot flies (Leucophora), bitter-sweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), Harmonia axyridis pupa, European nursery web spiders, cluster flies, Dexiosoma caninum (a tachinid fly), Voria (another tachinid fly), green shield bugs, Ichneumonid wasps, wolf spiders, midge (Tanytarsini), Pericomini mothfly, Dyphus quadripunctorius (a parasitic wasp), common stretch spider and an Arion slug.

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Forde Abbey: mostly macro