wildlifepilgrim

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25-07-2009 11:55 AM - permalink
Kayleigh

Thank you for the friendship gladly accepted.
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25-07-2009 11:51 AM - permalink
Kayleigh

Thank you....
It may look like a only piece of waste land but think what it supports your doing a great job..
What a wasted opportunity for a school to educate its kids in wildlife kids love anything wild.
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24-07-2009 06:52 PM - permalink
Kayleigh

Hi, sorry about the school wanting to get rid of the meadow can you post some pics of it, I would love to see it even though it might get to be houses one day..
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Mystery Caterpillar spins cocoon

Posted 15-08-2009 at 06:51 PM

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A week or so ago I found a green caterpillar on my roses. I first thought it was a swafly grub but folk around here think its some kind of lepidopteran larvae. Since we couldn't identify it I decided to put it in a jar and watch what it turns into.
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Well after munching through a few rose leaves it has now begun...

Sawflies get it on

Posted 12-08-2009 at 10:39 AM

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The first Sawfly hatchling investigated the rose bush from where it had originally come from almost as soon as it had hatched. Within about 30 seconds another Rose Sawfly turned up as if by magic and made himself known.
There was no mating, our Rose Sawfly doesn't put out on a first date. She found a stem and stuck a little saw from her abdomen into the stem.

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Then slowly she would contract...

Sawflies emerge!

Posted 11-08-2009 at 03:47 PM

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For the last few weeks I have been keeping a pair of Rose Sawfly - Arge pagana in a jar on my desk. One of them successfully made a cocoon, whilst the other failed slightly and ended up going into metamorphosis out in the open.
The one that cocooned emerged at 11am on the 9th August. After walking around for a while it attempted some short and clumsy flights. In flight it sounded like a wasp. When airborne it flew over to the rose bush where it was born. Here it settled for a few hours and...

Operation Sawfly III

Posted 27-07-2009 at 05:33 PM

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So in my attempt to follow a pair of Rose Sawflies from egg to fly here things have become interesting.
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26th July 2009 5pm
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26th July 2009 10pm
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27th July 2009

So as you can see the Sawfly is now tightly...

Operation Sawfly II

Posted 26-07-2009 at 09:00 PM

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Exciting things are happening to my Rose Sawflies. As you may recall, having found tiny rose sawfly caterpillars on my roses I took some into captivity for observation and left some on the bush. By observing what the captive sawfly do and become I should stand a better chance of phoographing a Rose Sawfly cocoon out in the wild. Check out these pictures.
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20th of July
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