A single Lords and Ladies plant was unexpected, really thought this would not make the list for my square. Changing Forget-me-not was one I hoped to find, and I actually found a few plants together in one area along with Three-nerved Sandwort. Lots of flowering grasses now - I'll have to plan a specific effort on these!
My favourite dead ash tree failed to produce any new beetles this time, but instead I found a number of Leopard Slugs tucked up under the decaying bark.
Harpocera thoracica
Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus
Clover Springtail
Forest Bug
Another dagger fly - you'd think those leg balloons would be useful. Maybe Hilara maura
The coleophora I found in the garden on silver birch on 6th May is now recogniseable as C. serratella. I also found another coleophora in the garden today, C. lusciniaepennella on sallow. Both are welcome garden ticks.
Realised today that the flowering apple on the embankment is self set (presumably having passed through a bird) and that the apples on it are large domestic cultivars of some sort, so trust this is acceptable as Malus domestica.
And finally, just before writing this I pointed my Magenta Bat5 at a pipistrelle and confirmed that the local 45kHz are becoming more active.
| Taxon | Vernacular | Date Added | |
| 454 | Pipistrellus pipistrellus | Common Pipistrelle 45kHz | 18/05/2013 |
| 453 | Coleophora lusciniaepennella | (micromoth) [larval] | 18/05/2013 |
| 452 | Dilophus febrilis | (fly) | 18/05/2013 |
| 451 | Tegenaria domestica | (spider) | 18/05/2013 |
| 450 | Malus domestica | Domestic Apple | 18/05/2013 |
| 449 | Rumex acetosa | Common Sorrel | 17/05/2013 |
| 448 | Harpocera thoracica | (bug) [nymph] | 17/05/2013 |
| 447 | Dipsacus fullonum | Wild Teasel | 17/05/2013 |
| 446 | Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus | (bug) [nymph] | 17/05/2013 |
| 445 | Pentatoma rufipes | Forest Bug [nymph] | 17/05/2013 |
| 444 | Sminthurus viridis | Clover Springtail | 17/05/2013 |
| 443 | Minettia inusta | (fly) | 17/05/2013 |
| 442 | Tachyporus obtusus | (beetle) | 17/05/2013 |
| 441 | Limax maximus | Leopard Slug | 17/05/2013 |
| 440 | Arum maculatum | Lords-and-Ladies | 17/05/2013 |
| 439 | Epirrita dilutata | November Moth | 17/05/2013 |
| 438 | Moehringia trinervia | Three-nerved Sandwort | 17/05/2013 |
| 437 | Senecio jacobaea | Common Ragwort | 17/05/2013 |
| 436 | Myosotis discolor | Changing Forget-me-not | 17/05/2013 |
| 435 | Ranunculus acris | Meadow Buttercup | 17/05/2013 |
| 434 | Solanum dulcamara | Bittersweet | 17/05/2013 |
| 433 | Plantago major | Greater Plantain | 17/05/2013 |
| 432 | Arion ater | (slug) | 17/05/2013 |
| 431 | Chamerion angustifolium | Rosebay Willowherb | 17/05/2013 |
| 430 | Coprinus plicatilis | Pleated Inkcap | 17/05/2013 |
| 429 | Prays fraxinella | Ash Bud Moth | 17/05/2013 |
| 428 | Bibio marci | St. Mark's Fly | 17/05/2013 |
| 427 | Sylvicola fenestralis | (fly) | 17/05/2013 |
| 426 | Coleophora serratella | (micromoth) [larval] | 17/05/2013 |
Good haul Mark. Continuingly interesting the similarities and differences. I also had a rubbish night in the trap (5 of 3, none new) and I'm also feeling more than a little worried about the grasses that are popping up everywhere! I've got STACKS of Lords and Ladies here though.
ReplyDeleteFlies! What are they like?! Amazing things, no idea what most of them are!
It can't be impossible to identify mirid bug nymphs and there are named photos of nymphs on the britishbugs website but I've assumed these were identified by rearing them on, or by association with adults which are clearly the same species. So I'm prepared to be educated - how have you identified those?
ReplyDeleteI imagine you won't be surprised (but hope you're not disappointed) to find that these were named after trawling through British Bugs, although I did recognise these having seen them before. A lot of the nymphs seem to be as distinctive as the adults (no different to identifying moths from the caterpillars). I don't suppose all bugs are easily identifiable as nymphs, but these are absolutely nailed on as far as I can see. 'course it helps that these were swept from Oak.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/d_flavoquadrimaculatus.html
http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/harpocera_thoracica.html
Skev, Have just compared your bug nymphs to the images on britishbugs and you're right on both counts that they are an excellent match (though different instars in the case of D. flavoquadrimaculatus). And knowing the host plant also narrows down the alternatives.
ReplyDeleteIt's dangerous to assume that anything is distinctive, and I'm only really happy if I can key something out, or picture-match against a comprehensive set of pictures, preferably pointing out the diagnostic characters. Clearly neither approach is available with mirid nymphs but once again it looks as if my approach is over-cautious!