Bovey Tracey - Devon
Ant Sp?
Bell Heather (Erica cinerea)
Shieldbug Stalker (Astata boops)
Green-eyed Flower Bee (Anthophora bimaculata)
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)
Mottled Grasshopper (Mymeleotettix maculatus)
Heath Potter Wasp (Eumenes coarctatus)
Lichen Sp on a stone?
Blunt Flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus)
Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)
Soft Rush (Jumics effusus)
Vervain (verbena officinalis)
Emperor Dragonfly ♀︎ (Anax imperator)
Golden-ringed Dragonfly ♂︎
and
One or Two
from
Chudleigh
Pincushion Sp? (Ulotta Sp)
Forked Veilwort (Metgeria furcata) & Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata)
Slapton - Devon
Two-banded Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum bicinctum)
Blue Jewel Wasp (Trichrysis cyanea)
Colletes Sp?
Moth Sp?
Osmia Sp?
Pied Hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri)
Rose of Sharon (Hypericum calycinum)
Hairy Yellow-faced Bee (Hylaeus hyalinatus)
East Prawle - Devon
Hoverfly Sp?
Sphaerophora scripta ♀︎
Long-horned Bee (Eucera longicornis) on Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea (Lathyrus sylvestris)
Common Red-legged Robberfly (Dioctria rufipes)
Brown-lipped Snail (Cepaea nemoralis)
Scarlet Tiger Moth (Callimorpha dominula)
Common Green Shieldbug 3rd Instar (Palomena prasina)
Eupeodes corallae ♂︎
Eupeodes corallae ♂︎
?
Eupeodes corallae mating pair
Beesands - Devon
Aphid Sp?
Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum)
Leaf Hopper Sp?
Yellow Horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum)
Ichneumon Sp?
Pillbug Sp?
Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis)
Buck's-horn Plantain (Plantago coronopus)
Restharrow (Ononis repens)
Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum)
Amophila Sp?
Red - banded Sand Wasp (Ammophila sabulosa)
♀︎
♂︎
Pied Hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri)
Script Lichen Sp?
Pointed Snail (Cochlicella acuta)
Wrinkled Snail? (Xeroplexa intersecta?)
Common Spiny-digger Wasp (Oxybelus uniglumis)
Wild Carrot (Daucys carota)
Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans)
Sharp-tailed Bee Sp? (Coelioxys Sp?)
Metton
Ant Sp (Myrmica Sp) tending aphids on White Campion (Silene latifolia)
Hanworth
Ant Sp? (Lasius niger?)
Colletes Sp?
Wasp Sp?
Tree Bumble Bee (Bombus hypnorum)
Vestal Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus vestalis)
Upton Fen
Lacehopper Sp?
Very much like to find some more of these.
Forewings with brown marking at the base. Although not fully in focus it does have
a dark transverse band across the wings.
and
The commonest one is
Common Lacehopper (Cixius nervosus)
Grammoptera ruficornis
Sillis ruficollis
Males large comb like antennae and the sharp hind angles on the pronotum
Popar Leaf Beetle Larvae
Shedding skin priot tp pupating?
Poplar Leaf Beetle (Chrysomela populi) Feeds on Willow and of course Poplar
from
UK Beetles
anthropodafotos.de
Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella)
Very Bronze Fly Sp?
Long-legged Fly Sp?
Long-winged Conehead ♂︎ Nymph (Conocephalus fuscus)
Caddis Fly
Glyphotaellus pellucidus ♂︎
Naturespot
Smut on Carex riparia
Farysia theumenii
Dead mosquito
Broad Centurion (Chloromya formosa)
Large Marsh Horsefly (Tabalus autumnalis)
Migrant Field Syrph (Eupeodes corollae)
Conehead Sp?
Variable Damselfly ♂︎ (Coenagrion pulchellum)
Broad-barred Flexwing (Dasysyrphus venustus)
Long-legged Fly
Rhaphium crassipes
Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)
Daggerfly Sp?
Empis livida?
Eristalinus sepulchris
False Oat grass (Arrhenatherum elatius)
Fen Orchid (liparis loeselii)
Fly Sp?
