Little Eye & Gramborough Hill
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)
Salthouse
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