Looks like a snail and moves like one too, but it seems it's an insect!/ Tiene pinta de caracol y se mueve como uno, pero parece que es un insecto! Aprox 2cm
Approx 1 cm long, earth capsule, edge of fields, stone walls & grassland.
ANI-23-0754-hymeno
Not quite sure what this is, but I dissected it from inside of a native centipede (Nadabius pullus) that was collected in May 2005. Documented parasites of lithobiomorph centipedes include Tachinids (Loewia) and Proctotrupids (Phaneroserphus), but I'm not sure if either of those are what I've got here. The parasite is about 5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide and was taking up the whole body cavity between segments 8-12. Parts of its body were sticking out of the spiracles of the centipede before dissection. Any help in narrowing this thing down would be appreciated! I'm assuming an arthropod based on what typically infests lithobiomorphs, but even that could be wrong.
Found inside a Pemphigus spyrothecae gall. This paper (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1439-0418.1967.tb02062.x) lists hoverflies whose larvae are found in P. spyrothecae galls. It mentions the following species:
Pipiza festiva Meig., P. dubia Lund., Heringia heringi (Zett.), Cnemodon latitarsis Egg., Syrphus vitripennis Meig. and Episyrphus balteatus (Deg.)
It's not S. vitripennis or E. balteatus.
P. festiva has no records in Great Britain.
P. dubia seems to be a synonym of H. heringi.
This just leaves Heringia heringi and Cnemodon latitarsis, which is now Heringia latitarsis.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1439-0418.1967.tb02062.x <- this paper also mentions Heringia virans.
Landed on the ship 'Cefas Endeavour' while surveying on the Dogger Bank, central North Sea. Feeding on starlings.
Gelatinous egg mass on soft rush flower.
Same animal, merged secuence.
Found a few on beach. Pretty solid brain-like structures? Please identify
Snow Goose hybrid of some kind?
I hope this is enough to identify it.
the bright spot
BIDENS ANDICOLA H.B.K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 4:237 (186). 1820; B. andicola H.B.K. vars. normalis and heterophylla O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3^II^: I36. 1898; B. fruticulosa Mey. and Walp., Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 19 Supplem. I. 271. 1843.
Descript. amplific.- Herba perennis, semi-procumbens vel etiam erecta, valde hispido-pubescens vel fere glabra, ramosa, 2-8 dm. alta, caulibus parce angulatis. Folia 1-7 cm. longa, valde polymorpha; nunc indivisa, ovata, serrata, sessilia vel alato-petiolata, ad apicem obtusa vel subacuta; nunc tripartite vel 1-3-pinnata foliolis ovatis vel lanceolatis vel linearibus et ad apicem sensim vel abrupte apiculatis. Capitula ramos terminantia, longe pedunculata, radiata; pansa ad anthesin 2-4 vel rarius etiam usque ad 5.5 cm. lata, 0.7-1.4 cm. alta. Involucrum perspicue hispidum, bracteis ex-terioribus 8-10, lanceolatis vel lineari-oblongis, ciliatis, supra saepe glabratis, apice plerumque obtusis, quam interioribus lanceolatis dense hispidis plerumque multo brevioribus. Flores ligulati saepius 8, lutei, ligula elliptico-oblanceolati, apice plerumque minute 3-denticulati, 1.2-2.5 cm. longi. Achaenia tenuiter linearia, inferne sensim attenuate, obcompresso-quadrangularia, sulcata, supra plus minusve erecto-hispida, fusco-nigra, corpore 0.7-1.4 cm. longa et 0.4-1 mm. lata et paleas demum superantia, apice bi- (vel pauca tri-) aristata, aristis tenuibus, brunneo-stramineis vel rubescentibus, re-trorsum hamosis, 1.7-3 mm. longis.
BIDENS ANDICOLA var. DECOMPOSITA O. Kuntze, I.c.; B. macrantha Griseb., Abhandl. Goett. I9:I38 I874; B. grandiflora Balb. var. breviloba 0. Kuntze, I.c.-Folia 2-3-pinnatisecta, usque ad I dm. longa, achaeniis superne valde attenuato-elongata.
For many years the identity of the South American Bidens andicola has been obscured for herbarium workers by the great multiplicity of foliage forms encountered. WEDDELL, as early as 1856 (Chloris And. 1870) described it as a polymorphous plant ("Plante polymorphe et très repande dans la chaine, mais presque exclusivement alpestre"). Later, OTTO KUNTZE, who like WEDDELL had collected in South America, commented upon the variability of the leaves ("Eine robuste Art mit einfach oder mehrfach ternatisecten Blättern, mittelgrossen gelben Strahlblüthen, ziemlich grossen Blüthenköpfen, äusseren zottig behaarten Involucralbracteen etc., aber in Bezug auf Blatttheilung wie manche andere Bidens-Art sehr variabel"; Rev. Gen. Pl. 3^II^: 136. 1898). In herbaria the numerous foliage forms are seen to simulate corresponding forms of B. triplinervia H.B.K. (B. humilis H.B.K., B. crithmifoliac H.B.K., etc.), and this has led often to confusion between the two species. Recently I was enabled, through the courtesy of OTTO BUCHTIEN (cf. SHEREFF, BOT. GAZ. 76: 151. 1923), to study a great number of specimens collected by him and displaying a wide range of variation. From these (all in Herb. Field. Mus.) and many others, totalling more than two hundred specimens, the preceding descriptions are drawn. It was found that sometimes, in poorly developed material, distinction from B. triplinervia is apparently impossible. In well developed material, however, the distinctions are usually very definite, B. andicola being coarser, its thicker heads having commonly about eight instead of commonly about five rays[4], etc. B. andicola has the paleae shorter than the mature achenes and this character separates it from the surprisingly similar aggregation of Mexican forms (Purpus 1547, 1548, 2637, 4135, 5089, 5620; Rose and Painter 6666, 7949; Pringle 4915; E. W. Nelson 3220, etc.) that in late years have passed erroneously under the name B. daucifolia DC. In the latter[5] the paleae are usually very blackish above and commonly surpass the mature achenes.
Occasionally a form of B. andicola is found with the leaves highly compound and the achenes strongly narrowed above, somewhat like those of Cosmos. If it were not for various connecting forms this would seem to be specifically distinct. KUNTZE, who himself collected specimens of it, referred at least one of them, a plant from Cochabamba, Bolivia (Herb. N.Y. Bot. Gard.) to B. andicola, naming it var. decomposita. In a careless moment he named a precisely identical form from between Cochabamba and Rio Juntas, Bolivia (Herb. N.Y. Bot. Gard.) B. grandiflora Balb. var. breviloba, although B. grandifjora is a Mexican species and is not known to occur in South America.
[4] Unfortunately, B. triplinervia produces at times an 8-rayed form. Discussion of this form must be deferred until a later date.
Sherff, E. E. (1926). Studies in the Genus Bidens. VII. Botanical Gazette, 81(1), 25-54.>>
Found in the roots of a bamboo plant, which I purchased from the big plant company in reading, not sure where they shipped the bamboo from, but had to plant the bamboo in Bicester, for a garden design job, and now am keeping the cricket at home, waiting to figure out what to do with them. Any advice appreciated !