Appendix - Wildlife 2007 - Other Insects

(Click for a review of the wildlife during, 2000 2001 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008)

Other Insects

White-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus lucorum : a few feeding on a Flowering Cherry in Capel Road garden on 3rd January (PF); a few feeding on Mahonia in City of London Cemetery on 4th January (PF); on Early Crocus by Northumberland Avenue on17 February (photo)

Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris in Capel Road house on 25 February (PF) (photo)

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus terrestris : numbers on heather in City of London Cemetery on 1 March (PF) (photo)

14-Spot Ladybird Propylea 14-punctata : Capel Road garden on 12 April (PF)

16-spot ladybird Tytthaspis (Micraspis) sedecimpunctata : on an ant hill in Bush Wood South. 24 April (PF)

Scarab Beetle (possibly Aphodius rufipes) : Wanstead Flats, 24 April (PF) (photo)

Brassica Bug Eurydema oleracea : one seen on brassicas near Aldersbrook Changing Rooms on Wanstead Flats,  26 April (PF) (photo)

Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula : on Bund Peninsular near Ornamental Waters on 4 May (Kathy Hartnett) (photo)

Broad-bodied Chaser Libellula depressa : Gilbert's Slade Pond on 12 June (PF) (photo)

Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum : Alexandra Lake, Wanstead Flats on 19 June (PF) (photo)

Devils Coach Horse Ocypus olens : on the Plain on 22 June (PF)

Hornet Vespa crabro : scrub near Grotto on 27 June (PF)

Mirid Bug (unknown species): on scrub near Grotto on 27 June (PF) (photo)

Long-winged Conehead Conocephalus discolor : many near Shoulder of Mutton Pond on 9 July (PF) (photo)

Common Green Grasshopper Omocestus viridulus : near Shoulder of Mutton Pond on 9 July (PF)

Bee Wolf Philanthus triangulum : Capel Road garden on 9 July (PF) (photo)

Hawthorn Bug Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale : City of London Cemetery, 10 October (PF and Kathy Hartnett) (photo)

Records for 2007 courtesy of Jennifer Charter (JC), Paul Ferris (PF), Pete Saunders (PS) and others (named)