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And New Venue! 13 September1994 New seasorr new day and new venue! Anotherseason of indoormeetings draws rapidly nearer as the nightsstart to close in. Severalof the pointsraised in lastyear's survey have been taken on boardduring the formulationof the programme and as a consequenceit is hopedthat therewill be greaterattendance at the meetings. The first change has been the move to Hayesand they are alreadyenjoying the fruits meetingson a Thursdayevening - the over- of the locationwith regularsightings of tawny whelmingchoice of the membership.lt is up owlsand sparrowhawksand up to four regular to you to now supportthis change - afterall it foxes! The groundfloor of the houseis where was your choice! meetingscan be held and a kitchen is very handilyplacedl Thereis also the advantage, - New venue Holly Hayes at least at the moment, of less restrictionon the length of meetings. This, hopefully,will The secondmajor change has beenof venue. allowmembers to be able to discussmatters Whereasall past meetingshave been held at of entomologicalimportance in great comfoft LeicesterMuseum, the move of the Ecology and in a more relaxedwav. Unitto HollyHayes, Birstall has resultedin an alternativevenue being available.Holly Hayes More local lnferest is a lovelysetting - a large house in its own groundswith ample safe parkingjust off the The last major change is the greaterinput now outer ring road at Birstall. Many parts of the being expected from LES members. you house have extensivewood panelling and wanted to have less in the way of invited woodenfire surrounds and the wholeplace is speakersand more of localinterest. lf you are idealfor naturalhistory meetings, lt has that sorl of ambience! askedto partakein any of the meetingsplease do at leastgive us five minutes! The EcologyUnit has recentlymoved to Holly contd p2 New season contd Book review !-_ Yourparticipation at all meetingsis, of course, A review of the Scarce and ThreatenedPyralid always welcome pafticularly if you have Moths of GreatBritain by MS Parsons (JNCC exhibits! Publications1'l: 98pp - Joint Nature ConservationCommittee. Peterborough 1993 Accessto HollyHayes is easy but in case you lsBN-1-873701-s1 -9. 18.60) get lost we have included a map for your guidancewith this Newsletter. Speciesof Pyralidaewere not includedin the InsectRed Data Book of 1987and this present Pleaselet us know what you think of the new publicationaims to remedythis ommission. venueand the rejiggedprogramme. lt is the However,whilst proposingadditions to the onlyway that the Committeecan giveyou, the RDB, the author emphasisesthat the book members,what you wish for! itselfis not a RDB. The Review is 44 with the text presented in datasheetformat. A total of 57 species are reviewed with copious information being Bees in Knighton provided.The ldentificationheading generally does little more than refer to Goater (British PyralidMoths), the remainingheadings provide Queensof both Bombus terreslrlsand Eombus plentyof usefuland fairlydetailed information pratorumwere seen in the Frankum'sKnighton thus complementingGoater well, The garden during March along with the other distributionof speciesis basedon a Watsonian bumblebeeBombus lapidarius. Also seen was vice-countybasis with post-1970 records being the cuckoo bee Psithyrusvesfa/r's and queens separatelylisted. Only four pre-1970records of the wasp Vespulavulgaris. for Leicestershireare cited.prcbab ;,, ail frc'r the VictoriaCounty Histories Thisbook is a welcomeaddition i3 :.e sra : 'zn numberof publicationsrelating to lr^s , ?' mothsand shouldprove a valuabies3-'ce :' informationto microlepidopteristsa': :-:se involvedin habitatmanaqement in car :- a- AdrianFusse N ext GOBY Psithyrusvesta/is I date: Flowering lungwotl was being regularly patrolled by Anthophorusspecies with both maleand femalebees beingseen, Alsoseen in March were littlegolden bees (speciesnot January yet identified)in brickworkwhilst there were plentyof honeybeeson the heather, rsrh rggs Maggie Frankum Cloud lVood l4.v.g4 Thefirst visit that the LeicestershireEntomological Society made to CloudWood was in August1991 . Sincethen the sitehas beengiven to the countyTrust by the localquarry company (Breedon plc) and now forms an importantaddition to their Reserveslist. ThisSSSI ancient woodland site was coppiced Five species of butterflypatrolled the rides - until earlythis century and clear-felledat the green-veined white, large white, speckled time of World War ll. Since then it has been wood, peacockand orangetip. The eggs of allowed to regenerate naturally and future the latterwere found on lady's smock. There management expects to include some were also many caterpillarsin the foliage but restorationof coppicingwhilst leavingother no means of identifyingthem. areasto developas high