Friday 26 July 2019

Wintersett + Insects. 26.07.19

Another very hot day 20 - 24 degrees with 8/8 cloud  and north westerly wind.
Anglers CP: Common Sandpiper 2 on the shallows.  Coot 87.  Tufted Duck 3 small young + 1 small young CHRes. 
Odonata: A male Lesser Emperor was over Water Crowfoot off the south west bank at ACP..
Lepidoptera:A Green-veined White seen in Haw Park Wood.
Coleoptera: A sexton beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides,  with three mites,  was in the moth trap this morning.  A Four-banded longhorn beetle Leptura quadrifasciata was in vegetation at the western of CHRes. 
Leptura quadrifasciata        CHRes                     ASmith
Nicrophorus vespilloides with 3 mites.    ASmith.

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