Interesting. IS it known what the mechanism is that leads to there being more spotless ones in summer. Is it heat on the larval stages? Or is it that the...
Don't know! I expect it's something as you suggest; I don't know of other ladybird species in which the pattern is subject to environmental as well as genetic...
Following Neil's find of an excellent specimen of this moth on the Botany fieldtrip to Riddlesdown quarry yesterday, does anyone know if that's a first for the...
Hi Keir Graham Collins book Larger Moths of Surrey gives a more detailed map and account of the records and states that it "seems to be currently restricted to...
Hi All While using the Recycling Bins outside my Block Of Flats in Forest Hill, London SE23, A Jersey Tiger Moth was sun basking on the large metal bin using...
Hi All While using the Recycling Bins outside my Block Of Flats in Forest Hill, London SE23, A Jersey Tiger Moth was sun basking on the large metal bin using...
I suspect many of you know that 23rd September is National Moth Night More information here - http://www.nationalmothnight.info/ )
On that evening from 7pm...
A few more ladybird ID queries.
http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/q_haxy_larva.jpg is I think the larva of Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis)....
Yes, probably, yes and yes - haxy. Actually the first one might be considered a 'probably' - the only really similar species to haxy is the sibling Harmonia ...
paul_mabbott wrote:
> Yes, probably, yes and yes - haxy.
> Actually the first one might be considered a 'probably' - the only > really similar species to haxy...
I have also posted the following message on the main LNHS members forum: Although there is nothing to show yet on the web, I have been liaising behind the...
A couple of interesting beetle sightings from Marcel Ashby - I don't think he's on this group but gets some good things in his moth trap. He's apparently taken...
this was in my last light trap. Is it a beetle or a bug nymph Alison ... From: paul_mabbott To: London-nhs-invertebrates@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,...
Paul, Very few Harlequins seen recently, although I did find a cluster of pupae on a tree trunk on Parkside on the opposite side of the road to Wimbledon ...
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The place to look for Harlequins at the moment may be the lower trunks of mature Sycamores, on which there were larvae, pupae and exuviae (together with one...
Had large numbers of 7 spots in my garden (Ongar, Essex) this year - they were everywhere (til I eventually cut the lawn and did a bit of weeding!)....
I'm afraid I agree with the earlier posters. I've seen very few ladybirds recently in my garden. A couple of 7-spot, and about 3 weeks ago, a 22-spot. That's...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickmassie/246340744/ We've got this distinctive bug clustering in our garden at the moment, on Hibiscus seed heads and also on...
This looks to me suspicially like nymphs of Nezara viridula, the Southern Green Shield Bug, a species that has been found in several locations in London...
Hi, There is a very good website on Shieldbugs and the picture of the 3rd instar Southern Green Shield Bug looks very similar to your picture. The website is ...
Hello, We found this beetle on the ground at Beddington today. It looks like a Chrysolina but it is not any I have met before. The closest thing I could find...
This could well be Chrysolina banksi, which is associated with Black Horehound Ballota nigra, but I would not advise identifying chrysomelids from pictures!...
For those who attended (and those who did not but are interested) here is the species list from this event. There are several micros (and one caterpillar)...
An apparently US-type Christian group have set up shop in the UK, determined to peddle lies to schoolchildren. See .. http://www.truthinscience.org.uk...
For those who attended (and for those just generally interested) a picture of the caterpillar found in Perivale Wood on National Moth Night (23rd Sept) is at...
To all you clever people out there, please take a look at these objects, found attached to the top of Juncus stems in Richmond Park. They have the appearance...
Does anyone know the status of the lacewing we found on Tuesday at the Bonesgate stream in Chessington (see album). Ian Menzies says he has found them at...
If it helps: It would seem from a search of Zoo Record that there are quite a few papers on this lacewing in the UK, including several from Surrey, but none...
