Garden Actinics 1923 Feathered Thorn 1760 Red-Green Carpet

20th October 2015

Actinic 10W

1923 Feathered Thorn Colotois pennaria ABH 70.244    x1
1760  Red-green Carpet Chloroclysta siterata 70.095     x1

1923 Feathered Thorn Colotois pennaria ABH 70.244 

1760  Red-green Carpet Chloroclysta siterata 70.095  

DaNES Insect Exhibition Saturday 21st November 2015 11.00am-16.00pm

The DaNES Insect Exhibition which is being held at Nottingham Trent University on Saturday 21st November between 11.00am-16.00pm

From Tom Hubbard of the Northern Coleopterists' .There is a PDF here if any one is interested

PDF Exhibition Poster

Hope Valley , Derbyshire

Yesterdays Autumnal Weather on the Slopes of Mam Tor Derbyshire looking onward up the Hope Valley

Sunset on The Rocks

Quiz - Mystery Floristic

A Quick Quiz  Can any one nail this much maligned plant.

With the end of season approaching floristics are becoming harder to find Nettle and Ivy set aside and insects more urgent in their serch for sustainance . Ivy is always a ready source of Red Admiral end of October early November sun permitting

Rather than tell you want the plant is I have put the images up for YOU to identify , suggestions in comments

Although to most it seems baron and bereft here is a sequence of creatures feeding or utilising it today I counted at least 36 species in an hour its thick stems can also provide shelter and nesting site for small birds like Wrens to nest and Shelter

Araneus diadematus Orb Web Spider
Metalina mengei/metellina Orb Web Spider
Philaenus spumarius Froghopper
Ichneumon Wasp x2 Species
Apis melifera Honey Bee
Hoverfly Eristalis pertinax
Hoverfly Eristalis renax
Hoverfly Bacchus elongus
Hoverfly Xylota segnis
Diptera x4 Species
Sawfly
Tipula sp TBC
Tipula sp TBC
Sepis fulgens Ensign Fly
Strawberry Snail Trochulus striolatus

The grove snail or brown-lipped snail Cepaea nemoralis Leioburnum rotundum
7 Spot Ladybird
Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis Forms  Spectabilis succinea conspicua

Two Interesting images where the Garden Spider Araneus diadematus  Observed wrapping a Common Wasp in a s slick silk food parcel. Another included a Dung Fly straddling its prey a small solitary wasp . On deciding to examine the prey , the fly took off carrying this prey in its legs with some ease

Harvestman - Leioburnum rotundum

Baccha elongata Hoverfly Thin waist just visible

Syrphus sp

Strawberry Snail - Trochulus striolatus

Sawfly

Philaenus spumarus Froghopper

Cranefly Tipula (oleraceae) TBC Female

Ichneumon

Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis

Micro caddid 3 -5 mm

Autumn Approaches

“GATHERING LEAVES

Spades take up leaves

No better than spoons,

And bags full of leaves

Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise

Of rustling all day

Like rabbit and deer

Running away.

But the mountains I raise

Elude my embrace,

Flowing over my arms

And into my face.

I may load and unload

Again and again

Till I fill the whole shed,

And what have I then?

Next to nothing for weight,

And since they grew duller

From contact with earth,

Next to nothing for color.

Next to nothing for use.

But a crop is a crop,

And who's to say where

The harvest shall stop?” 

― Robert Frost

2293 Marbled Beauty Bryophila domestica ABH 73.084

2293 Marbled Beauty Bryophila domestica ABH 73.084 

1728 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata ABH 70.049

1728 Garden Carpet Xanthorhoe fluctuata ABH 70.049 

A Caddis Potamophylax

A Caddid likely safe to genus Potamophylax  ( latipennis ) TBC

Sun Rays On the Swale

Sun Rays On the Swale

The Mighty Swale

The brown peaty Waters of the  River Swale in Flow after heavy thunderstorms

1345 Brown China-mark Elophila nymphaeata ABH 63,114

1345 Brown China-mark Elophila nymphaeata ABH 63,114

Larvae dependent on aquatic environs

Quote Of The Week 7

1858 The V-Pug Chloroclystis v-ata ABH 70.142

1858 The V-Pug Chloroclystis v-ata ABH 70.142      

0969 Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis corylana ABH 49.024

0969 Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis corylana ABH 49.024 

A Mirid Bug - Neolygus viridis

A Mirid Bug

Conomelus anceps Delphacidae A plant Hopper

Living in Damp Grasses Meadows and Rushes - Juncus A mall Bug at Around  Usually brachypterous, part winged  fully-wingedspecimens can be seen Around 4 mm seen betwenn June - November

Cixius Nervosa - A lacehopper

Delicate and ornate these small plant hoppers are are around 4.5 - 5.5  mm

2050 Common Footman Eilema lurideola ABH 72.045

This moth was recorded near Creeping thistle  and  on Dry stone walling 24th July 2015

There is an excellent Primer on Footman Comparisons here Footman Comparisions

Comma

Comma

Yesterdays Day Flying Lepidoptera

Yesterdays Day Fliers Yorkshire

Small Heath
Common Carpet
Comma
Peacock
Silver Grounds Carpet
Ringlets
Meadow Brown
Large White
Grass Weneer
Cinnabar
5  / Narrow 5 Spot Burnet

Wood Whites

The following shots are of the delicate Wood White Butterfly taken 2nd July 2015

National Distribution Please Allow Time to Load .

Anatomy of A treehopper Centrotus cornutus

Treehopper Centrotus cornutus

There are only two members in this family so making ID easy One of two UK treehoppers. The other  Gargara genistae is associated with broom. It is smaller than C. cornutus, lacks the horn-like projections on the pronotum and has a shorter dorsal spine.



"Membracidae-Centrotus-cornutus". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.


 Length circa 10 mm You can see the dorsal spine on the first image



You can see the pronotal projections absent in Gargara genista



This image shows both key features



Adult: April-August