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Chris's "Other Stuff" for 2012 (1 Viewer)

chris butterworth

chris butterworth

aka The Person Named Above
I was going to do seperate lists for mollucs, fungi, galls etc - then I thought 'Forget it' ( or something similar :eek!: ). This will be the place where I stick all the other stuff that doesn't fit in Birds and mammals.

Jan 08

West Kirby shore ( MOLLUSCS )

1 Littorina littorea ( Common Periwinkle )
2 Peringia ulvae ( Laver Spire Shell )
3 Hydrobia ventrosa4 Mytilus edulis ( Common Mussel )
5 Cerastoderma edulis ( Common Cockle )
6 Macoma balthica ( Baltic Tellin )
7 Ensis siliqua (Pod Razorshell )
8 Solen marginatus ( Grooved Razorshell )

West Kirby ( PLANT GALLS )

1 Puccinia smyrnii on Alexanders ( Fungal gall )
2 Nectria galligena on Ash ( Fungal gall )
3 Taphrina betulina on Downy Birch ( Fungal Gall )

Ashton Park, West Kirby ( FUNGI )

1 Wood Blewit

I've also had my first Crocus and Daffodil in flower in the garden. A bit of a change from last year!

Chris
 
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11 January, Red Rocks, Wirral ( Wild Plants In Flower Well Out Of Season )

1 Kidney Vetch.

Usually not in flower until late May at the earliest here!

Chris
 
12 January, My House. ( Beetles )

1 Coccinella 7-punctata ( Seven-spot Ladybird )

I'd had a hibernating one earlier that day but this was wandering around on the house wall.

Molluscs, Red Rocks

9 Discus rotundatus
10 Candidula intersecta
11 Cepaea nemoralis

13 January, Wirral Way and Heswall ( Wild Plants in Flower Well Out Of Season )

2 Blackberry ( I found quite a few flowers plus a handful of small but developing fruit! )
3 Common Storksbill
4 Nipplewort
5 Broom

I also found my first Willow / Sallow catkins fully out along with a fair amount of Sonchus and Alexanders.

Chris
 
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19 January, Parkgate, West Cheshire ( Insects - incl. Beetles )

2 Bombus lucorum ( Early Bumble Bee )

Two workers collecting pollen from Gorse while we were having lunch.

Home ( Insects )

3 Culiseta annulata ( a Mosquito )

It was found on the wall of my living room - and swiftly dispatched. Anyone who has been bitten by one of these will know why!

Chris
 
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23 February, West Kirby, Wirral
( Insects )

5 Small Tortoiseshell
6 Comma
7 Peacock
8 Yellow Underwing ( caterpillar )

Finally got a chance to get out and do some rummaging around. Cracking day for butterflies, considering it's still February and I've got a couple of hoverflies I've still got to ID. The caterpillar was found wandering around on the shore and heading into the dunes!

Chris
 
24 February, West Kirby, Wirral

Galls
4 Epinota tetraquetrana on Alder ( Insect Gall )
5 Biorhiza pallida - Oak Apple - on Oak ( Insect Gall )
6 Andricus kollari - Marble Gall - on Oak ( Insect Gall )
7 Taphrina pruni - Pocket Plum - on Blackthorn ( Fungal Gall )

All the above were old galls from last year.

Insects

Hoverflies
9 Episyrphus balteatus ( Marmalade Fly )
10 Eristalis tenax
11 E. ( Eoseristalius ) pertinax

'Other' Flies

11 Musca autumnalis ( Face Fly )
12 Scathophaga stercorarius ( Yellow Dung Fly )

Plants

6 Coltsfoot

The first of the 'normal' spring wild flowers.

26 February, West Kirby, Wirral

Bees

2 Bombus pratorum

29 February, West Kirby, Wirral

Spiders

1 Salticus scenicus ( Zebra Jumping Spider )
2 Pardosa ?sp ( Wolf Spider )

01 March, West Kirby, Wirral

Plants

7 Common Whitlowgrass
8 Danish Scurveygrass

Amphibians

1 Common Frog
2 Common Toad


Finally up to date ( just in time for the spring rush )

Chris
 
02 March, Leasowe, Wirral

Bees

14 Colletes cunicularis ( Early Mining Bee )
A local speciality.

Flies

15 Trichocera ?sp.

Molluscs

12 Succinia putris
13 Vitria pellucida
14 Oxychilus cellarius
15 Deroceras reticulatum

(Marine Molluscs)

16 Polinices catenus ( Common Necklace Shell )

Plants

9 Lesser Celandine
10 Cow Parsley
11 Early Forget-me-not

02 March, Hoylake Station, Wirral

Plants

12 Oxford Ragwort

02 March, Hoylake Langfields, Wirral

Molluscs

17 Trichia striolata
18 Cornu aspersum

Plants

13 Common Chickweed
14 Common Field Speedwell

02 March, My Garden, Wirral

Insects

16 Green Sheild Bug
17 Two-spot Ladybird

Chris
 
03 March, Garden

Insects

18 Plume Moth ?sp

My first moth of the year.

