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And speaking of bugs, I teased this one last week, but forgot to post it.

It's a striped oak bug (Rhabdomoris striatellus; 🇩🇪 Eichen-Schmuckwanze). Similar, but clearly different to its relative, the streaked plant bug (Miris striatus; 🇩🇪 Prachtwanze), as seen in the second picture.

They're both in tribe Mirini.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And speaking of bugs, I teased this one last week, but forgot to post it.

It's a striped oak bug (Rhabdomoris striatellus; 🇩🇪 Eichen-Schmuckwanze). Similar, but clearly different to its relative, the streaked plant bug (Miris striatus; 🇩🇪 Prachtwanze), as seen in the second picture.

They're both in tribe Mirini.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And speaking of bugs, I teased this one last week, but forgot to post it.

It's a striped oak bug (Rhabdomoris striatellus; 🇩🇪 Eichen-Schmuckwanze). Similar, but clearly different to its relative, the streaked plant bug (Miris striatus; 🇩🇪 Prachtwanze), as seen in the second picture.

They're both in tribe Mirini.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And speaking of bugs, I teased this one last week, but forgot to post it.

It's a striped oak bug (Rhabdomoris striatellus; 🇩🇪 Eichen-Schmuckwanze). Similar, but clearly different to its relative, the streaked plant bug (Miris striatus; 🇩🇪 Prachtwanze), as seen in the second picture.

They're both in tribe Mirini.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And speaking of bugs, I teased this one last week, but forgot to post it.

It's a striped oak bug (Rhabdomoris striatellus; 🇩🇪 Eichen-Schmuckwanze). Similar, but clearly different to its relative, the streaked plant bug (Miris striatus; 🇩🇪 Prachtwanze), as seen in the second picture.

They're both in tribe Mirini.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Still trying to clear my backlog of arthropods seen at the Tagungsstätte Löwenstein last week, but many are proving hard to ID.

But I'll venture that this is a nymph of the spotted plant bug (Closterotomus fulvomaculatus; 🇩🇪 Braune Schmuckwanze).

As the German name suggests, it's much less pretty as an adult 🤷‍♂️

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And since I'm sure you're now curious, why yes, there is also a large yellow-girdled tenthredo (Tenthredo maculata; 🇩🇪 Große Gelbbinden-Blattwespe) 🙂

Also photographed at Löwenstein last week.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Turning to a black & yellow insect that is hopefully easier to ID definitively for once, this is a sawfly also seen at Löwenstein last week.

I'm pretty sure it's a female small yellow-girdled tenthredo (Tenthredo temula; 🇩🇪 Berauschte Blattwespe).

Fingers crossed that the iNaturalist experts agree – it's brutal in there 😬

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

To further demonstrate how hard it can be, here's another black & yellow hoverfly seen at Löwenstein last week.

Superficially similar, this is a Chrysotoxum, another genus of hoverfly.

But which species? The bars aren't hooked at the ends, so I'd favour C. vernale over C. festivum, but C. elegans is also an option.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Identifying hoverflies can be very tricky too.

This boldly-coloured one is very likely genus Xanthogramma, now renamed Philhelius.

Based on the dark wing patches, the yellow bar shapes, & frequency, I'd say P. pedissequum, the delightfully-named Superb Ant-hill Hoverfly.

But also perhaps P. dives or P. stackelbergi?

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Finally for now, a species I've already posted pictures of, the spotted cranefly (Nephrotoma appendiculata; 🇩🇪 Gefleckte Wiesenschnake).

This time, however, a pair of them caught in flagrante delicto 😳

Plenty more to come later – I counted another 35+ species in my photos, most new to me. Whether I can ID them all though ... 😬

#Lowenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Another set of very poor pictures taken of another very rapidly moving insect 😬

But fortunately, the black, white, & red colour scheme is distinctive enough even when out of focus, leading to a fairly certain ID.

Namely that it's another sawfly, this time of the privet variety (Macrophya punctumalbum; 🇩🇪 Liguster-Blattwespe).

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

I only saw this one briefly, hence the poor pictures 🤷‍♂️

But after going down some rabbit holes, a good guess is that it's a torpedo sawfly (Nematus lucidus; 🇩🇪 Torpedo-Blattwespe), not an ichneumonid wasp as iNaturalist initially suggested 😬

Not that frequently documented on that site, but not rare or endangered either.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

This is a very cool beetle, that makes its way in the world by mimicking a wasp – evolution is quite creative sometimes.

Unlike the people that named it in English – it's called the wasp beetle (Clytus arietis; 🇩🇪 Echter Widderbock) 🤷‍♂️

It's similar to C. lama, but differentiated by having black antenna tips.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A brief interlude, with a bug that I also have in the garden at home – a mottled shield bug (Rhaphigaster nebulosa; 🇩🇪 Graue Gartenwanze).

