A little late with this weeks blog, truth be told I completely forgot! Here we are again with another week completed on my UK garden wildlife project which I started way back when we all got put in lock down due to Covid-19. I thought it would entertain me for a while & keep me busy in the mornings for a month or 2, but 19 weeks later & we keep rolling on, and every week I think it may have been my last!
Week 19
Day 127 – Common groundhopper (Tetrix undulata)
Day 128 – Yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus)
Day 129 – Brassica shieldbug (Eurydema oleracea)
Day 130 – Coleophora lineolea moth
Day 131 – Common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum)
Day 132 – Eristalinus sepulchralis hoverfly
Day 133 – Water measurer (Hydrometra stagnorum)
Species list
Common groundhopper, Yellow meadow ant, Brassica shieldbug, Coleophora lineolea moth, Common carder bumblebee, Eristalinus sepulchralis hoverfly, Water measurer
Total count up to now
Greenfinch, Starling, House sparrow, Jackdaw, Goldfinch, Reed bunting, Robin, Slow-worm, Magpie, Bluetit, Rough woodlouse, Dunnock, Common frog, Speckled wood butterfly, Great tit, Holly blue butterfly, Tapered drone fly, Grey squirrel, Feral pigeon, Nursery web spider, Red fox, Honey bee, Blackbird, Peacock butterfly, Large red damselfly, Wood pigeon, Common toad, Small white butterfly, Yellow dung fly, Chaffinch, Collared dove, Queen Median wasp, Garden snail, Red admiral butterfly, Rhingia campestris hoverfly, Early bumblebee, Willow warbler, Garden bumblebee, Azure damselfly, Giant house spider, White lipped snail, Sawfly/Ichneumon wasp, Blowfly (Calliphora vicina) Helophilus pendulus hoverfly, Thick legged flower beetle, Cranefly (Nephrotoma quadrifaria) Marmalade hoverfly, Common pond skater, Sawfly (Macrophya annulata), Tachina fera fly, Red lily beetles, Trigonotylus caelestialum, Woundwort shieldbugs, Mangora acalypha spider, Vestal cuckoo bumblebee, Speckled bush cricket, Rhopalus subrufus bug, Herring gull, Dock bug, 14 spot ladybird, Emperor dragonfly, Meadow grasshopper, Common froghopper, Wool-carder bee, Wolf spider, Dichrorampha sequana moth, Poecilobothrus nobilitatus fly, 7 Spot ladybird, Oxyloma elegans snail, Common Green Capsid nymph, Black and yellow longhorn beetle, Large skipper butterfly, Tetragnatha extensa spider, Hairy shieldbug, Gorytes laticinctus wasp, Sicus ferrugineus fly, Wood mouse, White-zoned Furrow Bee, Long tailed tit, Blue tailed damselfly, Yellow slug, Empis opaca fly, Cinnamon bug, Deraeocoris flavilinea bug, Mullein moth caterpillar, Meadow brown butterfly, Common green shieldbug, Harvestman, Marsham’s nomad bee, Greenfly, Long winged cone-head nymph, Pellucid fly, Black slug, Rose chafer beetle, Small black ants, Myathropa florea hoverfly, Rove beetle, Great spotted woodpecker, Gatekeeper butterfly, Enoplognatha latimana spider, Tortoise beetle, 22 Spot ladybird, Common red soldier beetle, Large white butterfly, Garden spider, Ruddy darter, Crab spider, Mint moth, Sphaerophoria scripta hoverfly, Earth worm, Weevil, Cinnabar moth caterpillar, Heterotoma planicornis, Leaf cutter bee, Common wasp, Hornet mimic hoverfly, Large rose sawfly, Vapourer moth caterpillar, Comma butterfly, Blowfly Lucilia sp., Migrant hawker, Broad centurion soldierfly, Rove beetle, False widow spider, Buff tailed bumblebee, Lygus pratensis, Common groundhopper, Yellow meadow ant, Brassica shieldbug, Coleophora lineolea moth, Common carder bumblebee, Eristalinus sepulchralis hoverfly, Water measurer