Sheringham Park
A fascinating day at the Diptera Workshop
organised by N&NNS
Presented
by
Mark Welch & Tim Hodge
A short introduction to the families we would be looking at today and then down to the examples.
You can see they key being used to the left of the microscope.
A Stereoscope microscope is a must for identification.
Using a pooter inside the net bag to collect specimens.
Long and short handled sweep nets.
In this case the long handled one is adjustable but permanent 3m ones have been used.
Another trapping methods shown was the use of small yellow plastic bowls filled with water.
The catch for these was put in plastic lined with tissue paper to allow the catch to dry.
The lid itself had a portion cut out and replaced with a layer of tine gauze so air could get into the container while the catch was drying.
Varieties of ways to pin specimens but all include good documentation.
A High Rise of information
Spring Bee Grabber (Myopa testacea)
The Keys we used on the day are available for download from
the
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Sycamore Aphids (Drepanosiphum platinoidis)
Cley
Wood Sandpiper (Trings glareola)
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
4 Temminck's Stint
Little Ringed Plover
Spoonbill
Great White Egret
Hanworth
Dock Aphid (Aphis rumicis)
Antennae are pale near the bases
Rose Aphid (Macrosiphum rosae)
Parasitized Mummy
Aphids (Ovatomyzus stachyos) on Lamb's Ears (Stachys byzantina)
SantonDownham
Jet Ants (Lasius fuliginosus) shepherding Giant Maple Aphid (Stomaphis grafii) on Field Maple (Acer campestre)
Waxy grey Pine Needle Aphid (Schizolachnus pineti)? on Scot's Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
Silver Birch Aphid (Euceraphis betulae)
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
Hairy Sand Wasp (Podalonia hirsuta)?
Norwich
Poplar Leaf Aphid (Chaitophorus populeti)
Silver Birch Aphid (Euceraphis betulae)
Aphid Sp? on Soft Brome (Bromus hordeacus)
Hanworth
Nomada Sp
Nomada flava/panzeri?
Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Agapanthia villisoviridescens)
Oak Leaf gall
Cherry Gall produced by the Gall Wasp Cynips quercusfolii
Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris)
Large Knapweed Aphid (Uroleucon jaceae)
Weevil Sp?
Southrepps Commpon
Sycamore Aphid (Drepanosiphum plastanoidis)
Lace Bug Sp
Acalypta carinata
Mite Sp
Pseudoscorpion Sp
Common Chthonid (Chthonius ischnocheles)
Spider Sp
Hanworth
She spent some considerable sitting on a grass stem waiting for an opportunity .
Roughly timed for between 5 & minutes on at least three occasions.
Short-spined Nomad Bee (Nomada guttulata)
Norwich
Sycamore Aphid (Drepanosiphum platinoidis)
Young Italian Alder Aphid (Crypturaphis grassi)
Italian Poplar 
Hazel Aphid (Myzocallis coryli)
Hazel (Coryllus avellana)
Plus Crimson Tansy Aphids
Tansy Aphid (Macrosiphoniella tancetaria)?
and I think some of the Pink Tansy Aphid (Metopeurum fuscoviride) were present too
as there were one or two very dark out of focus aphids in the corner of two of the images.
Crimson Tansy Aphid (Uroleucon tanaceti)
Aphid Sp parasatised by a parasitic wasp.
on Rumex Sp
These could be either
Black Bean Aphid (Aphis fabae)
or
Dock Aphid (Aphis rumicis)
But the extent of the paleness on the antenna suggest Black Bean Aphid
Herb Bennet Aphid (Macrosiphum gei)? on Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) 
Aphid Sp? Probably parasatised by a fubgus.
Sawfly Sp (Macrophya annulata)
Alexanders Rust (Puccinia smyrnii)
Hanworth
Sweat bee Sp (Lasioglossum Sp)
Red-girdled Mining Bee (Andrena labiata)
Short-spined Nomad Bee (Nomada guttulata)
Carlton Marshes - Suffolk
Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)
Ashwellthorpe Wood
Oak (Quercus robur)
Andrena Sp?
