Gymnomus caesius (Scoliocentra caesia) at Cullaloe Hills

In 1.5m elevated bottle trap - fish-baited. Handsome son-of-a-gun. Look at those beautiful golden palps.

Rot-hole rat-tails

While wandering across a little-visited area of my new patch (Cullaloe Hills, NT1888) I noticed a rot-hole in a sycamore. Fortunately I was sporting gardening gloves for leaf litter sieving and a cursory dip revealed a nice Myathropa florea larva. A further investigation later revealed two more, but nothing additional.

Suillia variegata in the Cullaloe Hills

While sieving leaf litter at the base of a wall I looked over and saw this female Suillia on the ground, which I was able to pot. It's a common Suillia which I've had on all my usual patches (Inverkeithing, Dalgety bay, Cullaloe LNR and now Cullaloe Hills). It will be from woodland in each case.

Lonchaea patens, Cullaloe Hills, NT1888, 11.i.2020

A larva found in a wet pocket of Fraxinus on the 12th January which I initially planned to rear out. However, since I had already examined another lonchaeid larva I decided to compare this one. This one was much easier to determine with the RES Lonchaeidae book, though the other one may also give itself up eventually.

Habitus

Posterior spiracles

Head skeleton and toroidal mouthhooks

Anterior spiracle post KOH application

Various spicules, including anal (bottomlright)

Crumomyia roserii in Cullaloe Hills

Caught at a fish-baited trap, this little lesser dung fly has yellow-brown tibiae as an "obvious" feature. One previous Fife record from the East Neuk.

Loc: Cullaloe Hills
Grid: NT1888
Date: 08.i.2020
Det.: Crumomyia roserii female

infuscated wings

yellow tibia

pleural dusting pattern is helpful in ID