It reached a whopping 5 degrees today on the car readout as I headed to Cullaloe. A brief swish at the spruces that divide the reserve from the neighbouring cottage garden and then back to business on the grass pile - though not before snagging a Phaonia tuguriorum from the sunny fence. I dug modereately deeply into the pile under a thick layer of frost, but far from the core of this bountiful bump. I did pot a few flies from the trees, but let's see if I can ID them first!
The delightful (non-springy) springtail Neanura muscorum showed up a few times, and oddly turned out to be new to the reserve. Also featuring in those already determined was the fat-nosed weevil Rhinoncus leucostigma, (pericarpius as was). I was delighted to add this to my list and the reserve list until I went to the spreadsheet to find that... I sieved it from a grass pile in 2019! It likes a bit of Persicaria so presumably from the abundant Redshank on the reserve.
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| N.muscorum |
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| Phaonia tuguriorum |
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| Rhinoncus leucostigma |
That little bundle takes us to 112 inverts on the reserve so far this year, 31 new. Let's not mention the weevil I fumbled the ID of and didn't keep the voucher and which was turned round the post by the weevil goalie on iRecord. Dammit. Bound to happen from time to time.
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