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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · 1d

Chthonius ischnocheles with an Orbatid mite meal, in the garden in Shaftesbury. They seem to like these!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · 10d

I've been looking for this one in Dorset for years!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Sep 9

A lovely trip down to Studland in Dorset, kept an eye out for Beavers but no luck, but did find some of my favourite spiders; Attulus saltator, Thomisus onustus, Rhysodromus histrio and Alopecosa barbipes (in almost Sandbear colours)

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tansy fun; I was photographing Colletes (similis?) and noticed a tiny Gall Midge, Ozirhincus hungaricus laying eggs in its florets, then coming along behind its parasitoid wasp Inostemma (reticulatum?) with an odd black pudding structure on its back housing a long ovipositor to parasitise them.

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Brown One. Harvestman, Nelima gothica exploring the wall in the garden in Shaftesbury. #gardenfinds #harvestman #dorset

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 31

And Marsh Lover, nice picture!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 28

I love books and have these three volumes (and Bees of Europe). Else and Edwards is great as an alternative and very beautiful but I tend to keep Falk on the real and computer desktop. Changing subject what the UK really needs is an equivalent type Wasp book that includes Spider wasps and photos!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 28

Very nice, the Rove beetle is Paederus and looks like P.riparius, I think!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 26

A dapper chap from the garden in Shaftesbury this week, no females seen yet. Ornate Tailed Digger Wasp - Cerceris rybyensis

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 21

Seems to be lots of these in the garden in Shaftesbury at the moment. Never seen them before, enjoying the hot dry weather under the pine tree perhaps!

Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 16

I think I've been luck, they've appeared in every house I've lived in in the last twenty years (all in Dorset), usually in window and door frames. You can't have long to wait!🤞

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 16

A tiny Spitting Spider, Scytodes thoracica cropped up in the kitchen this morning, one of my favourites!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jul 16

Just back from a holiday in Italy and if I could bring back two species to join UK wildlife they would be the European Rhinoceros Beetle, Oryctes nasicornis and its Mammoth Wasp parasite, Megascolia maculata #biginsects

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jun 29

A male Bee Grabber from Eype, this one is probably Thecophora atra

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jun 29

A new one for me from Eype on the South Dorset coast, a great place for new stuff. This is Micropeza corrigiolata a Stilt Legged Fly.

Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jun 29

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jun 17

These look really good!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jun 15

I have seen the non-native Wall Lizards, Podarcis muralis on the Purbeck coast of Dorset before but on a sunny day this week I got to take some photos for the first time. So beautiful!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jun 2

Really excited and surprised to find this one in the garden in Shaftesbury today. A female Scarce Chaser, Libellula fulva. I think she must have flown miles to the hill top here from her slow flowing river and dyke habitat!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Jun 2

I need that!

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Mar 26

Another bright visitor to the garden in Shaftesbury, this one is a Handsome Fungus Beetle, Endomychus coccineus, sometimes called a False Ladybird. #gardenfinds #beetles

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Mar 24

Some harvestmen from the garden in Shaftesbury, who stopped to pose for portraits. This is fairly normal for the three pictures of Rilaena triangularis but I was pleased to find a still Nemastoma bimaculatum, as these are usually always on the go! #gardenfinds #harvestman

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Mar 14

Despite the cold weather yesterday, a bit of sunshine brought out a smart little spider at Higher Hyde Heath. This is a subadult male Euophrys pretensis, he’ll look even more striking next month! #spiders #heathfinds

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Mar 13

One of my favorite spiders, from Great Ovens Heath in Dorset, the Sand Bear Spider, Arctosa perita. Because of its wonderful camouflage it will occasionally freeze, which is a great help to the photographer! #spiders

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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · Feb 27

One of my favourite spiky Harvestmen, found at Fontmell Down, Dorset, Homalenotus quadridentatus.

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