This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
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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