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Great silver water beetle larva feeding on pond snail video

beetles, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insectJune 10, 2012

Here is a video I made of a great silver water beetle larva (Hydrophilus piceus) feeding on a wandering pond snail (Radix labiata). It has an interesting method of feeding where, after grabbing the snail in its unsymmetrical mouthparts, it then curls its body around it to get a better hold as is devours it!…

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Lesser diving beetle larva Acilius eating Backswimmer Notonecta nymph

beetles, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, heteroptera, insect, wat tyler cp, water boatmanJune 6, 2012

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the strange looking larva of the lesser diving beetle Acilius sp. (probably sulcatus) swimming around in a pond. I quick went and got a net and caught one, before taking it inside to photography in my aquarium set up. It is a fairly distinctive larvae with its…

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Scarce emerald damselfly nymph Lestes dryas

Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpJune 4, 2012

Last week a realised that the emerald damselflies would soon be emerging and there would not be nymphs around for much longer. This because despite hatching in March/April, they only take a matter of weeks to grow and emerge as adults, so the time available to photograph them is not very long. I managed to…

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Common toads by a loch – Bufo bufo

amphibian, Cairngorm, Scotland, toadJune 2, 2012

Some pics from the Cairngorms now. Most people stick to the grouse and other highland specialties when in the the Cairngorms but I can’t resist a good toad photograph and at this loch there were 100s! They were in the water and on the paths. There were a few mating pairs. I I couldn’t resist…

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4 spotted and broad bodied chaser dragonflies and azure damselflies

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpMay 30, 2012

Today at Wat Tyler there were dragonflies abound at the one pond I managed to visit in my lunch break. The first I noticed was this male broad bodied chaser On the water surface a number of azure damselflies in tandem were egg laying in the weed that was at the surface. Soon after I…

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Variable damselfly and Nuctenea cornuta spider eating blue tailed damselfly

Arachnid, bird, insect, Kent, odonata, spiders, Stodmarsh, thrushMay 29, 2012

On Sunday I popped to Stodmarsh NNR in Kent to see if I could see any hobbys or variable damselflies. I didn’t see any hobbies but I did see this pair of egg laying variable damselflies in tandem: I also spotted a Nuctenea cornuta spider capturing blue tailed damselfly pair As I watched it first…

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Mating crane flies, ox eye daisy, cuckoo spit (froghopper nymph) and Black ants

Essex, insect, wat tyler cpMay 19, 2012

More from last year. Mating craneflies These black ants were under a piece of carpet. And ox eye daisy. And I came across this ‘cuckoo spit’ which is actually foam produced by a the nymph of a froghopper, which it hides under.

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Stretch spider Tetragantha extensa

Arachnid, Essex, spiders, wat tyler cpMay 17, 2012

Some from last year: Stretch spider Tetragantha extensa It was eating a midge.

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Blue tailed damselfly

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpMay 15, 2012

Last year I was photographing a cooperative blue tailed damselfly at Wat Tyler Country Park

Scarce chaser dragonfly, greek marsh frog, mammoth wasp and beautiful demosielle

amphibian, insect, odonataMay 13, 2012

On a trip to a reservoir in kefalonia we saw some interesting stuff. There were scarce chaser dragonflies flying around. There were greek marsh frogs. This mammoth wasp was on a flower. A blue tailed damselfly perched nicely. As did this beautiful demoiselle.

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