emilvus's Favorites

the coordinates are the exact spot of the colony.
information about the raid:
-robbed species: Formica cf. rufibarbis
-duration of the raid: more than one hour
-distance from the nest to the robbed colony ca. 72m
-observed behaviour: on the way to the nest wider swarm, on the way back more column like, workers of the defending colony tried to put substrate parts in the entrance of the nest, they rescured larvae by carrying them on blades of grass, aggression between the species was very rare

This white fly was found well outside of any greenhouse; may 'Global Warming' will aid its survival ...
Die Blattlaus-parasitierende Schlupfwespe Encarsia formosa wird zur biologischen Schädlingsbekämpfung eingesetzt; auch entomophage Cordyceps-Pilze werden verwendet (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecanicillium_muscarium).
Image of the larva (by A. Mikhaltsov): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_whitefly#/media/File:%D0...

Phylum: Arthropoda LATREILLE, 1829 (arthropods, Gliederfüßer)
Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816 (Sechsfüßer)
Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten)
Subclass: Pterygota LANG, 1888 (Fluginsekten)
Infraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923
Order: Hemiptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (true bugs, Schnabelkerfe)
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha AMYOT & SERVILLE, 1843 (Pflanzenläuse)
Superfamily: Aleyrodoidea (whiteflies)
Family: Aleyrodidae WESTWOOD, 1840 (whiteflies)
Subfamily: Aleyrodinae WESTWOOD, 1840
Genus: Trialeurodes COCKERELL, 1902
Trialeurodes vaporariorum WESTWOOD, 1856 (Greenhouse Whitefly, Gewächshaus-Weiße Fliege)

some info: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gew%C3%A4chshaus-Wei%C3%9Fe_Fliege

Germany, N-Hesse: Kassel (creek: Schließe), ca. 180m asl., 30.09.2016

MP-E65mm, 1/160s, f/9.0, ISO400, Macro Magnification - 3.0x, ring-flash (+2/3), hand-held
IMG_9614; IMG_9598

First iNaturalist record.

With Graham Armstrong, Pete Ellis, Steve Guy, Guy Langan, Paul Harvey, Phil Heath, Ian Lewis.

Seen for more than an hour after dawn, in a small loose group of Eur. Curlews, feeding in a short-grass field on the south side of the main lake. This was "limpy" - the bird that had been shot about 3 weeks earlier, but seemed to make a recovery.

This location is the last known wintering site for this species. The last record from here was in February 1995.

Here is a link to the last video taken at this site, in January 1995:

http://www.hbw.com/ibc/video/slender-billed-curlew-numenius-tenuirostris/bird-foraging-short-grass