This can happen in leaf development and the leaf rolls or dies. Some polyphagous larvae can cause leaf rolling but it doesn’t look like feeding in the photos? A shot of the occupant would have helped.
I even found a spider in a rolled hawthorn leaf last week
Iron Prominent
12/6 last night (better than 3/2 previous night!) but still low. Iron Prominent was NFY #norfolkmoths
Interesting bicatch with FUN pheromone lure today - a sawfly Arge ustulata!
NFG @naturespotter.bsky.social @andymus.bsky.social
Oilseed rape
Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is commonly grown here in West Norfolk and the roadside verges colour yellow with escapees at this time of year. It even survives alongside pavement edges as here. #wildflowerhour #cabbagefamily
Grey Heron perched in Weeping Willow
A Grey Heron perched on the Weeping Willow by our pond this afternoon. A rare garden visitor! Can you spot it?
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) putting on a great display by the garden pond #wildflowerhour
Many thanks Ian
True. I was gardening when I spotted it in the hedge and only had my phone to photograph it!
Thanks Vanna. It was crawling around on hawthorn and hard to photograph before it flew off
Epistrophe eligans
A very shiny common spring hoverfly Epistrophe eligans. Prefers sunny hawthorn and blackthorn hedges - so well suited to the garden today bordering the veg patch
On hawthorn in garden this morning. Is it Andrena chrysoscheles? Help appreciated! @vannabartlett.bsky.social
Speckled Wood at Oxborough Hall this morning looking very fresh
Several Lassioglossum bees nesting in the sandy gravel path at Oxborough Hall today
Powdered Quaker
Satellite
Numbers of moths picking up this week. 37/7 last night with Powdered Quaker and Satellite NFY. Satellites are variable - this one has orange spots
Cowslips flowering well now #cowslipchallenge #wildflowerhour
Overwintered container with emerged wasp on lid
Puparium red and wasp blue circle
Ventral and dorsal view of Chrysocharis polyzo
After 5 months overwintering the puparium of Cerodontha iraeos - a miner of yellow flag iris - a wasp emerged. I almost forgive it as it is so sparkly. Chrysocharis polyzo is its id. Thanks to Charles Godfray for help with id.
The cover of a guide called Psyllids of Norfolk, with a central picture of Psylla alni, a green psyllid, on a green leaf. The NNNS logo is in the top right corner.
I have updated the @norfolknats.bsky.social species guide to Norfolk Psyllids, which is available to download from the NNNS website here: norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... It now covers 60 species (about 3/5 of the British list) so is hopefully of use even for those outside of Norfolk.
Overwinter leaves outside in a sheltered place with tights at the top of the container. That’s all you need to do
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major) has appeared here in West Norfolk today. Bonus - two at once!
They are such lovely moths
They got very fast too!
It’s always worth trying but I think you are correct!
Emperor moth to lure in the garden at 14:30 this afternoon
Stunning moths!
#norfolkmoths. #teammoths
Hopefully they will flower and set seed this year so I can recover a larger area for next year and so on!
Thanks
I’ll try that. It’s in an area I don’t usually mow
I ensured they had bare ground and trod the seeds into it, using fresh seeds, in October.
They are in a wild area in the garden - so hopefully will allow us to grow more wild flowers there. At present grass growth tends to exclude them
Thanks Jo
I never thought I’d manage it after so many fsilures!
After four years trying I think I’ve finally managed to grow Yellow Rattle from seeds in our garden!
I hope I’m correct @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social ?
No Emperor in the garden yet but one to lure in Norfolk today
50 years of Antenna magazine from the Royal Entomological Society - you can read this issue free online
www.royensoc.co.uk/publications...
Well done Ruth. Onwards and upwards now!