A brief wander up the coast and a gardening session (with a net and sorting tray, naturally) kept the dials moving over the weekend. It was clear that a handful of pots will soon be replaced by a pooter or two. Inverts are go! I've already gone from having no "stock" material to a collection of pinned flies.
It was nice to see the garden start to pick up too, including an overhead Sparrowhawk which I half thought I'd already recorded.
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| Ceratophysella bengtssoni |
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| Clouded Drab |
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| Diplocephalus latifrons |
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| Platycheirus albimanus |
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| Muscina prolapsa |
Not covered here so far was my first potential new-to-Scotland of the year, the anthomyiid
Egle parva, which is covered
here. You can see from the URL that I had given it the wrong ID to begin with.
Numbers:
| 528 |
* |
diptera |
Egle parva |
A flower fly |
| 529 |
|
collembola |
Ceratophysella bengtssoni |
A springtail |
| 530 |
|
diptera |
Ceratinostoma ostiorum |
A Scathophagid fly |
| 531 |
|
spider |
Diplocephalus latifrons |
A Linyphiid spider |
| 532 |
|
fungus |
Agaricus litoralis |
A mushroom |
| 533 |
|
lep-moth |
Orthosia incerta |
Clouded Drab |
| 534 |
|
bird |
Accipiter nisus |
Sparrowhawk |
| 535 |
|
diptera |
Eudasyphora cyanella |
A muscid fly |
| 536 |
|
diptera |
Platycheirus albimanus |
A hoverfly |
| 537 |
|
diptera |
Muscina prolapsa |
A muscid fly |
| 538 |
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diptera |
Egle ciliata |
A flower fly |
Pretty amazing range extension for the Egle if NBN is right. Never seen Muscina prolapsa, although you do get it down here. Muscina levida is very common here, better make sure I'm not throwing prolapsa away (don't think so).
ReplyDeleteI've had two M.prolapsa in this square - one last November. They were both very big compared to the other two Muscinas. In fact I refused to believe it was a Muscina at first. This one when I netted it I thought it might be Polietes lardarius. Last year I had two flies which were a similar "range extension", although I think it's maybe more "recorder extension"in this case whereas last year's new soldierfly there probably is an element of northward expansion. Also I know that sadly a lot of records don't make it to schemes or NBN.
DeleteI've added a pic. Basically Muscina/black legs/M with significant bend is all the keying there is to it!
DeleteGuess what I got this afternoon (unfortunately not in my 1 km square) - Muscina proplapsa, well chuffed! - also about 30 Muscina levida, all females, seems a bit odd.
ReplyDeleteI'll have a look in Skidmore. What if fertilised females overwinter and the males die off? I'm going to NMS on Thursday and Olga's going to be there so I can run my Pollenias past her
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