It was an afternoon spent in the garden with a few things of interest noted. The first was a Small White butterfly which kept landing in amongst the wildflower patch. It didn't land on any of the flowers but was flitting about in amongst the leaves of several plants. I didn't see it lay any eggs, but it could well have been.
Also about was a Common Buzzard which was seen on its way by the local Herring Gulls.
And I found a new bug.
Birds Recorded in and around the garden:
1 Buzzard
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Blackbird
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Small White Pieris rapae
My best effort in trying to photograph the Small White Pieris rapae in amongst the plants in the Wildflower Patch
Birds Recorded in and around the garden:
1 Buzzard
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Blackbird
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
This Common Buzzard was mobbed time after time by this local Herring Gull, and eventually flew off.
A male House Sparrow sat on a Pyracantha waiting to visit the bird feeder.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Small White Pieris rapae
Moths Recorded:
2 Common Nettle-tap Anthophila fabriciana
Bees Recorded:
Sweat Bees sp.
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Broad-banded Hopper Wolf Gorytes laticinctus
Hoverflies Recorded:
Lesser Bulb Fly Eumerus funeralis
Mega Syrph Megasyrphus erraticus
This is quite possibly a Mega Syrph Megasyrphus erraticus. It is certainly not a hoverfly I have come across before, but thank you to Ed Wilson for sifting through Steven Falk's hoverflies here to ID this very large Syrphus.
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
Black-horned Gem Microchrysa polita
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis
1 Yellow-lined Plant Bug Deraeocoris flavilinea
Now I'm confused. I have seen this bug many times before and have always known it to be a Red Bug Deraeocoris ruber. However using Obsidentify it is 100% certain it is a Yellow-lined Plant Bug Deraeocoris flavilinea
The wildflower patch is going over now, but it's interesting to note that the remaining daisies left are Oxeye Daisies Leucanthemum vulgare and not the Crown Daisies Glebionis coronaria which have gone to seed.
2 Common Nettle-tap Anthophila fabriciana
Bees Recorded:
Sweat Bees sp.
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Broad-banded Hopper Wolf Gorytes laticinctus
A Broad-banded Hopper Wolf Gorytes laticinctus
Lesser Bulb Fly Eumerus funeralis
Mega Syrph Megasyrphus erraticus
A Lesser Bulb Fly Eumerus funeralis
Many unidentified flies
Black-horned Gem Microchrysa polita
Lagria Parasite Fly Gastrolepta anthracina
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
A Black-horned Gem Microchrysa polita
A Lagria Parasite Fly Gastrolepta anthracina
A Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis
1 Yellow-lined Plant Bug Deraeocoris flavilinea
A female Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis on an Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare
Here she is getting ready for take-off.
And away she goes.
Spiders Recorded:
Flower Spider Misumena vatia - no sign of it!!
Plants:
Flower Spider Misumena vatia - no sign of it!!
Plants:
Guelder Rose Viburnum opulus
Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria
Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare
Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria
Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare
The Guelder Rose Viburnum opulus is now bearing fruit
