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YARE VALLEY: Wheatfen galls and invertebrates

Late July 2021

Wheatfen would be up there in my top 10 favourite places to spend a relaxing few hours wandering around seeing what I can find, and I spent a morning there in late July, finding various obscure species including several new galls, an ichneumon and a Polymerus nigrita, a bug associated with Goosegrass.

Swollen seeds of Meadow-rue - a gall caused by Ametrodiplosis thalictricola
Golden-haired Robberfly
A pouch gall on rose caused by Dasineura rosae
Gambrus carnifax
Green Colonel soldierfly
Polymerus nigrita
The egg sac of a small spider, Theridiosoma gemmosum

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