Warm sunshine brought out a number of Shieldbugs including two new species for my list, Bronze Shieldbug and Bordered Shieldbug.
Showing posts with label churchyard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label churchyard. Show all posts
Friday, March 31, 2023
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Toft Churchyard 27 March: Bee-flies!
First Bee-flies seen yesterday - quite late compared with other years. These two were newly emerged from their burrows and took a time to fly off. Their appearance no doubt linked to more bee species appearing. My favourite image is the very delicate lacewing inside a daffodil.
Friday, March 24, 2023
Toft Churchyard 24 March
I am trying to find a good way of keeping visual plus species detail records of the survey that I am doing of the insect and other invertebrate etc life in Toft Churchyard this year. So far this is the best of have been able to come up with that doesn't involve any steps outside Lightroom which I use for cataloguing
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Churchyard Survey Toft 20/03/23
Delighted to record the first Hairy-footed Flower bees and the solitary bee Andrena bicolor (both males) at Toft Churchyard yesterday, along with a 7-spot ladybird and a very small Ichneumon wasp. There also some very attractive toadstool - Scurfy Twiglet Tubaria furfuracea blending in perfectly with the scales from the Cypress Cedar.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Toft Churchyard Insects
Really warm day on Monday (20th) brought out quite a few insects including two hoverfly species and an Early Bumblebee along with Honey bees and pollen beetles. Both hoverflies are migrant species so wonder if brought in by the warm southerlies.
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