Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Shotesham: the first 1000

Phew, hectic week. But it's paid off and I've made it to the target already and we're only half-way through the year! Amazing, I never thought I'd get there so quickly. My plan now is to keep going to see how high a total I can get - there's loads of very common things still to see - but to take things a bit more easy for a while. Maybe I should give the fridge some attention too.

Late additions
905 - Chrysolina polita - a shiny beetle from the moth-trap all the back on 24th April!
906 - Ilybius fuliginosis - a couple of these water beetles in the moth-trap on 18th June
907 - Common Red-legged Robberfly Dioctria rufipes - netted on the common on 23rd June
908 - Tenthredo temula - black/yellow sawfly caught by the pub pond on 23rd June
909 - Blue-winged Olive Serratella ignita - small mayfly at the moth-trap on 27th June.
910 - Pemphredon lugubris - a solitary wasp caught from around a fallen ash tree on the common on 29th June, covered in (unidentified) mites
911 - Hedge Bindweed - identified on leaf-shape on 30th June, subsequently common in flower
912 - Orchestes alni - brown blotch in elm leaf (despite sci name) on 30th June, kept and small weevil emerged in the pot and started feeding externally on the leaf.
913 - Pammene regiana - striking tortrix moth on 30th June

Trap on evening on 30th June
914 - Green Pug
915 - Callicorixa praeusta - mass emergence of these lesser water boatmen
916 - Small Elephant Hawk-moth - rare here
917 - Large Fruit-tree Tortrix Archips podana 

Monday 1st July

918 - Pinion-streaked Snout - in trap
919 - Serica brunnea - beetle in trap

Tuesday 2nd July

920 - Reed Canary-grass - around pub pond
921 - Lesser Sea-spurrey - surprising find along road margin but apparently occurs widely in salted conditions like this.
922 - Mottled Rustic - moth-trap
923 - Crambus perlella - moth-trap
924 - Mottled Beauty - moth-trap
925 - Maiden's Blush - moth-trap, good record here
926 - Pempelia formosa - moth-trap
927 - Cryptoblabes bistriga - moth-trap
928 - Argyresthia pruniella - moth-trap

Wednesday 3rd July

929 - White Stonecrop - lots of stonecrop growing on our patio roof in the hyper-nutrified environment provided by a heap of House Martin droppings! Finally flowering and identified as this.
930 - White Plume Moth - one netted at dusk along lanes
931 - Riband Wave - moth-trap
932 - Lobster Moth - moth-trap
933 - Phylctaenia perlucidalis - moth-trap
934 - Triple-spotted Clay - moth-trap, very few previous records

Thursday 4th July

935 - Mompha ochraceella - moth-trap
936 - Beautiful Hook-tip - moth-trap
937 - Summer Chafer Amphimallon solstitiale - beetle in moth-trap
938 - Swallow-tailed Moth - moth-trap
939 - Clepsis consimilana - moth-trap

Friday 5th July

940 - Parornix anglicella - occupied cones in hawthorn leaves in front hedge
941 - Lejogaster metallina - mating pair of this shiny green hoverfly found on the common
942 - Ruddy Darter - teneral one netted on common
943 - Cantharis rufa - these Cantharis beetles just keep on coming - on the common
944 - Lesser Water-parsnip - in flower in ditches on common
945 - Marsh Bedstraw - pleased to find on common (Fen Bedstraw abundant here)
946 - Tufted Vetch - on common
947 - Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet - feeding on a Marsh Thistle on common, assumed not Five-spot solely on range (previous work suggests FSB is confined to coastal dunes in Norfolk)
948 - Hemerobius micans - small brown lacewing beaten from oak
949 - Hartigiola annulipes - occupied galls on beech leaves
950 - Caloptilia semifascia - occupied folds of field maple leaves
951 - Wood Dock - in garden, fruits now visible
952 - Dwarf Cream Wave - moth-trap
953 - Bird's Wing - moth-trap

