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)

Tags: Red-leggedSpiderWasp, SilveryLeafcutterBee, EasternSandWasp, EnglishStonecrop

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

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

Tags: SeaCouchGrass, GallSp, Dasineuraviciae, FlySp, Urophoracardui, SeaSpurrey, EasternSandWasp, SilveryLeafcutterBee, StrawberryClover, SeaWormwood, CordGrass, Red-leggedSpiderWasp, StickyRagwort, SeaLavender

Ant Sp?





Crow Garlic (Allium vineale) with Pantaloon Bee ♂︎ ? (Dasypoda hirtirpes)





Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)

I had a feeling there was something not right the above id.

as
confirmed by Vanna Bartlett.

Either Megachile maritima or Megachile willughbiella

You can see the inflated front tarsi in image 2.
From the size of the front tibia and tarsi Vanna suggested likely to M Maritima





Six Spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae)



Cat's Ear (Hysdrocharis radicata)



Caterpilar (Species?)



♀︎

You can see the two spots at the end of the abdomen

Eyes not green











Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)♀︎



Plasterer Bee Sp? (Colletes Sp?)



A memento mori



Grey Hair- grass (Corynephorus canescens)



Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides)

















Sheep's-bit Scabious (Jasione montana)







Restharrow (Onionis repens)

Part of the plant growing in this fuzzy furry way?

Answers on a post card please.







Oxford Ragwort (Senecio squalidus)







Bulbous Bluegrass (Poa bulbosa) + seeds



Juniper Haircap (Polytrichum juniperinum)



Polypodium Sp?





















Prickly Saltwort (Salsola kali)

















Rue Sp? (Thalictrum minus)



Sand Couch Grass (Thinopryum junceum)



Sand Sedge (Carex arenaria)







Perennial Wall Rocket (Diplotaxus tenuifolia)













Sea Holly (Eryngium maritimum)













Sea Rocket (Cakile maritima)









English Stonecrop (Sedum anglicum)

Beautiful pink flush in the centre of the flower





White Stonecrop (Sedum album)



Narrow-leaved Ragwort (Senecio inaequidens)



Small Cudweed (Filago minima)







Sand Spurry (Spergularia rubra)






Hoary Cress (Lepidium draba)

Heart shaped seed pods

Many thanks to Bob Ellis for Flora id

Also huge thanks to Vanna Bartlett for comments about the Bee ids.

Tags: AntSp, CrowGarlic, PantaloonBee, SilveryLeafcutterBee, SixSpotBurnet, Restharrow, OxfordRagwort, BulbousBluegrass, JuniperHaircap-moss, PlastererBeeSp, GreyHair-grass, Sheep's-bitScabious, SeaSandwort, Cat'sEar

Bee Sp?

Andrena Sp?













Bee Sp?

Gwynne's Mining bee (Andrena bicolor) perhaps?

Confirmed



Hare's-foot Clover (Trifolium arvense)



Harvestmen Sp?

Platybunus triangularis?

Not quite

Phalangium morio or Mitopus morio

A clear view of the front of the head is needed to separate these two.







Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)♀︎

Note the twin white spots at the ned of the abdomen. Diagnostic for females of this species.















Coastal Leafcutter Bee (Megachile maritima)



Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)♂︎

Note absence of white spots, very long antenna and green eyes





Spider Hunter Sp - Orb weavers in particular

Epysiron Sp?

Red-legged Spider Wasp (Epysiron rufipes)?

There are now two species of Epysiron in the UK. E gallicumum being the second one.
Differentiated by the three rather than four comb spines on the fore (basi?) tarsus

Stephen Falk



Caterpillar Wasp

Red-banded Sand Wasp (Ammophila sabulosa)











♀︎

She just wouldn't turn towards the camera to reveal her face spots















Large Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus signatus)?

Both flying on some roadside mignonette





Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree or Matrimony Vine (Lycium barbarum)









Although not visible in the images this little bee had a rima?

Thus Lasioglossum Sp?

With grateful thnaks to Vanna Bartlett for identification comments and corrections.

Tags: BeeSp, Hare's-footClover, CoastalLeafcutterBee, Red-BandedSandWasp, SilveryLeafcutterBee, HarvestmenSp