Worcestershire Record Articles from No. 52 2023

Averill, Mike – Dragonfly Roundup 2023 with a look back at Recent Changes p.8-10

Averill, Mike – The trials of providing a nesting box for Common Swifts Apus apus p.12-13

Bingham, John & Bingham, Denise – Invertebrate Notes for 2023 p. 21-24

Bingham, John – Slender Hares-ear Bupleurum tenuissimum at Hollybed Common, Malvern p. 55

Carter, Wendy – A record of the larvae of Box-tree Moth Cydalima perspectalis feeding on Holly Ilex aquifolium p.60

Farmer, Gary – Hishimonus diffractus first UK record confirmed p.32

Farmer, Gary – Stratiomys longicornis and Stratiomys singularior at Mill Bank Meadows pond, Fladbury, Worcestershire p. 31

Holmes, Peter – Mixed broods of Blue Tits and Great Tits in Langdale Wood, Malvern (SO7943) p.17

Holmes, Peter – Wintering Chiffchaffs in Worcestershire p.16-17

Jennings, Des – The Nationally Scarce Logjammer Hoverfly Chalcosyrphus eunotus makes an appearance at Upton Warren p.29-30

Knight, Terry – Searching for plant galls in south-east Worcestershire p.67-71

Martin, Graham – Funga p.66

Maskew, Roger – A post-war Worcestershire record for Marsh Helleborine Epipactis palustris p.57

McGee, Kevin & Whitehead, Paul – An unusual aberration in Harpalus attenuatus from Devil’s Spittleful, Worcestershire p. 33-34

McGee, Kevin – Aculeate Hymenoptera of Note 2023 p.26-28

McGee, Kevin – Coleoptera of note 2023 p.25

McGee, Kevin – Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes in our garden, June 2023 p.18

Metcalf, Mike – Ravens (Corvus corax) breeding in Worcestershire, 2023 update p.19-20

Muggleton, Wade – Boxing Clever, a combination of the provision of nesting boxes for raptors and appropriate grassland management p.14-15

Plant, Roger – An encounter with European Cave Spiders Meta sp. and their egg sacs, Worcestershire November 2023 p.6-7

Simpson, Tony – Death’s Head Hawk Moth Acherontia Atropos p.59

Simpson, Tony – Drab Wood-soldierfly Solva marginata (Meigen) p.32

Simpson, Tony – Gold-tailed Melitta Melitta haemorrhoidalis at Eastham SO66696850 p. 34

Simpson, Tony – Lyonetia prunifoliella, a new micromoth arrivial in VC37 Worcestershire p.35-36

Simpson, Tony – One advantage of living with Hornets Vespa crabro p.36

Taylor, Carol – Recorders’ Field Meetings 2023 p.75-78

Wadsworth, Oliver – Further notes on the flea weevil Pseudorchestes pratensis (Germar, 1821) on Windmill Hill p.37

Warr, Andy – Unusual behaviour of egg-laying of Willow Emerald Damselfly Chalcolestea viridis p.11

Watson, Will – Freshwater Molluscs in the River Severn at Yew View in 2023 and notes on some invasive species in the area p.72-74

Westmoreland, Diana – Worcestershire Wildlife Sightings 2023 Update p.61-65

Westwood. Brett – Logjammers in Worcestershire, observations of Chalcosyrphus eunotus p.29

Westwood, Brett – False Cleavers Galium spurium in Worcestershire 2022, the lure of the obscure p. 56-57

Westwood, Brett – Forked Catchfly Silene dichotoma at three sites in Worcestershire 2022-2023 p.58-59

Westwood, Brett – Lesser-streaked Sheildbug Odontoscelis lineola at Blackstone Meadows, new to Worcestershire p.41

Whitehead, Paul F. – Distinguishing female Pityogenes Bedel, 1888 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) of the chalcographus group sensu Pfeffer 1995 p.43-44

Whitehead, Paul – A correction to the published record of Atheta boletophila in Worcestershire with notes on its ecology p.40

Whitehead, Paul – Amblystomus niger (Heer, 1841) (Coleoptera, Carbide) new to the British Isles, with reference to Dorset windblown assemblages p.45-50

Whitehead, Paul – An aberrant female Philonthus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Birlingham, Worcestershire p. 42-43

Whitehead, Paul – Ash to ashes, dust to dust p.54

Whitehead, Paul – Escarpment crags on Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, as hibernacula for Hymenoptera with particular reference to Ichneumonidae p.51-53

Young, Jean & Farmer, Gary – Notes on a Dictynidae spider Nigma puella in Worcestershire p.38-39