Invertebrate diary April, week 2

10/04/2015
Sunny day

(morning)

Misc
   1 fly (muscid?) from sunny tree trunk in car park
   1 early bee on car park willow, but nothing else

(lunch)
Misc
   Sallow - Scathophagia stercoraria; Buff-t B-b; Rhamphomyia sp.; Small Tortoiseshell
   Filter beds - Bombylius major on Dandelion
   Car window - bug Berytinus minor
   Flew onto hand - small variegated beetle

08/04/2015
Sunny day,

(morning)

Pitfalls
   2 beetles, filter bed PT
   1 ad.m.Microneta viaria, woods PT

(Lunchtime)
Sallow catkins
   1 Early Bumble-bee
   2 Buff-tailed B-B (min)
   1 Eristalis tenax f.
   1 Eristalis pertinax (other Eristalis seen at distance but not ID'd)
   1 Empid, genus Rhamphomyia

Misc
   Carabid crossing road near car
 (Evening)
Misc
   1 water beetle in bucket in paddock
   1 small beetle beaten from small pathside pine  
   1 Harmonia quadripunctata (Cream-streaked Ladybird)beaten from small pathside pine