Alderford Common
Wood Bristle-moss (Lewinskya affinis)
Even Scalewort (Radula complanata)
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
Yoke-moss Sp (Zygodon Sp)
Found on an exposed chalk cliff. The lower picture shows a wet shoot and thus the leaves are more spreading.
Fir Tamarisk-moss (Abietinella abietina)
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Hanworth
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Willughby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella)
Hanworth
Large -headed resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
Coelioxys Sp
Dull-vented Sharp-tail Bee (Coelioxys argentata)
Mourning Wasp (Pemphredon lugubris)
Hanworth
Dull-vented Sharp-tail Bee (Coelioxys elongata)?
Crossocerus annulipes
Hanworth
Willighby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile Willughbiella)
Sharptail Bee (Coelioxys Sp)?
Dull-vented Sharp-tail Bee Coelioxts elongata?
Aylsham
Ivy bee (Colletes hederae)
Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
Syrphus Sp
Hanworth
Devil's Coach Horse Beetle (ocypus olens)
Flesh Fly Sp?
Sarcophaga Sp
Crossocerus Sp?
I couldn't find any images that clearly showed the red spines on the rear legs.
But
Crossocerus capitosus ?
and
as it turned out the red spines are not indicative.
It's the swollen front basi tarsus, but that is only in the males.
In this case the photos were passed to Jeremy Early
and it became
Crossocerus annulipes
Otherwise it needs keying.
Prey item
Leafhopper Sp?
Possibly
Eupteryx urticae?
Southrepps Common
Assorted Small fungi?
Chrysocephalus pusillus ♀︎
Comes in a variety of colour forms but the orange pronotum seems to be common to all of them.
Anthocomus rufus
Blueing bracket (Postia subcaesia)
Cinnamon Pore Crust (Phellinus ferreus)
Crab Spider Sp?
Fungus Gnat Sp? Keroplatidae Sp?
Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)
Plant/Leaf Hopper Sp?
A Leafhopper Sp? Row of spines on the hind tibia.
Macrusta scutellata?
Wasp Sp?
Wood Borer Wasp Sp?
Trypoxylon Sp?
Plant/leaf Hopper Sp?
Two spines on the hind tibia
A Planthopper
Issus coleoptratus
but even more fascinating
Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea)
Peniophora Sp
Jellyspot (Dacrymyces squamosus)
Dryad's Saddle (Polyporus squamosus)
Angelica (Angelica archangelica)
Wasp Sp?
Crossocerus quadrimaculatus?
Yellow-face Sp? (Hylaeus Sp?)
Common Yellow Face ? (Hylaeus communis)?
HoverflySp?
Melangyna Sp?
The black spot on the scutellum is confined to the base.
Thus
M compositarum/labiatarum or M umbellatarum
The marking seem very white without hints of yellow
But is the thorax shiny enough?
Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris)
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) on Devil's Bit Scabious (Jasione montana)
Sphaerophoris Sp?
Furrow Bee Sp?
Common Furrow Bee ? (Lasioglossum calceatum?)
Hanworth
Large - headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum) putting the finishing touches to a nest.
Ichneumon Sp exploring the Bee hotel
Willughby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella)
Glaven Beavers
Glaven Beavers
An amazing opportunity to see inside the Beaver enclosure
Grateful thanks
to the
Norfolk River's Trust
Beaver teeth marks in the wood
Paw prints in the mud.
Various attempts by the beavers to bring down this bough.
This is about 12 foot up in the air and you can see how denuded this part of the tree is as a result of their workings.
Fresh mud working on the top of a dam.
A beaver slide/path up the side of a bank.
A simple way to stop the beavers attacking individual trees.
Amazing dams, constantly monitored by the beavers for over topping.
They will then add more mud to maintain the depth of water.
Now that's Beaver carpentry
Another well built dam.
Beaver action.
The gorgeous chaos of the developing habitat.
Something I never thought I would see in this country.
