I showed someone some Orchids last weekend and found he'd dug them up the next day before they'd flowered but fortunately I found some more and now confirmed they were Bee Orchids. I won't be making that mistake again.
New total now stands at 518
442 Grey Midge Chironomus cloacalis - diptera 2/6/13
443 Sciapus platypterus - diptera 2/6/13 Wing venation (Handbook for the identification of British Insects. Volume 9 Part 5)
444 Agalenatea redii - spider 2/6/13
445 Mother Shipton 3/6/13
446 Small Copper 3/6/13
447 Elachista argentella 3/6/13
448 Epiblema cynosbatella 3/6/13
449 Red Kite 3/6/13 Fly over mobbed by Herring Gull
450 Common Marbled Carpet 3/6/13 Roosting on tree trunk
451 Rosebay Willowherb 3/6/13
452 Sloe Shieldbug 3/6/13
453 Glyphipterix fuscoviridella 3/6/13
454 Endothenia marginana (Gen Det) 3/6/13 Male gen plate shows concave uncus.
455 Fleabane Tortoise Beetle cassida murraea 3/6/13
456 Liophloeus tessulatus - Weevil Beetle 3/6/13
457 Empis bicuspidata - diptera 3/6/13
458 Yellow Wort - 4/6/13
459 Common Clary - 4/6/13
460 Honewort - 4/6/13
461 Glanville Fritillary - 4/6/11
462 Bladder Campion - 4/6/11
463 Black Bryony
464 Short-cloaked Moth - 4/6/13 larva on Hawthorn
465 Privet Sawfly 4/6/13
466 Common Green Grasshopper 4/6/13
467 Hedgerow Cranesbill 4/6/13
468 Common Blue Damselfly 4/6/13
469 Spotted Medick 4/6/13
470 Glyphipterix equitella 4/6/13
471 Paragus haemorrhous - Hoverfly 4/6/13
472 Tenthredopsis sordida - Sawfly 4/6/13
473 Bulbous Buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus - 5/6/13
474 Bee Orchid - 5/6/13
475 Brown-tail larva on Bramble - 5/6/13
476 White Bryony - 5/6/13
477 Nematoproctus distends - diptera 5/6/13 Wing venation (Handbook for the identification of British Insects. Volume 9 Part 5)
478 Beris chalybata - diptera
479 Epiphyas postvittana
480 Cinnabar 6/6/13
481 Small Elephant Hawk-moth 7/6/13
482 Pale Tussock 7/6/13
483 Garden Carpet 7/6/13
484 Heart and Dart 7/6/13
485 Burnished Brass 7/6/13
486 Lime-speck Pug 7/6/13
487 Bright-line Brown-eye 7/6/13
488 Lesser Yellow Underwing larva 7/6/13
489 Common White Wave 7/6/13
490 Monopis laevigella 7/6/13
491 Cloaked Minor 7/6/13
492 Clouded Drab 7/6/13
493 Small Square-spot 7/6/13
494 Mottled Pug 7/6/13
495 Marbled Minor (Gen Det) 7/6/13
496 Mecinus collaris - Beetle
497 Yellow Shell - moth 9/6/13
498 Javesella dubia - Hemiptera-Delphacidae 7/6/13
499 Araneus marmoreus var. pyramidatus - Spider 9/6/13
500 Orthops campestris - Hemiptera-Miridae 9/6/13
501 Chrysotoxum festivum - Hoverfly 9/6/13
502 Hedya pruniana 9/6/13
503 Cream-spot Tiger 9/6/13
504 7-spot ladybird larva 9/6/13
505 Greater Sea-spurrey 9/6/13
506 Brown Argus 9/6/13
507 Depressaria heraclei larva on Hogweed 9/6/13
508 Microchrysa polita - diptera 9/6/13
509 Issus coleoptratus - Hemiptera-Issus 9/6/13
510 Tachina fera - Diptera 9/6/13
511 Stenodema laevigata - Hemiptera-Miridae 9/6/13
512 Cryptocephalus aureolis - Beetle 9/6/13 ( S shape pronotum from side on view)
513 Spectacle moth - 9/6/13
514 Gold Spot moth - 9/6/13
515 Shoulder-striped Wainscot moth - 9/6/13
516 Hebrew Character moth - 9/6/13
517 Setaceous Hebrew Character moth - 9/6/13
518 Shears moth - 9/6/13
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Interesting to read about the Glanville Frit introduction at Sand Point (or rather re-introduction in 2004 as it died out first time round according to internet sources). Until you mentioned it, I'd only been aware of one or two 'mainland' colonies near the Isle of Wight (Hordle Cliff, Hurst Castle) plus the Surrey introduction near Farnham. There was another one somewhere some years back (on a railway line or siding?) which I think the late Peter Cribb (of AES fame) was possibly involved in. Even more interesting to know how long the colonies survive for ....
ReplyDeleteInteresting Mike, I know of no sightings in 2004 only from 2005 and yes I suspected a re-introduction although no-one has owned up to it to date to my knowledge. The National Trust have been keeping the vegetation down since then which seems to be keeping the population going. There were easily double figures around 2010/2011 but this summer and last has seen bad weather and numbers have been much lower so their future existence is on the balance.
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