Blog Postings

The postings will be introductions to each of my life lists. The lists themselves will appear in the side margin. I shall do some postings about particular localities and there will also be postings to provide updates every time I add a new species.
Please note that I am not qualified in any aspect of natural history - there will therefore be occasional (or, apparently, in the case of the hoverflies, a lot of) errors.

Friday, 3 September 2010

Jersey Tiger

 
I briefly saw a Jersey Tiger skip past in the car park at Otter Nurseries last year.  This year one came into the garden at Frog End.

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Autumn Green Carpet


Autumn Green Carpet
 A third new species from the moth trap at Frog End.

Setaceous Hebrew Character

  

The Setaceous Hebrew Character was another new species for me when we ran the moth trap at Helen and Ian's.


The Purple Clay is a species that I ave previously recorded but which  do not seem to have a photo of.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Cypress Pug

 

One of the species that appeared in the moth trap at Frog End, Exeter,on 29/30th August was the Cypress Pug.  A resident species, it was first recorded in Britain in 1959 in Cornwall.  It has now spread at lest as far North as Rugby and is well established along the South Coast.

Thursday, 1 July 2010

A Psyllid

 

There are not many major families of British insects of which I have never photographed a representative but when I found a Psyllid (one of the Jumping Plant Lice) on an Oak leaf at Thurstaston on 30th June it proved to be a first from that family. Which one it is I do not know though it may be a Trioza species..