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25-01-2012, 07:33 AM
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Saw my first butterfly of the year yesterday down in the New Forest - a Red Admiral. |
25-01-2012, 06:54 PM
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Quite a few happily muching Rosemary Beetles on both Lavender + Rosemary. |
27-01-2012, 08:48 AM
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Huge Queen Bumble-bee has just looked at me through the kitchen window.
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28-01-2012, 05:41 PM
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An active Common Earwig in the kitchen as I turned on the light this evening. First noticed it yesterday. |
29-01-2012, 10:41 PM
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Summary of the last few days:
Amaurobius male and female about in the kitchen,
Lots and lots of active 7 spots in the sun yesterday (not a single Harlequin)
Winter gnats - a species larger than usual - in a bobbing mating swarm
Rough woodlouse about in the conservatory
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14-02-2012, 08:15 PM
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tiny Green Shieldbug nymph sunning on black plastic litter bin, Kew riverside.  |
15-02-2012, 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Toby  tiny Green Shieldbug nymph sunning on black plastic litter bin, Kew riverside. | Green Shieldbugs normally overwinter as adults as do most shieldbugs. I'm pretty sure this is a mid-instar Forest Bug, Pentatoma rufipes, which is an exception to this rule. |
15-02-2012, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by aeshna5 Green Shieldbugs normally overwinter as adults as do most shieldbugs. I'm pretty sure this is a mid-instar Forest Bug, Pentatoma rufipes, which is an exception to this rule. | that looks right, can't believe I missed it thumbing through Evans & Edmondson |
23-02-2012, 06:07 PM
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This afternoon in really warm sunshine - one tiny shieldbug instar 2-3mm exactly like Toby's (above) a number of Seven spot ladybirds, and a Red Admiral looking beautiful. Oh and literally dozens of Arocatus longceps (Plane tree seed bugs).
So when does Winter end, and Spring begin on WAB?
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23-02-2012, 08:22 PM
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Maybe somewhere around 21st of March? That's the date when I plan on having this year's thread 'de-sticked'. | | | |
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