Friday, 14 December 2018

06.12.18 - Knighton Park

A bagful of leaf litter from the local park proved to be very productive. There were a good number of big, fat, dark Dicyrtomina saundersi and several Entomobrya nicoleti. There were also quite a few of the biggest and bounciest Orchesella villosa I have ever seen. A couple of Isotomids caused me some head scratching, but eventually I identified them as Desoria tigrina:

Desoria tigrina

and Isotomurus palustris:

Isotomurus palustris


Most spectacular was a single Monobella grassei, the first time I have recorded this species in VC55:

Monobella grassei

Monobella grassei

Monobella grassei

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