Apparently they don't always fininsh one thing. They will do some and then return over a number of cycles until it is finished.
Extraordinarily the beavers can stand on their hind legs and carry mud in their front paws when they are working
on the dams. No one is quite sure where they get all the mud from.
Are they getting it from burrows underground?
A large metre high dam has allowed this area to be completely flooded.
Gradually the trees will die presumably and the area will be open to more light.
It will be interesting to see how this develops.
Their lodge can just about be made out in the background.
Further view of this flooded area.
Nothing is too large for the Beavers.
Although ti might take them a while.
The first lodge the Beavers made. Under the root plate.
Alderford Common
Hemp - Agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)
Fir Tamarisk-moss ( Abietinella abietina var abietina)
Common Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
Algal growth on the Chalk face.
Ant Sp?
False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum)
Plasterer Bee Sp?
Colletes Sp?
Beautiful bifurcations in the autumn , characteristic of this species.
Endive Pellia (Pellia endivifolia)
Dicronella Sp?
Dicronella varia or Dicronella howeii
Ectemnius Sp?
Hogweed Fly Fox (Ectemnius lituratus ♀︎)?
Eyebright Sp? (EuphrasiaSp?)
Fairly Flax (Linum catharticum)
Fragrant Agrimony (Agrimonia procera)
Much taller arching flower spikes than the common Agrimony and very noticeable in this habitat.
Bell shaped fruits with grooves on the receptacle.
Upright Hedge-Parsley (Torilis japonica)
Hoary Ragwort (Jacobea erucifolia)
Cheilosia albitarsis/ranunculi agg
Furrow Bee Sp?
Lassioglossum Sp?
Likely Common Furrow Bee (Lassioglossum calceatum)
Mint Sp?
A wonderful bank full of Hart's-tongue Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium undulatum)
Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus)
The hairs on the leaves had split ends.
Tachina Sp?
Tachina fera?
Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare)
Zygodon Sp?
To be determined
Little Eye & Gramborough Hill
Little Eye
Red-legged Spider Wasp (Episyron rufipes)
Eastern Sand Wasp (Podalonia affinis)
English Stonecrop (Sedum anglicum)
Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)
Gramborough Hill
?
Philangium opilio?
Harvestmen Sp?
All found on the seaward side & eastern end of Gramborough Hill
22/08/23 TG 08698 44202
Aphanus rolandri
Mosquito sp?
Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
Zebra Spider (Salticus scenicus)
Money Spider Sp?
Likely
Tenuiphantes tenuis
Thanks to British Spiders on Facebook
Sea Aster Mining Bee at her nest.
Sea Aster Mining Bees in a mating ball.
Sea Aster Mining Bee (Colletes halophilus) on the Sea Aster (Trifolium pannonicum)
Sea Aster (Tripolium pannonicum)
Little Eye & Gramborough Hill
Little Eye
Looking west from the Little Eye towards the East Bank at Cley
Eastern Sand Wasp (Podalonia affinis)
Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)
You can clearly see the wing venation pattern in the fore wing.
It has two submarginal cells, the pattern of which seem to place it as an
Arachnospila sp?
But there are seven species that have a similar but subtly different pattern?
Ah but
There was actually even more of a clue to the id of this particular wasp.
And it did in fact turn out to be a wasp that has only recently arrived in Norfolk in the last couple of years.
A Pompilid Wasp (Spider Wasp)
Evagetes pectinipes
A cleptoparasite of other Pompilids, possibly of Episyron rufipes
Under a microscope this species also only has double not treble toothed mandibles.
Thanks to Nick Owens for id help
Wasp Sp?
Looking towards the Little Eye from the east.
Gramborough Hill
Ant Nest Ladybird (Platynaspis luteorubra)
From Andrew Jewels - Inconspicuous Ladybirds
?
Beetle Sp?
