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Shropshire Entomology Newsletter – October 2014 (No Shropshire Entomology – March 2015 (Vol. 10) A bi-annual newsletter focussing upon the study of insects and other invertebrates in the county of Shropshire (V.C. 40) March 2015 (Vol. 10) Editors: Pete Boardman & Nigel Jones [email protected] ~ Welcome ~ Welcome to the 10th edition of Shropshire Entomology. It is fabulous to be able to continue with the production of Shropshire newsletters, though on a slightly different footing to those previously. As regular readers will know, I was made redundant from my post at the Field Studies Council at the end of 2014 after an eight year tenure as a Project Officer based at Preston Montford. As my future is still unclear Nigel Jones has volunteered to take on co-editing duties and potentially full editing duties should I need to relinquish my involvement with this newsletter this year? I am very grateful to him for stepping in. I’m also very grateful for some SEDN / FSC funding to enable me to spend time on this edition and to Adrian Pickles at Preston Montford for letting me use the facilities at PM to prepare Vol.10. This edition includes several County Recorder summaries of 2014 as well as a mixture of other articles as usual. I hope you find it enjoyable. It is hoped that Vol. 11 will follow in October. Therefore if you fancy sharing your entomological experiences from the summer please send any articles to me by Wednesday 30th September 2015 at the address above. Pete Boardman Note – past newsletters are still available for download as PDF’s from www.invertebrate-challenge.org.uk/newsletters- and-resources.aspx ~ Contents ~ The FSC Invertebrate Challenge insect reference collection: Sue Townsend Attempting to Master Entomology: Andrew Cutts County Recorder Report - Shropshire Diptera (Brachycera): Nigel Jones County Recorder Report - Shropshire Diptera (Tipuloidea): Pete Boardman County Recorder Report - Shropshire Orthoptera and allies 2014: David Williams County Recorder Report - Terrestrial Heteroptera, the Auchenorrhyncha and Psylloidea (Hemiptera): Keith Fowler County Recorder Report – Activities of the Shropshire Spider Group: Nigel Cane-Honeysett County Recorder Report – Shropshire Dragonfly Report (see note): Sue McLamb County Recorder Report - Shropshire Ephemeroptera: Ian Thompson County Recorder Report – Shropshire Aquatic Invertebrates: Frances Riding County Recorder Report – Shropshire Ladybirds: Ian Thompson Winter Beetling: Caroline Uff The Olloclip Macro lens for I-phone 5: Pete Boardman Bees – a review of the genus Stelis in Shropshire: Ian Cheeseborough Tomorrow’s Biodiversity: Rich Burkmar Differences in the markings of the Birch Catkin Bug (Lygaeidae) Kleidocerys resedae Panzer, 1797: Pete Boardman The County Recorder network Dates for your diary Submission guidelines for articles 1 Shropshire Entomology – March 2015 (Vol. 10) The FSC Invertebrate Challenge The next Collections day is at Preston insect reference collection Montford in the Wenlock lab at 10:00 on Thurs 2nd April. Please let me know if you can attend (my contact email is at the end of this article) I was delighted at the response to come and help with the important invertebrate collection Thanks to Steve Falk, we are lucky to have some housed at Preston Montford. This is a wonderful further fly specimens including the rare Phaonia testament to the dedication of Invertebrate jaroschewskii, Hairy Canary Fly (Muscidae) – to Challenge volunteers and of course Pete quote Steve’s website; ‘This is a medium-sized, Boardman. The collection is in good condition rather nondescript Phaonia (resembling P. and the team changed insecticide and silica gel to rufipalpis or a small P. falleni) but closer keep it that way. A vast amount of work was inspection of the male hind legs reveals a unique also carried out in the painstaking business of configuration of bristles and hairs combined confirming any identifications, starting to with a fan of very strong anteroventral bristles in integrate new material and smartening the the apical half of the hind femorae. This species labels. This has resulted in it becoming even has been recorded from Dorset, Hampshire, more useful with space for new additions and Shropshire, Yorkshire and Durham. The term very clear labels with the most recent taxonomic 'Hairy Canary' was coined by the great Yorkshire names. This is detailed and time consuming entomologist, Peter Skidmore (1936 – 2009), work and I am personally so very grateful to all when attempting to protect Thorne Moor and for giving up their time and expertise to help Hatfield Moor from peat cutting. He regarded maintain this collection. The work will ensure the fly as a barometer of peatland health (hence that the specimens remain accessible to all the canary bit) with reference to its hairy back entomologists to check records, confirm legs. It has been reared from a puparium found identification with a specimen and to see the in Sphagnum moss and larvae are presumed to be range of variable presentations for many predatory on other invertebrates in such