Monday, June 24, 2013

Guernsey - two thirds of the way there

A decent week of additions despite it being rather windy. The first properly busy moth trap of the year brought 17 new additions, but I've not had it on since. It's so difficult to get it done on a school night with 3 kids to get ready in the morning, but tomorrow looks the best night of this week so I'll get up early.

620 - Bee Moth
621 - Light Emerald
622 - Smoky Wainscot
623 - Clancy's Rustic
624 - Borkhausenia minutella (a very rare moth nationally, and one of the specialities of my garden)
625 - Portland Ribbon Wave
626 - Clouded Silver
627 - White-spotted Pug
628 - Figure of Eighty
629 - Foxglove Pug
630 - Mottled Rustic
631 - Flame
632 - Silver-ground Carpet (a new species for the garden. After 9 years of trapping any new species, especially a macro, is notable. Only 5th Gue rec this century. Why this is so rare here is a mystery - it is quite common in the other Channel Islands.)


633 - Lackey (larva)
634 - Garden Pebble
635 - Crambus lathionellus (moth)
636 - Cochylis molliculana (moth)
637 - Crocidosema plebejana (moth)
638 - Epistrophe diaphana (hoverfly - appears to be a first for Guernsey)
639 - Helophilus trivittatus (hoverfly)
640 - Carrot
641 - Wasp Beetle
642 - Chirosia histricina (fly larva mining Bracken - maybe a Guernsey first also)
643 - Cydia nigricana (Pea Moth)
644 - Ten-spot Ladybird
645 - Coleophora seratella (larva in case on Elm)
646 - Athous haemorrhoidalis (click beetle)
647 - Common Froghopper
648 - Eupteryx urticae (leafhopper)
649 - Tetragnatha extensa (spider)
650 - Xysticus cristatus - (spider)
651 - Cunctochrysa albolineata (green lacewing - using my new key)
652 - Rhinoncus bruchoides - (weevil in the garden - appears to be a new species for Guernsey)
653 - Margarinotus purpurascens (beetle)
654 - Common Field Grasshopper
655 - Creeping Soft-grass
656 - English Stonecrop
657 - Celery Fly (Euleia heraclei)
658 - Chrysotoxum bicinctum (hoverfly)
659 - Cut-leaved Dead-nettle
660 - Great Willowherb
661 - Short-fruited Willowherb
662 - Trigonotylus ruficornis (plant bug)
663 - Pseudoswammerdamia combinella (moth)


664 - Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil
665 - Small White (finally!)
666 - Meadow Vetchling
667 - Clepsis consimilana
668 - Monochroa cytisella
669 - Timothy
670 - Phaedon cochleariae (Water-cress Beetle)


This evening, lots of these bad-ass flies with the strange "beaks" were patrolling one of the hedge banks. I watched them fly off carrying Straw Dot moths with them. Which kind of flies are these guys?

3 comments:

  1. Hi, I believe it is a 'Dagger-fly', Empididae, probably from the genus Epis. I get them here in County Durham too but haven't found any key to species level yet. Mine like Silver-ground Carpets.

    Cheers
    Keith Robson
    Waldridge vc66

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  2. You could try this....

    https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtaWtlc2luc2VjdGtleXN8Z3g6MzhmNjA3M2QzYmFiNWE4NA

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  3. Thanks fellas. That looks a tortuous key! Perhaps I'll go back and catch one and try it out. Perhaps.

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