Hopefully this weekend I may manage a session of more than 30 minutes in the field. Then I'll probably need extra study time though! Small pots have long since been replaced by a big-ass pooter, though some stuff still goes in pots of course.
Moth trap finally produced a few ticks, although slim pickings still with only one of each of five species. Cold nights and sunny days. Can't complain about the sun though.
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| Hydrophoria - a very common antho on low vegetation |
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| Scallopy thing |
Numbers:
| 744 | diptera | Portevinia maculata | A hover fly | |
| 745 | coleoptera | Cantharis decipiens | A soldier beetle | |
| 746 | lep-moth | Xanthorhoe fluctuata | Garden Carpet | |
| 747 | diptera | Bibio marci | St.Mark's Fly | |
| 748 | lep-butterfly | Pieris napi | Green-veined White | |
| 749 | lep-butterfly | Anthocharis cardamines | Orange-tip | |
| 750 | flowering plant | Tilia x europaea | Common Lime | |
| 751 | * | diptera | Hydrophoria lancifer | Deer Warble Fly |
| 752 | diptera | Cheilosia albitarsis | A hover fly | |
| 753 | * | diptera | Tricyphona immaculata | A crane fly |
| 754 | lep-moth | Eupithecia vulgata | Common Pug | |
| 755 | lep-moth | Odontopera bidentata | Scalloped Hazel | |
| 756 | lep-moth | Opisthograptis luteolata | Brimstone Moth | |
| 757 | lep-moth | Xanthorhoe designata | Flame Carpet |
I see you must have some wild garlic in your square. Not a sniff of it round here, unfortunately. Thanks for the pipunculidae info, hope I see a few, preferably not all difficult ones.
ReplyDeleteI have two wild garlics but I have NO ramsons that I can discern. I specifically have no ramsons where the Portevinia were swarming! What I DO have is a ton of sand leek. Enquiries on dipterists forum have thus far met with no response. I can see myself digging up sand leek bulbs looking for larvae!
DeleteThat's interesting, I thought they were entirely Ramsons specific. Should be out up here any day now, Ramsonms flowers are just opening.
DeletePreviously in my ramsons haunting experiences I have watched the ramsons develop for ages before finally the Portevinias came about when the flowers opened. Ramsons is a pretty obvious plant and takes up a lot of real estate so I'm struggling to believe I'm overlooking it. We're talking 10s of male Portevinia in evidence too
ReplyDeleteCan't think that I've ever seen a Portevinia away from a Ramsons patch/carpet. As you say, Ramsons is pretty damn obvious, so guess they really are using that Sand Leek - which is quite exciting seeing as Sand Leek is a non-native and Portevinia isn't previously known from Fife (though Ramsons certainly is, so why aren't they on that too?)
DeleteThere's definitely Portevinia on ramsons in Fife. I have verified records from years ago that haven't made it onto HRS (don't ask - long iRecord related story which was triggered by exactly this species' absence on HRS maps!). I bet every patch of Ramsons in Fife has it
DeleteYep - just checked - NT18 and NT28 both have Portevinia (earlier NT18 record from ramsons - different site). Probably amounts to everywhere it's been looked for!
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