Looks like I am going to London tomorrow with family, would lik to try and get at least one tick. Does anyone have any gen for Arocatus longiceps or Nezara viridula or anything I might see in that neck of the woods?
Excellent photos of set specimens of the Heteroptera of Britain and Ireland by Rob Ryan. Not a complete guide to the fauna but growing rapidly. Highly recommended.
July isn't my favourite month as I find quadrats labour intensive and dull, there isn't much chance to find new species. Or is there...
Yesterday I decided to try and record all the inverts in the quadrats I was surveying and came up with two lifers (both hoppers) with one of them being quite a nice one. Commoner stuff included Formica fusca, Chalkhill Blue, Fox Moth larva, and several Phytocoris varipes. Hoppers inlcuded Neophilaenus exclamationis and...