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27/Jan/25 - Week 4 of 52
Are things any better yet? No? Alright, weekly bug update. Some brilliant things this week, wasting no time to get into it!
(Also, this includes my first 'Star Find' of the year, if you see that icon in the title, you know it's a good one)
Notable Observations
Definitely a springtail oriented week again, some finds I'm quite proud of from the garden, including one particularly scarce species!
Total Observations: 73
Most numerous species: Entomobrya intermedia (11 observations)
Individual Interesting Observations
Banded Greenhouse Thrips (Hercinothrips femoralis )
Saturday (Jan 25th)
Starting off with an infestation on one of the houseplants, not many thrips that can be identified down to a species just through photos! Also, 'thrips' is both singular and plural. This is a thrips. They are thrips.
Heteromurus major ⭐
Saturday (Jan 25th)
WOW! Incredibly happy to have found this one, quite a scarce species! Introduced to the UK from mainland Europe quite recently through garden plants, which is how I believe this one got here - or at least its ancestors. Only the second record for the UK, though I have seen a small handful of observations from the past few years across the internet which were never submitted to a recording scheme.
Entomobrya cf. intermedia
Saturday (Jan 25th)
Not anything rare or interesting, just wanted to show off this guy. Very young juvenile, still incredibly translucent, with stomach full of rotting leaves.
Slime Mould (Mycetozoa)
Sunday (Jan 26th)
Some really odd looking fruiting bodies here! First mistaken for some sort of fungus, but actually a protozoan slime mould!
Isotoma viridis
Sunday (Jan 26th)
Some would certainly say that this should only be ID'd to Isotoma, however I believe that for all intents and purposes, this is only reasonably likely to be I. viridis, backed up by a few purported characteristics of the species that I've been pointed towards.
Sminthurinus cf. elegans
Sunday (Jan 26th)
I believe this is most likely S. elegans looking at the pigmentation towards the bottom of the abdomen, though I'm not 100% sure. Either way, this guy was tiny, being a juvenile, could hardly see it!
Breakdown
Goal Progress
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Hopefully the coming week will be just as busy! Incredible finds anyway. To see all my observations for this week logged on iNaturalist, click here.
To see all of my observations for the year to date, click here.
What did you see this week? Let me know in the comments!
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