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https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: 2013 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlife https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2017/02/id-help-please.html 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... east glamorganwildlifegelisspwingless 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... east glamorganwildlifepublishingblog 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... east glamorganbotany groupwildlife 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... east glamorgansee throughwildlifelarva https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/03/black-throated-diver-at-cosmeston.html East Glamorgan Wildlife: Black Throated Diver at Cosmeston Black Throated Diver black throated divereast glamorganwildlife 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... east glamorganwildlifecentipedequery 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... east glamorganwildlifealunvalleytake 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. ... east glamorganbotany groupwildlifetripreports 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... east glamorgan 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... east glamorganwildlifelatebutterflies https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1952/dec/19/traffic-congestion-east-glamorgan TRAFFIC CONGESTION, EAST GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL (Hansard, 19 December 1952) TRAFFIC CONGESTION, EAST GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL (Hansard, 19 December 1952) traffic congestioneast glamorganhospitalhansarddecember 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... east glamorganfrom thewildliferareinsects 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... east glamorganwildlifebiodiversityoffsetting 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... east glamorganwildlife gardenvisitors 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... east glamorgan https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: 2015 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlife 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... east glamorganwildlifejumpingspiders https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2017/07/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: July 2017 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlifejuly https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/02/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: February 2016 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlifefebruary 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... east glamorganwildlifehouseflyfungalinfection https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2017/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: 2017 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlife https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/10/tipula-pagana-query.html 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 ... east glamorganwildlifetipulaquery 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 ... east glamorgangarden newwildlifecreigiauvisitors 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... in the eveningeast glamorganwildlifebugssunshine 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... east glamorganwildlifebaffledcwmbach 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 ... east glamorganwildlifedecemberharvestmen 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 (... east glamorganwildliferust https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/03/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: March 2014 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlifemarch 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... east glamorganwildlifescarletelfcup 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... east glamorganwildlifelaterecordcommon https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/05/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: May 2016 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlifemay 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 ... east glamorganivy beeswildlifesullyisland 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... east glamorganwildlifewinterflyingbees 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... east glamorganwildlifeback 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... east glamorganwildlifecoastpathnash 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. ... east glamorganwildlifebelatedpost 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... east glamorganby thewildlifetaff https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2015/10/fly-blowing-bubbles.html East Glamorgan Wildlife: fly blowing bubbles What's this all about then? east glamorganwildlifeflyblowingbubbles 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... east glamorganwildlifehedgehogdecember 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 ... east glamorganwildlifeweevil 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... east glamorganyou canwildliferamsons 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... east glamorganwildlifeparcslip 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... east glamorganwildlifeeggquery https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/09/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: September 2013 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlifeseptember 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... east glamorganwildlife 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... east glamorganwildlifecranefly https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2014/11/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: November 2014 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlifenovember https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2013/12/water-cricket.html 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... east glamorganwildlifewatercricket https://eastglamwildlife.blogspot.com/2016/08/ East Glamorgan Wildlife: August 2016 We welcome contributions from anyone with an interest in wildlife. Our aim is that the blog will be used for sharing sightings, photographs, events, and any... east glamorganwildlifeaugust