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)
Broadland Country Park
Sand Wasp Sp? Amophila Sp?
Most likely
Red banded Sand Wasp (Ammophila sabulosa)?
Beech Nut (Fagus sylvatica)
Climbing Corydalis (Ceratocapnos sylvatica)
Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)
Episyron Sp?
This one doesn't have red legs.
Possibly
Episyron gallicum?
with spider prey (Araneus Sp)? Araneus quadratus
Thanks to Vanna Bartlett for Spider id
Harvestmen Sp?
Phalangium opilio ♂︎
Heather Colletes (Colletes succinctus)
Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis)
Common Spiney-digger (Oxybelus uniglumis)
A wasp that catches flies living on the sand pile.
Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
Spider Sp?
Araniella Sp?
Not quite
an
Enoplognatha Sp?
Again thanks to Vanna Bartlett for correction.
Hanworth
Fly Sp?
Gasteruption Sp?
Gasteruption jaculator?
Not sure how you tell the difference between the sp
Hoverfly Sp?
Melanostoma Sp?
Melanostoma mellinum ? perhaps.
Some fiercesome jaws on this tiny bee/
Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
Stunning jaws, which the bees use for cutting the leaves
that they use to make the nest cells for their young.
Megachile Sp?
This could be a Male Wood-cutting Leafcutter Bee? (Megachile ligniseca)
Fruit Fly Sp?
Anomoia permundus
Pemphredon Sp?
Possibly
Mourning Wasp (Pemphredo lugubris)
Later confirmed on inspection of the wing venation
conforming to the pattern below
fo P lugubris
From BWARS key for Pemphredon
Either
(Andrena denticulata)
Or
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)
There are dark hairs on the thorax but they seem more brown than actually black?
Is this enough for A denticulata?
Not in this case.
Nick commented probably A flavipes
Sp?
Chalcid Wasp Sp?
Thanks to Nick Owens for help with ids
Hanworth
Large - headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
The dark hairs on the tip of female abdomen.
Willughby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella)
Willughby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella)♂︎
Wasp Sp?
Possibly
a
Trypoxylon Sp?
Possibly T figulus
Thanks to Nick Owens for help with ids
Mannington Hall
Mannington Pond
Angelica (Angelica sylvestris)
Bog Hoverfly (Sericomya silentis) ♂︎
not quite
Hook-banded Hoverfly Chrysotoxum festivum
Mines on Lesser Burdock (Arctium minus)
Burdock Blacklet (Cheilosia impressa) ♀︎
Long-winged Conehead Nymph (Conocephalus fuscus)
Eristalis Sp
Tapered Drone Fly (Eristalis pertinax) ♂︎
Tachina fera
Fly Sp?
Gasteruption Sp?
Possibly
Gasteruption jaculator?
Common Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit)
Cheilosia Sp?
Chrysogaster solstitialis ♀︎
Black & Yellow Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata)
Mini Miner Sp?
Batman Hoverfly (Myathrops florea) ♀︎
Pellucid Fly (Volucella pellucens) ♀︎
Scorpion Fly (Panorpa communis)
Wasp (Vespa vulgaris)
Orange-belted Leaf Licker (Xylota segnis)
Salthouse
Great lettuce (Lactuca virosa)
Matt forming. Totally prostrate on the path. The leaves in the upper image look fairly uniform.
Apparently inspection of the achenes is necessary to confirm. (2 convex & 1 concave side)
Polygonum aviculare subsp depressum ?
Sea Couch Grass (Elymus atherica)
Grass-leaved Orache (Atriplex littoralis)
&
Gall ?
Nothing particular for this species in the book or on the Gall website.
Gall on Common Vetch caused by the Midge Dasineura viciae
Galls on Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvensis) caused Urophora cardui
Sea Spurrey (Spergularia media)
Strawberry Clover (Trifolium fragiferum)
Sea Wormwood (Artemisia maritima)
Sea Lavender (Limonium vulgare)
The Dreaming Spires of Cord grass (Spartina anglica)
Seed Pods of Yellow-horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum)
Sticky Groundsel (Senecio viscosus) on the beach.
Fly Sp?
The action happens on these sparsely vegetated banks.
Podalonia Sp, Silvery Leafcutter bees, Spider Hunters, Jewel Wasps, Beewolf, Oxybelus, Blood bees
The Sea Aster Mining Bee colony hadn't got going today.
Spider Hunter
Red-legged Spider Wasp (Epysiron rufipes)
Eastern Sand Wasp (Podalonia affinis)?
Digging a burrow
Confirmed
Thanks to Nick Owens
Silvery Leafcutter Bee ♂︎ (Megachile leachella)
Taking a short break
Weeting Heath
Autumn Gentian (Gentianella amarella)
Now that is camouflage.
Assassin Bug Sp?
Woodroff's Assassin Bug (Coranus woodroffei)?
Eyebright Sp (Euphrasia Sp?)
Purple Cat's-tail (Phleum phleoides)
Botanical illustration from Weeting Heath
from
Lizzie Harper 
Medic Sp? (Medicago Sp)?
Mosaic Puffball (Lycoperdon utriforme)
Knotted Pearlwort (Sagina nodosa)
from
Wildflower Finder
Mottlegill Sp?
