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.

No comments:

Seeing the Changes 2183

Early ripening fruit may seem convenient but some folk think it confirms environmental stress. There's also a possibility th...