Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Guernsey

I thought I was making rapid progress until I saw the other guys' lists and realised I've been somewhat pedestrian.

425 - Garden Carpet
426 - Cockchafer
427 - Flame Shoulder
428 - Cabbage Moth
429 - Heliophanus flavipes (spider)
430 - Dryadaula pactiola (moth)

This is easily the rarest thing I've found so far on the challenge. There appears to be only a handful of British records of this adventive species. More details on my blog (here).

Dryadaula pactiola

431 - Perennial Rye-grass
432 - Ox-eye Daisy
433 - White Campion
434 - Salad Burnet
435 - Hairy Shieldbug
436 - Wall Barley
437 - Cocksfoot Moth
438 - Fern-grass
439 - Cacopsylla fulguralis (psyllid bug, abundant on Elaeagnus)
440 - Stenodema laevigata (grass-bug)
441 - Tingis cardui (Spear Thistle Lacebug)

Tingis cardui

442 - Hedge Mustard
443 - Badister bullatus (beetle)
444 - Redshank (the plant)
445 - Platyedra subcinerea (moth)
446 - Mompha subbistrigella (moth)
447 - Kalcapion semivittatum (weevil)
448 - Willow Beauty
449 - Brown Silver-line
450 - Poplar Hawk-moth
451 - Caloptilia syringella (moth)
452 - 14-spot Ladybird
453 - Eupoecilia angustana (moth)
454 - Pale Flax
455 - Toad Rush
456 - Coleophora alticolella (moth)

And a couple of things people may be able to help with the ID of :

Have struggled to pin down the ID of this weevil using the books. Was trying to ID as a Phyllobius but then noticed on the net another species, Pachyrhinus lethierryi, which occurs on conifers, under which I found this. Suggestions welcome.

These black-coloured flies seem very common at the moment.

3 comments:

  1. The black coloured flies are female Fever flies - Dilophus febrilis

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  2. That weevil does look good for Pachyrhinus.

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  3. Thanks Chris & Mark. The weevil seems to be a first for Guernsey.

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