Space Oddity - David Bowie

Firstly the Bad News, as heading for Parley Court Farm this morning I stopped to check out a report Dave had given to me over the weekend. Unfortunately, it was accurate in every detail, they have

'back-filled' the Hurn Gravel Pit. I know, from reliable sources, that it was a pre-requisite that on completion of gravel extraction the whole site had to be transformed to it formed state. Nothing to be done about it, particularly as the die is cast, but on the up side there was still a single Little Ringed Plover and a few Lapwings remaining there.

 It will be interesting to see what returns to the area next year.

Of note from the Moth Traps this morning was
BLAIR'S MOCHA
which is the 300th Macro Species for the year on the farm.

 GARDEN CARPET
of no great value but looked so pristine it was thought worthy of inclusion.

Attached to the side of one of the traps an unknown

  SPIDER Sp Nursery 

(looks lie the young have already vacated?
Back to the weekend for the remained of the photographs and

MERRITOWN HEATH

is now in full bloom

with the LING and BELL HEATHER contrasting sharply with
Gorse and Pine alike.
While there is much to be seen among this herbage it seems to be
the small 'stand' of Aspen Trees that attract or supports the most
diversity

 BRONZE SHIELDBUG (nymph)

which should look like this

 BRONZE SHIELDBUG

in short time. (Wiki Image)

 BROWN HEATH ROBBERFLY

 A particularly 'dark'

 DRONEFLY

 FIELD GRASSHOPPER

 GREAT BLACK SLUG

 GREEN SHIELDBUG

 HARLEQUIN LADYBIRD LARVAE

which could eventually turn out like either one of these two

 contrasting

 HARLEQUIN LADYBIRD

 HEDGE CRANESBILL

 ICHNEUMON WASP Sp

SPIDER
Tetragnatha extensa

Two plants I have been mistaking for Redshank

 PALE PERSICARIA

and

 

 RED GOOSEFOOT

 PEGOMYA Sp

SPINY SHIELDBUG

Picromerus bindens

(from Wiki) is a carnivorous species of Shield Bug in the family Pentatomidae. A large (12 to 13.5 mm long) and distinctive predatory shieldbug, which has unmistakable thorn-like projections on the front of the pronotum, a prominent plate-like structure that covers all or part of the thorax of some insects.

 ADULT 

of the above

 SPANGLED GALL

(unknown type)

 Unknown species of

Pardosa

SPIDER

John Gifford has come up trumps, Big Time, again as I have never 

seen most of the creatures above let alone have the ability to identify them.
THANK MATEY!

Also outstanding from the last Post was, during our little party on Friday evening Dave looked to the heavens to see the International Space Station cutting through the late evening sky. For those Readers based in Dorset the following may be of interest:-

It Is seen every day but best next bet seems to be Tuesday (today) evening at 21.31. Should appear from the West and go SSE, will be on view for 4 minutes in case you want to get the camera ready! It was really bright when I saw it last night, quite impressive. I was amazed to read that it is 260 miles up and travels at over 17 000 miles an hour, that's just under 5 miles per second!

Space Oddity - David Bowie

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