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Cuckoo Flower (Cardemine pratensis)
Crane Fly Sp
Dark Bush Cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Rust (Melampsora populnea) on Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)
This is the alternate host at this stage producing aecia spores more commonly seen on Dog's Mercury than on its alternate host of Poplar Tree Species
Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula)
Ramsons (Allium ursinum)
Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthiophora plimipes)
Sanicle (Sanicula europea)
Ramson's Hoverfly (Portevinia maculata)
Graphis scripta s.lat. on Hazel (Corylus avellana). Also Hazel Woodwart (Hypoxylon fuscum)
Graphis scripta s. lat. is comprised of four species
BLS explanation
Wood Sedge (Carx sylvatica)
Bush Vetch (Vicia sepium)
Orange-belted Leaf-licker (Xylota segnis)
Whitlingham
Greater Black Spruce Bark Aphid (Cinara piceae)
A huge colony spreading up through the tree. The branches were covered in places, particularly the undersides.
Huge numbers on a table covered in tyres beneath the tree.
No ants present as far as could be seen.
Wheatfen
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
Flat Bug Sp
Aradus depressus
The most common UK Flatbug but not often recorded
from
British Bugs
Case Bearer Moth Sp?
Rust (Puccinia phragmites) on Dock (Rumex Sp) ?
This rusts alternates with Phragmites and this is stage 1 - Purple blotches bearing aecia
Eggs Sp? pn Water Dock (Rumex hydrolapathum)
Little Plumstead
Zebra Spider (Salticus scenicus)?
from
BAS
22 Spot Ladybird (Psyllobora virgintiduopunctata)
Spring Vetch - Lathryrus vernus 'Alboroseus'
Fungus Sp
Red-girdled Mining Bee (Andrena labiata)
Andrena Sp?
Andrena Sp ?
Hawthorn Mining Bee (Andrena chrysosceles)?
Downy mildew - Blumeria dactylidis
Woundwort Case-bearer (Coloephora lineolea) on Lamb's Ears (Stachys byzantina)
Corn Salad (Valeriana locusta)
Corydalis Sp
Red Currant Aphid (Cryptomyzus ribis)
Something on Primrose (Primula vulgaris)
Alpine Wallflower (Erysimum Sp)?
Kentish Snail (Monacha cantiana)
Golden Pea (Lathyrus aureus)
Iris Sp
Scarce Variegated Oak Aphid (Lachnus longorostris)
Campion Aphid (Brachycaudus lychnidis - group)
Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'
Stubble Rosegill (Volvopluteus gloiocephalus)
Fern Smut Caterpillar (Psychoides verhuella)
Philostichtis japonica
x400
Winter Aconite Smut (Urocystis eranthidis) on Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemelis)
Hanworth
Ashy Mining Bee ♀︎s (Andrena cineraria)
Andrena ♂︎ Sp 
Gery-patched Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena nitida)
Ant dragging prey. Weevil?
Nest hole?
Gooden's Nomad Bee ♀︎ (Nomada goodeniana)
Lathbury's Nomad Bee ♀︎(Nomada lathburiana)
Orange Top ♂︎(Anthocaris cardamines)
Upton Fen
Primrose (Primula vulgaris)
Common Snout (Rhinga campestris) 
Eutypella leprosa
Bird Cherry (Prunus padus)
Monilinia padi
An old description found by Stewart
From Mycologia 5(2): 51 (1913) as Oospora hinhartiana
Effused, thin, grey-white, spreading along petioles and veins of leaves, mycelium scanty, septate, hyaline; sporophores short
simple or branched, with chains of spores; spores globose, sub globose or ellipsoid 10-12 x 12-28
Wonderful
But
sadly the writer forgot
the
Heavenly Scent
Stewart has since completed more detailed research on this species.
There appears to be no doubt that Monilinia padi is a good name. It is given as the preferred name for the species on Species Fungorum and all references on the genus seem to include it.
