Tuesday, 3 August 2021

Seeing the Changes 1521

Miscellaneous invertbrates from Oxwich dunes (atypically overgrown). Tunnel spider web and Harvestman spider. Common green grasshopper (Omocestus viridulis); Rhagonycha fulva beetles mating on Juncus; an Agrypnus murina beetle; Sphaerophoria scripta hoverfly; Pamponerus germanicus robberfly with greenbottle and then mating with grasshopper prey; hoverfly on Ragwort; solitary bee on Sea Holly; Diplolepis rosae causing bedeguar gall; Bombus lucorum feeding and then lateral and Ammophila subulosa wasp.

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