Posted by Kahis on 05-04-2011 19:38
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Zeegers wrote:
Here in the west, we are terrible in well developed quiet grasslands, which is the reasons that we are preforming so poor on Dexia, Prosena, Gonia (to a less extent) and species with similar habitat preference. This was not so bad some 50 years ago, I once pubished (in dutch) on the matter.
I think Siphona ingerae might fit in this picture (?), since it is a grassland species (?)
Just checked my own specimens of
S. ingerae and it isn't very demanding here. Maybe the common theme is small openings in forests (but then again, that describes pretty much every place in Finland that isn't not IN a forest :)). The localities include the lawn of my parents summer house, marsh/bog meadows under a power line surrounded by full grown spruce forest, a dry meadow/house garden, a small riverside meadow and the margin of a small wheat field in mixed forest. Nothing fancy at all.