Found in a dogs watering bowl outside the VC this morning. This is the 2nd one I've on the patch and photos showing its smart underside can be seen here.
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
A new Hoverfly for the patch
Scaeva selenitica, Hunstanton (attracted to M V moth trap) 25th June 2016
Sunday, 26 June 2016
Friday, 24 June 2016
Mullein Moth caterpillars
I came across these two Mullein Moth Cucullia verbasci caterpillars feeding on Water Figwort plants in The Paddocks ditch. It looked like they had both started eating at the top of a plant and had just kept munching away. A very distinctive caterpillar which signals to predators that it is not nice to eat!
Insects and spiders on Wild Parsnip
The Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa flowers at Holme Dunes yesterday were smothered in feeding insects, and a couple of spiders hunting them. At present I do not have the necessary books or knowledge to ID them all and so here are a few for you to name for me!
Thanks to James Emerson again for rapid IDs.
A Hover-fly Chrysotoxum bicinctum
Noon Fly Mesembrina meridiana
Is this a species of Bupestrid beetle? Possibly Chequered Click Beetle Prosternon tessellatum
Two of these spiders were hunting on one of the plants. I think they could be Large-jawed Orb Web Spiders Tetragnatha montana.
Thanks to James Emerson again for rapid IDs.
A Hover-fly Chrysotoxum bicinctum
Noon Fly Mesembrina meridiana
Is this a species of Bupestrid beetle? Possibly Chequered Click Beetle Prosternon tessellatum
Two of these spiders were hunting on one of the plants. I think they could be Large-jawed Orb Web Spiders Tetragnatha montana.
An orchid hybrid
Many orchid hybrids have been recorded in Britain. This is one I found at Holme Dunes yesterday. It is Common Spotted-orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsia x Southern Marsh-orchid Dactylorhiza praetermissa. Those with prominent ring spots on their leaves are sometimes known as Leopard Marsh-orchids. Most hybrid plants, like this one, are very robust specimens.
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
A beetle and a fly to be identified!
Someone, somewhere, will probably be able to identify these two insects I saw today!
Thanks to James Emerson for a very prompt ID of both.
A beetle on a Yellow Flag flower behind the dunes at Old Hunstanton.
A Garden Chafer Phyllopertha horticola with an almost black thorax.
A pair of flies on a bramble flower at Ringstead Downs.
A Thick-headed Fly Sicus ferrugineus - an endoparasite of bumble bees
Thanks to James Emerson for a very prompt ID of both.
A beetle on a Yellow Flag flower behind the dunes at Old Hunstanton.
A Garden Chafer Phyllopertha horticola with an almost black thorax.
A pair of flies on a bramble flower at Ringstead Downs.
A Thick-headed Fly Sicus ferrugineus - an endoparasite of bumble bees
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