Ziggy Stardust and the - Spiders From Mars

As promised a quick pictorial update on the ongoing works at what was half of the North Pond. A couple more days should see the job completed but extraction continues at the 'Hople in the Ground' as this material is destined to form the new base for the Eco Recycling Area. So, plenty of Heavy Plant action hereabouts and a date has also been negotiated to get work completed on the Irrigation Pond which hopefully afterwards will always be a Mini Nature Reserve?

This pile of top-soil will make the final dressing for the now long forgotten pond.

and the best

FROM THE TRAPS

another variation of

COMMON MARBLED CARPET

 new for the property

 FEATHERED RANUNCULOUS*

 CYPRESS CARPET

 according to the List this too is an addition

but more likely to be my book keeping being inaccurate.

 RED-LINE QUAKER

and talking of 'books', if the Field Guide is to be believed

this is a very late

KENT BLACK ARCHES

Otherwise it has been a couple of days of ambling the property,
perhaps needless to say most of which has been spent at my new project,
Pond Side.

ALDER SPITTLEBUG
(mating)

SPIDER
Araneu diadematus

and a whole array of the same creature in its various forms and guises.

A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow,
not the regal creature of border caves.  -  Marillion.

MIDGE Sp
Chironomidae (Type)

 COMMON CARDER BEE

With a plague of

CRANEFLIES

about there had to be a

'Little Loving'

SPIDER
Dyctina lantens

and at its Pantry.

HART'S TONGUE FERN

HOVERFLY
Xanthogramma pedissequum
said to be 'very scarce' throughout Europe.

PARASITIC WASP
likely Amblyteles armatorius

SHIELDBUG look-alike
Pantilius tunicutus

Paroligolophus agrestis

PINE LADYBIRD

ROUGH WOODLOUSE

SPECKLED BUSH CRICKET

SNAIL
Vitrina pellucida

Once again our Friend John Gifford has stepped to the fore!

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