Ento Photo File
An irregular blog of photos taken of insects and other natural history subjects on my travels around Yorkshire, Britain and Europe. Hopefully you'll find them useful in putting a name to your own specimens but always check your identifications with an expert.
An uncommon yet widespread daytime flying moth in Yorkshire is the Chimney Sweeper Odezia atrata. It inhabits grassy meadows and is locally distributed throughout most of Britain but is fairly common near me. The single generation flies in June and July, the larvae feeding mainly on the flowers of Pignut Conopodium majus.
10.15 - 11.00 Welcome and tea/coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Dissection Workshop - Tools, techniques and practical demonstrations
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Group practice and discussion
A quick walk around Prince of Wales Park this morning produced honeybees and several bumblebee species including Red-tailed Bombus lapidarius, White-tailed B.lucorum, Buff-tailed B.terrestris and Garden B.hortorum. There were also a couple of Tawny Mining Bee queens on the Bilberry.
Andrena clarkella
A. clarkella and it's cleptoparasite Nomada leucopthalma
Adder V.berus (close-up)
Useful Resources
- Atropos - Sightings
- B.O.G. Sightings
- Bees (Steven Falk's Flickr)
- Bees, Wasps, Ants Recording Society
- BENHS
- British Bugs
- British Dragonfly Society
- BugBlog
- Bumblebee Identification
- Butterfly Conservation Yorkshire
- Calderdale Moths
- Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland
- D.U.M.P.
- Dipterists Forum
- Eakring Birds
- Euro Carabidae
- Euro Dragonflies
- Euro Spiders
- FlaunaUK
- Gerard Gorman
- Graham Catley Photography
- Grid Reference Plotter
- Guides to British Beetles
- GullDK (Danish Gull Blog)
- Harvestmen of Britain and Ireland
- Kerbtier - German Beetles
- Lancs & District Birding
- Leafmines
- Macro & Micro Moth Genitalia
- Micro Moth Larvae Key
- Mike's Insect Keys
- Moths - Guide to Difficult Species
- Nature Conservation Imaging
- Orthoptera Recording Scheme
- Pemberley Books
- Richard Lewington Artwork
- Spider Recording Scheme
- The Lyons Den
- UK Beetle Recording
- UK Beetles
- UK Moths
- Watkins & Doncaster
- YNU Entomological Section
- Yorkshire Dragonfly Group
- Yorkshire Moths
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