05 Sunday Apr 2026
Tags
British weevils, gorse, gorse flower, Gorse weevil, Spring colour, weevil on Gorse flower, yellow flowers
Short and sweet today – just a Gorse weevil (because they’re tiny and cute and always busy) on a Gorse flower (because they’re so wonderfully golden and sunny and cheering, even on the greyest day).
07 Thursday Apr 2022
Woot! This teeny tiny beastie is my first weevil of 2022, as you can probably guess from the yellow flower it’s sitting on, a Gorse weevil (Exapion ulicis). I’ve read that they usually feed by poking their snout (properly known as a rostrum) into gorse stems and seeds but this one had its snout so firmly inserted into the flower that it looked like it would almost tip over.
11 Thursday May 2017
Tags
gorse, gorse flower, Gorse shieldbug, Gorse shieldbug eggs, insect eggs, Piezodorus lituratus, shieldbug
They say ‘Good things come in small packages’ and you couldn’t get much smaller than these tiny packages, the eggs of the Gorse shieldbug (Piezodorus lituratus) sitting on a gorse flower in Lavernock Reserve. I’ll be heading back soon to try to find the hatchlings.
