Compost bin lid life
Paul Iddon
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This afternoon on my compost bin.
Two globular springtail head-dancing - or whatever it is they are really doing... courting of course! Deutosminthurinus pallipes, maybe.
Teniuphantes sp spider.
A vivid coloured larva in the same place (with an Orchesella cincta passing by to give some size comparison).
A green thing is an early instar nymph of Cicadellidae, ca. Empoasca etc.
Paul.
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Paul,
A nice set. I have never seen such a larva anywhere.
Harold
Thanks Harold, I'm still trying to ID it.
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I suspect Lepidopteran.
Harold
Lovely series paul
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Thanks Brian.
Paul.
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Fantastic mate. Such detail in tiny creatures.
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Thanks Ian.
More to come yet m8...
Paul.
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Around the compost bin, there's plenty going on...
There's a crab spider, a beetle of some kind (unknown just now) and a harvestman, a mirid bug, then in the soil itself there is at least 3 to see (an elongate springtail and more to be ID'd) and some mixed blessings as 2 springtails go a-courting.
Paul.
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Paul,
The "elongate springtail" is Orchesella villosa.
Harold
Agreed Harold, it's what's beneath the leaf, and the head on the left that intrigues...
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Paul,
Beneath the leaf suggests a mole cricket and the head is probably a cockroach (small species).
Harold