Sunday 22 April 2018
Friday 20 April 2018
Off Patch: four beetles and two bugs on Heacham South Beach
Hairy Rove Beetle, Creophilus maxillosus, from a dead Curlew, Heacham South Beach, 19th April 2018
Thanatophilus rugosus from dead Curlew, Heacham South Beach 19th April 2018
Phaleria cadaverina, from a dead Curlew, Heacham South Beach, 19th April 2018
Silpha laevigata, Heacham South Beach 19th April 2018
Turtle Bug, Podops inuncta, Heacham South Beach, 19th April 2018
Stilt Bug, Berytinus signoreti, Heacham South Beach, 19th April 2018
Three early-season bugs and a spider
Sloe Shieldbug Ringstead Downs, 19th APril 2018
Corizus hyoscyami, Ringstead Downs, 19th April 2018
Dock Shieldbug, Coreus marginatus, Ringstead Downs, 19th APril 2018
Nurseryweb Spider Pisaura mirabilis, Ringstead Downs, 19th April 2018
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Off Patch: an American Bittern in Suffolk
Eurasian and American Bitterns, Carlton Marshes, Suffolk, 15th April 2018
a bit of a 'record shot' as they say.......
One of the more numerous of the many dung beetle species found on the patch
Aphodius prodromus, Holme NWT, 7th April 2018
Thursday 12 April 2018
Monday 9 April 2018
The South Beach Parallel Lines
The Parallel Line of South Beach in their glory
Discovered as recently as today, 9th April 2018, these remarkable features on the South Beach at Heacham, Norfolk, have evidently gone quietly unnoticed for millennia. Today's discovery came moments into a visit by the modestly unassuming but acute observer, famous ethno-geometrician Phil Amies.
As idling coleopterists stood in thrall, Professor Amies announced that he could discern a series of astonishingly well-preserved, precision lines, each running parallel to the others but directly across the sands and - most amazingly, perpendicular to the strand- and shore-line.
Comparisons with the Nazca lines of the Chilean Atacama are immediately obvious and one can only wonder at the ingenuity which will have been required to produce these ancient artefacts. Whereas the South American lines can only really be appreciated from space, the South Beach lines have the advantage that they can also clearly be seen from the the top of the taller sand dunes which guard the entrance to the great embayment of The Wash.
Noting that the find adds to the recent discoveries of the Snettisham torc, Holme's sea-henge and wasp-henge and of early 'Hunstanton' Man and further cements the area's outstanding cultural significance, Professor Amies remarked that he "really should stand around on the dunes more often".
Discovered as recently as today, 9th April 2018, these remarkable features on the South Beach at Heacham, Norfolk, have evidently gone quietly unnoticed for millennia. Today's discovery came moments into a visit by the modestly unassuming but acute observer, famous ethno-geometrician Phil Amies.
As idling coleopterists stood in thrall, Professor Amies announced that he could discern a series of astonishingly well-preserved, precision lines, each running parallel to the others but directly across the sands and - most amazingly, perpendicular to the strand- and shore-line.
Comparisons with the Nazca lines of the Chilean Atacama are immediately obvious and one can only wonder at the ingenuity which will have been required to produce these ancient artefacts. Whereas the South American lines can only really be appreciated from space, the South Beach lines have the advantage that they can also clearly be seen from the the top of the taller sand dunes which guard the entrance to the great embayment of The Wash.
Noting that the find adds to the recent discoveries of the Snettisham torc, Holme's sea-henge and wasp-henge and of early 'Hunstanton' Man and further cements the area's outstanding cultural significance, Professor Amies remarked that he "really should stand around on the dunes more often".
Three early-season plants in flower in the dunes
Spring Vetch, Holme NWT, 7th April 2018
Field Wood-rush, Holme NWT, 7th April 2018
Hairy Bittercress, Holme NWT, 7th April 2018
Off Patch: Some early-season beetles and bugs
Tawny Cockroach, Ectobius pallidus, Wangford Warren, 31st March 2018
Minotaur Beetle, Dersingham Bog, 30th March 2018
Platynaspis luteorubra, Cranwich Camp, 31st March 2018
Heath Shieldbug, Legnotus picipes, Heacham South Beach, 9th April 2018
Cassida prasina, Cranwich Camp, 30th March 2018
Chrysolina haemoptera, Heacham South Beach, 9th April 2018
Minotaur Beetle, Dersingham Bog, 30th March 2018
Platynaspis luteorubra, Cranwich Camp, 31st March 2018
Heath Shieldbug, Legnotus picipes, Heacham South Beach, 9th April 2018
Cassida prasina, Cranwich Camp, 30th March 2018
Chrysolina haemoptera, Heacham South Beach, 9th April 2018
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