To get into the spirit of the event, I was practising with my camera several days in advance. Here's a vine weevil, possibly Otiorhyncus sulcatus, which I discovered wandering across a paving slab.
And the Tree Wasp was still about and continuing to be rather photogenic.
This hoverfly is possibly from the Genus Platycheirus, but I don't know the species.
On the actual weekend (the event ran from noon Saturday to noon Sunday, to allow moth trappers to participate), Our Lass and I scurried around home and garden (mainly garden, don't worry!), looking for interesting things which we might normally hurry by without a thought.
Common Garden Snails Cornu aspersum |
A lichen, probably Xanthoria parietina |
A male Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria |
A female Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria |
A queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris |
Common Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha |
A spider of the Genus Linyphiidae |
A hoverfly Eupeodes corollae |
A Toothed Weaver spider Textrix denticulata |
Bombus bohemicus |
Folk seemed to enjoy the event, and there may be enough interest to repeat it, even when we're allowed out and about again.
4 comments:
What a good idea for an event. And what wonderful photos of the weevil. (It looks very large!)
The idea and structure for the event was 'borrowed' from an ex-colleague who recently ran a similar bioblitz in Cornwall. The small group of folk who set it up did a sterling job and deserve much praise. The weather was kind to us, thankfully, and some contributors made exceptional finds. I have yet to tot up and submit my list of species, it isn't a huge number but is across a wide variety of wildlife.
Graeme the hover is Platycheirus albimanus
Alastair, many thanks!
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