Mere Sands Wood, SW Lancashire

Insects ( Beetles )

19 Bembidion lampros
20 Nectria brevicollis
21 Notiophilus biguttatus

Plants


15 Primrose

Molluscs

19 Oxychilus alliarus

Woodlice

1 Porcello scaber
2 Philoscia muscorum

I also found my first ever Terrestrial Planarian and am spending far to much time trying to ID it :-O

Chris
 
04 March, Southport and Ainsdale, SW Lancashire

Grasses

Mibea minima ( Early Sand Grass )

This is a species I've been looking for for years and I finally found it. It may be the smallest grass in the UK but I'm not sure it was worth the bother.

Molluscs

20 Patella vulgata ( Common Limpet )
21 Littorina obtusa ( Flat Periwinkle )
22 Turritella communis ( Common Auger Shell )
23 Neptunea antiqua ( Red Whelk )
24 Aequipecten opercularis ( Queen Scallop )
25 Arctica islandica ( Icelandic Cyprine )
26 Acanthocardia echinata ( Prickly Cockle )
27 Chamelea gallina ( Striped Venus )
28 Dosinia lupinus ( Smooth Artemis )
29 Venerupsis senegalensis ( Pullet Carpet Shell )
30 Fabulina fabula ( Thumbnail Tellin )
31 Pharus legumen
32 Ensis arcutus ( Common Razorshell )
33 Mya truncata ( Blunt Gaper )

Chris
 
09 March, Wirral Way, Wirral

Insects

22 Common Wasp

A queen just out of hibernation ( still a bit groggy )

Plants

16 Red Deadnettle ( I'm surprised I haven't picked this one up before now )
17 Blackthorn
18 Gean / Wild Cherry ( Wild ones, not garden escapes )
19 Oxeye Daisy ( Bit of a shock, this one )
20 Shepards-purse

I also managed to get some photos of Maidenhair Fern growing at Thurstaston. It's been present for over 100 years so should qualify as wild, but.............

Chris
 
24 March, Orrell WP, Wigan

Plants

Wood Anemone

Insects

Green-veined White
Large White
Along with Sm. Tortoiseshell, Comma and Peacock that was 5 sp. of butterfly - in March.
Stigmella aurelia ( fresh mines in Holly leaf )
Syrphus ribesii ( a hoverfly )
Calliphora vomitoria ( Bluebottle )
Pollenia rudis ( Cluster Fly )
Andrena fulva ( Tawny Mining Bee )
A. haemorrhoa
Halictus ?sp ( another bee - but of a fairly difficult genus to ID in the field )
Nomada panzeri ( a parasitic bee on A. fulva )
Bombus pascuorum ( Common Carder Bee )
10-spott. Ladybird

Millipede

Tachypodoiulus niger ( Snake Millipede )

I noted my numbering system has gone a trifle more than pear shaped so.........

Chris
 
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26 March, Gilroy NP, Wirral

Plants

Common Bugle

Insects

Speckled Wood ( I'm sure I remember a time when Specky Woods were a summer butterfly )
Orange Tip
Twentyfour-spot Ladybird
Loricera pilicornis ( an 'easy' Carabid beetle as it's the only member of it's genus in Europe )
Bembidion genei
Pterosichus niger ( both 'not-easy' Carabids )
Amara aena ( back to the 'easy' carabids with this one. )

27 March, Red Rocks, Wirral

Insects

Gyrinus natator ( Whirligig Beetle )
Phyllodecta vulgatissima ( Leaf Beetle )

Fish

Six-spined Stickleback.

Chris
 
07 April, West Kirby, Wirral

Hydroids

Bougainvillia ramosa
Obelia dichrotoma
O. geniculata
O. longissima
Filellum serpens
Halecium beanii
H. halecinum
Abietinus abietina
Diphasia pinaster
Hydrallmania falcata
Sertularia cupressina
Thuiaria thuja
Nemertesia antennina

Soft Coral

Alcyonium digitatum

All thrown up on the beach by the recent storms. It looked more like Autumn than spring.

Beetle

11-spot Ladybird

Chris
 
13 April, Gilroy NP, Wirral

Plants

Cowslip
Common Hawthorn ( just a few flowers in a sheltered spot, but plenty of buds on the other bushes. )

Chris
 
14 April, Woolston Eyes, Warrington, West Cheshire

Mollusc

Cepaea hortensis White-lipped Banded Snail

Plants

Annual Wall Rocket
Cuckoo-flower / Lady's Smock
Common Mouse-ear
Ivy-leaved Speedwell
White Dead-nettle
Wood Forget-me-not
Butterbur
Common Solomon's-seal

Galls

Taphrina populina ( fungal gall on X Black Poplar )
Acera populi ( Mite gall on X Black Poplar )
Euura amerinae ( Sawfly gall on Salix ? sp)
Andricus lignicola ( Gall Wasp gall on Oak)

15 April, N.W. Wirral

Molluscs

Oxyloma pfeifferi
Pupilla muscorum ( s.s. )
Punctum pygmaeum
Arion ater
A. vulgaris
Vitrea crystellina agg.
Oxychilus drapardnaudi
Tandonia budapestensis
Candidula intersecta
Monacha cantiana

Plants

Common Dog Violet

Chris
 
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