As I returned across the bridge to the car, there was a Red Headed Cardinal Beetle on the right, Pyrochroa serraticornis,
And there was also a froghopper, Cercopis vulnerata, a rather well advertised vegetarian that I have fairly regularly if only occasionally spotted, including down by the gravel pits. This is one of the UK's largest homopterans, the adults of which (in a variety of colour forms) are found pretty well everywhere South of the Scottish Highlands. Its larvae are rarely found, as they normally feed on underground plant roots.
And there was also a froghopper, Cercopis vulnerata, a rather well advertised vegetarian that I have fairly regularly if only occasionally spotted, including down by the gravel pits. This is one of the UK's largest homopterans, the adults of which (in a variety of colour forms) are found pretty well everywhere South of the Scottish Highlands. Its larvae are rarely found, as they normally feed on underground plant roots.
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