Following on from my earlier post about mimics we have found another with a large species of Sawfly that was seen by Lawrence Rogers at the weekend in the wildlife garden.
It goes by the name of Abia sericea and lte larva can be found sitting openly on Scabious plants between June and September which we have in the dry wildflower bed so hopefully we shall be seeing more of this scarce species.
It resembles a fat stripy wasp but is quite bronzy rather than black stripes and with club tipped antenna.
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Howard Vaughan, Information Officer