Another bug...

This box bug was found at The Strandline shop in Old Hunstanton on 30th March 2019.

A weekend miscellany

Powdered Quaker, Holme NWT, 30th March 2019

Gorse Shieldbug, Holme NWT, 30th March 2019

Marsham's Noamd Bee, Nomada marshamella, Holme NWT, 30th March 2019

Birch Catkin Bug, Kleidocerys residae, Holme NWT, 30th March 2019

Hawthorn Leaf Beetle, Lochmaea crataegi, Holme NWT, 30th March 2019

Bronze Shieldbug, Holmhurst Track, 31st March 2019

Dock Bug, Holme Marsh, 31st March 2019

 

Eristalis pertinax, Holme Marsh, 31st March 2019

Platycheirus albimanus male, Holme NWT, 31st March 2019

Eristalis intricarius, Holme Marsh, 31st March 2019

Gymnochaeta viridis, Holme NWT, 30th March 2019

Water Carpet, Holme NWT, 30th March 2019

Off Patch: Twin-spotted Quaker at East Winch

Twin-spotted Quaker, East Winch, 25th March 2019

Off Patch: two tiny leafhopper from Roydon Common

Ulopa reticulata, Roydon Common, 25th March 2019

Zygina rubrovittata, Roydon Common, 25th March 2019

Some early-season insects from Holme Marsh

Dark-edged Bee-fly, male, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019

Ptychoptera albimanus, female, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019

Buffish Mining Bee, Andrena nigroena, female, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019

Eristalis pertinax, female, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019

Yellow Dung Fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019

Fabricius' Nomad Bee, Nomada fabriciana, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019

Six early-season moths

March Tubic, Holme NWT, 23rd March 2019

Red Chestnut, Holme NWT, 23rd March 2019

Red Green Carpet, Holme NWT, 23rd March 2019

Pine Beauty,  Holme NOA, 23rd March 2019

Shoulder Stripe,  Holme NOA, 23rd March 2019

Dotted Border, Holme NOA, 23rd March 2019

Off Patch: Roydon Common and Dersingham Bog

Minotaur Beetle, Typhaeus typhaeus Roydon Common, 18th March 2019

A tortoise beetle Cassida flaveola, Roydon Common, 18th March 2019

Daffodil Fly Norellia spinipes, Roydon Common, 18th March 2019

Raven, Dersingham Bog, 18th March 2019

Water Spider, Argyronecta aquatica, Dersingham Bog, 18th March 2019 (the silver oval is air trapped around its body)

Green-red carpet

A "common" moth, personally I don't see that many on the coast, so a lovely surprise this am, under the trap!

Redshank

Redshank, Thornham Harbour, 17th March 2019

Black Oil Beetles in the Downs

Black Oil Beetle, female, Rinsgetad Downs, 16th March 2019

Three female Black Oil Beetles interacting, Ringstead Downs, 16th March 2019

Male (on left) and female Black Oil Beetle, Ringstead Downs, 16th March 2019

Off Patch: the nationally scarce Brychius elevatus at Castle Acre

Brychius elevatus, River Nar at Castle Acre, 11th March 2019

A second Dotted Chestnut for the patch

Dotted Chestnut, Holme NOA, 10th March 2019

Confiding Goldfinch in the Pine Valley

Goldfinch, Holme NWT Pine Valley, 9th March 2019

Flies (and hundreds of 7-spot ladybirds) stirring in the Downs

Episyrphus balteatus, Ringstead Downs, 9th March 2109

Mines of Phytomyza hellebori, Ringstead Downs, 9th March 2109

Daffodil Fly, Norellia spinipes, Ringstead Downs, 9th March 2109

Melangyna lasiopthalma, Ringstead Downs, 9th March 2109