species. situations. Volunteers working on the insect collection at Preston Montford (Photo: Sue Townsend) Phaonia jaroschewskii (Photo: Steven Falk) 2 Shropshire Entomology – March 2015 (Vol. 10) This is a rare species mostly recorded from September, 2005, having just started a University Sphagnum-rich, base-poor peatlands, including placement at Severn Gorge Countryside Trust raised bog, valley mire and boggy woodland (SGCT). I was looking through ecological survey clearings. In 2011, a strong population was reports for various species and habitats to get a discovered in coastal grazing marsh along the feel for what inhabited the Ironbridge Gorge. Hampshire coast near Lymington suggesting it At the time I was a student at Harper Adams may not be quite as restricted to peatlands as University College, studying BSc Countryside & previously thought, though the ditches of coastal Environmental Management, and the course marshes along this stretch of coast often feature included a placement year for developing skills species more characteristic of valley mire in the and knowledge of the sector. New Forest (one of its strongholds)’. Birds and mammals had always been my main focus of interest in the natural world but P. jaroschewskii is a UK Priority species subject to ultimately everything natural got my attention. a JNCC action plan: Insects had been an interest ever since I bred my jncc.defra.gov.uk/speciespages/2496.pdf. first colony of 7-spot Ladybirds Coccinella septempunctata in a plastic Ferrero Rocher box at This information is supplied by Steven on his the age of six-years-old. However, they had kind fabulous Flickr site; of slipped down the pecking order in my https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/se priorities over the years. That is until the Glow ts/72157632827488537/# worm Lampyris noctiluca came into my life. These creatures to me were those of myth and [Ed. this species was found at Fenn’s, Whixall & legend. Perhaps this was naive of me, but as I Bettisfield Mosses NNR by Cyril Pugh in 1940. It had never encountered them I had never thought has not been recorded there since but could still to look them up in my numerous natural history be present given the recent program of bog books. Anyway, I sat down with the reports and restoration carried out by Natural England / devoured them! The reports I mean, not the Natural Resources Wales] Glow worms. Amongst the records for White-letter Hairstreak There are several Invertebrate Challenge Satyrium w-album, Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages, legacy courses running this year – please Scarce Yellow Splinter Lipsothrix nigristigma and have a look at the ‘Dates for your Diary’ the aforementioned L. noctiluca, was another section for further details and booking name new to me - Pete Boardman. There was no links. scientific name coupling what turned out to be the surveyor of this land of woods, meadow, and Sue Townsend [email protected] remnant heath. I had stumbled upon Mr Cranefly! The more I read, the more I walked in the woods, Attempting to Master the more I observed the birds and mammals, the more I surveyed trees, the more I noticed. And Entomology the more I thought and reflected upon these moments, the more I saw the link: insects. They had always been in my thoughts but typically "Glow worms? In Telford? Seriously?" is along subconsciously. While watching Badgers Meles the lines of what I was thinking in late meles at the sett I would be harassed by 3 Shropshire Entomology – March 2015 (Vol. 10) mosquitoes (species unknown). When looking to (Coleoptera), Dr Erica McAlister (Diptera), Steve the skies in summer as the Swifts Apus apus Brooks (Odonata), and Dr Amoret Whitaker screeched by feeding I would note plumes of (forensic entomology), all from the Natural insects. And sitting quietly in the heathland I History Museum, are amongst the guest would observe Common Lizards Zootoca vivipara lecturers who I have had the pleasure to meet. hunting insects amongst the grasses. Of course nowhere near everything regarding During the intervening years I have been the subject of entomology can be covered, even fortunate to work full-time at SGCT, carry out in a year, but we are exposed to everything from ecological surveys in remote parts of Australia, biological control to curation, population and work on numerous ecological surveys in the dynamics to life cycles, taxonomy to computer UK. Nearly ten years have passed and I am back modelling, and the list goes on. studying at Harper Adams. This time I have I have just completed yet another assignment. opted to concentrate entirely on insects as I study Writing you will probably assume. Yes, writing MSc Entomology. is involved but the focus is the collection and The main reason for me choosing this course is presentation of 10 insect species. The the realisation that insects, although incredibly development of my collection began last numerous and diverse in species, are September with collecting of specimens out in astonishingly undervalued in the world of the field.
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