Good luck to you all, sorry I can't be there because there are some very interesting beetles listed for these sites. Not too easy to identify in the hand but...
For some reason I'm not managing to find a nice website that illustrates the difference between these two. Is this a female stag beetle or a lesser stage...
Morning David, I think the orange mark is not relevant - this ocurs on many beetles when the pronotum is stretched forward revealing the articular surface...
A ladybird from Perivale Wood (TQ1583) this weekend. http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/lady.jpg About 4mm long. I think it is 10 spot ladybird (Adalia...
As you say, David, too small for H. quadripunctata which also tends to have a double row of smaller spots on the pronotum rather than the single row of A....
Dear David, You are correct - this is indeed a typical form Ten-spot, as illustrated on plate 1 of Roger Hawkins' 'Ladybirds of Surrey'. With best wishes, ...
David Element
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Apr 23, 2006 8:47 pm
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FYI, I'm appending some information about invertebrates here, in the hope that it will give some useful background.. See below ... Notes re. Joining London...
G. Tingey Your Pulmonaria visitors sound like the bee, Anthophora plumipes, the female is black + this species favours Pulmonaria in the garden. The male ...
Dear G Tingey You will find illustrations of Anthophora plumipes here: http://www.david.element.ukgateway.net/hymenoptera10flowerbee.htm and here: ...
David Element
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Apr 25, 2006 6:12 pm
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Thanks Paul and David for the ID confirmation. ... -- David Howdon (http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. ...
Yes, it is ..... I've just seen several of them going for the flowers on my Clematis alpina - but, perhaps more interesting, there is a large Bombus pascuorum...
Two Cream-streaked on the P. taiwanensis, again, lots of 2-and-7-spots, and another (?) pair of Pine Ladyb's on the Sage. BTW, I've got 4 Harmonia's in a...
No response to this one on the hets group so I'll try here. http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/bug.jpg http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/bug_2.jpg...
Dear David, Further illustrations of this species (shown from a different angle than the 'Shieldbugs of Surrey' pictures), a nymph and several close relatives...
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Apr 26, 2006 8:16 pm
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I have recently noticed large numbers of bright yellow egg clusters in some of the places where I normally see Harmonia axyridis, the Harlequin ladybird. They...
All ladybird (at least Coccellini) eggs look much the same until you get to scanning electron microscope level ... and much the same as most other beetles.......
Good question, last year we were sending them to Peter Brown for his and Majerus' genetic and microbiological studies. However, they got rather overwhelmed at...
That was meant to be Coccinellini, of course. These could well be ladybid eggs and, if so, likely to be haxy - as commital as I'm going to get. Paul ... get to...
I have a response from on high. Majerus has more than enough samples for his genetics. I am interested in inert ladybirds (imagines or pupae) which might be...
Two large green shield-Bugs, mating on the Pinus taiwanensis .. A good day for hover flies, as well .. GT [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
(I think that's the correct spelling) I've uploaded a picture under this name in the 'Ladybirds' photo album. This, not brilliant, picture shows a 7-spot...
See http://danielmorgan.blogspot.com/2006/04/circus-of-spineless-8.html As you can see, this is number 8. A different site hosts successive editions. Enjoy! GT...
The spider looks like Dysdera sp. but there are two closely related species , D.crocata and D erythrina, and you could only distinguish them under the...
edward milner wrote: Thanks for the response. From the Collins field guide to spiders there is a size difference between D crocota and D erythrina with female...
Dear David, Yes I agree. I hadn't noticed you'd indicated the size in your message! It's spelt crocata normally, though I see Roberts gives both spellings. ...
The size is only applicable to adults, and the difference is not reliable identification feature. However your spider is almost certainly Dysdera crocata. D....
Interesting. But I am musing on the implicationds of 'but' in 'Dragonflies and damselflies look beautiful, but they are predators. . . I see no conflict...
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