There are records from the USA (It is described in Seaver, The North American Cup-fungi (Inoperculates, which references the original description under that name by Honey, American Journal of Botany 23: 105 (1936)) : 52 (1951) as Monilinia padi)
and mainland Europe, but it is not on the NBN Atlas and I can't find any reference to it having been seen here.
It seems surprising that it hasn't been recorded here and I wonder if perhaps it has been lost due to a rather confusing choice of nomenclature.
Saccardo described this fungus on Prunus padus using the name Monilia linhartiana. (Saccardo, Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum 4: 33 (1886)
Later Dennis proposed the new name of Monilinia linhartiana f(Monilinia linhartiana on Cydonia in Mycological Papers 62: 141 (1914)or the similar fungus on Quince,
acknowledging that linhartiana had already been used by Saccardo for a different fungus,
This seems to me to be an unnecessary source for potential confusion and I wondered if there might be records of M. hinhartiana on Prunus padus.
But there are no records of M. linhartiana on the NBN Atlas at all, so perhaps it is just a neglected genus.
and
in a note to L
I think that I have exhausted all of the references available to me, so I would love to know what you think.
No records of M. linhartiana on the NBN Atlas at all, so perhaps it is just a neglected genus.
Dialonectria episphaeria on Birch Woodwart (Jackrogersella multiformis)
Berlesiella nigerrima on Birch Woodwort (Jackrogersella multifprmis)
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) Rust (Uromyces dactylidis)
Bog Stitchwort (Stellaria alsine)
Weevil Sp
Limnobaris dolorosa
or
L t-album
Tapesia fusca on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Growing on a brown felty mat?
Orbillia eucalypti on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Ochre Spreading Tooth (Stecherrinum ochraceum)
Psathyrella spadiceogrisea
from Yvonne
The Psathyrella wasn't candolleana as it had pleurocystidia 
Wild Currant (Ribes rubrum)?
Unfurling Marsh Fern (Thelypteris palustris)
Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis)
Alder Spittlebug (Aphrophora alni) succumbed to Beauvaria bassiana
Bog Myrtle Flower (Myrica gale)
From Yvonne
The conocybe turned out to be a Galerina and I didn't think I would be able to do it but the cheilocystidia were very distinctive.
Thus Galerina clavata but never 100% sure with these.
?
Yellow Fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans)
Lycogala terrestre
Thick Tarcrust (Camerops polysperma)
Slime Mold Sp
Reticularia lycoperdon
Nemannia confluens
A slightly confusing young colony of what could be either Physcomitrium or Funaria.
They are almost impossible to tell apart at this stage.
But in amongst them were the more obvious adult strands of Bonfire Moss (Funaria hygrometrica)
Bonfire Moss (Funaria hygrometrica)
Orange Tip ♂︎ (Anthocaris cardamines)
Melanopsamma pomiformis
40x
200x
Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum)
The leaf cells are longer than wide and arranged in diagonal rows.
The leaf base runs broadly down the stem.
Scirrhia rimosa on Phragnites australis
Lichen Sp
Arachnopeziza auranta on a cobwebby subiculum
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)
Santon Downham
Jet Ants (Laus fuliginosus) shepherding Giant Maple Aphid (Stomaphis grafii)
Bird's-foot (Ornithopus perpusillus)
Field Mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense)
Ivy-leaved Toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis)
Shepherd's Cress (Teesdalia nudicaulis)
And
One more
A
fungus on Resin
Zythia resinae
from
somewhere
completely different
Zythia resinae
Lynford
Bird Cherry (Prunus padus)
Common Neobiscid (Neobisium carcinoides)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
Metallina segmentata?
Spider Sp
Rilaena tringularis
Early Colletes (Colletes cunicularius)
First seen waiting outside a host's nest.
She was underground for 37 minutes before she returned to the entrance.
She then spent another 30 + minutes in and out of the nest entrance never fully revealing herself.
The wind, a flash and our presence all contributing to her remaining there perhaps.
In the immediate vicinity < 30cm two other females were busy clearing out nests.
This individual then sat out in the open for a a good five minutes allowing these photographs. and four other photographers.
Giant Blood Bee (Sphecodes albilabris)
