Probably my favourite of the day was the extraordinary dolichopodid Rhaphium monotrichum. As an aside I came across a great Russian site for Dolis here
In other news yesterday photos of a wasp which I had reared from a spider were passed on to a wasp expert who returned an ID within minutes (if not seconds). Fantastic. The specimen will go to live in NMS where the ID will be 100% confirmed.
Now I just need to take a week off and we can wrap this thing up in May ;)
The Clearing of Wonder |
Meeeeeh, what's up doc? Rhaphium |
Polysphincta tuberosa - spider killing waspiness |
Numbers:
811 | flowering plant | Vicia hirsuta | Hairy Tare | |
812 | lep-butterfly | Lycaena phlaeas | Small Copper | |
813 | hemiptera | Philaenus spumarius | Cuckoo-Spit Insect | |
814 | diptera | Limonia phragmitidis | Tipuloidea | |
815 | diptera | Graphomya maculata | A muscid fly | |
816 | * | hymenoptera | Polysphincta tuberosa | A wasp |
817 | diptera | Calliphora vomitoria | Calliphoridae | |
818 | * | flowering plant | Carex canescens | White Sedge |
819 | spider | Microlinyphia pusilla | A Linyphiid spider | |
820 | lep-moth | Epiblema cirsiana | A micro moth | |
821 | * | diptera | Raphium monotrichum | A long-legged fly |
822 | diptera | Dolichopus popularis | A long-legged fly | |
823 | * | hemiptera | Macustus grisescens | A leaf hopper |
824 | * | hymenoptera | Cynips quercusfolii | A gall wasp |
825 | gall mite | Aceria cephaloneus | A gall mite |
Sounds like a nice bit of habitat there Ali. I have to do quite a bit of my sweeping rather surreptitiously, would be nice to have an area where you could be comfortable doing it!
ReplyDeleteIt's busier than my previous square but I pretty much have spoken to all the regular dog walkers and runners and such by now and I'm not that shy about looking weird any more. People do wonder what you're doing but it takes them various amounts of time to pluck up the courage to ask!
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