SP5595ish - Beetles n Bits

So much for the glorious weekend: warm with brief sunny spells yesterday morning but soon overcast and rainy, then warmer again today and mainly dry with some nice sunshine but the blasting wind was back. Managed to get out and about and pick up some stuff, and finally managed to find some beetles after a lot of fruitless log and stone turning in previous weeks. Also got the first migrant birds - Swallows. No Chiffys, Blackcaps or Willow Warblers singing round here yet, let alone the usual Whitethroat on the embankment adjacent to the garden. Expect all here by next weekend.

Forgot to add Pill Woodlouse at last update (found in the garden whilst checking the moth trap). Also realised today that I've been happily walking past and ignoring a self-set Buddleia far enough away from the nearest garden.

	Taxon	Vernacular	Date Added
236	Scathophaga stercoraria	Yellow Dung Fly	14/04/2013
235	Arion subfuscus	Dusky Slug	14/04/2013
234	Stigmatogaster subterranea	Western Yellow Centipede	14/04/2013
233	Limax maculatus	Irish Yellow Slug	14/04/2013
232	Drymus brunneus	(bug)	14/04/2013
231	Notiophilus biguttatus	(beetle)	14/04/2013
230	Leistus fulvibarbis	(beetle)	14/04/2013
agg.	Trombidium sp.	Velvet Mite agg.	14/04/2013
229	Loricera pilicornis	(beetle)	14/04/2013
228	Cepaea nemoralis	Brown-lipped Snail	14/04/2013
227	Cepaea hortensis	White-lipped Snail	14/04/2013
226	Myrmica rubra	Common Red Ant	14/04/2013
225	Eisenia fetida	Brandling Worm	14/04/2013
224	Anthocoris nemorum	Common Flower Bug	14/04/2013
223	Veronica hederifolia	Ivy-leaved Speedwell	14/04/2013
222	Hirundo rustica	Swallow	14/04/2013
221	Buddleja davidii	Buddleia	14/04/2013
220	Inachis io	Peacock	14/04/2013
219	Bombus terrestris	Buff-tailed Bumble Bee	14/04/2013
218	Orthosia munda	Twin-spotted Quaker	13/04/2013
217	Bombus pratorum	Early Bumble Bee	13/04/2013
216	Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus	Springy Turf-moss	13/04/2013
215	Alliaria petiolata	Garlic Mustard	13/04/2013
214	Armadillidium vulgare	Pill Woodlouse	10/04/2013

Here's a few rushed shots of bits I brought home in pots and let loose in a glass dish - not nicely posed or poised but you get the gist. Please let me know if I've ballsed up the beetles (I'm pretty confident, but I'm no coleopterist!).

 

 Loricera pilicornis - check those antennal bristles and elytra 'dimples', usually has six legs

Leistus fulvibarbis

Notiophilus rufipes biguttatus

 

Drymus brunneus

Velvet Mite agg. with knackered legs

Wondering whether walks around the square at night are a good idea ......