I held back some images of a sawfly that I photographed at Murvagh on Sunday to see if I could get an identification. I managed to get it successfully to Tenthredidae, but could get no closer than that. I have now had confirmation from Hungary that it is the grass-feeding
Tenthredopsis nassata:
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| The sawfly Tenthredopsis nassata |
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| The sawfly Tenthredopsis nassata
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| The sawfly Tenthredopsis nassata
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Not the best photographs I have ever taken (all on manual focus, since it was flitting from one grass to another very quickly), but a very handsome beast nevertheless. 15mm long from nose to tail (and probably an egg-laying female, since you can just make out the 'saw' in the last photograph).
I also took time to update my
Species Index, which now contains 1430 species, an increase of 29 since this date last year.
