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Post by htcdude on Jul 24, 2015 13:08:52 GMT
Had a Common Earwig in the trap this morning, first one I've seen in ages!
Nige
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Post by petecollins on Jul 25, 2015 17:24:39 GMT
I saw this Southern Hawker dragonfly at Pulpit Hill, Bucks., today. Southern Hawker
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 25, 2015 18:04:17 GMT
Nice photo Pete. Didn't see any of these today, but did see my first Ruddy Darter of the year- a smart mature male.Also saw a pair of Common Darters in cop with the female releasing eggs. Generally low numbers of Odonata today.
Also saw a handsome fly sitting on a Field Scabious. I recognised it as a conopid fly but not the species. Researching when back home I pretty sure it was Physocephala rufipes; the larvae of which are endoparasites of bumblebees. I did see 2 bumblebees land on the flower next to the fly but there was no interaction between them.
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Post by htcdude on Jul 29, 2015 15:02:23 GMT
A couple of Green Lacewing drawn to the trap this morning Last week had a new Caddis Fly to the trap - Limnephilus marmoratus. Nige
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 29, 2015 19:36:22 GMT
Nice to see a male Common Darter at work this afternoon.
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Post by htcdude on Jul 30, 2015 13:47:46 GMT
My first Southern Hawker of the year and a Wilts tick. Unfortunately when it finally decided to rest it did so high up in a tree! So no photos.
Nige
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 30, 2015 16:57:15 GMT
Quite a few Field Grasshoppers at work today- often sitting on bramble leaves sunbathing!
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Post by htcdude on Jul 31, 2015 14:10:37 GMT
Stepped outside the office this afternoon and nearly stood on a Roesel's Bush-cricket, not what I expected but nice all the same!
Nige
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 1, 2015 5:11:04 GMT
Yesterday a male Southern Oak Bush-cricket was hitching a lift on me when I was at Nine Elms.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 1, 2015 19:04:11 GMT
A good selection of insects at Chobham today (won't mention butterflies or ladybirds as covered elsewhere) including Bog Bush-cricket, Mottled Grasshopper, several Bee Wolfs, a Lesser Cockroach beaten from an oak, 2 Spiked Shieldbugs,Birch Shieldbug + the mosr conopids I've ever seen.
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Post by petecollins on Aug 2, 2015 15:05:40 GMT
I saw a very large brown dragonfly near Ivinghoe Beacon today. I couldn't get a photo (or even a decent close view) but I think it could only have been a Brown Hawker.
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Post by htcdude on Aug 3, 2015 13:42:39 GMT
Had one of these funny looking things in the trap this morning. I get these every year but can never remember what they're called! Nige bug1 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 3, 2015 18:57:37 GMT
It's Ledra aurita- a very distinctive leafhopper.
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Post by htcdude on Aug 4, 2015 8:10:36 GMT
Ah yes that's it! I was looking through all the various hoppers but didn't study the leafhoppers enough obviously :-)
Thanks,
Nige
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 6, 2015 18:30:47 GMT
In the local country park (avoided the tube strike today!) quite a few Small Red-eyed Damselflies on one of the pools with several pairs lined up together egg-laying in some pondweed.
On the way back home I said to my partner that I still hadn't seen Volucella zonaria yet this summer + then said as likely to see one in the garden as anywhere else. Amazingly as I opened our front gate there was one on a large clump of Fennel. Also on it were Myathropa florea, Scaeva pyrastri, Eupeodes luniger, Syritta pipiens + a few others as well as Lucilia flies + a few Vespula wasps.
The last couple of weeks the Fennel has been dominated by wasps but pleased to see fewer of these + more hoverflies. Noted a couple of wasps had come to a sticky end as they'd been caught by unseen spiders.
V. zonaria my IOD- such a magnificent insect that I usually see a few of each year in the garden.
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