Early November 2022
This year the NWT and partners have run several bioblitzes in coastal communities. I'd not managed to attend the earlier ones, but did get to one at Thornham. It ran 10-3, so I spent a few hours wandering the parish before looking around a field that is going to be rewilded. The time of year and the weather (it was raining for most of the morning) meant there weren't many insects about, but I managed to record about 150 species (including everything, so birds, plants, galls etc), contributing to a group total of 380 species which I think was very respectable.
Highlights included Conifer Mazegill (Gloeophyllum sepiarum), Orange Cup (Melastiza cornubiensis), a leaf mine in Sea Aster (Calycomyza humeralis), leaf mine of the sawfly Heterarthrus vagans on Alder and the leaf mine of the moth Stigmella viscerella on Elm.
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