Somehow the rain held off till the very end yesterday and we enjoyed a great session out bugging in the woodland. Some great stuff was found including countless Garden Orb Weavers, two Wasp Spiders, a Pine Ladybird, some Heineken flies, Noon Day Fly, Dock Leatherbugs, Common Darters, Crab Spiders, a tiny weevil, an even tinier Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner Moth, both Hedge Snails and dashing Migrant Hawkers.
Everyone had a great afternoon and it is a shame that this is the last Insect Afternoon walk of the year. We will be back next spring though! In the meantime there is still plenty to find out there so get outside and get grubbing!
Black-lipped Hedge Snail and Lotte's hand!
Dock Leatherbug. You can even see its rostrum slung beneath its head that it uses to suck sap!
Annie holding a rapt court whilst talking about Harvetsman Spiders!
A Sun Beetle... like the one that ended up living in my inner ear for 20 minutes earlier in the year.... still makes me squirm.
A Pine Ladybird... only the fourth on the site
The terror of the Horse Chesnuts.... cute, tiny but deadly!
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer