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?
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.
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Keith Robson
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You could try this....
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Thanks fellas. That looks a tortuous key! Perhaps I'll go back and catch one and try it out. Perhaps.
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