Country diary: A beetle with a prehensile anus? Thanks to local wildlife recorders, I know one lives here | Insects
Even before we start a Wildwatch recording morning, Carys May of the West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre has made two identifications: an intimidating dark giant horsefly (Tabanus sudeticus) with huge eyes close together and a notch-horned cleg or horsefly (Haematopota pluvialis), which bit me.As we walk through Pencoedtop, a former conifer plantation now being restored to moorland … Read more