Small - Portishead

If you are not familiar with the band who take their name from

their town of origin (close to Bristol), the try the track 'Gloryhole'.

and away from that an appropriate lyric might be

I'm as corny as Kansas in August

High as a flag on the Fourth of July

HAPPY HOLIDAY OVER THERE! 

It is often said that 'small is beautiful' and to endorse the point one needs only to take a glance at Moi. Further to that, and looking at today's catch from the Moth Traps, almost the first Insect on parade this morning was the delicate, small and thought 'localised'

 SMALL SCALLOP
A fine specimen in itself, and one I have never clapped eyes on
before, brought up the 300th species of Macro here at
Parley Court Farm.
If that were not enough just 20 minutes later and from another
trap came No. 301 in the shape of the equally tiny

SMALL FAN-FOOT

not to be confused with an even smaller

SMALL FAN-FOOTED WAVE
also caught today just a 'small' cross-section of the
78 species caught

 CORONET

 LIGHT ARCHES

 NUTMEG

 BORDERED BEAUTY

 KENT BLACK ARCHES

POPLAR GREY

 SOUTHERN WAINSCOT

 JUNE CHAFER

SMALL BROWN CHAFER
 (Serica brunnea)
and a few other odds and ends around and about.

 juvenile
ROBIN

 OPIUM POPPY
which my learn'ed friend John Gifford tells me is a 'cultivar'
of the original opiate bearing plants.

 The 'invasive' but none less attractive

 PICKEREL WEED

 The single surviving juvenile
COOT
still growing and may have some new mates soon.

 The first sighting this year of

 EMPEROR DRAGONFLIES

 SLENDER KNAPWEED

 COLLARED DOVE
on the newly erected Power Pole

 The new COOT NEST on Parley Pond and

AZURE DAMSELFLIES

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Wild Thing - The Troggs

First things first, and once again the overnight temperature wasn't particularly conducive with Moth trapping and with no additions to either of the list we can only show what were considered the 'pretty' ones.

VAPOURER

ROSY FOOTMAN

and the delightful tiny Micro
LOZOTAENIODES FORMOSANUS

The beauty of 'wild things' is that for those who have a house or home you hardly have to leave it to find at least a representation, and for those of us who don't, well we're amongst it anyway. This being effectively Part II of Sunday's expedition, which didn't take us outside of a 1 mile square, covering part of the northern end of Parley Court Farm and the eastern section of Merritown Heath. See the Monday Post (below) for Part I.

BITING STONECROP

BROWN-LIPPED SNAIL

CLIMBING CORYDALIS

This tiny Insect no bigger than a garden pea was excessively active
and difficult to catch, only my personal agility made that possible.
OK, back to reality it's a Species of
LEAFHOPPER
of the family Ciucadellidae

COMMON CENTAURY

16-SPOT ORANGE LADYBIRD

One from the large family of diversely coloured
HARLEQUIN LADYBIRD

Unfortunately only the 'seed-heads' remain on this
GOATSBEARD

At first thought to be a Bee, but on closer inspection it was seen to
have the head of a Fly (diptera) and is in fact a
HOVERFLY
Volucella Bombylans

Difficult ti identify down to specific species so I am told
ICHNEUMAN FLY Sp

 

SCULLCAP

LONGHORN BEETLE
Rutpela maculata

MARMALADE HOVERFLY

 

THICK-LEAVED STONECROP

MAYFLY
Ephemerella invaria
Note the size of the eyes proportionate to body, a
factor in identification my learn'ed friend tells me!

MEADOW GRASSHOPPER

Likely
PERFORATED ST JOHN'S WORT

No knowing which species of BEE this is, it must have been busy,

almost completely coated in Pollen.

Last on the Agenda and probably my favourite of the day

RED-LEGGED SHIELDBUG

Heartfelt thanks go to my friend John Gifford, without whom most of these wonderful Wild Things would have appeared without a name - a Great Learning Curve for me and I'm sure others John. and a final Thank You to Dave Foot who's company on Sunday was invaluable - hope to see you both again soon!

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