Kelling Heath
Black-banded Spider Wasp (Anoplius viaticus)
Fascinating to watch covering up her nest.
Working at a furious pace with at a constant flutter of her wings she redistributed the soil from her excavations over the entrance to her nest.
Carefully redistributing the darker grains from her mine spoil to match the lighter grains present on the ground.
She went over this a number of times to achieve the effect she needed even incorporating larger stones into the mix to match the surrounding substrate.
A Sawfly Sp - (Caught and released)
Either Abia lonicerae or Abia aenea - Honeysuckle Sawfly Agg
The photos didn't show the necessary detail to confirm species id. - Andy Musgrove
Honeysuckle Sawfly Agg
from
Nature Spot
Stephen Falk
Green Honeysuckle Sawfly
Clark's Mining Bee (Andrena Clarkella) or Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)
It seemed a little late for Clark's Mining Bee but there were plenty of Early Nomad Bees (Nomada leucopthalma) present suggesting Clark's Mining Bee.
Also had a slightly more dumpy appearance and hairs on the abdomen but then again white pollen from Alexanders.
Turned out to be.
Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)
Thanks to Nick Owns for confirmation.
Beetle Sp?
Several places where there seemed to false nest holes.
Which sp?
Carrion Beetle Sp (Thanatophilus sinuatus)
Violet Ground Beetle (Carabus violacea)
Not quite
Carabus nemoralis
UK Beetles
Thanks to Nick Owens for correction.
Climbing corydalis (Ceratocapnos claviculata)
Gypsy Cuckoo Bee (Bombus bohemicus) perhaps?
Common Gorse buds (Ulex europeus)
Ichneumon Sp?
Ivy-leaved Speedwell (Veronica hederifolia)
Common Green Lacewing (Chrysoperia carnea) trapped by a Spider Sp
Lasioglossum Sp?
Common Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris)
Early Nomad (Nomada leucopthalma)
Desperately trying to get into this nest but had to give up. Perhaps the female bee was inside?
Early Nomad (Nomada leucopthalma)
Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum)
Hairy Shield Bug (Dolycoris buccarum)
Large Pine Weevil (Hylobius abietus)
From UK Beetles
Upgate Common
Fresh Alder leaves (Alnus glutinosa)
Crab Apple Sp?
Great Scented Liverwort (Conocephalum conicum)
Meadow Thistle (Cirsium dissectum)
A plant of fens, fen meadows, flood-pastures, bog margins.
From
Plant Atlas 2020
Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)
Lateral Cryphea (Cryphea heteromalla)
Crisped Fork-moss (Dicranum bonjeanii)
Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)
Bonfire Moss - Common Cord-moss (Funaria hrgrometrica)
Wood bristle-moss (Lewinskya affine)
Yound shoots of Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris)
Marsh Cinquefoil (Comarum palustre)
Marsh Valerian (Valeriana dioica)
Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Minute Pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)
Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum)
Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella)
Elegant Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum pulchellum)
Finally to see the orange peristome teeth (8 relfexed teeth) of this species.
Normally just looking for the dark smudges at the base of the calyptra
Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum)
?
Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamegeton natans) ?
Acute-leaved Bog-moss (Sphagnum capillifolium)
Acute-leaved Bog Moss (Sphagnum capillifolium) & Blunt-leaved Bog-moss (Sphagnum palustre)
Town Hall Clock - Moschatel (Adoxa moschatellina)
Ulotta Sp
Cow-horn Big-moss (Sphagnum denticulatum)
Hanworth
Mini Miner Sp? Common Mini Miner♀︎ (Andrena minutula)?
Cherry Sp
Gooden's Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana)
Common Snout (Rhinga campestris)
European Wasp (vespa vulgaris)
Hanworth
Fly Sp
Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
Gooden's Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana)
Two ants dragging a Pillbug
Orange-tailed Mining Bee ♂︎ (Andrena haemorroha)
Grey-patched Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena nitida)
Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina)
♂︎
♀︎
Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)
♂︎
♀︎
♂︎
Gooden's Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana)
Early Epistrophe (Epistrophe elegans)
Andrena Sp?
Hanworth
♀︎
Grey - patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida)
♀︎
♂︎
Yellow-legged Mining Bee ( Andrena flavipes)
Common Green Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum morio)
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)
Gooden's Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) Flore pleno
Cley
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
Cley
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis)
Spoonbill (Platalea leocorodia)
Great Snoring
♂︎s
♀︎s
Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria)
Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida) ?
this is in fact
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)
Thanks to Nick Owens for correction.
Hairy-footed Flower Bee ♀︎ (Anthophora plumipes)
Black Oil Beetle (Meloe procarabaeus)
Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)♂︎
Syrphus Sp
Yellow-legged Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena flavipes)
Earlham Cemetry
Ash flowers (Fraxinus excelsior)
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)?
Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaena)
Bee-fly (Bombylius major)
Cherry Laurel (Prunus laeroceracus)
Bee grabber Sp (Conopid Sp)
Dandelion (Taraxacum Sp)
Norway Maple ( Acer platanoides)
Hooded Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum cupulatum)
Osmanthus Sp
Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva)
Dogwood Sp (Cornus Sp)?
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) Queen
Bowthorpe Southern Park
Purple Toothwort (Lathraea clandestina)
To sit among these this morning was quite intoxicating
Hanworth
Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineria) ♂︎
Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)
Chickweed (Stellaria media)
Eristalis Sp
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
♀︎
♂︎
Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaena)
Hanworth
Peziza Sp?
A stylopised Bee
Explanation from Brickfields Park
Twisted wing parasite - Stylops melittae
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica) ♀︎
A stylopised female.
Small white Fungus Sp on dead Wisteria twig.
Cley
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
Black-tailed Godwit (Limos limosa)
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Peregrine (Falco peregrinus)
Weybourne
Thrift (Armeria maritima)
Buffish Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea)♀︎
Beetle Sp
Beetle Sp Harpalus Sp? affinis?
Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)
Mourning Bee (Melecta albifrons)
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)
Sea Mouse Ear (Cerastium diffusum) perhaps?
Sustead
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major)
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Early Bumble Bee (Bombus pratorum)
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria Verna)
Strumpshaw fen
Clarke's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella)
The males had gone by today. Just the females and the Nomads present.
King Alfred's Cakes (Daldinia concentrica)
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major)
Early Nomad Bee (Nomada leocopthalma)
Hawthorn (Cretaegus monogyna)
Spindle (Euonymus europaeus)
Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus)