Thankful for small mercies!

Well I am having a real struggle now to keep my total moving along, and even the moth trap failed to provide anything new last night.  One highlight was confirmation from my County Recorder this morning that a Cranefly I took on 20th July and sent to him has been accepted as Nigrotipula nigra - the first confirmed record for VC55, but other than that - it's been a case of being thankful for small mercies

 

As an indication of the sort of bits and bobs I have resorted to - my last four species all recorded yesterday were the bug Adarrus ocellaris, the weevil  Microplontus campestris, and two fruit flies Trypetoptera punctulata and Tephritis hyoscyami none of them much more than 5 mm long!

 

 

 

The result of all this scratching around takes my total to 1202 as at 30th August. Thanks to Andy for putting this challenge together - I know that it's motivated me to discover a whole range of species that I would have passed over previously - and I can see from other comments that other people have also gained new knowledge from doing it.

 

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