Gall on Fen Bedstraw
From the
British Plant Gall Society
Possibly Geocrypta galii
from
Plant Parasites of Europe
But they neither source specifically mentions Fen Bedstraw as a host
Gallerina Sp?
Black-horned Gem (Microchrysa polita)
Green Emerald (Lestes sponsa)
Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isoceles)
Helophilos hybridus ♀︎?
Is this the beginning of a Cigar Gall? Or…..?
Hoverfly Sp?
Neoscia Sp
Confirmed by Facebook Hoverfly group
Neoscia Sp?
Roger Morris from the Facebook Hoverlfy page
"Fairly sure that's Neoascia tenur"
The rather strange looking fly that causes the Cigar Galls in reeds.
Lipara lucens
Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata)
Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre)
Marsh Violet / Bog Pansy) Viola palustris)
Moth Sp?
Moth case?
Spider Sp perhaps has brought the spikelets together
?
Phantom Cranefly (Ptichoptera albimama)
Picture Wing Fly Sp?
Mottled Thistle Fly (Xyphosia miliaria)
White Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)
Rove beetle Sp? & Spider Sp?
Rush Sp?
Wood Rush Sp?
Rush Sp?
?
Cephus nigrinus?
Sedge Sp?
Common Yellow Sedge (Carex demissa)?
Black-tailed Skimmer ♂︎ ( Orthetrum cancellatum)
Snail Killer Fly?
Pherbina coryleti
Chyrsopilus cristatus ♂︎
Soldier Fly Sp?
No soldier flies have the muscular hind legs or the head quite so obviously spherical on a stalk.
Also the angle of the photo doesn't show the humpback nature of the fly.
Dance Fly Sp? Hybotiae Sp?
Hybos culiciformis
Spider Sp?
Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tropidia scitta)
Lesser Water Parsnip (Berula erecta)
Sawfly Sp?
Tenthredopsis nassata
from
NatureSpot
Cley
Long-legged Fly Sp?
Dolichopus Sp?
Poecilobothrus nobilitatus ♂︎
The ♀︎ doesn't have the white markings at the end of the wing
Fly Sp?
Hoverfly Sp?
Xylota Sp?
Possible Toothed-thighed Hoverfly (Tropidia scita?)
Pyramidal Orchid (Orchis pyramidalis)
Hanworth
Robber Fly Sp?
Violet Robberfly? (Dioctria atricapilla)
Head of a Bee Sp?
Ants (Lasius niger) with prey
Aphid Sp?
Common Spiny-digger (Oxybellus uniglumis)
Sawfly Sp?
Tenthredo mesomela
Syrphus Sp?
Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
Garden Bumble Bee (Bombus hortorum)?
Bumble Bee Plume-horn (Volucella bombylans)
Trinity Broads
?
Alder Bracket (Inonotus radiatus)
Galls on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
X400
Alexander's Rust (Puccinia smyrnii)
Myrmica Sp?
Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)?
Vana Bartlett commented
Andrena haemorrhoa is incorrect, looks like a Micrandrena sp to me though can't judge size -
presume it was quite small? haemorrhoa has orange hind tibia as well as the orange 'tail' - several other species have orange tail too.
Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida?)
Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida?)
Beetle Sp?
Swollen-thighed Flower Beetle ♀︎(Odemera nobilis)
Bramble Sp?
Bumble Bee Sp?
Vestal Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus vestalis)
Bumble bee Sp?
White-tailed Bumble Bee ♂︎ (Bombus lucorum)
Long straw coloured elaters producing masses of brown spores
Smut (Farysia thuemenii) on Carex riparia
Varied Carpet Beetle (anthrenus verbasci)
Yellow-tail Moth (Euproctis similis)
Choke Fungus (Epichloe typhina) on Creeping Soft-grass (Holcus mollis)
Broad Buckler Fern (Dropteris dilatata)
The top image showing the clustered leaves of the tip of the plant brought
together in a tangled mass for insect larvae?
The lower image showing the sori
An entomophagous Fungus
Pandora dipterigena
Pandora Fungus for Wikipedia
Fly Sp?
Root-maggot Fly Sp?
Possibly Hylemya vagans/nigramana?
Although the abdomen might not be bristly enough.
Fruit Fly Sp?
Drosophila melanogaster?