Saturday 6th July

954 - Rhagonycha fulva - the "hogweed bonking beetle" out at last
955 - Ringlet - in garden, then widespread
956 - Fenusa ulmi - occupied blotch in elm in garden
957 - Volucella pellucens - overdue hoverfly found at last, caught with a forehand smash Mr Murray would have been proud of
958 - Barred Straw - netted by day
959 - Red Admiral - nice to see at last
960 - Agrimony - along the lane, flowers just started to open
961 - Crossbill - two flew over, always a good time of year to chance on this species
962 - Honeysuckle - long overdue, I finally found some in a hedge but fretted over whether it was quite in the square. Searched back along the hedgeline and eventually found some more unequivocally in the square (and it turned out the first lot was too)
963 - Creeping Soft-grass - small patch in a shady area between two gardens
964 - Perforate St John's Wort - along roadside
965 - Pseudovadonia livida - distinctive but small longhorn beetle potted off a yarrow head
966 - Common Broomrape - pleased to find along a verge
967 - Band-eyed Brown Horsefly Tabanus bromius - female flew into house
968 - Ancistrocerus trifasciatus - solitary wasp that flew into house
969 - Brown China-mark - moth-trap
970 - Light Arches - moth-trap
971 - Short-cloaked Moth - moth-trap

Sunday 7th July

972 - Hoary Willowherb - on arable margins
973 - Short-fruited Willowherb - also arable margins, and in garden
974 - Rhagonycha lutea - beetle beaten from ash
975 - Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae - occupied mines in hawthorn
976 - Heterarthrus wuestneii - occupied mines in field maple
977 - Phyllonorycter coryli - occupied mines in hazel
978 - Oak Bush-cricket - nymph beaten from oak
979 - Scarlet Pimpernel - arable margins
980 - Brown Plume Stenoptilia pterodactyla - in small wood where plenty of foodplant Germander Speedwell
981 - Notch-horned Cleg Haematopota pluvialis - flew into house
982 - Bright Horsefly Hybomitra distinguenda - flew into house
983 - Morophaga choragella - moth-trap
984 - Scarce Footman - moth-trap
985 - Agriphila tristella - moth-trap
986 - Small Yellow Wave - moth-trap
987 - Dusky Brocade - moth-trap
988 - Common Emerald - in bathroom, windows open!

Monday 8th July 

989 - Parornix devoniella - occupied leaf folds in hazel
990 - Red Fescue - verges and garden
991 - Scallop Shell - moth-trap
992 - Dipleurina lacustrata - moth-trap
993 - Fan-foot - moth-trap
994 - Scoparia pyralella - moth-trap
995 - Thistle Ermine - moth-trap
996 - Nicrophorus investigator - burying beetle in moth-trap

Tuesday 9th July 

997- Marsh Snipefly Rhagio tringarius - on common
998 - Syrphus vitripennis - overdue hoverfly, on common
999 - Reed Sweet-grass - on common, initially thought outside boundary but double-check of map later confirmed it was in
1000 - Greater Spearwort - at temporary pond on the common


Mullein Moth caterpillars by the pub pond

Rutpela maculata, quite a few seen this week on flower heads

Pammena regiana, a new moth for me, surprising given how striking it is

Orchestes alni - how cool are weevils?!

Male Glow-worm, the non-luminous variety - several at moth-trap this week

Sphingid platter

Broomrape on recently council-thrashed verge

Number 1000, Greater Spearwort. Phew.

2 comments:

  1. Well done Andy, you must have some great habitat.

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  2. Thanks Martin. Indeed, Shotesham Common is proving extremely diverse. But then again, a lot of species I'm finding are just along bog-standard verges too. There's lots of nice Roadside Nature Reserves in this part of South Norfolk, but none of those are in my square. Neighbouring squares have verges stiff with Sulphur Clover, but not a sniff of it here!

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