I was very excited to spot this Clouded Yellow yesterday at Runnymede, then even more excited to realise that it is most probably the pale female helice form. (I say probably, as there are two much rarer species which look similar.)

A female Common Blue butterfly on some beautiful Flowering Rush at Langham Pond, Runnymede. #WildWebsWednesday

A Hairy Shieldbug hanging out on the Common Fleabane at Bough Beech. #WildWebsWednesday

Laughing in the face of the hot, dry weather, Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, on the bank of my local pond. #StillFlowering #WildflowerHour

The hot, dry weather hasn't bothered this Marsh Woundwort, Stachys palustris, one little bit. It is quite happy on the bank of my local pond. #StillFlowering #WildflowerHour

I was excited to spot this Hummingbird Hawk-moth at Hutchinson's Bank in Croydon yesterday.

I forgot to post this for #WildWebsWednesday yesterday - the very nice hoverfly, Volucella pellucens, on the first of the Water Mint. Padmall Wood, Keston Common

A pair of Small Red-eyed Damselflies in tandem as the female is egg laying. My book says this species is associated with floating vegetation such as Hornwort and Water-milfoil, and this does seem to be the case here, as I think the plant is Spiked Water-milfoil. Conservation Pond on Keston Common.

Yes! #WildflowerHour is for plants found in bloom during the last week in Britain and Ireland!

Water Plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica, in a drainage ditch on the Golf Course on Mitcham Common. #WildflowerHour #AquaticPlants

Some stranded Common Water-Crowfoot, Ranunculus aquatilis, on the edge of Bidder's Pond on Mitcham Common. #WildflowerHour #AquaticPlants

Hi Lesley, despite the odd hair, I think that's Perforate St John's-wort. Hairy St John's-wort is conspicuously hairy, and the sepals have stalked black glands (see my pics below). It seems to me that yours has narrow pointed sepals, and stems with two raised ridges, characteristic of Perforate.

I was pleased to find this Tufted Forget-me-not, Myosotis laxa, in a drainage ditch (currently dry obviously!) on the Golf Course on Mitcham Common. I was very hot and bothered by this point in my walk, so if it ever gets any cooler I'll go back for a better look!

Nice to see the Sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica, doing well at the Gunsite on Mitcham Common.

Chamomile, Chamaemelum nobile, on the Golf Course at Mitcham Common. I was so excited when I first found it growing there.

Lots of Gatekeepers now on the wing!

Some flies are pretty darn funky. Just look at this Chaetorellia jaceae (I think, according to my insect book) that photobombed my Sneezewort on Mitcham Common yesterday. This female has a long ovipositor that is used to lay eggs into the flower heads of Knapweed. #WildWebsWednesday

One of my favourites, Pink Water-Speedwell, Veronica catenata, on the edge of Bidder's Pond on Mitcham Common. 🩷

Some pretty Crown Vetch, Securigera varia, at Mitcham Common. plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

It was a nice surprise to find this Dittander, Lepidium latifolium, on a busy road verge on the Croydon/Bromley border. #WildflowerHour plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

Dodder, Cuscuta epithymum, at Chipstead Downs. A fascinating parasitic plant that attaches itself to other plants, by means of haustoria on its thread like stems, and then extracts all its nutrition from them. #Wildflowerhour #ClimbingPlants

A female Flower Crab Spider, Misumena vatia, lying in wait for an unwary insect on a Field Scabious at Chipstead Downs. 😬

Lots of lovely shiny Nemophora metallica moths on the Field Scabious (its larval foodplant) at Chipstead Downs

But surely that's a Willow Emerald Damselfly I thought to myself, but then I checked my book (Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Great Britain and Ireland) ....

My mega buttons melted so I put them in the fridge. When I took them out of the packet they were in a solid lump, looking like those hoards of coins that get fused together after hundreds of years of being buried in the ground.

Hi Gary, it's pretty isn't it! Yes, you're right, it's not Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris (which as the common name Butter and Eggs suggests has rich orange and yellow flowers). It looks like Annual Toadflax (aka Moroccan Toadflax), L. maroccana, which is grown in gardens and self seeds readily.

Yes looks like it to me! I was excited to see it for the first time last year at Strumpshaw Fen!

#WildflowerHour - the ones that got away .... My visit to Sandwich Bay this week was sadly too late for the Sand Catchfly, Silene conica; Bedstraw Broomrape, Orobanche caryophyllacea; and Common Broomrape, which might be O. minor var pseudoamethystea, as it was beside some Sea Holly. #necrobotany

Wood Club-rush, Scirpus sylvaticus, beside the River Darent near its source close to Westerham. #WildflowerHour

I had a bit of a photography fail on this one, but hopefully you can get the gist of this Bugloss, Lycopsis arvensis, on the edge of a dune slack at Sandwich Bay. #WildflowerHour