Friday, August 14, 2015

Wicken Fen - Arrivals at the Ugly Bug Ball

As with many outings recently, the promised sunshine for Wednesday's CCC trip to Wicken Fen did not arrive till 4pm when we had all started for home. However, after a morning playing with filters and landscape photography, we migrated into the Fen and started the ugly bug hunt. Among the prize winners were this fly, a Picture Wing fly (Dasymetopa species), Speckled Bush Cricket, Meadow Grasshopper, a rather shy Short-Winged Conehead, a Green Capsid, a very small beetle (Oulema melanopus), a snail with the fly whose larvae eat snails (Ilione albiseta) and various Hoverflies on Fleabane flowers.





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