Fly Sp?
Psyllopsis fraxini Agg
Pale rolled leaves turning purple or red indicate the presence of a Phyllid - Phyllopsis fraxini
There are in fact three similar species that could be responsible but are difficult to identify, hence P fraxinii Agg
Gallerina Sp? nestled in amongst Swan's-neck Thyme Moss (Mnium hornum)
Gallerina hypnorum
Larvae in the bent over lobe of an Oak Leaf
Another species uses the bent over flap of the edge of an Oak leaf
Rough Chervil (Cherophyllum temulum)
Common Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium)
Honeycomb Crust (Antrodia ramentacea)
Not quite
As Anne later commented
Also the resupinate I took home wasn’t Antrodia ramantacea. The spores were completely wrong.
When I rehydrated it at home, it looked very similar to Schizopora paradoxa.
And although the spores were on the large side, they were identical to S.paradoxa.
It is a very variable species and can produce irpicoid pore surface making
it look very similar to other (more interesting!!) resupinates.
Still a rather nice pore surface.
Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum)
Hylaeus Sp ♀︎?
There are several species with a pair of whitish stripes on the pronotal collar.
eg White-jawed Yellow Face (Hylaeus confusus), Hairy Yellow Face (Hylaeus hyalinatus), Chalk Yellow Face (Hylaeus dilatatus)
So difficult to be sure from these images.
Vanna Bartlett commented
The Hylaeus is most likely hyalinatus - the white hair fringe on side of tergite 1 rule out communis,
the shape of the yellow facial spots indicate hyalinatus or confusus,
the long face with wide malar gap lean towards hyalinatus.
Hymenoscyphus Sp?
I reckon that the Hymenoscyphus (on wet rotting root of Angelica) was H. vitellinus
based on cap colour, spore size/shape and paraphyses shape. Reference P. Thompson: Ascomycetes.
Yvonne took some home too. However, I see that there are 176 taxa associated with the genus Hymenoscyphus on
FRDBI and my 3 books (FTE, Thompson & B&K) don’t cover anywhere near that number.
From Tony M
Confirmed with qualification from Yvonne
Agree with Tony about the Hymenoscyphus and the Ganoderma on the Eucalyptus, using same references.
I now think the stems the Hymenoscyphus were on were Filipendula and I noticed that there were also Orbilia present on these.
I have been down that rabbit hole before so left those - I might look at them another time.
Vibrissea filisporia
Lachnum Sp?
Snowy Disco (Lachnum virgineum)
Lichen Sp?
Cliostomum grifithii
Lecanora expallens Turns orange under UV light
Lichen Sp?
Lepraria incana (The green one)
Plant Gall on Lime (Tilia platyphyllos)
Swelling of stem & petiole caused by a Fly Sp? (Contarinia tiliarum)
Batman Hoverfly (Myathropa florea ♀︎)
Micrandrena Sp?
Quite hairy on the thorax so possibly Andrena minutula
Again
Micrandrena Sp?
Quite hairy on the thorax so possibly Andrena minutula
Mosquito Sp?
Mosquito Sp? with mites.
Dotted Thyme-moss (Rhizomnium punctatum)
Juniper Haircap-moss (Polytrichum juniperinum)
Sphagnum Sp?
Fringed Bog-moss (Sphagnum fimbriatum)
Moth Sp?
Moth Sp?
Frosty Bonnet (Mycena tenerrima)
Dewdrop Bonnet (Hemimycena tortuosa)
Orange Bonnet (Mycena acicula)
Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)?
Seed head Sp?
A leaf beetle larva carrying its fecal shield.
From Current Zoology
The fecal shield is a double-edged sword for larvae of a leaf beetle.
from
Wired
Absurd Creature of the Week
Red Fescue (Festuca rubra)
Common Red-legged Hoverfly ♀︎ (Dioctria rufipes)
Stripe-legged Robberfly (Dioctria baumhaueri)
Common Awl Robberfly - (Neoitamus cyanurus)
Violet Black-legged Robberfly (Dioctria atricapilla)?
Riponnensia Splendens
Hard Rush (Juncus inflexus)
Script Lichen Sp? (Ophiogramma Sp?)
Spider Egg Sp?
