Little Eye









Red-legged Spider Wasp (Episyron rufipes)





Eastern Sand Wasp (Podalonia affinis)



English Stonecrop (Sedum anglicum)













Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)


Gramborough Hill



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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



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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