{"id":9779,"date":"2024-06-09T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2024-06-09T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T13:53:30","slug":"weekend-8-june-2024-at-dmnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/weekend-8-june-2024-at-dmnr\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend 8 June 2024 at DMNR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yet another walk through Denso Marston Nature Reserve<\/a>. It is only a few minutes away so when it is not raining I quite like going to the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ladybird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird mating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird mating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird mating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ladybirds, ladybirds and attempts to make yet more ladybirds. One of these days I hope to get an inkling that I understand a few things. I did think that a ladybird with red spots on a black background was different to a ladybird with black spots on a red background, and in the same way the number of spots meant something. After all there is a two spot ladybird (Adalia bipunctata) and a seven spot ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata). Are these different to Harlequin Ladybirds that might have 2 spots or 7 spots? Can\/do Adalia bipuncta mate with Coccinella septempunctata? I thought they didn’t. Does that mean that the photos above where a red on black ladybird is mating with a black on red ladybird are all of Harlequin Ladybirds that just happen to be “spotted” that way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the mating Ladybirds is munching on an Aphid <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to Google the idea about knowing things and found that Aristotle credited with writing The more you know,\u00a0the more you realise you don’t know<\/em>. And Albert Einstein said As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it<\/em>. Though I quite like my version The larger the radius of knowledge the greater the sphere of ignorance<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blackcap chick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blackcap chick & parent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blue Tit chick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blue Tit chick & parent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Juvenile Grey Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adult Grey Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Male Bullfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paddling Crow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I managed to spot several bird chicks while I was out. They still have noticeable yellow “gape” lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leaf Beetle Larvae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leaf Beetle Larvae damage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blackfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leaf Beetle Larva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leaf Beetle full of eggs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Large Red Damselflies mating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Azure Damselfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Banded Demoiselle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scorpion Fly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scorpion Fly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Umbillifera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bluebell seedhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pellucid Fly?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Drone Fly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hoverfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Aphids & Sedgesitter? Hoverfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Weevil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spider with egg sack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Aire Rivers Trust sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This last set of photos are a bit of variety. A few bugs and beetles, one of them looking enormous and ready to lay a few hundred eggs. The Umbellifera is another of those where the more I look the more unsure I am. The florets look like poisonous hemlock water-dropwort but I’m not too sure about the leaves. And I have not heard that plant mentioned before. There’s plenty of Cow Parsley\/Wild Chervil and Hogweed around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apologies for not having a ruler in each shot so that you can tell that the Weevil is a lot smaller than the Rat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another walk through Denso Marston Nature Reserve. It is only a few minutes away so when it is not raining I quite like going to the river. Ladybirds, ladybirds and attempts to make yet more ladybirds. One of these days I hope to get an inkling that I understand a few things. I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Another visit to Denso Marston Nature Reserve majoring on Ladybirds.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[154,4],"tags":[92,18,55,62],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denso","category-paul","tag-damselfly","tag-denso-marston-nature-reserve","tag-heron","tag-ladybird"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/7D2_2524.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-2xJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9821,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions\/9821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}