Today some new species in my parents garden, all of them of the dipteran kind. Also, I cleaned the pond and a blackbird go bathing shortly after in the now clean water. I passed by its side while he was drying and shaking the plumage. He was absolutely tame and not even alert on me passing at a meter of distance.
INVERTEBRATES:
73. Eupeodes corollae (landed on me!)
74. Dasysyrphus albostriatus
75. Culiseta longiareolata
Yesterday 2nd April I had a very pleasant first field trip of the year. It was to a close place to the city as I don't counted with a car, and the weather turned bad (very windy and a bit cold, but at least dry) after many days of sunny weather we had previously. However we saw a considerable quantity of interesting species despite that. I passed also by the river shore, saw the cattle egret roosting place, a little egret fishing, tree sparrows and a blackcap, etc. The most strange sighting was a rabbit seen in a rotonda in the very middle of the city (in the same rotonda I saw a rabbit in another past year). About the place where I did the field trip, Juslibol, the first thing that welcomed me was a grey heron flying over the begin of the village, not a bad welcome! It was also noteworthy the very high number of black kites seen along the day. A big highlight was my first amphibian of the year, and under the very same stone I found two giant centipedes (one adult and one hatchling) and a firefly larva! A scarce swallowtail passed just in front on me and landed in the highest tip of a plane tree shaked by extremely strong winds. I also caught two firefly larvae and released them in my parents garden so they can help me controlling snails. The very dry spring we are having means that very few plants was blooming and with the windy days there were almost no pollinating insects, however with stone-dwellers and bark-.dwellers we had a great list (I went with a partner).
BIRDS:
45. Booted eagle (
Hieraaetus pennatus)
46. Dartford warbler (
Sylvia undata)
HERPTILES:
2. Natterjack toad (
Bufo calamita)
INVERTEBRATES:
76.
Deroceras reticulatum
77.
Eobania vermiculata
78.
Cochicella barbara
79.
Geckobia latastei
80.
Nomisia aussereri
81.
Pisaura mirabilis
82.
Loxosceles rufescens
83.
Thomisus onustus
84.
Scolopendra cingulata
85.
Ommatoiulus rutilans
86.
Polyxenus lagurus!!! (not seen since 2009)
87.
Armadillo officinalis (tons of them)
88.
Proatelurina pseudolepisma
89.
Pyrgomorpha conica
90.
Tettigonia viridissima (1 very small nymph, I think L1 or L2)
91.
Embia ramburi
92.
Euborellia moesta
93.
Forficula auricularia
94.
Carpocoris fuscispinus (mediterraneus)
95.
Pyrrhocoris apterus
96.
Fumea casta
97.
Tachina fera
98.
Euaresta bullans
99.
Oxythyrea funesta
100.
Tropinota squalida (exceptionally small individual)
101.
Psilothrix viridicoerulea
102.
Nyctophila reichii
103.
Epilachna argus
104.
Scaurus punctatus
105.
Agapanthia asphodeli (not seen one since 2014)
106.
Crioceris paracenthesis
107.
Tenthredo meridiana
108.
Andrena agilissima
Dead remains of species that cannot be counted:
Ferussacia folliculus (an empty shell),
Xanthogramma marginale (found dead killed by a spider crab on a spurge flower),
Licinus punctatulus (dead under a stone),
Eurythyrea micans (old remains of two individuals: three elytra and half, one prosternum, one pronotum and one head, found scattered under a dead poplar trunk bark),
Tentyria peiroleri (dead under a stone, with only one leg still attached),
Asida sericea (dead under a stone, more entire with all legs).
Pending to ID: a small ichneumonid or braconid, an
Hylaeus bee, a giant chironomid migde (yep I was so desperated for getting species that I even photographed chironomids - this one being so enormous that maybe is remotely possible to identify), a
Zygina hopper, and the most interesting, an
Apion weevil! I also saw first
Chelonus sp. in my life but these are impossible to ID.
I also forgot to include an invertebrate seen the last saturday in my parents garden:
109.
Vespula germanica