But it is remarkable quite how many new species I saw in the hedgerows of the Tagungsstätte Löwenstein, just 60km south-east of here as the crow (or insect) flies.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

There were many of these little fellows in the bushes, but they were very shy & usually scampered off when I moved near.

But after a few attempts, I got some reasonable shots – these are nymphs of the plant bug Closterotomus biclavatus (🇩🇪 Zweikeulen-Weichwanze), but will be much more boringly coloured when adults 🤷‍♂️

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And then there was this tiny little beetle, scurrying rapidly around, making it impossible for me to get a good shot 😱

Luckily its colour scheme is distinctive – it's a female jewel beetle called Anthaxia nitidula (🇩🇪 Glänzender Blütenprachtkäfer).

Probably sub-species nitidula as opposed to signaticollis, found further east.

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Something a little different, namely a small moth.

It seems to be a Plum tortrix (Hedya pruniana; 🇩🇪 Pflaumenwickler or Pflaumenknospenwickler).

At least this was fairly easy to ID – I also saw & photographed lots of caterpillars which are proving much harder 😬✌️

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Many of the pictures were taken hand-held & most under darker conditions than that previous one.

Plus with so many species which were new to me, you have to take my IDs with a grain of salt.

That said, I believe that this is a common red-legged robber fly (Dioctria rufipes; 🇩🇪 Höcker-Habichtsfliege).

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A cold, wet, gloomy day, so little activity in the garden 🤷‍♂️

Thankfully, I have many interesting pictures to post from the past two days spent at the Tagungsstätte Löwenstein east of Heilbronn with the PFE dept of @mpi_astro.

Let's start with this dramatically-coloured soldier fly (Clitellaria ephippium; 🇩🇪 Rotrücken-Waffenfliege).

#Löwenstein 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Diese #Nadelarbeit "Jesusknabe" aus dem Besitz von #Prinz Johannes zu #Löwenstein befindet sich im Bestand des #Staatsarchivs #Wertheim.

Ab sofort ist dieses in #3D jederzeit zugänglich:

👉 https://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/de/themen/praesentationen---themenzugaenge/76675

Den Tag in Löwenstein ausklingen lassen…

#GuildWars2 #Löwenstein #TeigDieMagierin

#AchtungKontrolle #Motorrad an der Platte in #Löwenstein #Hirrweiler. Zum Glück ist an meinem #Fahrrad alles eingetragen.

#AchtungKontrolle #Motorrad an der Platte in #Löwenstein #Hirrweiler. Zum Glück ist an meinem #Fahrrad alles eingetragen.

#AchtungKontrolle #Motorrad an der Platte in #Löwenstein #Hirrweiler. Zum Glück ist an meinem #Fahrrad alles eingetragen.

#AchtungKontrolle #Motorrad an der Platte in #Löwenstein #Hirrweiler. Zum Glück ist an meinem #Fahrrad alles eingetragen.

#AchtungKontrolle #Motorrad an der Platte in #Löwenstein #Hirrweiler. Zum Glück ist an meinem #Fahrrad alles eingetragen.

Right now, Shankar with another Shankar, a #Lowenstein's world premiere and #Bizet from Los Angeles https://buff.ly/3wP6cUN #wch

In 20 minutes, Shankar with another Shankar, a #Lowenstein's world premiere and #Bizet from Los Angeles https://buff.ly/3wP6cUN #wch

Today, Shankar with another Shankar, a #Lowenstein's world premiere and #Bizet from Los Angeles https://buff.ly/3wP6cUN #wch

So geht das nicht! Der abgeratzte Imbisswagen auf der Platte ist überregional bekanntes Kulturerbe und kann nicht einfach durch einen schnöden Kiosk ersetzt werden. #Heilbronn #Löwenstein #Motorrad #Fahrrad #Wandern #Imbiss
https://www.stimme.de/regional/landkreis-heilbronn/nachrichten/ost/neubau-loest-mobilen-kioskwagen-auf-der-loewensteiner-platte-ab-art-4717985

Heute Abend starten wir wohl ne Runde #GuildWars (Origin). Jemand Lust sich an zu schließen? Glaube wir sind noch vor #Löwenstein.

#Gaming

Anna Lowenstein - La Monato de Verkistoj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bssz-YT84
#esperanto #annalowenstein #lowenstein #video #intervjuo #ChelseaRaeMoses #jutubo #youtube

Anna Lowenstein - La Monato de Verkistoj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bssz-YT84
#esperanto #annalowenstein #lowenstein #video #intervjuo #ChelseaRaeMoses #jutubo #youtube