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Post by ayjay on May 16, 2016 21:41:23 GMT
Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela campestris
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Post by david66 on May 17, 2016 15:49:47 GMT
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Post by aeshna5 on May 17, 2016 16:41:55 GMT
Nice beefly photos, David.
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Post by david66 on May 17, 2016 19:18:25 GMT
Thanks Aeshna5 - although there are lots of slightly out of focus photos for every good one, of course!
David
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Post by aeshna5 on May 21, 2016 17:39:37 GMT
Pleased to see quite a few good insects today on my walk despite cool, overcast + breezy conditions.
Started off with my first Scorpion Flies, Panorpa sp, in vegetation + several of the distinctive Red+ Black Froghopper, Cercopis vulnerata. Beetles included a few of the green chrysomelid Cryptocephalus aureolus, a few Lesser Bloody-nosed Beetle, Timarcha goettingensis, a Cardinal Beetle, Pyrochroa serraticornis + a great find of a Glow Worm larva feeding on a Girdled Snail.
Also a few Dark Bush-cricket nymphs + by the pond a few Azure + Blue-tailed Damselflies.
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Post by aeshna5 on May 24, 2016 16:28:13 GMT
A metallic Rose Chafer in my garden this evening.
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Post by aeshna5 on May 29, 2016 6:20:18 GMT
My first Hornet of the year attracted to a moth trap.
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Post by llareggub on Jun 3, 2016 1:19:55 GMT
No Photo I'm afraid, but a male "Beautiful damoiselle" Calopteryx virgo by the garden pond.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 4, 2016 16:02:42 GMT
Saw my first Oedemera nobilis- a very distinctive beetle with its lurid green colour + the male's swollen rear femurs.
A few damselflies with a pair of Red-eyed in cop by the canal + several Azure + Blue-tailed amongst some reeds.
Also a Hairy Shieldbug sitting on a leaf.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 5, 2016 19:24:05 GMT
My first Broad-bodied Chaser of the year well away from water.
Also Bloody-nosed Beetle + a larva of it + the solitary bee, Osmia bicolor that nests in old snail shells.
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Post by ayjay on Jun 5, 2016 19:38:56 GMT
My first Broad-bodied Chaser of the year well away from water. Me too, two, (close to water), and one Emperor, but still nothing like the numbers that there should have been on a day like today. |
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Post by htcdude on Jun 21, 2016 21:16:03 GMT
Quite a few Rosemary Beetles on the lavender out the front these last few days. Adds a bit of colour before the plant flowers  Nige |
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Post by htcdude on Jul 1, 2016 14:23:13 GMT
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Post by ayjay on Jul 1, 2016 21:27:09 GMT
First Golden-ringed Dragonfly of the year today. I don't want to tempt fate as the weather is still very poor for both Lepidoptera and Odonata, but it could be that summer is nearly here.  |
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 2, 2016 5:44:58 GMT
Lovely photo- not a species we get in London, but have seen it in Surrey at Thursley not so far away.
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