David Basham

Specialist in baseline surveying and subsequent monitoring of invertebrates in the farmed environment. Bees, wasps, other pollinators and IPM species recorded.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

Ivy is happening.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@GrahamDenny9 @BC_Suffolk @savebutterflies @DefraNature @herdyshepherd1 @NFFNUK @stuttonsparrows @NoFarmsNoFoods @davidwjgill @StevenFalk1 @FWAGeast @SWTWildFarms @CotonBuzz Awesome work there, Mr D.

[Graham Denny @GrahamDenny9]

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[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@StevenFalk1 Male genitalia very different to fera, as are fore-claws.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@GrahamDenny9 @StevenFalk1 @BC_Suffolk @LassHill @RabKing___aye @BumblebeeTrust @savebutterflies @davidwjgill Apart from a totally single-minded attraction to Red Bartsia these are a couple of other features making this bee Melitta tricincta Red Bartsia Blunthorn Bee. 1 of only a very few east Suffolk sites currently known by me for it.

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@GrahamDenny9 @StevenFalk1 @BC_Suffolk @LassHill @RabKing___aye @BumblebeeTrust @savebutterflies @davidwjgill 1st look at yesterday's specimens. Nice fem Locust Blowfly Stomorhina lunata. Small male Tachina magnicornis. Nationally Scarce hoverfly Chrysotoxum elegans. These from Bristly Ox-tongue, Ragwort, Fennel etc in arable weed and nearby field options.

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@GrahamDenny9 @StevenFalk1 @BC_Suffolk @LassHill @RabKing___aye @BumblebeeTrust @savebutterflies @davidwjgill Just as a bit of fun, the ground bug, Rhyparochromus vulgaris, looks like it might be the most northern record in East Anglia. Not all that many further north nationally on NBN.

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@MrDavidCatt1 @GrahamDenny9 @DefraNature @NaturalEngland @savebutterflies @StevenFalk1 @s4r4h_l @NFFNUK @BC_Suffolk @eastengland2014 @RabKing___aye @davidwjgill @LassHill @BumblebeeTrust @stuttonsparrows That's great, and so worthwhile doing to prolong flower resources.

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@GrahamDenny9 @StevenFalk1 @BC_Suffolk @LassHill @RabKing___aye @BumblebeeTrust @savebutterflies @davidwjgill Clouded Yellow is form helice presumably. Not something I've seen before.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@GrahamDenny9 @StevenFalk1 @BC_Suffolk @LassHill @RabKing___aye @BumblebeeTrust @savebutterflies @davidwjgill Bush-cricket is a long-winged Short-winged Conehead. Conocephalus dorsalis.
Doesn't make a lot of sense but they can be produced in hot summers. Macropterous is the scientific term.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@vickihird @GrahamDenny9 @FarmWildlifeUK @InsectDiversity @BTO_Suffolk @MeganRural @BumblebeeTrust @DrRossPiper @FWAGeast @GrasshopperSpot And they like extensive areas of grassland with plentiful forage plants like clovers and birds foot trefoil.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@vickihird @GrahamDenny9 @FarmWildlifeUK @InsectDiversity @BTO_Suffolk @MeganRural @BumblebeeTrust @DrRossPiper @FWAGeast @GrasshopperSpot If you can get a close enough close-up, particularly from the side, the abdomen for B-bC will have no bands of black hairs amongst the pale, and, as the name suggests, there will be dark bands across the front of the abdomen that are a similar colour to the thorax.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@vickihird @GrahamDenny9 @FarmWildlifeUK @InsectDiversity @BTO_Suffolk @MeganRural @BumblebeeTrust @DrRossPiper @FWAGeast @GrasshopperSpot Keep your eye out for these lookalikes as well. Brown-banded Carder appear to be having a good year.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@RichardComont @StevenFalk1 @BumblebeeTrust Thank you, Richard, that's very useful. @pippartridge

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From an inland Suffolk farm countryside stewardship grassy/flowery field option. Got another 1 to look at properly but in the meantime B. humilis or not??
@StevenFalk1
@BumblebeeTrust

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

@StevenFalk1 @BumblebeeTrust @RichardComont Cheers. My suspicion is that they may be following ruderatus in increasing as a result of CS/SFI farmland options and generally nature-friendlier farming over recent years. These ones are from established such fields.

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Pair of Tachina magnicornis males from farmland at Great Tey, Essex yesterday. Plenty of Stomorhina onsite as well.

[David Basham @FarmInvertsUK]

Stomorrhina lunata Locust Blowfly from Great Tey in Essex today. Male and female present.