We always try to arrange field trips so that they are accessible by public transport, but sometimes this is a problem. Track repairs etc. We have a trip the...
Just to flag up an NMN event with a bit of a difference - it's during the day rather than a nightime thing, concentrating on day-flying moths and particularly...
It would have been helpful if a date had been put into the text! ... From: London-nhs-invertebrates@yahoogroups.com ...
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Jul 6, 2005 11:37 pm
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Hello all, I've received a list from John Archer (Principal Biodiversity Adviser for GLA) that several sites are being reviewed with regard to status, boundary...
Any of you reading the title for the September talk might think that it's Mabbott waffling on about ladybirds again. This would be 50% correct; however...
Hello everyone, I understand that this might be pushing the envelope a little too much, but ... I know of two people from north/east/central London who are...
Don't forget : 7 Sun. ECOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY. Thursley Common NNR. Stuart Cole. Meet The Moat car park (SU900417). 10.30. Bring lunch My car is now full, but if...
If anyone who went to Thursley would like to share your best photos from yesterday, I have created an album called 'Thursley' in the Photos section, and have...
Hello everyone, First of all, many apologies if you weren't at yesterday's field trip to Thursley Common (a marvellous day, I thought, and thanks to everyone...
Hi everyone, I have put a couple of pictures in the Queries folder of a Skipper butterfly I saw today at Boxhill. I think it is a Grizzled Skipper but I would...
Hi Sarah, The photographs are of a Silver-spotted Skipper, a downland butterfly which is very local in distribution but can be fairly common where it occurs...
Last weekend I wandered around parts of outer Inner London and found H. axyridis (the multivariate, Japanese, harlequin ladybird) in all but two places I...
Neil Anderson (Hampton and Ravenscourt Park) and Diane Andrews (Tottenham) have contacted me today with further observations and I have had more records from...
Just to redress the balance - records this week from Bow, Limehouse and Harold Wood so east London isn't being overlooked. Still few records from S/E of the...
Following on from the couple I found a few days ago, I am now picking up dozens off the lime trees in my road in Chiswick. They are co-existing with a few 2...
I know that many of you have been able to enjoy the field meetings we were able to put into the 2005 summer programme. I have just sent the note of thanks...
I'll write to Mick with some suggestions and perhaps the offer to lead a meeting next year (in London - unless you fancy a day trip to England's greenest...
It's been a good year for the mildew-eating 22-spot ladybird but I was pleased to see quite a few orange ladybirds, Halyzia sedecimguttata, over the last few...
Just to report that I found haxy pupae & adults on Lime trees in a south Brixton (SW2) road on my way to work this morning. Duly recorded same on-line on the...
ghawgood
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Sep 19, 2005 9:20 pm
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Hello, Gavin and all. I don't think there's anything sinister about limes - just that they have these growths of foliage where we can see them easily. Why ...
Just to show that I'm not obsessed by ladybirds (!). I have noticed large numbers of lacewing larvae following on from good numbers of imagines earlier in the...
Does anyone have any records of Marbled White (Melanargia galathea) from Horsenden Hill (Middx - TQ18) this year. The colony there is only small but there are...
Any ID suggestions on these. http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/Q_bushcricket.jpg - I think is Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera). Found 22nd...
... David, The first exhibit, as suggested, is a male Dark Bush Cricket. The 2nd exhibit is much trickier - really need a shot from above to see the actual...
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Sep 23, 2005 5:42 pm
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David Photo 1 is a Dark Bush-cricket Photo 2 is probably Long-winged Conehead nymph; this species is common locally +I'm not aware of local colony of...
... Thanks ... Haven't really got a shot from above but I have another shot which is slightly closer http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/q_conehead2.jpg ...
Paul, A SE London record for your map! The very first Limes I checked out this morning for the first time ever, here in South Norwood, SE25, were generously...
ghawgood
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Sep 24, 2005 8:51 pm
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Thanks Gavin but it doesn't count! We go by VCs not postal codes - I'm after VC 16 (W. Kent) so you need to edge a few kilometeres east. There was a record...
To illustrate my suppositions, I've uploaded a map to the files section (haxyrange or some such). My feeling is that in the epicentre of this (northern...