Some more squares, some more species. Best of the new ones so far Lesser Swine-cress, the fruit a bit squashed here from having been stored in my mobile phone case! Stinky old thing.
Monday, November 30, 2020
Anacharis sp. from Dalgety Bay - a cynipid wasp in the Figitidae
Maybe an obscure start to the hymenoptera postings, but part of preparation for a more concerted effort on hymenoptera in 2021. This one was swept from low vegetation in woodland in November.
This is a very small wasp, but by wasp standards not a very, very small wasp!
Very helpful Lucid key to subfamilies of Figitidae:
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Urban Flora Project
Days are getting shorter and colder but a few outings working on the Botanical Society Urban Flora project has turned up almost 180 species of vascular plant (250spp overall including a few bryophytes, lichens and fungi). I've spent about an hour in each 1k square - lunchtimes, which is usually enough to record between 50 and 70 species. It's amazing how many of them are in flower in late November. With a few visits about 300 records seems to be enough to log 100 vascular plants for a town. Haven't even started on Dunfermline yet, though.
Also they seem to include parks and woodlands, which means my Dalgety Bay records will run to about 800 species already if I can figure out how to import them
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Monday, September 14, 2020
Braefoot birds
Hard to photograph the passage birds in the morning but at lunchtime Monday 14th there was one Bar-tailed Godwit in the roost on the rocks and a female Wheatear on the harbour wall. It was kind enough to allow me a phone shot through binoculars, which wasn't easy!
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Tansy bug Megalocoleus tanaceti at St.Monans
On a reasonably large patch of Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) at St.Monans, the specialist Tansy bug Megalocoleus tanaceti. You can see the relationship between bug and plant in their scientific binomials. Sadly I didn't have a net to sweep for Tansy specialist micromoths.
The plant:
The bug:
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