Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Common Fiddleneck - Amsinckia micrantha
While walking my dog this morning I came across what looked like a Bugloss with yellow flowers. I first identified this as Yellow Alkanet Anchusa ochroleuca but thanks to more detailed observation by Joan and Keith Fox it is in fact Common Fiddleneck Amsinckia micrantha. There was just one plant growing in the gravel on the SW corner of the Honeystone overflow car park (TF67114028).
Saturday, 25 April 2020
Another from 2013 and some from today, 25th April 2020
Tropidia scita, Holme Marsh, 23rd June 2013
Yellow Archangel (variegated garden var), Old Hunstanton, 25th April 2020
Rhingia campestris, River Hun, 25th April 2020
Eupeodes luniger, male, Chapel Bank, Hunstanton, 25th April 2020
Chrysotoxum cautum, female,, Hunstanton dunes, 25th April 2020
A new hoverfly for the patch.....from 2013 !
Whilst sorting my photo collection, I came across these images taken in 2013. Date location and tentative identification present and correct, so I tried again but couldn't decide if it was one species or another near-identical. I posted on Facebook and had the beast identified within seconds by the national recorder. So, here's Anasimyia transfuga (the other possibility was A. contracta), Holmhurst Track, 19th May 2013. I've not seen another one in these parts.
Anasimyia transfuga, Holmhurst Track, 19th May 2013.
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Some more recent Hunstanton beasties
The hoverfly Helophilus pendulus, female, Old Hunstanton, 12th April 2020
Holly Blue, Hunstanton garden, 12th April 2020
Bluebell Rust, Uromyces muscari, on bluebell, Hunstanton garden, 20th April 2020
Box Bug, Hunstanton, 20th April
The hoverfly Eupeodes luniger, female, Hunstanton, 20th April 2020
Rose Rust, Phragmidium mucronatum, on Dog Rose, Old Hunstanton, 20th April 2020
Tawny Mining Bee Andrena fulva, female, Hunstanton, 20th April 2020
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Bug in the conservatory
During the recent warm days numerous insects have wandered into the conservatory including this Dock Bug Coreus marginatus.
Friday, 10 April 2020
Off Patch: Roydon Common
Yellow Horned, Roydon Common 9th March 2020
Cheilosia albipila, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020
10 Spot Lady bird Adalia decempunctata, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020
Gorse Shield Bug, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020
Gorse Weevil, Exapion ulicis, Roydon Common, 23rd <arch 2020
A spring insect miscellany
The Hoverfly Eristalis tenax, female, Hunstanton garden, 22nd March 2020
The Hoverfly Platycheirus albimanus, male, Hunstanton garden, 24th March 2020
Black Oil Beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus, Ringstead Downs,
The Tachinid Fly Gymnochaeta viridis, Ringstead Downs, 4th April 2020
Dark-edged Bee-fly, Bombylius major, Ringstead Downs, 4th April 2020
The sawfly Dolerus puncticollis, female, Ringstead Downs, 4th April 2020
Hairy-footed flower-bee, Anthophora plumipes, female, Hunstanton garden, 10th April 2020
Bibio anglicus, pair (male all black), River Hun, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020
Alderfly, Sialis lutaria, River Hun, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020
Bibio marci, male, River Hun, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020
Cream-spot Ladybird, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020
Harlequin Ladybird, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020
Brassica Shield Bug, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020
Hairy Shield Bug, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020
Green Shield Bug, Chapel Bank 10th April 2020
