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11-05-2008, 10:00 PM
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There have been lots of beautiful damselfly pics added to the Gallery recently so I decided to get out early this morning with my macro lens and see if I could find any for myself. Didn't see a single one but my local reserve was alive with crane flies. Didn't think they were around this early in the year. Also saw green-veined white and peacock butterflies, sloe bugs, a hoverfly that I think is Melanostoma scalare, a huge bumble bee and some other flies that I'm nowhere near to identifying.
Then in my garden this afternoon some lovely holly blues.
Dave P.
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11-05-2008, 10:10 PM
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This spider lives near my pond. But he didn't want his photo taken as he kept running off.  |
12-05-2008, 04:45 AM
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The Variable Damseflies, Hairy Dragonflies and Dark-bush Cricket nymphs were a welcome sight at Stodmarsh yesterday.
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12-05-2008, 07:01 PM
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Had a very nice day out for insects at the weekend, although unfortunately it was quite dull weather, there probably would've been more around on a sunnier day. Anyway, had a few very fresh Marsh Fritillaries around, also Grizzled and Dingy Skippers, Small Heaths, Green Hairstreaks, Small Coppers, Orange-tips, Green-veined Whites, a Holly Blue and a Small Tortoiseshell. Also saw a couple of Mother Shipton moths, lots of 24-spot Ladybirds and one Orange Ladybird. Hopefully I'll have some photos soon but my computer is playing up at the moment.
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12-05-2008, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by GuyF  Had a very nice day out for insects at the weekend, although unfortunately it was quite dull weather, there probably would've been more around on a sunnier day. Anyway, had a few very fresh Marsh Fritillaries around, also Grizzled and Dingy Skippers, Small Heaths, Green Hairstreaks, Small Coppers, Orange-tips, Green-veined Whites, a Holly Blue and a Small Tortoiseshell. Also saw a couple of Mother Shipton moths, lots of 24-spot Ladybirds and one Orange Ladybird. Hopefully I'll have some photos soon but my computer is playing up at the moment.
Guy | Here's a Marsh Fritillary, such stunning butterflies! 
A Grizzled Skipper (looks like it's emerged very recently) 
And finally a Dingy Skipper 
Guy |
12-05-2008, 08:49 PM
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Sunday .... loads of Small Coppers amongst the bluebell fields of Skomer in west Wales  .... but no macro lens with me  .
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16-05-2008, 11:05 PM
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Found this little chap in my photinia this evening... 
I think he's probably a speckled bush cricket nymph but I'm basing that purely on the length of his antenae and the fact that I get a lot of SBCs in my garden. I'm probably wrong as there is a distinct lack of speckles, but if I'm right then I guess he must be a second or third instar as the first instars are very stripey like this one... 
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17-05-2008, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by pressld2 Found this little chap in my photinia this evening...
I think he's probably a speckled bush cricket nymph but I'm basing that purely on the length of his antenae and the fact that I get a lot of SBCs in my garden. I'm probably wrong as there is a distinct lack of speckles, but if I'm right then I guess he must be a second or third instar as the first instars are very stripey like this one...
Dave P. | Dave you have 2 species here! The second is indeed a Speckled Bush-cricket nymph, but the first is not- it's an Oak Bush-cricket nymph, a species usually found on a variety of shrubs + trees. I occasionally see these 2 species in my garden.
I suspect it is our native Oak BC, Meconema thalassinum, but in recent years a second species, the Southern Oak BC, M. meridionale, has arrived + has mainly been found in the Surrey/ London area. At this stage they would be difficult to distinguish but easy as adults as the native species is fully winged, whereas the newcomer is flightless + the sexual appendages are subtly different in shape. If you're elsewhere in country then almost definitely the native, though there was at least 1 record from the Midlands last year.  |
17-05-2008, 08:41 AM
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Thanks Aeshna. That's another new species for my garden. Must look out for adults later in the year. I'm right on the Kent/London border so it could be the southern variety.
Dave P.
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20-05-2008, 11:08 AM
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At Coxett Wood near Faversham yesterday afternoon (19th May) I found a single female of Rhamphomyia marginata. Until last year this was only known from the band of woods running from Whitstable to Ashford in East Kent. According to the NBN gateway it has also turned up in Middlesex. | | | |
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