Weevils, beetles and a Marsh Snipe fly

Discovered another weevil, and there were lots of them if you looked very closely, that I have never seen before on the latest trip to Blashford Lakes nature reserve, this time a Cionus hortulanus weevil, which is found on the Figwort plant just like the more aptly named Figwort Weevil (Cionus hortulanus). These little fellows are approx 4mm in body length.

Here is a selection of images.

I also came across another first for me a Black-clouded Longhorn Beetle (Leiopus nebulosus).

The other finds were.

A Black-and-yellow Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata), both a profile shot and an extreme face on close up

and lastly this Marsh Snipefly (Rhagio lineola) decided it would also sit around for another extreme face on close up.

All of the photo’s in this post are taken with the Olympus EM5 using flash diffusion and the Olympus 90mm F2 macro lens fitted onto the auto extension tube 65-116.

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