Sack hanging by a thread about six foot from the ground.
Just wonderful.
From Spider & Harvestmen Recording Site
Theridiosoma gemmosum
Thick-legged Hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)
Sputnik Spider (Paidiscura pallens)
Pellucid Fly (Volucella pelluscens)
Ganoderma Sp?
Southern Bracket (Ganoderma australe)
Based on spore size 9.5x6.5 from Tony M & confirmed by Yvonne
Hanworth
Red-girdled Mining Bee (Andrena labiata)
Cheilosia illustrata
Nephrotoma flavescens
Eristalis pertinax
Orange - tailed Mining bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)
Thick-legged Hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)
Hanworth
Mining Bee Sp?
A worn Orange-tailed Mining Bee ? (Andrena haemorrhoa)
Micrandrena Sp? or Lasioglossom Sp?
Eristalinus sepulchris ♀︎
Clearly showing hairs on the lower part of the eye, plus the dull patches running along the central axis of the abdomen.
Cheilosia illustrata ♂︎
Cheilosia impressa
Crab Spider Sp (Xysticus audax)
Bumble Bee with feathery antennae?
Eristalis tenax ♂︎
Note the line of vertical hairs on the eyes,
Pied Hoverfly (Volucella pelluscens)
Platychierus rosarum ♀︎?
Comments from Steve & Gill judd
We really don't think it's a platcheirus, due to the wing stigma, possible wing cloud and slightly swollen hind femur,
also the yellow marking is on the wrong tergite and the wrong shape for rosarum, of course we could very well be completely wrong.
What it is, though, no idea. Possibly a dark form of something with reduced yellow markings.
Might be interesting to see what Anne says as she is far too modest to admit it but she is really rather knowledgable on Hovers.
Anne Crotty
then
commented
That’s funny. I tried to get a photo of one of these at Shotesham but it flew up and away!!
It’s in the Pipiza noctiluca group. From past FB posts I have sent and see , they can’t be taken to species from photos …..
but you could try on the FB group page!!
Confirmed on Hoverfly facebook page
Hanworth
Eristalis pertinax ♂︎
On the face there is a narrow black shining stripe
set in broad dull darkened area.
Yello front and middle tarsi
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Eupeodes Sp ♀︎?
Helophilus pendulus ♀︎
Orange-legged Furrow Bee (Halictus rubicundus)?
Now I should have realised that the absence of the rima meant that it couldn't be a Halictus.
Neatly confirmed by Nick Owens (Thank you)
Actually
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)
Sphecodes Sp?
Possibly Sphecodes ephippius?
Quite large, red extends to T4 and the spines on the legs are a translucent reddish colour.
Nick Owens commented
The Sphecodes could be ephippius as seems to have short hairs on the front of T1 – not totally certain
Scaeva pyrastri
Just about to photograph a humback fly and…..
Black Wasp Sp?
Nick Owens commented
The black wasp is a Crossocerus species of which there are quite a few.
Crossocerus has the ocelli in an equilateral triangle and one submarginal cell on the wings both shown clearly
Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
Batman Hoverfly - Myothropa florea
Nomada ♂︎ Panzeri/Flava?
Syritta pipiens
Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)
Shotesham
Aphids on Nettle (Urtica doica)
Nettle Aphid (Microlophium camosum)
Hawthorn Mining Bee ♂︎(Andrena chrysosceles)
Carpet Beetle (Anthriscus verbasci)
Beetle Sp?
Grammoptera ruficornis
Small, blunt nosed Weevil Sp?
From Tony Irwin
probably a
Crenulated Bark beetle Sp? (Hylesinus Sp?)
Comparing with some images found on the web
A bark or ambrosia beetle - Greater Ash Bark Beetle (Hylesinus crenatus)
Soft Brome (Bromus hordeaceus)
Clcik Beetle Sp?
Common Brown Click Beetle (Athous haemorrhoidalis)
Cocksfoot Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
Cow Parsley inflorescence (Anthriscua sylvestris)
Eristalis Sp Possibly Eristalis tenax ?
This one on the veins of the leaf will be in the next version of Robert's Book
This one is a colony Gall. The upper image is the top of the leaf and the lower image the underside.
