Peter/Arnold, Many thanks for these suggestions. I shall experiment and post any results here! Regards, Dafydd ... This is quite time consuming and you have to...
Hi Dafydd/all Have just come back from a week in Bournemouth. Not much time for bug hunting but I did manage to find a couple of species I was interested in ...
Hi all, I wonder if it is worth e-mailing details of updates to the 'early stage' pictures on either the forum Photos area or on the website? There have been...
I just took a look at these - I don't think I'd registered how these were being collated on that website! I have some of the species illustrated right now, the...
Hello, Are there any observations or evidence of the Sweet Violet being a successful food plant for any butterflies please? Best evidence would be successful...
Hi all, After inspecting loads of Elephant Hawks from the trap over the last couple of years to try and find a female my neighbours cat caught one a few days ...
Some of my Early Thorn larvae are still munching away on hawthorn, although some have pupated. When I went to check them this evening I was surprised to see...
Hello All, Yesterday I have caught moth sin the Netherlands with a sheet and three 250 Watt ML bulbs in a Nature Reserve. That night I caught 61 Deilephila...
Hi Dafydd/all I have just had a couple of Large Thorns (Ennomos autumnaria) hatch out (early) and paired up last night. They also have 'thorns' a pair together...
Hi all, Apologies to those who get this from two forums... No - this is about lepidoptera eating habits not ours! This is another area which is interesting to...
Mosses, especially Sphagnum, contain gentle natural anti-fungal agents. You rarely see a mouldy moss! (although a few fungi specialise in growing on them) ...
Hi all, Has been a fairly poor year so far for ova laid on the garden aspen, sallow and birch etc. Main species have been Pebble and Pale Prominent, Poplar...
Hi Reg My garden list continues to grow with a couple more breeding species added this year in Muslin Moth and Honeysuckle Moth. The finding of Honeysuckle...
Hi Paul, It is amazing what is around when you have a really good look. My main disappointment this year is that the larvae from two Poplar Kitten eggs found...
From my earlier e-mail when I reported very low numbers of moths, things have now done a complete U-turn, with record numbers, and the trap (MV) being full...
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Hi Dafydd/all That's a coincidence, a friend of mine brought a very similar looking (identical?) batch of eggs he found on aspen a few days ago. Unfortunately...
Hi all, Apologies for cross posting. As it hasn't been mentioned on here recently, just a reminder that as part of National Insect Week (this week) we are all ...
Hi Dafydd/Reg/all They look like shieldbugs to me. Keep them a few days and you'll be able to see the egg teeth, big triangular structure which is shed as soon...
Reg/Malcolm - many thanks for the hemipteran egg ID - new to me. I look forward to them hatching. Hardly a day goes by without some new entomological...
Dafydd We could all do the cinnabar survey tho - had quite a few in the trap as well as those flying by day... With the new laws on controlling ragwort (the...
Reg - Thanks for that, yes, I didnt click on the Cinnabar survey!! I'll be doing that, although I cant remember seeing ragwort anywhere round here. Still, that...
... On the Ragwort issue. The campaign against Ragwort is based on hysteria. It really is. I have done a pretty thorough literature search on this to study the...
I moved some Mottled Umber and other pupae today into an unventilated container. I tend to remove them from any cocoon or leaf coverings once they have had a...
Hi Dafydd They must be parasitoid wasps but I think the experts will need to know a bit more info to speculate what family they are classified in. What size ...
Dafydd - check the message archive for messages from Mathew Smith & Mark Shaw - early May I think it was - I think Mark is the hymenoptera man Richard ... ...
Hi all As a follow up to the note below I have nine Elephant Hawk larvae feeding up well. One interesting note is that following the last skin change 2 of them...
Hi Andy - I used Goat Willow (Salix caprea). Although this grows pretty large in the wild, most garden centres sell a variety known as 'Salix caprea ...
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