Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SP5595ish - Late afternoon blitz

Yesterday I managed to name a couple of lichens from weekend, along with a cranefly I found alongside the stream. Also the garden moth traps picked up three extras last night along with a couple of new moths taking me up to 283 before breakfast:

Taxon Vernacular Date Added
283 Sylvicola punctatus (fly) 22/04/2013
282 Musca autumnalis (fly) 22/04/2013
281 Ophion scutellaris (ichneumon) 22/04/2013
280 Selenia dentaria Early Thorn 22/04/2013
279 Semioscopis steinkellneriana (micromoth) 22/04/2013
278 Tricyphona immaculata (fly) 22/04/2013
277 Lecidella stigmatea (lichen) 22/04/2013
276 Tephromela atra (lichen) 22/04/2013

late Early Thorn - latest spring record for the garden for 10 years

This afternoon when I got home from work, it was lovely and warm with bright sunshine and it was immediately clear that the garden was busy with inverts. With a few swipes of the net and pots at the ready, over the next hour I added 11 species alongside another 15 or so that I've already seen this year. Brilliant stuff. I was pleased to see this in the garden (a garden tick as far as I can remember):

Bee Fly

Scarlet Lily Beetle - maybe not so welcome, but now annual on my cultivated Snakes-head Fritilaries

Fairly compliant today though

After the spontaneous garden blitz I'm up to 294.

Taxon Vernacular Date Added
294 Adalia bipunctata 2-spot Ladybird 23/04/2013
293 Meligethes aeneus Common Pollen Beetle 23/04/2013
292 Harmonia axyridis Harlequin Ladybird 23/04/2013
291 Epuraea aestiva (beetle) 23/04/2013
290 Osmia rufa Red Mason Bee 23/04/2013
289 Andrena haemorrhoa Early Mining Bee 23/04/2013
288 Eupeodes latifasciatus a hoverfly 23/04/2013
287 Epermenia chaerophyllella (micromoth) 23/04/2013
286 Araneus diadematus Garden Spider 23/04/2013
285 Tachyporus hypnorum (beetle) 23/04/2013
284 Lilioceris lilii Scarlet Lily Beetle 23/04/2013

A good night in the garden may just get me over 300. I did see a bat this evening which I am sure is 45k Common Pipestrelle but it had fluttered off before I got the bat detector sorted out. Also have some bits which may eventually get an ID including these craneflies (shout up if you know them):




Here's a long leggy centipede to sign off.

Western Yellow Centipede

3 comments:

  1. Your third Cranefly looks like Tipula marmorata (confusa), i've been finding these around my Moth trap the past couple of days. There's one out there now on the house wall...

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  2. Yes, I thought that too Christian but T. confusa is a late autumnal species. Must be something similar though.

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  3. Yes, thats what i thought...it says summer and autumn rarely spring, so its not unheard of.

    Going to double check through the key with my specimen, now got me thinking it could be Tipula rufina?

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