"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Wednesday 31 May 2017

A new weevil for the patch

Magdalis memnonia, Holme NWT (pines, east end), 27th May 2017




Off Patch: on Scolt Head

Ant Woodlouse, Platyarthrus hoffmannseggi, Scolt Head, 29th May 2017



Rhombic Leatherbug, Scolt Head, 29th May 2017


Araniella sp, Scolt Head, 29th May 2017


Marram Spider Marpissa nivoyi, Scolt Head, 29th May 2017


Polydrusus pulchellus, Scolt Head, 29th May 2017


Tuesday 30 May 2017

Off Patch: a Tachinid at Minsmere

Thelaira solivaga, MInsmere, Suffolk, TM4784 664, 22nd May 2017



Off Patch: Violet Black-legged Robberfly

Violet Black-legged Robberfly, Dioctria atricapilla, Mildenhall, 28th May 2017


Two Oraches

Grass-leaved Orache, Holme NWT, 20th May 2017




Spear-leaved Orache, Holme NWT, 20th May 2017


Nurseryweb Spider

Nurseryweb Spider Pisaura mirabilis, Holme Marsh, 21st May 2017


Tuesday 16 May 2017

A new blowfly for the patch

Yellow-faced Blowfly, Cynomya mortuorum, Lavender Marsh, 14th May 2017


Sunday 14 May 2017

Sedges

Divided Sedge, Holme NWT, 14th May 2017


Broad Blysmus, Holme NWT, 14th May 2017


Glaucous Sedge, Holme NWT, 14th May 2017


Distant Sedge, Holme NWT, 14th May 2017



Crane

Crane. Holme NWT, 13th May 2017


Hedgerow Cranesbill

Hedgerow Cranesbill, Hunstanton, 8th May 2017


Sunday 7 May 2017

Holme residents celebrate latest work from it's very own 'Capability Brown '

Holme's latest treasure..... if you're not sure where this is, you may just be able to make out the toilets and the discrete fencing to give you a hint. What an asset for the village.

Holme's latest tourist attraction is a pile of rubbish.....

Waste dumped in the scrub in Holme village car park, 7th May 2017 - shame on them


Sea Mouse-ear

Sea Mouse-ear, Holme NWT, 7th May 2017 - a nice find by Phil.



Wednesday 3 May 2017

Criorhina floccosa - a new hoverfly for the patch

Criorhina floccosa, Ringstead Downs, 30th April 2017



A smart Tachinid

Gymnochaeta viridis, Ringstead Downs, 30th April 2017


Fumitory

Fumitory, Hunstanton, 30th April 2017


Juniper Shieldbug

Juniper Shieldbug, Hunstanton, 3rd April 2017


Common Mourning Bee

Common Mourning Bee, Hunstanton, 5th April 2017


Six recent flies on the patch

Tipula vittata, Baker's Carr, 24th April 2017


Bacca elongata, Baker's Carr, 24th April 2017


Euleia heraclei (Tephritidae), Old Hunstanton, 24th April 2017


Myathropa florea, Ringstead Downs, 30th April 2017



Graphomya maculata, Redwell, 1st May 2017



Morellia sp (Muscidae), Redwell, 1st May 2017


Three recent moths

Parsnip Moth, Hunstanton, 5th April 2017 (caught by Joan & Keith Fox)


Pale Tussock, Holme NOA, 22nd April 2017


Vetch Piercer, Holme NWT, 22nd April 2017



A Rhopalid bug from the Downs

Corizus hyoscyami (Rhopalidae), Ringstead Downs, 30th April 2017


A Great Horned Owl in Hunstanton

A Great Horned Owl - presumed vagrant (!) - Hunstanton, 27th April 2017


Tawny Mining Bee

Tawny Mining Bee, female, Ringstead Downs, 30th April 2017


The Water Measurer

Water Measurer, Hydrometra stagnorum, Holme NOA, 29th April 2017



Twelve recent beetles on the patch


Harlequin Ladybird, Holme NWT, 9th April 2017


Black Oil Beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus, Green Bank, 29th April 2017


Cream-spot Ladybird, Calvia quatuordecimguttata, Ringstead Downs, 30th May 2017


Cassida rubiginosa, Ringstead Downs, 30th April 2017


Cantharis pellucida, Ringstead Downs, 30th APril 2017


Sphaeridium lunatum, Ringstead Downs, 30th April 2017


Adonis ladybird, Hippodamia variegata, Ringstead Downs, 2nd April 2017


Marram Weevil, Holme NWT, 3rd April 2017


Panageus bipustulatus, Holme NWT, 3rd April 2017


Whirligig Beetle, Gyrinus substriatus, NOA, 29th April 2017


Demetrias imperialis, Redwell, 1st May 2017


Oiceoptoma thoracium, Ringstead Downs, 2nd April 2017