Trechnus obtusus? perhaps
Gramborough Hill 21/08/23 TG 08679 44204
Epeolus Sp♀︎(Red scutellum)
Black-thighed Epeolus (Epeolus variegatus)
Fly Sp
Miltogramma Sp?
Spotted Satellite Fly (Miltogramma punctata)
Fly Sp?
Fever Fly ♀︎ (Dilophus febrilis)
14 Spot Ladybird? (Propylea quatupordecimpunctata)?
Fly Sp?
Fever Fly♂︎(Dilophus febrilis)
Sea Aster Mining Bee (Colletes halophilus)
Spider Sp?
Plant Hopper Sp
Dicranotropis hamata
Weevil Sp?
Upgate Common
Rhopalid Bug
Rhopalus subrufus
Young Birch Polypore (Fomitopsis betulina)
From Tony M
The rust on the bramble was Kuehneola uredinis (Stage I aecia surrounding Stage 0 spermogonia)
On the upperside of the leaf only.
Pale Bramble Rust (Kuehneola uredenis)
Broad Buckler-fern (Dryopteris dilatata)
Gall (Chilosia betuleti is a small grey fly resembling a house fly.
Its larvae cause galls to form on ferns, and in particular Male-fern, Lady-fern & Broad Buckler-fern.
Male-fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
Alder Buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
Two-banded Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum bicinctum♂︎
Slime Mold Sp
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
Hook-barred Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum festivum)
Conopid Fly?
The wing venation suggests
Conops quadrifasciatus (♀︎)?
Amethyst deceiver (Laccaria amethystina)
Eristalis Sp?
Tapered Dronefly (Eristalis pertinax)
Fly Sp?
Anne commented
The only thing I have looked at is the Forthy porecrust (Oxyporus latemarginatus). It’s definitely this, spores correct and matches description (but not photo!)
in Resupinates of Hampshire. If you google it you’ll see lots of similar pictures. Interestingly the other flat fruiting body next to it (that looked like an Antrodia)
was the same thing - and looked more like the photos in Resupinates of Hampshire. Obviously a fungus that has different forms of growth.
Tony M replied
Thanks for that Anne - I looked at Resupinates of Hampshire last night and like you thought the ‘other bit’ of crust was a dead ringer for the image in RoH for
Oxyporus latemarginatus – & it left me completely puzzled as to what the ‘main bit’ of crust was! Tony (M)
Frothy Porecrust
Fungus Sp?
Fungus Sp?
Tony M commented
I took a piece of the Russula cyanoxantha/parazurea (Charcoal Burner / Powdery Brittlegill) home.
These two can be split on spore ornamentation & spore print colour (& reaction to FeSO4 which I don’t have). It was Russula parazurea.
Tawny Grisette (Amanita vaginata)
Saddleback Harvestmen (Mitopus morio)? Upgate Common (TG 14258 18233)
Young Hoof Fungus (Fomes formentarius)
Marsh St John's-wort (Hypericum elodes)
Ichneumon Sp?
Fairy Inkcap Fungus (Coprinellus disseminatus)?
Evarcha falcata
Jumping about in the lower branches of young Birch in a woodland clearing.
As they do!
(Eupeodes latifasciatus ♂︎)
Marasmus Sp?
Batman Hoverfly (Myothropa florea)
Mycena Sp?
Oakbug Milkcap (Lactarius quietus)
Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)
Robberfly Sp
Kite-tailed Robberfly (Machimus atricapillus)
Forest Bug (Pentatoma rufipes)
Two glorious
Skullcap Dapperling (Leucocoprinus brebissonii)
Sulphur Tuft (hypholoma fasciculare)
The Blusher (Amanita excelsa)
Tachina sp?
Tachina fera
Large-tiger Hoverfly (Helophilus trivittatus)
Neoascia Sp? mating.
There do appear to be clouded cross veins particularly on the male
so
Possibly
Neoascia podgarica
Turkey-tail (Trametes versicolor)
Mason Wasp Sp?
