NEWSLETTER28 February2003 hasbeen replaced. The mapshowing the new compartmentnumbers, for our recordsfrom Notesfrom the Secretary. 2003,is at the end of thissection. 44 copiesof thismap may be obtainedfrom NeilPilcher at Firstof all,Welcome back to ourChairman, the TrustOffice. (See below.) RayMorris. We havebeen without a Chairman sinceRay's resignation in December2000, Newsletter27 washalf the sizeof ourusua coastingalong like a car withoutan engine! editionand FrankClark used the AGMto appealto membersfor copy.Anything The AGMon SthDecember 2002 gave us an interestingrelating to the invertebratefauna of opportunityto lookback and surveyour work Leicestershire& Rutland would be gratefully overthe pastyear. Our Treasurer,Stuart received. Poole,reported that we had a healthybank balanceand there was therefore,again. no Thanksto RonFollows for the LESOccasionat needfor an increasein the subscription.This PublicationA Checklistof the Mothsof Rutland hasremained at 15 sincethe Societvstarted in Water',which represents another step forward 1988. in the understandingof ourcounty fauna, and at an importantRAMSAR site. Hopefully, every DerekLott reported on the progressof removal yearwe willhear of newrecords added io this of insectcollections from the NewWalk Checklist.However, as evermore people use Museumin Leicesterto the Leicestershire the internet,the resultsof futuresurveys will Storeat Barrowon Soar. The bulkof the occuron the LeicestershireMoth Recorders lnsectcollection would be transferredto Groupweb site,as wellas in futureNews- Barrow,and the otherlnvertebrate groups, e.g. letters. Molluscs,Spiders and the'spirit collections (!) willbe retainedby the City.(Presumably the Thanksalso to MaggieFrankum for the spiritcollection includes genies and other publicationof ournext LESOP,No. 20, which spiritsthat are amenableto beingshut into is enclosedhere with your newsletter. bottles.However, I expectthat their abilities to Hopefully this will inspire some of youto get grantthree wishes have all beenused up!) crackingon the beesthis season. Derekis planningto usethe collectionsto stimulatethe involvementof peoplein two We hopeto includean updatedmembership ways.First, to organiseldentification listwith our AutumnNewsletter, together with Workshops,and secondly, to involveinterested yourcurrent interests, so pleasesend your volunteersin the organisationand updatingof Secretarydetails of the groupsof Insects,or thecollections. (See Derek's piece in this otherInvertebrates, which you arecurrently Newsletter). workingwith. The FebruaryNewsletter No. 26 containeda Notethat the Datefor the nextAGM hasbeen goodnumber of interestingand useful articles, fixedfor Tuesday2nd December,2003, at includingone relatingto NarboroughBog, one HollyHayes, usual time. Our nextcommittee of ourstudy sites. This included a mapof the meetingwill be on Thursday13th March, so if compartmentsfor recordingfrom the reserve thereis anytopic which you wish to have whichwas obtainedfrom the then warden, Ron discussed.olease let one of the committee Woodcock. KNOW. I havesince heard from Neil Pilcher, the Senior ReservesOfficer for the LRWT,that this map John Kramer LEICESTERSHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY Affiliatedto: Leicestershire& RutlandWildlife Trust Chairman: Vacant Secretary: JohnKramer 31 Ash TreeRoad, Oadby, LeicesterLE2 sTE Telephone:0116 271 6499 Email:jk @ chezejog.demon.co. uk Treasurer: StuartPoole 18 CroftDrive, Wigston, LeicesterLElB 1HD Telephone:01 16 288 0236 ! CommitteeMembers: Dave Budworlh 121Wood Lane, FieldWork 2003 Newhall,Swadlincote Derbys.DEl 1 OLX 'a Telephone:01283 21 51 88 Ourchosen Le ::::='=- =-- = -: :-: ,', Email:[email protected] Trustsites lor re::':' - .'. - Maggie& Roy Frankum -:5J37r 3 ChapelLane, Knighton, LaundeBigl',':::I- S- LeicesterLE2 3WF LaundePark\,',::r :- =-:,37) - qKq?CtlA\ Telephone:01 1 6 270 5833 Inrrnhhnrnrrn- -I = "::-^.''--'" Nlarhnrnrrnh Q^- i: -i:3:9). DerekLott HollyHayes Environmental 's 'o ResourcesCentre, Whenannlvi^...'"::'- collectsnecimens 2.16 BirstallRoad, Birstall, fromthese Le c=s:=-s- 'e andRutland Trust's LeicesterLE4 4DG reserves,pleass -::a :^atthe Trusthas nolv Telephone:01 16 267 1950 ':ag- ' Email:dlott@ leics.gov.uk movedto the centBrocks Hill EnvironmentCe':'e. WashbrookLane, Oadby, LESOccasional Publications Editor: Leicester,LE2 5J-. Jenny Harris is the Senior RayMorris ConservationOli cer. 142Hinckley Road, Barwell, !' LeJcS.LEg 8DN Mapsof the Reser'",esmay also be requested. Telephone:01 455 8421 45 Pleasemake some records from at leastone of Email:ray.morris @ ntlworld.com thestudy sites. Nev,rsletterEditor: FrankClark John Kramer 4 MainStreet, Houghtonon lhe Hill. LeicesterLE7 9GD Telephone:0116 243 2725 [email protected] or ClrFlea@ ad.mrn Newsfrom HollyHayes- the insectcollections Next Copy Deadline: Thingsare now moving ol :Fecc leciionsfront. Ttsc frr-nrrs lichor ;^d t..