A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
- Walt Whitman
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Segestria senoculata - a crevice hider |
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Araneus diadematus |
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Harpactea hombergi - nocturnal louse hunter on trunks |
Nocturnal ramblings returned little by way of moths, but the spidering was good.
Cleopus pulchellus was a welcome addition to my and the county's lists from a small patch of Scroph nodosa.
List additions:
347 |
Dryophilocoris
flavoquadrimaculatus |
A bug |
hemiptera |
348 |
Athous haemorrhoidalis |
A Click Beetle |
coleoptera |
349 |
Cleopus pulchellus |
A weevil |
coleoptera |
350 |
Tachina ursina |
A tachinid fly |
diptera |
351 |
Ametastegia pallipes |
A sawfly |
hymenoptera |
352 |
Formica lemani |
An ant |
hymenoptera |
353 |
Ganoderma applanatum |
Artist's Bracket |
fungus |
354 |
Araneus diadematus |
A spider |
spider |
355 |
Harpactea hombergi |
A spider |
spider |
356 |
Nuctenea umbratica |
Walnut Orb-weaver |
spider |
357 |
Segestria senoculata |
A spider |
spider |
358 |
Forficula auricularia |
Common Earwig |
dermaptera |
359 |
Drepanosiphum platanoidis |
Sycamore aphid |
hemiptera |
360 |
Cheilosia pagana |
A hover fly |
diptera |
361 |
Platycheirus albimanus |
A hoverfly |
diptera |
362 |
Platycheirus angustatus |
A hoverfly |
diptera |
363 |
Suillia affinis |
A heleomyzid fly |
diptera |
364 |
Odontopera bidentata |
Scalloped Hazel |
lep-moth |
365 |
Myrmica ruginodis |
Red Ant |
hymenoptera |