Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Dalgety Bay, Fife - Quickie easter update

Couple of nice surprise molluscs over the weekend. Oddly the Grey Sea Slug seems to be a lifer though I know for sure I have seen one before!

Also found were Sea Lemon eggs, helpfully shown in the Collins Shore guide.

Grey Sea Slug

King Scallop

Sea Lemon eggs

close-up

Numbers:
452 Platycheirus ambiguus A hoverfly (*)
453 Epistrophe elegans A hoverfly
454 Ceratinsostoma ostiorum A Scathophagid fly
455 Aeolidia papillosa Grey Sea Slug
456 Doris pseudoargus Sea Lemon
457 Sylvia atricapilla Blackcap
458 Pecten maximus King Scallop
459 Laminaria hyperborea Cuvie
460 Syrphus ribesii A hoverfly
461 Ommatoiulus sabulosus Striped Millipede
462 Arabidopsis thaliana Thale Cress
463 Silene uniflora Sea Campion
464 Sepsis fulgens A Sepsid Fly
465 Phaonia serva A muscid fly
466 Amblyptilia acanthadactyla Beautiful Plume
467 Buccinum undatum Common whelk
468 Bombus pratorum Early Bumble Bee

(*) First county record

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