Upton Fen

UptonFen?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

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)

UptonFenBeetle200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenBeetle200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Grammoptera ruficornis

UptonFenBeetlePair200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sillis ruficollis

Males large comb like antennae and the sharp hind angles on the pronotum

UptonFenBlackdot200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenBlackdot200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Popar Leaf Beetle Larvae

UptonFenBlackdot200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Shedding skin priot tp pupating?

Poplar Leaf Beetle (Chrysomela populi) Feeds on Willow and of course Poplar

from
UK Beetles


anthropodafotos.de

UptonFenBogPimpernel200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenBogPimpernel200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella)

UptonFenBronze200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Very Bronze Fly Sp?

Long-legged Fly Sp?

UptonFenBushCrisket200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Long-winged Conehead ♂︎ Nymph (Conocephalus fuscus)

UptonFenCaddis200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCaddis200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Caddis Fly

Glyphotaellus pellucidus ♂︎

Naturespot

UptonFenCarexSmut200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Smut on Carex riparia

Farysia theumenii

UptonFenCaught200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Dead mosquito

UptonFenCenturion200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCenturion200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Broad Centurion (Chloromya formosa)

UptonFenClegg200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenClegg200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenClegg200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenClegg200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Large Marsh Horsefly (Tabalus autumnalis)

UptonFenCorallae200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCorallae200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCorallae200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Migrant Field Syrph (Eupeodes corollae)

UptonFenCricket200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Conehead Sp?

UptonFenDamsel200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Variable Damselfly ♂︎ (Coenagrion pulchellum)

UptonFenDasy200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenDasy200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenDasy200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Broad-barred Flexwing (Dasysyrphus venustus)

UptonFenDolichopus200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Long-legged Fly

Rhaphium crassipes

UptonFenDungFly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)

UptonFenEmpisFly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Daggerfly Sp?

Empis livida?

UptonFenEsepulchris200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Eristalinus sepulchris

UptonFenFalseOatGrass200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenFalseOatGrass200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

False Oat grass (Arrhenatherum elatius)

UptonFenFenOrchid200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fen Orchid (liparis loeselii)

UptonFenFlySp200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenFlySp200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fly Sp?

UptonFenGallBedstraw200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGallBedstraw200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

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


UptonFenGallerina200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Gallerina Sp?

UptonFenGem200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGem200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGreenGem200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Black-horned Gem (Microchrysa polita)

UptonFenGreenDamsel200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGreenDamsel200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Green Emerald (Lestes sponsa)

UptonFenHawker200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHawker200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isoceles)

UptonFenHelophilus200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Helophilos hybridus ♀︎?

UptonFenHole200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Is this the beginning of a Cigar Gall? Or…..?

UptonFenHover??200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Hoverfly Sp?

UptonFenHover?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

Neoscia Sp

Confirmed by Facebook Hoverfly group

UptonFenHover200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Neoscia Sp?

Roger Morris from the Facebook Hoverlfy page

"Fairly sure that's Neoascia tenur"

UptonFenHumpback200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

The rather strange looking fly that causes the Cigar Galls in reeds.

Lipara lucens

UptonFenLonghorn200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata)

UptonFenMarshThistle200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre)

UptonFenMarshViolet200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Violet / Bog Pansy) Viola palustris)

UptonFenMoth200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Moth Sp?

UptonFenMothcase200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Moth case?

UptonFenNest200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp perhaps has brought the spikelets together

UptonFenOddthing200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

?

UptonFenPhantomCranefly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Phantom Cranefly (Ptichoptera albimama)

UptonFenPW200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Picture Wing Fly Sp?

UptonFenPW2200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Mottled Thistle Fly (Xyphosia miliaria)

UptonFenRaggedRobin200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

White Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)

UptonFenRoveBeetle&Prey200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rove beetle Sp? & Spider Sp?

UptonFenRush200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rush Sp?

Wood Rush Sp?

UptonFenRush2200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rush Sp?

UptonFenRust200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

?

UptonFenSawfly?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cephus nigrinus?

UptonFenSedge200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sedge Sp?

Common Yellow Sedge (Carex demissa)?

UptonFenSkimmer200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Black-tailed Skimmer ♂︎ ( Orthetrum cancellatum)

UptonFenSnailKiller200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenSnailKiller200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Snail Killer Fly?

Pherbina coryleti

UptonFenSnipeFly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Chyrsopilus cristatus ♂︎

UptonFenSoldierFlySp200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

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

UptonFenSpider&Prey200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenSpider200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenSpider2200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp?

