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Saturday 21 April 2018

White Holme, 21st April 2018

I went up hoping for emperor moths, without luck, though did get some other good stuff, including the beetle Carabus nitens, something I've been dying to see for years, green tiger beetles and my first wimberry bumblebee (Bombus monticola) at this location.




Cheers, Chris
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4 comments:

  1. Dave Franz21 April 2018 at 21:48

    Nice one with the Carabus nitens.

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  2. ChrisJB22 April 2018 at 12:09

    Cheers Dave. Thanks to your directions and a bit of persistence I got it in the end!

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  3. Steve Blacksmith26 April 2018 at 22:18

    Whinberry - the name for Bilberry in Lancashire. The Winberry Bumblebee might be more familiar as the Bilberry Bumblebee to some Yorkshire readers.

    Though we live right at the boundary of change in common name, it then applies all down the west of Britain. I was curious as a small boy about my Grandmother in South Wales using it when we and large parties of friends and neighbours would go up "the mountain" (all the hilltops were "the mountain") to gather what they called whinberries in late summer.

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  4. ChrisJB27 April 2018 at 22:26

    Some literature says that they are called 'whinberries' in Lancs and elsewhere. But I've never heard that used local to me, but 'wimberry' widely so. I never refer to them as bilberry bumblebees as I never refer to wimberry as bilberry. Bombus monticola would avoid any potential confusion though. 😉

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