While on a winter Invertebrate course held by London Wildlife Trust (Sydenham Hill Wood Project) & former Horniman Muesum Natural History Keeper Dr Jim Brock...
On this theme … I had a queen Wasp in my kitchen on 24th December, a Lacewing fly in my conservatory, about 10th January, and a Bombus (probably) lucorum...
Can anyone confirm the identity of this shield bug for me. My suggested ID is indicated on http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/temp_key.html
Picture at...
I think you've got it right David, but it hasn't developed it's full coloration, which is much darker in my experience. The shoulder shape is not quite clear...
Thanks Mick. It did darken up a bit further subsequently. I'm reasonably confident of P rufipes now. Thanks.
mick massie wrote:
> I think you've got it...
I continue to be interested in winter activity of bumblebees (I am doing a project about it at Birkbeck). As there seems to be a cold spell coming along (It...
A beetle which I found last night in Perivale Wood (TQ 18 - Middx [VC21]) on a dead elm trunk which had been painted with 'sugar' (whether that has anything...
Yes, David, one of the Carabidae looking like an Agonum sp. *but* it's getting rather late and I'm still under the weather! Others may have ideas, otherwise...
Not at the moment but I have retained the specimen so I can try to get one (but that is pretty much getting to the limits of the functionality of my camera)....
Yes, one of the characters is clear: the final section of the palp is very small/narrow so the beetle is a Bembidion. The sides of the pronotum are rounded,...
Thanks for these comments I will try to look at these features myself
and see what I think and then get some more photos - although it is now
likely to be next...
Well, you picked about the worst genus to identify - at all, let alone on photos! I'll be happy (not quite sure that's the right word) to look at the...
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There is a pan-European field study of chalcid wasps being co- ordinated in France by a researcher called Alain Roques. He is asking for people to harvest and...
From the descriptions you provided I think it is B. obtusum. However not being confident in my ID skills for beetles I will put the beetle in the post for...
The incomparable Gavin Hawgood is leading us to on a field trip in early June to see some fabulous butterflies - only 3 months to go. He has asked that I...
Apologies for cross-posting but I think it's possible that this could appeal to a wide range of members. Butterfly Conservation's latest overview of UK...
White-letter Hairstreak The situation in London can only be a part of the national picture for this species. However taking the LNHS recording area, there was...
Lots seen today. In our garden ... 7-spot, 14-spot and Pine ladybirds, the latter two on the Tiawan Pine. Earlier I spotted the first Bombus Lapidarius I've...
Hi Everyone, Today while at Beddington Sewage farm a Clouded Yellow flew past. Is this a very early migrant or could it be an over wintering one? Thanks...
Dear All, No Clouded Yellows seen yet, although Red Admirals clearly did survive the winter in some numbers. Sightings of single Ischnura elegans (Wandle Park...
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First wasp of the year to my moth trap.
From the wasp ID pictures I have (some pdf-ed images that have now disappeared from the web plus the few species in...
Almost a dead cert for Vespula vulgaris. It would be very early indeed for Dolichovespula and this would be much less likely in a garden (where I am guessing...
Thanks. Will have to try to get that British Wildlife from a library somewhere.
Peter Harvey wrote:
> Almost a dead cert for Vespula vulgaris. It would be...
Dear All, A Hummingbird Hawk Moth visited one of my local South Norwood patches yesterday morning (Whitehorse Meadow - TQ3368), an unexpected (by me!) inland...
As Hummingbird hawk moths have been reported this year from as early as January and February (according to Buglife colleagues), it would seem probable that...
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