UptonFenTscitta200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenTscitta200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tropidia scitta)

UptonFenWaterparsnip200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWaterParsley200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Lesser Water Parsnip (Berula erecta)

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sawfly Sp?

Tenthredopsis nassata

from

NatureSpot




Comments

Hanworth

HanworthCornus060623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

HanworthCornus060623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

HanworthCornus060623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

Cornus Sp

HanworthCraneFly060623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cranefly Sp?

HanworthFly060623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

HanworthFly060623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fly Sp?

Mydea Sp?

Likely to be

Orange-saddled Bristle-node ♂︎(Mydaea corni)

Ornage wing bases, orange scutellum, mostly orange legs. Male because the eyes are only narrowly separated.

There are two other species which are similar.

Stephen Falk Mydea corni

HanworthYellowDungFly060623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

Yelllow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)

HanworthYellowRattle060623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Yellow Rattle (Rjinanathus minor)

HanworthRose060623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

White Climbing Rose

HanworthWing060623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Last wing & testament.

Crane Fly Sp

Thanks to NNS via Twitter

Comments

Thompson Common

ThompsonCommonCornus020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) coming into flower.

ThompsonCommonCraneFly020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cranefly Sp?

Nephortoma appendiculata ?

ThompsonCommonGreatBrome020623-1

Great Brome (Bromus diandrus)

Clues to id between this and B sterilis - Larger size -the plant as a whole and the spikelets, hairier panicle stem and second spikelet from the top of the plant is on a very short pedicel, which can be seen in the image above.

ThompsonCommonOpulchellum020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Elegant Bristle-moss (Orhtotrichum pulchellum)

The orange peristome teeth at this time of year give the id to this delicate little moss.

Although the capsules may look similar in shape & size to a Ulotta sp, it's the orange teeth that are the give away

ThompsonCommonRcomplanata020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Even Scalewort (Radula complanata)

Both of these mosses were found on the trunk of an Alder Buckthorn (Frnagula alnus)

They were complemented by the presence of Forked Veilwort (Matzgeria furcata) & Bluish Veilwort (Metzgeria violacea)

ThompsonCommonSilverBirch020623-1

New Silver Birch (Betual pendula) growth on a mature trunk.

ThompsonCommonFern020623-1

A very nice patch of Hart's Tongue Fern (Aspelenum scolopendrum) in gorgeous spring green.

ThompsonCommonDcaespitosa020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

New growth of Tufted Hair Grass (Deschamsia caespitosa)

ThompsonCommon020623-2

Water Violets (Hottonia palustris) in the foreground.

ThompsonCommon020623-3

Swathes of golden Marsh Yellow-cress (Rorippa palustris) in the pingo.

ThompsonCommon020623-4

ThompsonCommonEpalustris920623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonEpalustris020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Common Spike-rush (Eleocharis palustris)

ThompsonCommon020623-5

ThompsonCommonRorripa020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Yellow-cress (Rorippa palustris)

ThompsonCommonAundulatum020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Common Smoothcap (Atrichum undulatum)

ThompsonCommonSedg020623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonSedge020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

False Fox Sedge (Carx otrubae) or hybrid?

ThompsonCommonMolinia020623-1

Purple Moor-grass (Mollinia cerulea)

ThompsonCommon020623-6

ThompsonCommonFlySp020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Hoverfly Sp

Common Copperback (Ferdinandea cuprea)

ThompsonCommonFlySp2020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)

ThompsonCommonLonghorn020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Yellow-barred Longhorn Moth (Nemophora degeerella)

ThompsonCommonInsect020623-1

?

ThompsonCommonBandedMosquito020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Banded Mosquito (Culiseta annulata)

ThomsonCommon020623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cyperus Sedge (Carex pseudocyperus)

ThomsonCommon020623-8-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Yellow-cress and True Bullrush (Schoenoplectus lacustris)stems

ThomsonCommon020623-9-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Yellow-cress, True Bullrush & Reed mace (Typha latifolia)

ThomsonCommon020623-10-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonCarnationSedge020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonCarnationSedge020623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonCarnationSedge020623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonCarnationSedge020623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonCarnationSedge230623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

The very beautiful Carnation Sedge (Carex panacea)

ThompsonCommonOatGrass020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonOatGrass020623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Downy Oat Grass (Avenula pubescens) or Meadow Oat grass (Avenula pratensis)

Either way a rather lovely distinctive grass

ThompsonCommonPhumile020623-1

ThompsonCommonPhumile020623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPhumile020623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

A subtly purple tinged grass with tiny leaves, boat (Kyak) like leaf tips and a strong, rigid stem.

