Tuesday 9 September 2014

A Couple of Pics from Robertstown

During my short visit to Robertstown, I found this beautiful hoverfly; Chrysotoxum festivum. It is a distinctive species and one I haven't previously seen.

Chrysotoxum festivum

It is fairly well distributed, but apparently never particularly abundant.


Chrysotoxum festivum

While there, I also came upon this Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum), which is a local species, but one I occasionally come across in such overgrown, scrubby places..

Hairy Shieldbug

It is a pity that this particular site is doomed to be developed as the site of the new college.

4 comments:

  1. What are you doing my patch pal.I found wild golden rod in Abercwmboi today behind Maple terrace in horses field.

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  2. Sorry, the sign must have been hidden by the vast swathes of majestically towering Canadian Fleabane!
    Once you notice the first plant of Golden-rod, you then usually find loads of it on site and wonder why you hadn't noticed it before. It's that sort of plant.

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  3. I thought it was some kind of saint john wort .

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