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
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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?