Spreading Meadow Grass (Poa humilis)

ThompsonCommonPW020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPW020623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPW020623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPW020623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPW020623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPW020623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPW020623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonPW020623-8-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Down in the grass a pair of mating picture wing flies.

Rivellia syngenesiae ?

ThompsonCommonTWD020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 2

Young Tubular Water Dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa)

ThompsonCommonLiverwort020623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonLiverwort020623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonLiverwort020623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonLiverwort020623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonLiverwort020623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonLiverwort020623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

ThompsonCommonLiverwort020623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

This was the strange one today.

Quite remarkable Fringed Heartwort (Ricciocarpos natans)

A Heart shaped thallus with a fringe of violet spreading scales with a finely toothed margin

protruding from beneath the lobes.

Comments

LLanymynech Rocks - North Wales

LlanymynechRocks090523-1L

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LlanymynechRocks090523-4L

LlanymynechRocks090523-5L

LlanymynechRocks090523-6L

LlanymynechRocks090523-7L

LlanymynechRocks090523-8L
LlanymynechRocksCuckooFlower090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis)

LlanymynechRocksCuckooFlower090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Plus friend

Micropterix calthella

LlanymynechRocksBarrenStrawberry090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

LlanymynechRockHerbRobert090523-1

Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)

LlanymynechRocks16Spot090523-1

Mating 14 Spot Ladybird (Propylea quattuordecimpunctata)

LlanymynechRocksBryony090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Black Bryony (Dioscorea communis)

Heart shaped leaves, no tendrils.

LlanymynechRocksBurnet090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksBurnet090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Salad Burnet (Sanguisorbia minor)

LlanymynechRocksCrosswprt090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Crosswort (Cruciata laevipes)

LlanymynechRocksDog'sMercury090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)

LlanymynechRocksDogwood2090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea)

LlanymynechRocksFlySp090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)

LlanymynechRocksHawthorn090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Hawthron (Crataegus monogyna)

LlanymynechRocksMilkwort090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Common Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris)

LlanymynechRocksMossSp090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

LlanymynechRocksMossSp090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Flat Neckera (Neckera complanata)

LlanymynechRocksRockRose090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksRockRose090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksRockRose090523-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Common Rock Rose (Helianthemum nummularium)

LlanymynechRocksSanicle090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksSanicle090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sanicle (Sanicula europea)

LlanymynechRocksEarlyPurple090523-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksEarlyPurple090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymyneckRocksEarlyPurple090523-1L

Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula)

LlanymynechRocksFissidensSp090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksFissidensSp090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksFissidensSp090523-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fissidens Sp?

LlanymynechRocksGreenshieldBug090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksGreenshieldBug090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina)

LlanymynechRocksHairyShiedlBug090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksHairyShiedlBug090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

LlanymynechRocksHairyShieldBug090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksHairyShieldBug090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

Hairy Shield Bug (Dolycoris baccarum)

LlanymynechRocksHazel090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Hazel Rust of some kind?

LlanymynechRocksLcorniulata090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksLcorniulata090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Bird's - foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)

LlanymynechRocksMedi090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksMedi090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksMedi090523-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksMedi090523-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Medic Sp?

Black Medic (Medicago lupulina)

LlanymynechRocksPillBug090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksPillbug090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Striped Woodlouse (Philiscia muscorum)

LlanymynechRocksPrimula090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cowslip (Primula veris)

LlanymynechRocksSpider2090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksSpider2090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp

LlanymynechRocksSpider22090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp

LlanymynechRocksSpiderSp090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksSpiderSp090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

Spider Sp?

Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)?

LlanymynechRocksThinWhite090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksThinWhite090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

?

LlanymynechRocksWeevil2090523-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksWeevil2090523-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksWeevil2090523-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

LlanymynechRocksWeevil2090523-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Weevil Sp?

This turned out to be quite complicated.

There are a fair number of small green weevil species and they fall into two familes apparently.

Phyllobius & Polydrusus Weevils.

They both feed on the foliage of various plants. In this casing mating on Dogwood.

The families can be separated by the insertion point of the antennae. In all Phyllobius species the insertion point is visible from above. In Polydrusus species this is not the case.

Another caveat is that not all Polydrusus species are green.

An introduction to this identification conundrum can be found on

Phyllobius Weevils at Eakring Birds

In this case the antennae insertion points appear to visible form above so a Phyllobius Sp

Needless to say there is another family in the melting pot - Pachyrhinus, which looks similar to both Phyllobius & Polydrusus species.


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White Bedstraw (Gallium album)

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Yellow Meadow Ant (Lasius flavus)


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