^--..-o r:nllor.tinnS 22August 2003 togeiherv;iln basrc re;e'erce coiiections of florr,er-g p,a::sa^c \:ieb:aies havebeen at thenev,, County Councris Collections ResourcesCentre at Barrowfor sometime. Nowit isthe turn of theinsects. Butterflies and Moths Mysterybubble-wrap coccoons The LeicestershireLepidoptera collection foundat the Attenborough togetherwith the genitaliaslide collection have Arboretum alreadybeen moved. The BritishCollection will followshortly. Discussions are being held with On August16th 2002 Gareth Burton from the the LeicestershireLepidoptera Recording AttenboroughArboretum found some Schemeto arrangefor accessto these mysteriouscocoons under logs at the collectionsand to planthe involvementof Arboretumand took them in to Jan Dawsonat volunteersin maintarningand developing the theNew Walk Museum. They were made of a collections.Re-ordering the Leicestershire thintranslucent papery material, ovoid in shape collectioninto modern taxonomic order and andabout 3mm wide by 1Smmlong. Jan incorporatingthe backlog of voucher descrrbedthe materialas ratherlike dried cnenimonq rvill nrnh:hirt loatttro "''"''hinhlrr *:mr "Ji9 whippedegg white, with the uniformlylarge tho lict nf nrinritioc bubblespressed up againsteach other. Fortunately,on September2nd, Gareth was Other lnsects ableto bringsome more material together with a newly-emergedfemale adult. This has been Plansfor movingother insect's orders have identified as the FungusGnat (Keroplatinae) beenagreed. In general,all Leicestershire calledKeroplatus testaceus. materialand the bulk of theremaining British b materialwillmove to Barrow.Where possible In the RES Handbookon the Mycetophilidae a Britishreference collection will be retainedat (VoliX, Part3) it saysthat the adultsmay be NewWalk Museum. Foreign material and foundaround rotting logs, and that the pupa mostnon-insect invertebrates will also remain developsin distinctdry cocoons. The larvae at NewWalk Museum. Leicestershire molluscs liveunder a flatmucilaginous net on the arethe exceptionto thisrule and they have undersideof logs,usually with polyporaceous alreadybeen moved to Barrow. fungi.Gareth describes the net as resembling the slimetrail of a snail.The larvae,described 'somewhat In a recentconsultation exercise with natural as luminous',move rapidly up and historysocieties and recorders,collections and downthe netand feed partly on fungusand the librarywere identified as keyresources for partlyon otherinvertebrates. They are not a recording.The newstore at Barrowgives us rarespecies and Garethhas found numerous theopportunity to haveaccess to the cocoonson manyoccasions in the Arboretum. collectionsto supportprivate study and The adultshave been recorded flying from recordingand to be usedin identification Juneto October. WOTKSNODS. John Kramer Therewill be opportunitiesto volunteerto work on theseinsect collections once thev are movedto Barrow. BrownArgus in west VC55 The Librarv A letter from Ken Orpe of Derbyshire EntomologicalSociety has cometo lightwhich AIiinsect journals previously housed at New may be of interestto LES memberswho work WalkMuseum have been moved to Holly the westof the county. Hayes.The listof titlesincludes most of the "Herein Derbyshirewe hadour first record of popularentomologicaljournals such as the "Southern"Brown Argus at DrakelowPower EntomologistsMonthly Magazine and the StationNR in the southof the countyin August EntomologistsRecord. lf youwish to consult 2000. RoyFrost, who alsowitnessed the thesejournals or havea browse,please '1 record,later back-tracked into Leicestershire to contactDarwyn Sumner on 0.1 6 267 1950ext. see if therewas any evidenceof further 24. Pleasealso contact Darwyn you if are colonies.He strucklucky by recordinga interestedin helpingout in publishinga list of solitaryindividual on the 20thAugust 2000 at journalsor lookingafter the insectlibrary. AcresfordSand Pit, close to the Derbyshire border.lt mightwell be worthyour Derek Lott members checkingthe site,and adjacentsuitable habitats,in May2001 to see howfar this specieshas spread into western lni^^^+^'^hi.^ LgIUEJLYIJI IIIU. " v lnYC44the Brown Argus is essentially considereda speciesof the eastso it willbe interestingto keepan eye openfor this Owenin herScarptoft garden. (Owen 1991) butterflyin the morewesterly part of the county in 2003- weatherpermitting! The MalaiseTrap The trapis bestdescribed as a small,oblong Ray Morris tentmade f rom a finenylon mesh. lt hastwo shortend ivalls but no wallson thesides, hor..everrthas a centralwall. Insteadof the ^^. --c ntr?< n? j a'-.-. ' eenTre nf the tent as is "'" the lorma case'," :: a ie.:. tnepeak is set above oneenc, lrsec:s