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)

Tags: Landscape, EvenScalewort, Snowberry, ZygodonSp, WoodBristle-moss

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?)

Tags: Landscape, BlueingBracket, CinnamonPoreCrust, Angelica, WaspSp?, Yellow-faceBeeSp, Dryad'sSaddle

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

Tags: Landscape, HempAgrimony, FirTamarisk-moss, CommonAgrimony, FragrantAgrimony, HogweedFlyFox, AntSp, Algae, FalseBrome, EyebrightSp, FairyFlax, DicronellaSp, EndivePellia, FragrantAgrimony, HoaryRagwort, CheilosiaSp, MintSp, FurrowBeeSp, Hart's-tongueThymeMoss, RoughtHawkbit, WildBasil, TachinaSp, UprightHedgeParsley, ZygodonSp

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?

Tags: Landscape, SpiderSp, FlySp, SilveryLeafcutterBee, LadyBirdSp, WaspSp?, BeetleSp?, EpeolusSp?, MiltogrammaSp, AntNestLadybird

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)

Tags: Landscape, SkullcapDapperling, ForestBug, Ceratiomyxafruticulosa, TwoBandedSpearhorn, AlderBuckthorn, MaleFern, PaleBrambleRust, BirchPolypore, Rhopalussubrufus, Broad-Buckler-fern, Hook-barredSpearhorn, BatmanHoverfly, MarasmusSp, Eupeodeslatifasciatus, Evarchafalcata, FairyInkcap, TawnyGrisette, Russulaparazurea, FrothyPorecrust, FlySp, HoofFungus, TaperedDroneFly, AmethystDeceiver, ConopidFly, Mitopusmorio, MarshStJohn's-wort, IchneumonSp, OakbugMilkcap, MycenaSp, OverleafPellia, Kite-tailedRobberFly, Roesel'sBush-cricket, BlueShieldbug, SulphurTuft, WoodWoollyfoot, TheBlusher, Tachinafera, WaterPepper, Tooth-thighedHoverfly, Large-tigerHoverfly, BifidHemp-nettle, EarlyMasonWasp?, TurkeyTail, Ornate-tailedDiggerWasp, Gypsywort, RedBartsia

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)

Tags: HeathSandWasp, Landscape, WaspSpider, MarshSpeedwell, Allurilusv-insignitus, MeadowGrasshopper, MarshCudweed, PurpleLoosestrife, SpiderSp, SmallSandpitMining, SmallBear-clawedMiningBee

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)

Tags: Landscape, Angelica, Hook-bandedHoverfly, Burdockblacklet, BatmanHoverfly, Long-wingedConehead, FlySp, TaperedDroneFly, Gasteruptionjaculator, BifidHempnettle, Chrysogastersolstitialis, Rutpelamaculata, MiniMinerSp, ScorpionFly, Ornage-beltedLeafLicker, CommonWasp, PellucidFly, CheilosiaSp, LesserBurdock

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)

Tags: Landscape, SpikedSpeedwell, HairyShieldBug, KnottedPearlwort, MosaicPuffball, MedicSp, PurpleCat'sTail, EyebrightSp, AutumnGentian, AssassinBugSp, HarvestmenSp, SmokeySpindle, WhiteHorehound, Harebell, YellowWaxcap, StemlessThistle, Squinancywort, SandCatchfly, Maiden'sPink, PurpleMilkVetch, Gold-tailedMelitta

Fruit Fly Sp?



Cheilosia impressa



Purple Hairstreak ♀︎ (Neozephryus quercus)



Orange Balsam (Impatiens capensis)





Bifid Hempnettle (Galeopsis bifida)



Stingless Nettle (Urtica dioica ssp galeopsifolia)



Pink Water Speedwell (Veronica catenata)





Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)



Marsh Fly Sp?





Carabus granulatus?



















Hogweed Fly-fox (Ectemnius lituratus) perhaps on Milk Parsley (Peucedanum palustre)

Stephen Falk - Hogweed Fly-fox



Swallow Tail (Papilio machaeon) caterpillar





















Longhorn Beetle Sp

Musk Beetle (Aromia moschata)







Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)





Under the Carr Woodland







Water-pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)



Gasteruption Sp?



Duckweed

Greater Duckweed and Common Duckeed present





Fat Duckweed (Lemna gibba)



Ivy-leaved Duckweed (Lemna triscula)



Common Duckweed (Lemna minor)





Greater Duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza)













Cowbane (Cicuta virosa)







Bithynia sp? with lid

Possibly B tentaculata but confirmation arriving later.



Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)?





Spire small but sharply pointed.

Radix balthica?



Great Ram's-horn (Panorbarius corneus)?



For comparison

The Ram's-horn on the left with three whorls and the small one on the right with four tightly coiled whorls.

So although a young snail on the right it is not a young of the snail on the left.

Anisus Sp?





Amber Snail Sp

Succinia putris ?


Identifying Freshwater Molluscs

from

Naturespot



Lesser Water-parsnip (Berula erecta)





Lacewing Larvae carrying debris

The upper image seems to have flies as part of the luggage







Because of the yellow face , first thought was Hairy Yellow-face.

But too hairy and the legs were too hairy as well.

Thanks to Anne Crotty's comments this became

a

Yellow Loosestrife Bee ♂︎ (Macropis europea)

Have only seen females with lots of pollen on previously so nice to realise a male.





Some hairs visible on the leaf edges.



Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus)







Small Teasel (Dipasacus pilosus)



Hazel nuts (Corylus avellana)



Dolichopus Sp?



Chrysopilus cristatus ♀︎





Wasp Plumehorn (Volucella inanis)





Pellucid Fly (Volucella pellucens)



















Harvestmen Sp?

Leiobunum rotundum





Golden-tailed Leaf Licker (Xylota sylvarum)





Interesting whirl of leaves on the fern.

Gall?

Very happy to receive correction and comments.

Tags: Landscape, FruitFlySp, Cheilosiaimpressa, PurpleHairstreak, AmberSnailSp, LesserWater-parsnip, LacewingLarva, YellowLoosestrifeBee, GreaterBird's-footTrefoil, SmallTeasel, Hazel, DolichopusSp, SnipeFly, WaspPlumehorn, PellucidFly, Golden-tailedLeafLicker, FernGalls, OrangeBalsam, GreatedDuckweed, Cowbane, BithyniaSp, CommonPondSnail, BifidHempnettle, EarPondsnail, GreatRam's-horn, StinglessNettle, Carabusgranulatus, EctemniusSp, MuskBeetle, CreepingJenny, Water-pepper, GasteruptionSp, FatDuckweed, Ivy-leavedDuckweed, CommonDuckweed, Swallowtail, MarshFlySp, Skullcap

Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum)







Big Shaggy Bee (panurgurus banksianus)





Sea Rocket (Cakile maritima)







Oddly five petals, which took a while to find.

Brookweed (Samolus valerandi)





Orache Sp?

Frosted orache (Atriplex laciniata)





and

accompanying leaf mines











Long-horned Bee ♀︎ (Eucera longicornis)

Tags: Landscape, RockSamphire, BigShaggyBee, FrostedOrache, OracheSp, Brookweed