Dalgety Bay - Barking up the right tree

So after a week in warmer climes it's back to autumn leaves and chilly air. I spent a lot of time reading the Coleopterists Handbook while I was away so that definitely coloured my activities when I got back!

The main recent batch of records came from a sycamore that keeled over during a storm earlier this year It has so far produced Rhizohagus dispar (first county record since 1853), Agathidium nigripenne (first county record), Acidota crenata and some springtails, and I still have other specimens in the bullpen.

After finding galls on beech I decided to check a nearby oak ... wait, that's a pretty pointy oak! Nuff said.

The sieve's been getting some action too. Mostly leaf litter and a bit of soil/sand, but there's a pile of woodchip I have my eye on.

(just saw Seth's updates on PSL website. No wonder he's not adding much to his Skye list! Looks like good times)

Fallen sycamore

Rhizophagus

Agathidium nigripenne

Hartigiola on beech leaves

Turkey Oak

Numbers:

1331		bird	Falco peregrinus	Peregrine Falcon
1332		coleoptera	Paradromius linearis	A ground beetle
1333	*	insect-other	Limnephilus auriculus	A Caddisfly
1334		lep-moth	Epiritta christyi	Pale November Moth
1335		diptera	Schoenomyza litorella	Muscidae
1336	*	diptera	Caliopum aeneum	Lauxanidae
1337		lep-moth	Agrochola lota	Red-line Quaker
1338		hemiptera	Anthocoris nemorum	A mirid bug
1339		bird	Acanthis cabaret	Lesser Redpoll
1340	*	diptera	Phytomyza spinaciae	Agromyzidae
1341	*	diptera	Peplomya litura	Lauxaniidae
1342	*	flowering plant	Quercus cerris	Turkey Oak
1343		lep-moth	Agrochola macilenta	Yellow-line Quaker
1344	*	coleoptera	Xantholoma linearis	A rove beetle
1345	*	coleoptera	Rhizophagus dispar	A rhizophagid beetle
1346	*	coleoptera	Agathidium nigripenne	A round fungus beetle
1347	*	diptera	Hartigiola annulipes	A gall midge
1348	*	coleoptera	Acidota crenata	A rove beetle
1349		collembola	Neanura muscorum	A springtail
1350	*	coleoptera	Anthobium atrocephalum	A rove beetle