Archivos de diario de octubre 2022

11 de octubre de 2022

A little help from nature's friends...

This Anthus trivialis and 31 European forest plants need some IDs. Can you help?

Publicado el 11 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 1 observación | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

12 de octubre de 2022

Thank you for IDs!

Now it's only 20 more biota to be identified, before we can start with our project. We believe that a project can add even more value to our observations, as we will be able to discuss them with you in their specific contexts. Do you recognize some of these plants and animals? Please add an ID and tell the world, you do! Thank you so much for your help!

Publicado el 12 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 7 observaciones | 1 comentario | Deja un comentario

Post scriptum "Tree pipit"

I had to look at the pictures of the tree pipit so many times, before I realised, that one of them shows it with a grasshopper in its beak (third tree-pipit photo, added today)! Tree pipits and meadow pipits used to be common birds in Switzerland. Today, there are hardly any or even no breeding pairs at all left in the Mittelland-region where this observation took place. This may explain why this is the first tree pipit I have ever met in my life! The species suffers from loss of meadows with high vegetation and suitably high trees during the breeding season. The tree pipit on the picture was already on its way to western and eastern Africa, south of the Sahara desert. I hope that the insects of Küsnacht Wangensbach provided it with some extra energy for this dangerous long-distance migration!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136708103

Publicado el 12 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

13 de octubre de 2022

IDs for observations

Still looking for IDs for:

  • Anthus trivialis (tree pipit, Baumpieper)
  • Fragaria vesca (wild strawberry, Walderdbeere)
  • Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingon berry / cow berry, Preiselbeere)
  • Bombus psithyrus (Bumble bee, Kuckuckshummel)
  • Melanostoma (?) (hover fly / Schwebfliege)
  • Andrena (?) (hover fly / Schwebfliege)
  • Epipactis helleborine (broad-leaved helleborine / breitblättrige Stendelwurz)
  • Sambucus nigra (elder / schwarzer Hollunder)

Thank you everyone for sharing your knowledge and kind help!

Publicado el 13 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 4 observaciones | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

16 de octubre de 2022

Which bee or fly?

I am trying to identify a couple of bumble-bees, wild bees and hover flies. Can you help? Thanks!

Publicado el 16 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 6 observaciones | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

20 de octubre de 2022

Can you identify this bumble-bee?

Another kind of bumble-bee! I thought, I knew this place, and am fascinated to learn so much more about its insect-inhabitants!. Thank you for helping with the identification!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139424878

Publicado el 20 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 1 observación | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

24 de octubre de 2022

Amphibians, reptile and a hummingbird hawkmoth

Some Alpine newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris), a wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) and an injured hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum, deutsch.: Taubenschwänzchen) need another ID...
Thank you for your help!

Publicado el 24 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 3 observaciones | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

28 de octubre de 2022

Wild beasts (in Switzerland) and where to find them

It's wonderful, how so many species can be identified on iNaturalist! Maybe you have an idea about these? Thanks a lot for your IDs and advice!

Publicado el 28 de octubre de 2022 por spyr spyr | 6 observaciones | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario