bug nymph on Leeds wasteland - Saldula?
I'm involved with planning a wildlife garden outside our museum store at the moment, and have started on a prelim survey of the existing fauna. It's quite fascinating...
The site is in the old industrial area of Leeds, concrete factories being knowcked down, concrete flats going up all around. At first glance, the only things alive are Buddleia and bunnies. However, there's a bit of really poor clay topsoil dumped there, with a quite high diversity of scrawny wild plants growing, and a wonderfully odd fauna. Most of the diversity is flies, spiders and beetles, and I'm seeing quite a few of each that I've never seen before. Likewise, it seems, for the bugs... These three nymphs were all scuttling around on the almost bare earth.
I think this one is possibly a Saldula sp... there were large puddles over the winter, so maybe that counts as a shore..!
bug nymph on Leeds wasteland - Saldula?
I'm involved with planning a wildlife garden outside our museum store at the moment, and have started on a prelim survey of the existing fauna. It's quite fascinating...
The site is in the old industrial area of Leeds, concrete factories being knowcked down, concrete flats going up all around. At first glance, the only things alive are Buddleia and bunnies. However, there's a bit of really poor clay topsoil dumped there, with a quite high diversity of scrawny wild plants growing, and a wonderfully odd fauna. Most of the diversity is flies, spiders and beetles, and I'm seeing quite a few of each that I've never seen before. Likewise, it seems, for the bugs... These three nymphs were all scuttling around on the almost bare earth.
I think this one is possibly a Saldula sp... there were large puddles over the winter, so maybe that counts as a shore..!