Friday 5 October 2018

Cemetery re-visited

The Ivy at the cemetery was again disappointing so I switched my attention to the small damp meadow outside the main entrance. As well as holding Devilsbit Scabious, Creeping Thistle and various yellow composites the surrounding trees included Black Poplar, Grey Alder and Large-leaved Lime. The area held 7 species of hoverfly with the best being Eupeodes corollae (1) and the most numerous being Melanostoma scalare (10).

Otherwise a Red Admiral was on the car park Buddleah Bush and another fly leaf-miner confirmed in Agromyza albitarsis on Black Poplar. A goshawk made a pass-over.

 Cemetery meadow
 Red Admiral
 Eristalis tenax
Agromyza albitarsis fly leaf-miner on Black Poplar

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