Oliver's Battery Countryside Group

Probably the Best Countryside Group in Oliver's Battery

Ants, Bees, Beetles, Flies, Grasshoppers, Spiders and Wasps on the Conservation Area

All species identification subject to confirmation - please let us know if you disagree with any of these.
Ants

Red ants Sp? 3rd August 2007	Red ants Sp? 3rd August 2007

Bees

Bee on Yellow Rattle Sp? 26th May 2007	Bee on Thistle Sp? 14th July 2007	Bee on Burdock Sp? 30th July 2007

Bee on Burdock Sp? 30th July 2007

Beetles

Tiny Beetle on Thistle Sp? 7th July 2007

Soldier Beetle? on Ragwort Rhagonycha fulva? 14th July 2007	Soldier Beetle? on Grass Rhagonycha fulva? 14th July 2007	Soldier Beetle? on Grass Rhagonycha fulva? 14th July 2007

Two-spot Ladybird Adalia bipunctata 7th July 2007	Melanistic Two-spot Ladybird Adalia bipunctata 14th July 2007	Seven-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata 11th June 2007

Flies

Greenbottle on Ragwort Lucilia caesar 14th July 2007	Flesh Fly on Hogweed Sarcophaga carnaria 30th July 2007

Grasshoppers

Meadow Grasshopper on Red Bartsia Chorthippus parallelus 30th July 2007	Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus 30th July 2007

Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus 9th August 2007	Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus 9th August 2007	Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus 9th August 2007

Common Field Grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus 7th August 2007
The long grass in July is alive with grasshoppers. Very difficult to spot, and even harder to photograph.

Harvestmen

Harvestman short of a leg Sp? 30th July 2007

Hoverflies, Sawflies etc

Sawfly? on Ragwort Sp? 14th July 2007	Hoverfly on Hogweed seeds Sp? 30th July 2007	Pear slug sawfly larvae? Sp? 16th September 2007

Shield Bugs

Dock Leaf Bug Coreus marginatus (L.) 30th July 2007

Spiders

Wolf spider? lurking in nettle Pisaura mirabilis? 30th July 2007	Garden spider? Araneus diadematus? 16th Sept 2007

Wasps etc

Ichneumon fly Sp? 11th June 2011			Photographs: Peter Land