Off Patch: invertebrates at Dersingham Bog

Black Darter, male, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Sundew Plume, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Banded General, Stratiomys potamida, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Wasp Spider, Dersingham Bog, 4th August 2019

Some recent animals of interest

Lunar Yellow Underwing, Holme NOA, 10th September 2018

Field Grasshopper, Holme NWT, 16th September 2018

Dune Villa, Holme NWT, 16th September 2018

Brown-spot Pinion, Hunstanton, 16th September 2018

Willow Emerald, Holme Marsh, 16th September 2018

An insect miscellany

A few insects encountered recently.

A dead digger wasp, possibly Ectemnius cephalotes, found on my kitchen windowsill.

 

Male Ruddy Darter at Holme Dunes

Female Ruddy Darter at Holme Dunes

Banded Burdock Fly at Ringstead Downs

Bees love the globe thistles in my garden. An Early Bumble-bee and a Buff-tailed Bumble-bee are sharing this flower.

Off Patch: some nationally rare, scarce and smart beasts from a foray in Dorset

Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Ballard Down, 8th July 2018

Heath Tiger Beetle, Studland, 9th July 2018

Small Blue, Durlston Head, 10th July 2018

Purbeck Mason Wasp, Hartland Moor, 10th July 2018

Cryptocephalus primarius, near Swanage, 11th July 2018

Rose Chafer, Durdle Door, 11th July 2018

Shiny Dor Beetle, Hartland Moor, 11th July 2018 

Large Marsh Grasshopper, Hartland Moor, 11th July 2018

Cliff Tiger Beetle, Eype, 12th July 2018

Heath Bee-fly, Studland, 13th July 2018

Mottled Bee-fly, Studland, 13th July 2018

Black Deerfly, Hartland Moor, 13th July 2018

Small Purple-barred, Stoborough Heath, 13th July 2018

Off Patch: a selection from recent forays

Pygmy Soldier, Oxycera pygmaea, Scarning Fen, 25th June 2018

Grypocoris stysi, Whitwell Common, 25th June 2018

Purple Emperor, Fineshades Wood, 30th June 2018

White-letter Hairstreak, Fineshades Wood, 30th June 2018

Horned Treehopper Centrotus cornutus, Foxley Wood, 25th June 2018

Small Red Damselfly, Scarning Fen, 25th June 2018

Pied Smudge, Ypsolopha sequella, Fineshades Wood, 30th June 2018

 Large Emerald Moth, Finshades Wood, 30th June 2018

Gold-ribbon Argent, Argyresthia brockeella, Fineshades Wood, 30th June 2018

Bracken Planthopper, Ditropis pteridis, Foxley Wood, 25th June 2018

Willow Emerald - new to the patch

Willow Emerald, Holme Marsh, 1st September 2017 

A long overdue addition to our list, this was a great find (on Wednesday 30th August), by ?? At least two were present today (1st Sept).

A hoverfly, a bee and a damselfly

A hoverfly Volucella pellucens ? on my kitchen window

One of  several of these bumble bees feeding on Creeping Thistle flowers at Ringstead Downs.  Thanks to Nick Owens for identifying it as a male Hill Cuckoo Bumblebee Bombus rupestris a cuckoo of Bombus lapidarius.

A male Banded Demoiselle Calopteryx splendens seen at the west end of Ringstead Downs.  I saw on in almost the same place last year.

Common Darters enjoying the NOA's bench

Common Darter, Holme NOA, 2nd October 2016

Off Patch: northeast Norfolk

Willow Emerald Damselfly, Beeston Common, 26th September 2016

Ivy Colletes, Colletes hederae, Beeston Common, 26th September 2016

Grass of Parnassus, Beeston Common, 26th September 2016

Goldenrod, Beeston Common, 26th September 2016

Staphylinus erythropterus, Holt Lowes, 26th September 2016

Orange Ladybird,  Holt Lowes, 26th September 2016

Gorse spider mite, Tetranychus lintearius, Holt Lowes, 26th September 2016