Caused by a mite Aceria myriadeum
Galls on Field Maple
Ground Elder (Aegopodium podagraria)
Harvestmen Sp?
Rilaena triangularis?
Confirmed by Vanna Bartlett
Upright Hedge Parsley (Torilis japonica)
Hoverfly Larva Sp?
Burdock Blacklet (Cheilosia impressa)
Ichneumon Sp?
Wheat Stem Borer Sp?
There are two species that are very similar Cephus pygmeus and Cephus spinipes
Pearl Lacewing (Chrysopa perla)
Lassioglossum Sp?
Leptoterna dolobrata nymph
Stenocorus meridianus - Bright form
Mini Miner Sp ♀︎ (Micandrena Sp?)
Andrena subopaca possibly?
This was confirmed by Nick Owens because of the dull thorax.
Moth Sp
Flavous Nomad Bee ♀︎ (Nomada flava)
Pocket Plum (Taphrina pruni)
Riponnensia splendens
Bordered Shieldbug (Legnotus limbosus)
Spider Sp?
Spindle (Euonymus europaeus))
Sawfly Sp
Tenthredo temula
Hanworth
Shore-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsatta)
Fly Sp?
Mydaea Sp? The scutellum is entirely orange
Orange- saddled Bristle-node (Mydaea corni)?
Melangyna Sp?
Not quite
Meliscaeva auricollis
Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)
Fly Sp?
Strumpshaw Fen
Galls on Alder (Alnus gluinosa) Leaves
Possibly Waxy Buckthorn Aphids (Aphis commensalis) on Purging Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
but there are known to be fifteen species of aphids that live on Purging Buckthorn
Aphid Sp
Common Green Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum morio)
Beetle Sp?
Grammoptera ruficornis
Beetle Sp?
Choke Fungus (Epichloe typhina)
Cramp - ball Fungus Weevil (Platyrhinus resinosus)
The larva develop inside Cramp-balls.
Cranefly Sp?
Tipula fulvipennis?
Cranefly Sp?
Nephrotoma flavipalpis perhaps?
Cranefly Sp?
Nigrotipula nigra
♂︎
♀︎
Snipe Fly Sp?
Chrysopilus cristatus
♂︎
♀︎
Chrysogaster solstitialis
Note the markedly purple colouration of the thorax
Eupeodes luniger
Not quite
Gill Judd commented
I think it is E. corollae, as the yellow bands reach the margins of the abdomen.
Fly Sp?
Fly Sp?
Parastised by a fungus.
Rust & Galls on a willow (Salix Sp?)
Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Aganpathis villosoviridescens)
Horsefly Sp?
Hairy-legged Horsefly (Hybomitra bimaculata)
Eristalis pertinax ♂︎
Orange-belted Plumehorn (Volucella inflata)
Eristalis intricaria
Seven Spot Ladybird Larva (Coccinella semipunctata)
Harlequin (Harmonia axyridis - succinea)
Lejogaster metallina
Common Lizard (Zootoca viviparia) A nice green variety.
Yellow-barred Longhorn (Nemphora degeerella)
Malachite Beetle (Malachius bipustulatus)
Marsh Click Beetle (Actinicerus sjaelandicus)
Melangyna compositarum
Thorax dull
Mosquito Sp?
Moth Sp?
Nettle Weevil (Phyllobeus pomaceus)
?
This is probably a young Cranefly (Limonia Sp) that has yet to colour up.
Thanks to NNNS via Twitter.
Fly Sp? on ?
Puccinia rust on willow.
Purging Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
♂︎
Riponensia splendens
Gall Sp? on Willow
Rust Sp on Willow
Sawfly Sp?
Tenthredo mesomela
Moth Sp?
Snail Sp?
Kentish Snail (Monacha cantiana)
Snipe Fly Sp?
Rhagio tringarius
?
Spider Sp?
Spider Sp?
Aphids on Thistle
Possiby Black spindle-thistle Aphid (Aphis fabae cirsiiacanthoidis)
Mating Pair
Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tropidiua scita)
Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus)
Viburnum Leaf Beetle having a jolly good go at the Viburnum.
Thanks to NNNS via Twitter
Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis)
Woundwort Shield Bug (Eysarcoris venustissimus)
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)