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East Glamorgan Wildlife: 2013
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: Gelis sp - wingless ichneumon wasp
I took this image in the flower bed last October. At the time I was trying to get pictures of a striking looking ichneumoninae and thought i...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/11/publishing-to-this-blog.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Publishing to this blog
Just a reminder that George and I are keen to receive posts to the blog from others. Indeed it would be good not only if more people were p...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/05/glamorgan-botany-group-excursion-to.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Glamorgan Botany Group excursion to Rhoose Point Pt 1
The Glamorgan Botany Group held a field meeting at Rhoose on Saturday, and I was lucky enough to tag along and hopefully learnt a few new th...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/09/see-through-larva-of.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: see-through larva of ????
Saw this on a Wallflower leaf on Tuesday afternoon. The front end is up - at least that is the direction it was moving. Size was approx 5-10...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/03/black-throated-diver-at-cosmeston.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Black Throated Diver at Cosmeston
Black Throated Diver
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/01/centipede-query.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: centipede query
Found this on the decking this afternoon. Looks like it may be of the Cryptopidae family but it seems to have lost it's back-end! Two legs o...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2017/07/alun-valley-take-2.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Alun Valley ... take 2
Also at the Moth Night in the Alun Valley on Thursday night, the light traps attracted a couple of miridae and a nice looking Tipula lateral...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/11/glamorgan-botany-group-trip-reports.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Glamorgan Botany Group trip reports
The Glamorgan Botany Group have produced an excellent summary of their six excursions in 2014, all of which took place in East Glamorgan. ...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/10/it-was-life-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: It was life Jim, but not as we know it!
A different sort of natural history, but this is a photo of an Icthyosaur tooth that I found back in the summer. It was poking out of a c...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/10/late-butterflies.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Late butterflies
Tony Messenger reports (via Richard Smith) that there were 8 species of butterfly at Lavernock Point on Friday 25th October - an impressiv...
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TRAFFIC CONGESTION, EAST GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL (Hansard, 19 December 1952)
TRAFFIC CONGESTION, EAST GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL (Hansard, 19 December 1952)
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/11/rare-insects-from-llynfi-valley-maesteg.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Rare insects from the Llynfi valley, Maesteg.
Vagrant emperor found by Craig Furlong on 12th November The horsefly Atylotus ful...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/10/biodiversity-offsetting.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Biodiversity offsetting
This article on the invertebrate charity Buglife's approach to Biodiversity offsetting on the Woodland Trusts blog is well worth a read if y...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/08/garden-visitors.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Garden visitors
Not a lot in the moth trap on Tuesday night but a number of interesting visitors in the garden. Lots of spiders around, but this one caugh...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/09/butterfly-fest-at-lavenock-point-nr.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Butterfly Fest at Lavernock Point NR 18/09/2016
A nice sunny day and little wind brought out the butterflies on Sunday with Painted Lady (2), Red Admiral (3), Small Tortoiseshell (1) and a...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: 2015
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/03/jumping-spiders.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Jumping spiders
There were two species of Salticid spiders out in the sun in the garden today. Both have the row of forward pointing eyes with large anteri...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: July 2017
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: February 2016
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/09/housefly-with-fungal-infection.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: housefly with fungal infection
Found this fly dead on a curtain in the house - and after looking at hundreds of pictures trying to identify it I realised that the pale abd...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: 2017
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: Tipula pagana query
Lots of these on the garage wall this morning, a mix of males and females. Some of the females had very stunted wings held out as in Dave's ...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/09/creigiau-garden-new-visitors.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Creigiau garden - new visitors
Three new visitors to the garden, two species of fly and a beetle - none of which appear to have many records in VC41. All three are approx ...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/04/bugs-in-evening-sunshine.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: bugs in the evening sunshine
Sat in the garden with some tea close to hand, enjoying the last of the Monday evening sunshine and found myself watching the insects 'danci...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/01/baffled-of-cwmbach.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Baffled, of Cwmbach
A few days ago, I took a stroll up the lane behind our street, looking for microfungi to try and identify. Passing some shaded Cherry Laurel...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/12/december-harvestmen.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: December Harvestmen
Two visits this month - the first on 02 December, which I am confident is Opilio canestrinii, and the second on 16 December. I'm not really ...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/01/rust.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Rust
As a follow up to my post about Morlais quarries, I have now identified the rust fungus that was so abundant on the leaves of Salad Burnet (...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: March 2014
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/02/scarlet-elf-cup.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Scarlet Elf Cup ?
Returning to Creigiau after a walk around Pentyrch, taking in Craig-y-Parc and Ty'n y Coed, and noticed small pockets of these brightly colo...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/11/late-record-of-common-wasp.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Late record of a Common Wasp
Nothing particularly unusual about this insect, other than it is the latest date in the year I have seen still flying. It was feeding rat...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: May 2016
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/09/ivy-bees-at-sully-island.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Ivy bees at Sully Island
On a visit to Sully Island yesterday afternoon I noticed a colony of the Ivy Bee ( Colletes hederae ) on the south-facing earth bank at the ...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/12/winter-flying-bees-recording-scheme.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Winter flying bees recording scheme
Thanks to Nigel, I have entered the B terrestris onto the BWARS recording scheme. Unknown to me there is a specific winter Bumblebee record...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/12/its-back-again.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: It's back again!
The Bumblebee from a previous post was out again today, despite an air temperature of only 8 degrees. Hopefully...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/08/coast-path-nash-point.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Coast Path Nash Point
Nice walk from Nash point to Southerndown last weekend. Lots of the usual suspect butterflies around and also spotted a few Meadow Grasshopp...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/07/belated-post.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Belated Post
This is a very belated post; delayed by the need to revisit the site in question and verify things with people of more expertise than me. ...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2018/04/beetles-by-taff.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Beetling by the Taff
Shingle and gravel banks by rivers (or Exposed Riverine Sediments, ERS, to give them their proper name) can be rich in specialist invertebra...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/10/fly-blowing-bubbles.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: fly blowing bubbles
What's this all about then?
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/12/hedgehog-in-december.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: hedgehog in December !
Removed a hedgehog from the road in Creigiau yesterday afternoon and placed it under a hedge for safety. Don't think I've ever seen one this...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/08/weevil.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Weevil
Yesterday (31 July) I snatched an hour from work to visit Blaencanaid forest ponds, S.West of Methyr Tydfil. There wasn't much about, apart ...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2017/04/ramsons-and-what-you-can-find-on-them.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Ramsons ... and what you can find on them
Into my local woods in Creigiau this morning in search of the Ramsons hoverfly, Portevinia maculata. Not only did I find several males of th...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/10/parc-slip.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Parc Slip
As well as the red underwing (see moth blog) on the Visitor Centre there were 6 clouded yellows, including a mating pair, and at least 10 sm...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2017/08/egg-query.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: 'egg' query
Dead-heading the scabious in the flower beds and found these. Anyone know what could have laid these 'rectangular' eggs in such a neat linea...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: September 2013
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-beautiful-morning-today-at-aberthaw.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife
A beautiful morning today at Aberthaw. Over a hundred swallows stocking up before heading south, with a few house martins mixed in. More sig...
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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/06/cranefly.html
East Glamorgan Wildlife: Cranefly
While investigating a tiny outlier of VC41, in the otherwise staunchly VC42 square SN9908, I came across this rather attractive Cranefly, wi...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: November 2014
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: Water Cricket
On my way over the hill between Maerdy and Aberdare, I stopped for lunch at a place called Cefnrhos-gwawr and before moving on, took quick a...
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East Glamorgan Wildlife: August 2016
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