SWANMORE MEADOWS: PIG LEG LANE

Entomology Meeting – record of species seen 13th June 2017

Birds:

Dunnock

Robin: included fledged youngster

Wren

Chiff Chaff

Whitethroat

Blackcap

Long Tailed Tit – party of 14 on 8th June reconnaissance visit only

Greenfinch

Goldfinch

Mammals:

Rabbit

Mole

Bacteria:

Pseudomonas on creeping thistle

Micro-fungi

Phoma hedericola – on ivy

Phragmidium violaceum – on bramble

Puccinia malvacearum – on mallow

Puccinia pulverulenta – on great willowherb

Septoria cornicola – on dogwood

Orthoptera: Dark bush cricket Acari:

Eriophyes brevitarsus - on alder

Eriophyes galii - on cleavers

Eriophyes laevis - on alder

Eriophyes macrochelus – on field maple

Eriophyes prunispinosae – on blackthorn

Phytopus avellanae – on hazel

Stenacis euonymi – on spindle

Diptera:

Dasineura urticae – on nettle

Iteomyia major – on grey willow

Episyrphus balteatus

Volucella pellucens – at least 15 seen.

Hemiptera:

Closterotomus norvegicus – 3

Coreus marginatus – squash bug

Notostira elongata

Philaenus spumarius – common froghopper

Aphis fabae – Black Bean Aphid

Hymenoptera:

Andricus kollari – on oak

Neuroterus quercusbaccarum – on oak

Honey Bee

Bombus Lucorum – commonest species

Bombus hypnorum – 4 seen

Bombus terrestris – 1

Bombus lapidaries - 1

Lepidoptera: Butterflies

Large Skipper - 2

White Admiral

Small Tortoiseshell

Red Admiral

Marbled White

Meadow Brown – 6

Ringlet

Speckled Wood – 3

Lepidoptera:

Digitivalva pulicariae – mine on fleabane

Acrolepia autumnitella – mine on woody nightshade

Mompha epilobiella – on great willowherb

Gillmeria pallidactyla – Yarrow Plume

Chrysoteuchia culmella

Six-spot burnet

Five-spot burnet sp (hoping to receive photograph which may help with identification)

Cinnabar

Straw Dot

Mecoptera:

Scorpion Fly – unidentified but probably Panorpa Communis

Coleoptera:

22-spot Ladybird – 2

7-Spot Ladybird – common

Harlequin Ladybird – 3

Oedemera nobilis