Rhagonycha fulva (a type of soldier beetle) is everywhere at the moment in BK.
The trouble with pan-species listing is that the learning curve is so steep it makes your brain hurt a lot and the identification process for even the common things can get rather lengthy! Spent the weekend walking and photographing mostly on Hallandåsen. Did a bit of birding with Klarningen being rather disappointing on Saturday (water levels too high for waders after the rain) but had some nice encounters with young red-backed shrikes just out of the nest at Älemossen. Sunday saw some serious invertebrate searching in Sinarpsdalen near the house and we found a nice male black woodpecker (amazingly my first BK bird of the year!!) as well as a possible first for Skåne in the shape of a huge female sawfly Xeris spectrum. An afternoon picking blueberries at Älemossen produced more invertebrates including a monster puss moth caterpillar.
Nice to see a few familiar invertebrates during the weekend, such as this Coenagrion hastulatum.
Number 2 found this nice Chrysomela populi at Sinarpsdalen.
Bee beetle (Trichius fasciatus).
The big one, the nationally near-threatened sawfly Xeris spectrum, this may constitute the first record for Skåne, a great find in Sinarpsdalen yesterday.
Black woodpecker, whistled in for good views at Sinarpsdalen but difficult to capture with a macro lens!
Top beast at Älemossen was this enormous puss moth (Cerura vinula) caterpillar caught wriggling feverishly across the trail.
A presumed female ichneumon at Älemossen yesterday. Anyone?
Number 1 found me this roosting four-spotted footman (Cybosia mesomella) at Älemossen.
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