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Post by wollastoni on Apr 5, 2015 16:10:00 GMT
I went back home this week-end to celebrate Easter with my family. It was the occasion to see the early spring in Brittany. It was a very cold week-end (about 5°C) but sunny today and I have seen few insects in the pine wood of Frehel.
Pararge aegeria tircis
Lassiomata megera
Timarcha tenebricosa celebrating spring
A nice bee that I don't know, if anyone can identify it.
Cyanistes caeruleus
Despite the cold, it was very pleasant to see spring coming back in NW France.
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Post by nomad on Apr 5, 2015 16:21:46 GMT
Looks like you had a great time and some really nice photographs .  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 16:27:29 GMT
Spring has sprung in Yorkshire, inachis io and aglais urticae galore and my first pieris rapae.
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 5, 2015 16:49:19 GMT
Thank you for your words, Peter. The wasp appears to be Andrena cineraria. |
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 5, 2015 17:16:09 GMT
And here is the picture of the pine wood called "Bois de la Carquois". 
I looooooove this place.
Prunus spinosa and Ulex breoganii were blossoming. |
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Post by deliasfanatic on Apr 5, 2015 17:28:06 GMT
Very nice - is it a sandy area? It looks very much like part of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which has a beautiful area with pines springing from the sand.
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 5, 2015 17:35:35 GMT
Not so sandy as there is a high cliff between the beach and this wood.
But it is just before the cliff so very windy, that's why pines are dominant there.
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Post by mantisboy on Apr 6, 2015 1:13:36 GMT
I agree with deliasfanatic, about how its similar to parts of the Indiana Dunes. I always go there once a year after a family reunion in Indiana, and it is a great place with many interesting insects!
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 7, 2015 15:38:55 GMT
Interesting
I guess the climate is different though, as Brittany is very rainy and rather cold (25°C is a very hot day there). I guess the wind and the salt from the sea are responsible of this rather "arid" vegetation.
I would be happy to see pictures of those Indianan biotopes.
Talking about biotopes, I think we whould all take more pictures of biotopes and date them. Biotopes can change a lot (due to climate change, deforestation, ...) and that has a strong impact on insect populations/diversity.
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