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Wild Yorkshire: April 2013
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Thursday, 25 April 2013. Records suggest that only once in fifty years is someone mad enough to hike up to the cowberry and scrabble about (on hands and knees) to find this distinctive micromoth larva. On Tuesday 23rd April 2013 I was that man, getting surprisingly sunburnt in what seemed like a howling gale on Barden Moor, VC64. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My Favourite Wildlife Sites. A day in the dales. Naturescape British Wild Flowers.
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Wild Yorkshire: February 2012
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Saturday, 25 February 2012. White Satin Moth stowaways. This little feller is an over-wintering caterpillar of the White Satin Moth. I found a couple of these amongst a batch of braconid parasitoid pupal cases collected from the poplar trees in Queen's Gardens, Hull. I have never seen the adult of this species even though it seems to be expanding its range across the county. I am grateful to Dean's Daily Diary for alerting me to the fact that Colt's-foot.
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Wild Yorkshire: October 2012
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Friday, 12 October 2012. Stigmella anomalella on Dog-rose. I have a single Dog-rose (. In the garden which I only planted earlier this year. I was pleasantly surprised last weekend when I found twenty-eight tenanted mines of. Friday, October 12, 2012. Stigmella anomalella in Yorkshire VC64. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Stigmella anomalella on Dog-rose. My Favourite Wildlife Sites. A day in the dales. Charlie Streets's Moths of Calderdale.
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Wild Yorkshire: June 2011
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Friday, 17 June 2011. White-letter Hairstreak and Ectoedemia minimella. There were a few sunny spells this morning and, during one of them, I was lucky enough to be able to find this White-letter Hairstreak. On a local elm. I also received a letter from Harry Beaumont today:. A specimen from my excursion to Timble Ings, last Saturday, turns out to be. That I had suspected. Friday, June 17, 2011. Sunday, 5 June 2011. Sunday, June 05, 2011. Wednesday, 1 June 2011.
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Wild Yorkshire: Triangle Plume (Platyptilia gonodactyla) larva and pupae
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Sunday, 13 May 2012. Triangle Plume (Platyptilia gonodactyla) larva and pupae. Having located a large stand of Coltsfoot (. Earlier in the year, I went back this weekend lo look for the early stages of the Triangle Plume moth. The larvae feed within the seedhead of Coltsfoot at this time of year and I managed to find one larva and three pupae. As I was hoping to find evidence of parasitism by the braconid. Sunday, May 13, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Wild Yorkshire: Pammene regiana
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Saturday, 30 June 2012. Last November I found several larvae feeding under the loose bark of an Italian Maple in my garden. I havo only recently realised that these are Pammene regiana after seeing a photograph in the newly published Micro-moths field guide. Saturday, June 30, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Favourite Wildlife Sites. A day in the dales. Charlie Streets's Moths of Calderdale. Naturescape British Wild Flowers.
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Wild Yorkshire: Stigmella anomalella on Dog-rose
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Friday, 12 October 2012. Stigmella anomalella on Dog-rose. I have a single Dog-rose (. In the garden which I only planted earlier this year. I was pleasantly surprised last weekend when I found twenty-eight tenanted mines of. Friday, October 12, 2012. Stigmella anomalella in Yorkshire VC64. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Stigmella anomalella on Dog-rose. My Favourite Wildlife Sites. A day in the dales. Charlie Streets's Moths of Calderdale.
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Wild Yorkshire: Coleophora glaucicolella parasitoid - Hyssopus olivaceus, Thomson, 1878
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Sunday, 24 March 2013. Coleophora glaucicolella parasitoid - Hyssopus olivaceus, Thomson, 1878. I have been rearing some. From the Compact Rush (. At Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits. The first imago to emerge is that of a parasitoid; the chalcid. As described by Dick Askew (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, 1968), the scutellum is entirely reticulately sculptured and the gaster of this female is approximately 1.5 times as long as broad.
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Wild Yorkshire: July 2011
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Out and about studying Yorkshire wildlife. Saturday, 23 July 2011. After reading an article in. Entitled "The Horse-chestnut Leaf-miner and its parasitoids", I decided to investigate what was happening on my own tree. Preliminary results have led me to believe that I have a healthy population of. With assosciated populations of the chalcid parasitoids. The insect in the photograph is a female. Saturday, July 23, 2011. Labels: parasitoids of Cameraria ohridella. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