Early Mason Wasp? (Ancistrocerus nigricornis perhaps?
Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp (Cerceris rybyensis)
Bifid Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis bifida))
Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus)
Chrysotoxum festivum?
Water-pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)
Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus)
The Woolliest Wood Wollyfoot (Gymnopus peronatus)
Blue Shieldbug (Zircona caerulea)
Roesel's Bush-cricket (Roeseliana roesellii)
Roydon Common
Heath Sandwasp (Amophila pubescens) with prey.
A southern UK species with outlying sites in North Norfolk.
Just that little bit smaller than its near relative the Red-banded SandWasp (Ammophila sabulosa)
This caterpillar was just too heavy for her to fly with but she wasn't going to give it up.
She carried it over the sand with various twists and turns for a
good eighty feet. (and that was the bit I saw.)
The burrow was already prepared and she quickly ducked in almost spat out this bit of brushwood plugging the hole.
She then dragged the caterpillar into the burrow backwards.
Then she set about filling up the burrow. 
Bit of packing down
Then brushwood
Really packing it down.
The stalked third submarginal cell on the forewing
More packing down
More brushwood
Then backwards scrabbling of sand into the hole
Packing down
More scrabbling of sand
Levelling off
So finally nothing can be seen of the burrow
Beetle Sp
Rose Chafer perhaps?
It is difficult to convey in a photograph the complexity of nest burrows in the sand on the path that crosses the reserve.
In the area below the sand flash on the track there are so many small burrows.
You can see some are freshly open by the darker moist soil humps.
There are just so many packed into such a small area. On the sand flash itself the surface is so disturbed from where
people have been playing on the sand you wonder how the colony manages to cope.
But they do.
And all the while a few inches above the surface there is the constant criss crossing of bees flying.
Whether anyone could write an algorithm to explain the flight pattern is open to question.
Largely the males, presumably, hoping for mating opportunities The females do seem to make themselves available in slight open depressions in the sand and then there is a convergence of males until one takes hold.
But it doesn't take long, although occasionally the female flies off as if not convinced.
The tussle on the ground begins between the pair (I wonder whether ecstatic tussle would be a better explanation. There is certainly a lot of waving of the females legs in this species)
And the other males fly off in myriad of directions.
In amongst all this the orange of their Nomad can be seen dropping onto possible nests ripe for predation.
♀︎
♂︎
They have a very frenzied mating.
Afterwards it looks as though both sexes can often be a little disoriented.
The females sit a while before flying off.
The males can be seen skittering about on the ground or having trouble negotiating stones or grass stems.
But then again there can also be very quick attempts at mating as a female is quickly disappearing in her burrow.
Whether these are successful or not….?
And again the most amazing things are the females ability to find their nests in the sand when the surface is so disturbed, coupled with the speed they disappear into the burrows.
Head down and within seconds she has disappeared
♀︎
Small Sandpit Mining Bee (Andrena argentata)
The Small Sandpit Mining Bee has cuckoo bee that predates its nests. 
Said Cuckoo found a nest to predate.
She was underground for about twenty minutes
and
then
she reappeared
But she didn't fly off straightaway
After a bit of reorientation presumably
She set to and thoroughly cleaned herself off.
Eyes
Antennae
Mandible
Antennae and top of the head
Almost done
One final go at the left eye before flying off
I guess because they don't do all the excavating it's a bit more of a trial for them to go underground.
The host bees themselves are so much quicker at going in and out.
Small Bear-clawed Nomad Bee (Nomada baccata)
A rather nice jumping spider caught my eye today but not long enough to meet eye to eye.
Aellurilus v-insignitus
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea)
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallus)
Marsh Cudweed (Gnaphalium uliginosum)
Kidney shaped capsules
Marsh Speedwell (Veronica scutellata)
Lesser Spearwort (Ranunculus flammula)
Purple Loosestrife (Lathyrum salicaria)
Purple Loosestrife (Lathyrum salicaria)
Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica)
