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Ciarán Byrne
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Ecologist | Field botanist 🌿 | Entomologist 🐞
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Few more images of the 13-spot Ladybird (Hippodamia tredecimpunctata) from cutover bog outside Banagher, Co. Offaly during the week.
Further images of finds and habitats. 13-spot Ladybird find from cutover bog stunted pine was a welcome surprise!
Great day ladybird recording around Banagher, Co. Offaly today. Two new species for me in Scymnus nigrinus and 13-spot Ladybird. Pine Ladybird, Heather Ladybird, 7-spot Ladybird, 14-spot Ladybird and Rhyzobius litura also recorded.
Flat-footed fly (Platypezidae) Paraplatypeza bicincta ♀️ from Edenvale Woods, Co. Wexford yesterday. Found new to Ireland in 2021 by Ryan Mitchell from Down. Since then there have been records from Knocksink Wood, Wicklow and Anne's Grove House & Gardens, Cork.
Common Millet (Panicum miliaceum) at a building site in Ardcavan, Co. Wexford today @bsbiireland.bsky.social
Platypezid Agathomyia cinerea ♀️ from Cuilaphuca Wood near Kildavin, Co. Carlow this afternoon.
Mirid bug Pantilius tunicatus from St. John's Wood, Co. Roscommon.
Heather Ladybird (Chilocorus bipustulatus) and Red Marsh Ladybird (Coccidula rufa) from St. John's Wood on the shores of Lough Ree, Roscommon over the weekend. Both new for the site, also recorded 7-spot and 10-spot ladybirds. Unfortunately no 13-spot Ladybird.
Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) at St. John's Wood, Co. Roscommon yesterday. @bsbiireland.bsky.social
Witches' broom galls on Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) in Palatine, Co. Carlow recently. Likely caused by Taphrina carpini but phytoplasmas can cause similar broom symptoms.
22-spot Ladybird (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata) on seedhead of Nipplewort today in Kildavin, Carlow.
Nice aggregation of six x 22-spot Ladybird (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata) on mildewy Hogweed at Aghade, Co. Carlow today.
Blair's Shoulder-knot (Lithophane leautieri) larva off cypress in Clogh, Co. Wexford.
Red Marsh Ladybird (Coccidula rufa) swept from grassland at Tesco in Gorey, Co. Wexford yesterday.
Clockwise from top left: 10-spot, Cream-spot with 10-spot, 22-spot larva x 2, Rhyzobius litura, Coccidula rufa and 14-spot ladybirds from Craanford and Gorey, Co. Wexford today.
22-spot Ladybird (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata) at Tinryland, Co. Carlow yesterday.
Wool Carder Bee (Anthidium manicatum) on Stachys byzantina at Huntington Castle, Clonegal, Carlow this yesterday.
Bloody-nosed Beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) from the NBDC Insect Field Day at Tramore Dunes, Co. Waterford last weekend. Great to finally see this species.
Teneral 10-spot Ladybird (Adalia decempunctata) from Killedmond, Co. Carlow.
Striped, 18-spot, Larch and 10-spot ladybirds off a roadside pine near Killedmond, Co. Carlow today.
Ladybird pupa collected off Elder in Kildavin, Co. Carlow earlier this week. 14-spot Ladybird (Propylea quattuordecimpunctata) emerged today.
2-spot Ladybird, Harlequin Ladybird and Cantharis flavilabris in Kildavin, Carlow today.
18-spot Ladybird (Myrrha octodecimguttata) off Ivy on Scots Pine trunk at Cranavane Well, Co. Carlow today.
Common Cudweed (Filago germanica) & Basil Thyme (Clinopodium acinos) from a former sand & gravel quarry near Clonegal, Carlow this afternoon.
10-spot Ladybird larva off lime near Palatine and Eyed Ladybird larva on a gravestone in Kildavin, Carlow today.