Not sure what hope there is for the rest of us then 🤣

I think it sometimes times out after long periods. If I have a very long list I'll add some then go back later and add the rest by editing one of the existing records. You're given option to edit single record or see the whole list. I do the latter and then just add more species to the list

Are they looking to restore the pond there? Heavily shaded and infilled. I'm actually finishing off some beetle samples I collected from the site last summer hence why I recognised the image 😅

Recognise the line of willows along stream next to public footpath 🙂

Looks like Strawberry Hill in Bedfordshire

Ah yes, I always um and ah about these two without the comparison side by side. Some look more obvious than others 😆

Helophorus aequalis?

Doh! Answered my own question. It appears to be a Dwarf Comfrey seed a patch of which I have growing by the front door next to where I've seen the bugs. Presumably able to feed on these in addition to forget-me-nots?

That should have said "for year or more and nicely relaxed...." 🙄

Hi Ben, I freeze everything then after few days transfer into pots with small amount of vinegar wetted tissue in the bottom. I've had specimens sit like this for year or Morland nicely relaxed and easy to card. I mainly collect beetles, bugs and ants and works fine with them

Hybrid with pseudocyperus? Handbook has known hybrid with rostrata. I can see 3 stigmas on some of the zoomed in images

Properly jealous! Nice find 😊

Some more figures....pre-drought average numbers 308 males vs 79 females. Post drought average 134 males vs 25 females so males knocked back by over 50% but females by 70%

Their breeding pond is large and deep and never dries up but pattern on numbers is so clear now that I suspect the drought must have really affected them post-breeding in their summering quarters. Anyone else seeing similar pattern? @froglife.bsky.social

Female numbers from 2018-2022.....78, 103, 81, 60, 74 then since 2023......25, 29, 21. We're on the Greensand Ridge here with many toads migrating off the floodplain onto sandy soils and now suspect that the drought in 2022 must have really hammered females disproportionately

Lucky to have seen this in my garden in Bedfordshire including in the moth trap. Also seen in Suffolk and Surrey. Always been associated with Birch Polypore brackets when I've seen it. Gorgeous beetle and hopefully seems to be showing signs of spreading

Definitely a fave of mine too. Still yet to see an adult though!