Posted by Juergen Peters on 04-05-2018 01:01
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Hello John,
johnes81 wrote:
I've only seen subventa and fuscata.
however, I found Helina cf evecta today
Helina evecta is very numerous here for some days now. As is
P. subventa nearly the whole year over.
my first Gymnochaeta cf viridis.
Very few Tachinidae for the beginning of May, yet. Normally the season starts in March with
Campylocheta praecox and
Kirbya moerens. In some years also
Gymnochaeta viridis appears as early as end of March. In April there are normally many Tachinidae on the wing here, including
Phasia hemiptera,
Phania funesta and others.
The first Tachinid this year was a single
G. viridis on April-29 (among the flies on the pic below), some
Phorocera obscura on May-02 and on the same day and yesterday several
Panzeria rudis (including the first one in our garden, s. below).
I also found a male Bibio cf ferruginatus
That species I did not find, yet. There are only many
B. marci and
varipes on the wing these days.
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My Wife found a male Alopecosa cuneata spider. I found the female last year but no male.
A very nice Lycosid. I posted a small portrait about it some years ago:
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I started my interest in Arthropods with spiders in the late 1990s and was co-founder of a german spider forum.
I still have to sort through all of my photos.
I know that problem. I am in delay viewing and sorting photos for over a year now (including many Diptera I wanted to post here some day...). But there are so many new interesting insects now, that the new season has begun...