This morning I dropped in and set up a few pitfall traps in a rather amateur and haphazard way. At lunchtime I was amazed to see that I had captured a ground beetle which I will attempt to key out later.
A wee bit of log rolling turned up a few White-legged Snake-millipedes (
Tachypodoiulus niger) and as a thought while looking at the pond I gave some Pine needle litter a bit of a shake and produced a whopping and excitingly-patterned springtail (whopping and excitingly-patterned for a springtail, that is) -
Orchesella cincta. Not a bad trip.
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| Caught and released millipede |
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| My amateur-hour yoghurt pot pitfall trap |
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| Hazel progression |
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| Oncopsis flavicollis |
Oncopsis flavicollis is a leafhopper. The springtail looks like Orchesella cincta to me (I think it's the only one with that yellow abdominal band).
ReplyDeleteGood to see you're getting into beetling!
oops - hit comment rather than reply. see below... I'm prepared to consider ground and leaf beetles this time around, though what else I might get into through the year who knows!
DeleteHahaha! I let iRecord auto-complete ad chose wrong option no doubt! Thanks
ReplyDelete(mysteriously it is recorded correctly. No idea what happened there)
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