Maiden's Pink (Dianthus deltoids)
Sand Catchfly (Silene conica)
Squinancywort (Asperula cynanchica)
Stemless / Dwarf Thistle (Cirsium acaule)
Wild Thyme (Thymus polytrichus)
Yellow Waxcap (Hygorcybe Sp?)
Possibly Bitter or Honey or…?
White Harebell (Campanula rotindifolia)
White Horehound (Marrubium vulgare)
Smokey Spindle (Clavaria fumosa)
Microscopy later suggested
Clavaria amoenoides
Harvestmen Sp?
Gold-tailed Melitta (Melitta haemorroidalis)
Purple Milk Vetch (Astragalus danicus)
Hairy Shield Bug (Dolycorus baccarum)
Late instar above
Adult below
Spiked Speedwell (Veronica spicata)
Cranwich Heath
Ant Sp
White form
Basil Thyme (Clinopodium acinos)
Beetle Sp?
I have sent it to Martin Collier
He confirmed
Zabrus tenebroides
Fourth record for Norfolk
Once in 2009 and twice in 2014
All from Mundford Rd in Norfolk
I didn't have the clincher photograph, which Martin asked for.
Something to remember fo another time.
One from above.
Luckily Ann, who found it, did. 
Lucerne Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus)
Colletes Sp
One of three presumably
Colletes fodiens & Colletes marginatus & Colletes similis
Harvestmen Sp?
Opilio Sp? perhaps
Hoverfly Sp?
Chrysotoxum cautum?
The antenna segment 3 is not longer than 1&2 together.
It's body does not look particularly dumpy and eyes do not have long hairs.
But
segment 1 does look to be a similar length to segment 2 rather than 2/3 the length.
This turned out to be
Variable Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum elegans)
Large Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena hattorfiana)
Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus)
Robber fly Sp?
Kite-tailed Robberfly (Machimus atricapillus)
Rough Clover (Trifolium scabrum)
from
Wildflower Finder
Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycorus baccarum) Late instar nymph
Banded Burdock Fly (Terellia tussilaginis)
One of two flies that make their home on Lesser Burdock
from earthstar
Burdock beasties
the other
Picture wing flies on Burdock
Small Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria) seedhead 
Small Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena marginata)
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare)
Hanworth
♀︎
♀︎
♀︎
♀︎
Wall Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus parietinus)
Lasioglossum Sp?
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Wasp Plumehorn (Volucella inanis)
Three-banded Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus trifasciatus)
Yellow-faced Mining Bee Sp? (Hylaeus Sp?)
Yelow-legged Mining bee (Andrena flavipes)
Hanworth
Short-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsatta)
Andrena Sp?
Empis livida on Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
Lasioglossum Sp?
Mini miner Sp?
Leaf Cutter Bee & Short-fringed Mining Bee
Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile centuncularis) & Short-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsatta)
Robberfly Sp?
Couldn't quite make up my mind on this one.
Legs looked too orange to tie it down.
Wasp Sp?
Pompilid Sp?
Ancistrocerus Sp?
Likely to be Wall Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus parietinus)?
But presumed pair with mating activity with no yellow spots visible on thorax of either one.
Hence ?
Yellow-face Bee Sp? (Hylaeus Sp?)
Broadland Country Park
Ant Sp Nest
Myrmica Sp?
Rove Beetle Sp?
Staphylinus Sp or Platydracus Sp perhaps?
from
British Beetles
Confirmed by Martin Collier
Staphylinus erythropterus
Rhopalus subrufus
Long-winged Conehead nymph (Conocephalus fuscus)
Spider Hunting Wasp Sp?
Potter Spider Wasp (Auplopus carbonarius ?)
On reflection if you look at the wing venation visible on this specimen.
Stephen Falk comments that the closed cells of the
forewing extend much further towards the wing tip
in the case of Auplopus carbonarius
In this case the closed cells are much further away from the wing tip.
Stephen Falk
Thus
an
Anoplius Sp
There are three all black British Anoplopius pompilid (Spider hunters) Sp
Anoplopus nigerrimus, Anoplius caviventris & Anoplopius concinnus
Anoplius niggerimus is one of the commonest pompilids
In this case the third sub marginal cell is petiolated ie. it joins one edge of the second submarginal cell
to create a more triangular cell rather than join the marginal cell vein
This is diagnostic for male & female
Common Black Spider Wasp (Anoplius nigerrimus)
Confirmed
Pompilid Wasp Sp?
Bristle-tailed Spider Wasp (Anoplius infuscatus)? on Wild Carrot (Daucus carotta)
You can see black bristley hairs at the tip of the abdomen in the last image. Matt body.
And the wing pattern seems to fit.
Still open?
Stephen Falk
Russula Sp
Tawny Grisette (Amanita fulva)
Wasp Spider (Argeope bruennichi)
Minettia fasciata agg
Impossible to identify species in this group without microscopic examination
From Naturespot 
Grassp Sp?
Noon Fly (Mesembrina meridiana)
Corizus hyoscyami
from
British Bugs
Rhombic Leather Bug (Syromastus rhombeus)
Hogweed Fly Fox (Ectemnius lituratus) ♀︎
Confirmed
Something rather nice Anne found on her car as she was leaving
turned out to be
Ichneumon Fly (Megmerina dolium)
Stephen Falk
Thanks to Nick Owens for help with ids