Wonderful wildlife

Self-taught amateur entomologist Sabina George has been snapping super pictures of the creatures you may or may not have noticed in residence on your plots. A keen insect photographer who spends winter recording finds on iRecord (a database for UK Flora & Fauna), Sabina is always looking for new sites to explore and KATA was only too willing to take up her offer of having a looksie at what goes on around us on a sometimes very small scale…

latest sightings

Starting at the top left in the collage, the Field
Damsel Bug feeds on the green Lygus pratensis nymphs yet lots of adults
around right now. Both the 1st and 2nd photos in the middle row are new
bugs for my records, always an exciting day, thank you Odibourne! They
are the delicate delphicid planthopper, Stenocranus minutus and
Liorhyssus hylanus, a Rhopalid bug thought to be a rare migrant but
slowly establishing itself in the UK. Butterflies with closed wings can
sometimes be a challenge but the white 'C' and jagged edges of the Comma
are unmistakable. The kind holder of Plot 29 showed me a colourful Knot
Grass moth caterpillar nestled, and left undisturbed, in a large cabbage
leaf. The tiny reddish orange flea beetle is easy to spot on a green
leaf but quickly disappears. Sabina George

All words courtesy of Sabina George. Thank you for regularly visiting our sites, Sabina, and keeping us up to date on your findings about this vital group of organisms.