Clouded. Drab

and Hebrew character

on a cold and damp night there wasn't much in the trap but Clouded Drab was new for the year

Campsicnemus curvipes (Dolichopodidae)

Swept at both Dalgety Bay, Mossmorran and Cullaloe in recent weeks

Diastata nebulosa from Dalgety Bay

A lovely little fly swept from wet woodland in Ross Plantation, and a new family for me - Diastatidae. New to the county too.

Diastata nebulosa (Fallen)

Cullaloe LNR weekend flies

Some nice flies at the weekend, even in a small sample

Palloptera scutellata (Rush Flutter Fly) was beaten out of spruce on Saturday - new to me and to the reserve.

On Sunday the chironomid Anatopynia plumipes (Fries) was swept over the spillway.

Also new to the reserve were the muscid  Coenosia lacteipennis and the fruit fly Drosophila subobscura

Cullaloe Hills Rush Disco (Lachnum apalum)

On the base of Juncus effusus, a very common discomycete

(x400)

Cullaloe Hills tub trap update

3rd Mar update -
        Spelobia clunipes - fish-baited trap (02.iii)

The tub, which has been in place for just over a month, has added one more heleomyzid. The bottle trap, where the bait has dried a bit, has produced nothing more, but the weather has been abysmal - either very cold or very windy with rain & snow.

Shortly I'll reset this with fresh bait, though with new things coming in maybe that's a mistake. I'd like to make some modifications though, with a wire mesh to prevent fouling of specimens (and egg laying).

DIPTERA

Sphaeroceridae
Copromyza nigrina - fish-baited trap
Crumomyia fimetaria - leaf litter and trap
Crumomyia nitida - fish-baited trap
Crumomyia roserii - fish-baited trap
Lotophila atra - leaf litter
Leptocera fontinalis - fish-baited trap (25.ii)
Spelobia clunipes (2.iii)

C.roserii - yellow tarsi

C.fimetaria

The very spikey Leptocera fontinalis

Spelobia clunpes

Heleomyzidae
Neoleria propinqua
Scoliocentra villosa
Suillia variegata (in leaf litter, not in trap)
Tephrochlamys rufiventris
Heleomyza captiosa

Calliphoridae
Calliphora vicina

COLEOPTERA

Leiodidae
Catops tristis
Catops grandicollis (17.ii.20)

(n.b. other small Staphs have been encountered occasionally, but beyond my abilities)

Calder Wood, Mid Calder

*Warning*  !Not Fife! *Warning*

FGSES outing Sunday March 1st

Diatrype stigma on Crataegus

Diatrypella favacea on Betula

Trametes hirsuta (the grey one)

Rhopographus filicinus (Bracken map)

Mycena tenerrima (Frosted Bonnet), on mossy bark

"frosted"

Caulicystidia (stipe)

Cheilocystidia (gill edge)

Bulbillomyces farinosus (Couscous Crust)

Dromius quadrimaculatus (Carabidae)

A tree-living ground beetle that hunts on the trunk at night

Triplax aenea

Euophyryum confine