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jhbratton

Date

March 26, 2024 02:07 PM GMT

Description

Found in litter layer of coppiced willows by marsh. Habitat shown in last photo. Basal antennal segments red should rule out Anotylus rugosus.

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jhbratton

Date

March 17, 2024 02:31 PM GMT

Description

Broad edge to pronotum suggests spinibarbis but overall shape of pronotum is more fulvibarbis. A teneral female. Length 8 mm so that doesn't help.

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What

Brown Groundbug (Drymus brunneus)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

March 11, 2024 02:00 PM GMT

Description

The leg photo is a front leg, to show single spine under the femur.

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What

Amphipods (Order Amphipoda)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

February 29, 2024 04:36 PM GMT

Description

First three photos are of it alive, the rest pickled. Last one - habitat, marine rock pool. Very fast swimmer. I think not Gammaridae because no spines on urosomes.

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What

Common Cluster Fly (Pollenia rudis)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

March 25, 2022 10:27 AM GMT

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

February 19, 2024 01:38 PM GMT

Description

H. ruber is very similar to H. planus but planus has not been recorded from Britain.

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jhbratton

Date

February 15, 2024 08:54 PM GMT

Description

From a shallow seasonal pool under willows. It keys to Cyclops using Gurney's 1933 book. Very fine comb of tiny hairs on the final antennule segments. Has some characters of strenuus and some of vicinus: furcae about 4x as long as wide and somites 4 and 5 not expanded would fit strenuus. Spermatophores were handlebar moustache pattern, as in Gurney's fig. 1520. But leg spine formula is 2 3 ? 3 (I didn't look at leg 3), and inner apical seta on furca is more than 2x length of outer, which fit vicinus.

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What

Bristly Haircap Moss (Polytrichum piliferum)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

February 12, 2024 02:42 PM GMT

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What

Mites and Ticks (Subclass Acari)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

February 4, 2024 11:35 AM GMT

Description

On a leg of Orchestia gammarellus.

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What

Common Shore-Skipper (Orchestia gammarellus)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

February 4, 2024 11:35 AM GMT

Photos / Sounds

What

Mediterranean Beach Hopper (Orchestia mediterranea)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

September 2, 2017 02:45 PM BST

Description

Curvy palm to gnathopod 2. Unevenly round outline to carpus of pereopod 7.

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

May 28, 2023 01:17 PM BST

Description

It is a good fit for Empria excisa but an expert opinion would be very welcome. One problem is, although the clypeus is deeply concave, I can't see the central tooth.

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

January 19, 2024 01:11 PM GMT

Description

Abundant in the driftline. I'd expect Orchestia gammarellus here, but in this one the merus and carpus of leg seven are not broad. Immature?

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jhbratton

Date

January 14, 2024 02:43 PM GMT

Description

Sieved from Ascophyllum near top of shore. More or less full strength seawater here. Pleotelson granulose, with a hint of two rows of tubercles but presumably not as prominent as in L. hookeri, since I see these in many rugicauda. Propodus of front leg with at least one long seta arising next to what Jacobs calls the rostro-distal spine, but I couldn't photograph it.

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

January 14, 2024 02:11 PM GMT

Description

I caught 11 Jaera, all females unfortunately. Most were slatey grey but two were banded. Here is one of them. Has the colour pattern any significance? Maybe recently moulted?

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What

Common Haircap Moss (Polytrichum commune)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

January 12, 2024 02:31 PM GMT

Description

Growing in a Sphagnum lawn. Longest stem in second photo is 23 cm.

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What

Palm-tree Moss (Plagiomnium undulatum)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

January 3, 2024 02:14 PM GMT

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

April 20, 2019 12:58 PM BST

Description

Identified using the Jacobs 1987 key. Not very successful at photographing the setae on the first leg. It had only two lateral setae, as in Jacobs' fig. 16D.

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

August 16, 2023 01:32 PM BST

Place

Llyn y Cwn (Google, OSM)

Description

Swept from Carex. Length of this male to tip of wings is 4.5 mm. Females found with it are 5.2 mm to tip of ovipositor.

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

December 13, 2023 02:07 PM GMT

Description

It was on Corylus but Acer pseudoplatanus nearby.

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What

Bank Haircap Moss (Polytrichum formosum)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

November 28, 2023 02:48 PM GMT

Description

Strong pale ridge on underside of leaves.

Photos / Sounds

What

Hairy Groundbug (Stygnocoris sabulosus)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

October 14, 2023 10:29 AM BST

Photos / Sounds

What

Catherine's Moss (Atrichum undulatum)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

November 10, 2023 02:09 PM GMT

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

May 18, 2023 10:55 AM BST

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

May 18, 2023 10:42 AM BST

Description

8 mm long. It keys to L. elongatum. Final tergite in last photo. But it is short-winged which the Lott & Anderson RES Handbook suggests is unusual for this species.

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Observer

jhbratton

Date

October 31, 2023 03:40 PM GMT

Description

The reticulations on the elytra are visible if you zoom in on the third photo.

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What

Wetland Groundbug (Pachybrachius fracticollis)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

May 18, 2023 11:03 AM BST

Description

Hairs on pronotum, but curved, not erect. No basal spine on front femora, but there is one in the basal half.

Photos / Sounds

What

Flea Beetles (Tribe Alticini)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

May 18, 2023 11:27 AM BST

Description

Is this Longitarsus? I can't key it to anything else, but the hind tarsus is not particularly long.

Photos / Sounds

What

Bristly Haircap Moss (Polytrichum piliferum)

Observer

jhbratton

Date

October 9, 2023 02:29 PM BST

Photos / Sounds

Observer

jhbratton

Date

May 18, 2023 11:32 AM BST

Description

From a newly-dug shallow pond, not yet on the aerial photos. Femora dark. Genitalia (second photo) 0.7 mm long.

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