forest. Recent management has widened the overgrownrides and gladeshave been cut at the ridejunctions. The underlyinggeology rs mainlyKeuper marl and boulderclay although no part of the woodlandis on dolomitised CarboniferousLimestone (as found in the adjacentquarry). However,the rides have been built up at some time with limestone chippings. The ground flora is very species-richand withoutany effortat all well overthirty different kindsof floweringplants were seen. The most notableincluded yellow archangel, early purple Mesembrina meridiana orchid,Solomon's seal, sweet woodruff, wild strawberryand golden saxifrage. Diptera Lepidoptera The hum of hoverJlieswas ever present and A bright sunny day brought of lots of insects those not flying were basking in local hot on the wing to take advantage of the floral spots. The blackand yellowwasp-likestripes displayand alsocatering forthe manyinterests of Syrphus ribes/ and Helophilus pendulus of the LES members present. were conspicuousas was the blackface stripe of a farge Erisfalistenax. Leucozonaleucorum, GrahamFinch pointed out a cloudof longhorn the shiningbronze Epistrophe eligans and the moths, with impossibly long antennae, cowpat specialist Rhlng ia camp estris werefairly displayingin the sunshinearound the tree easy to spot as well. foliage, Three other moths found were the greybirch, herald and cloudedsilver. Plans to However,these were Neil's specialityand he fudher record moths later by light trapping managedto record29 species. This,for him, were foiled bv the weather. equalsthe highestnumber of speciesrecorded in one day on any site in Leicestershire. lncfuding the Erisfalistenax, the hoverflylist for Cloud Wood was a total of 30 species. Neif also saw a Berls spp and Mesembrina meridiana,a memberof the Muscidaegroup of Diptera,together with the large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula. contd p4 Cloud lVood contd I CLOUDWOOD HOVERFLIES/Neil Frankumi Baccha species Sphaerophoriaspecies Fristaiispefttnax Melanostomascalare 9 Syrphus ribesii ? Helophiluspendulus Platycheirus albimanus 6 Syrphus vitripennis ? Myathropa florea Platycheirus manicatus 6 I Cheilosia illustrata6 Pipiza noctiluca ? Platychei rus scufafus ? Cheilosiavariabilis 6 PipizalHeringraspecies ? Platychei rus tarsa/is g Cheilosiavernalis 6I Syrittapipiens Dasysyrphustricinctus 6 I Rhingia campestris Neoascrapodagrica 6 g yenusfus Dasysyrphus Eristalrsarbustorum Xylota segnis !t' Epistrophe eligans Erlsta/r'shorlicola Criorhinaberberina Leucozonalucorum Eristalisnemorum Bumblebeeswere active along the rideswhen they had warmedup in the sunshine.Severar SP/DEFS (Jon Daws) buzzed by too fast for identificationbut tnere was Bombus pascuorum and a cuckoo bee Diplocephaluspicinus Psithyrusyesta/rs, easily mimicking Bombus Lepthyph anthesz i m m erman n i ferresfris.A hornet was spotted resting on a Clubiona /utescens d ? leafin one of glades. the Neriene clathrata i i Linyphia hortensis i t Splders and galls Pisauramirabilis 6 Pardosa amentata g Jon Daws spent the day searchingout the Nerienemontana 6 9 spidersand recorded22 species. He also Meta menge 6 ? found two species of harvestmen (Rilaena Gongylidium rufipes 6 g triangularis, Megabunus diadema), a pill Robertus lividus g millipede,three speciesof woodlouseand the Dictyna arundinacea 6 g centipedeL ithobius variegatus. f Commentfrom Bathyphantesnigrinus Q Jon - "There was nothingrare!" Nerienepeltata ? Pardosa pullata 6 Eighteenspecies plant of gall were found by Lepthyphantesfenuis d myselfalong the rides: Amaurobius fenesfra/rs g - Fieldmaple threespecies Diplostyla concolor g Svcamore- two species Monocephalus fuscrpes d Hazel- one species Diplocephalus latifrons Q Blackthorn- one species Segestrla senoculata ? Oak - six species Bathyphantesgrac#rs d Bramble- one species Willow- three species Doq'smercury - one species Doq'smercury - one species Maggie Frankum \- Grasshopper records wanted! New Book Ann Tate, well-known ls the mottled grasshopper, Myrmeleotettix Leicestershire naturalist and maculatus,only found on CharnwoodForest in member oJ the LES, has Leicestershire or has it been missed a new book just about ready to come elsewhere? As far as I know, it was first out. Entitled "Naturaf.stSurnmers; recordedin the county in 1956 on Sliding pages from a fietd studiesjournal". Stone rocksat WoodhouseEaves (now a golf the book is endorsedbv the course)and then in SwithlandWoods in the Field StudiesCouncil and is 196O's. The next recordsare in the 1980's nicelytimed for their 5oth - when it was found in Bradgate Swithland anniversary and it comescompletewith Wood spoilheaps, High Sharpley. Charnwood an exuberant foreword by David Lodge,around Hill Hole quarryat Marlcfield. Bellamyl Buck Hill,the Brandquarries, lves Head and Chapters on
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