Ivysuckle💚(the garden reef)🍃
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Please call me Dud. Lover of nature's details. Observer of ivy. Adorer of wasps.
Worcester, UK.
Joined March 2022
#deadwoodwasps #1-24 A snapshot of diversity from a small city garden. Hymenoptera is a megadiverse insect order & a key indicator of ecosystem health. Deadwood is a valuable microhabitat for all manner of creatures - if you don't have a woodpile start one today! 💚🍃
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Plentiful in/on ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) in the garden, flymines probably made by Phytomyza obscurella (though must be reared to rule out others, esp P. angelicastri) & strange leaf spot fungus Septoria aegopodii 💚🍃
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A poor night for moths to light (too windy?) was amply compensated by wasps. Alongside Gastracanthus this fine nocturnal ichneumon, which seems to be♀️Netelia tarsata (pls see alt text for ID notes) 🧡🍃
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Daylight pics of a wonderful pteromalid which came as a complete surprise to light last night. Straight onto the wasp year list for little smasher Gastracanthus pulcherrimus 💚🍃
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It'll take a good moth to beat this early visitor to the light sheet this evening - charming chalcid Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (Pteromalidae) - distinctive parasitoid of beetle larvae 💚🍃
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An immature Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) in the garden yesterday, still active in mild conditions. Juveniles of the species overwinter, ready to hit the ground running next spring 🕷💚🍃
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The rather splendid vacated leafmine of micro moth Stigmella oxyacanthella in a crabapple leaf in the garden. Check out those frass coils! 🐛💚🍃
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A good news spider story from the BBC today https://t.co/inFWspNITf
bbc.co.uk
The team that found the tiny orange-legged arachnid have named it the white-knuckled wolf spider.
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Painted Lady in Cornwall last week demonstrating how important ivy is this time of year #WildWebsWednesday @savebutterflies
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Now you see me now you don't. A new location on the west side of the River Severn for Cosmopterix pulchrimella & my first sight of the adult moth in its habitat. Worcester 28.10.25 🦋💚🍃
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A Late Reveller (Diurnea lipsiella) ♂️ flying in a small wood this afternoon. Crown East, Worcs 🦋💚🍃
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Fly mines in Fragaria vesca in the garden which started as corridors have broadened to blotches, so shall record as Agromyza idaeiana, as advised. Thanks again for your help @AgromyzidaeRS & @vc30moths 💚🍃
Can anybody help please with the identity of this leafminer in wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca)? I've searched by plant in the British Leafminers website but can't seem to arrive at an ID. Found in the garden a few days ago, TIA 🐛💚🍃
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Tiny eulophid wasp with funky antennae emerged as parasitoid from leafmine of micro moth Cosmopterix pulchrimella - cf ♂️ Necremnus sp - members of that genus reported from this host 💚🍃
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The broad hairless midline to the carapace I think makes this little wolf spider seen on a garden fence yesterday Pardosa nigriceps? A new species for me & the garden if correct🕷💚🍃 @BritishSpiders @Tone_Killick
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A delightful, tiny (<2mm) black encyrtid wasp from the garden this afternoon. Anagyrus (a genus of mealybug parasitoids) looks possible, if anybody out there can confirm/deny please shout. 💚🍃
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My first Cosmopterix pulchrimella adult appeared today! Reared from pellitory leaves collected in Worcester city centre last weekend - a gorgeous micro moth, every bit the gem I was expecting it to be 🦋💚🍃
Tenanted mines of Pellitory Beauty (Cosmopterix pulchrimella) in its host plant Parietaria judaica, at the Water Gate, Worcester today. The species was discovered in the city in 2024 by Seth Gibson, a regional first record of a northward-spreading micro moth 💚🍃 @mickey_ratfink
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Last in first out with its leaves, it seems unsurprisingly there aren't too many contenders when it comes to leafminers in Ash (Fraxinus excelsior). So does this dark squiggle in a fallen ash leaf belong to Aulagromyza heringii pls @AgromyzidaeRS @vc30moths? 🐛💚🍃
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