Hi All Recently back in London from two weeks in Mallorca it was nice to see some sun today so I had a short walk in King George's Park, Wandsworth. Saw...
The large bumble bee mimics are always an exciting find I think, and I thought I had a form of Volucella bombylans here ... but it doesn't seem to match up...
It is probably merodon equestris, but I can't see from the photo whther there is a ventral projection on the hind femur (very obvious in a specimen under a...
Thank you Peter, you are no doubt correct. I see that one of the colour forms of Merodon has a black thorax like this one, although it doesn't match up exactly...
In my garden yesterday ( - this is Greg, Rhona's husband, speaking. ) I've just created an album, labelled "GT & RFN's Pictures small wildlife" - so they...
For those who attended and are interested a full list of the moths from the Horsenden Hill trap (ran on 27th June for the LNHS walk at Horsenden on 28th) can...
Do we have any collecting stag beetle records for our area? Dan Hackett used to do it but seems to have retired. For some reason people have started sending...
Hello everyone, Apologies because it's not a great picture - taken on the night (July 4 Tower Hamlets Cemetery), in a pot, artificial light - but I've put a ...
... Hello Russell, I can't make it out from the photos, but I wonder if these might be new queen ants dispersing from a colony in the tree ? I think it is the...
The fly looks like a phasine tachinid, with some superficial similarity to male Cistogaster globosa or Gymnosoma rotundatum (much larger)and G. nitens (very...
Hello everyone, I've had a query via the 'contact us' email link on the LNHS website regarding the status of this insect in London - generally and specifically...
There is a 1998 record of a dead Xylocopa violacea found by David Miller at Walthamstow which I identified and is in the Essex database of county records of...
Hi Peter, Thanks very much for your help - I was hoping you'd been involved in the Walthamstow record and could provide the detail. Mission accomplished, I...
Dear Keir Pity about no new record for Xylocopa. Ceratina cyanea at Walthamstow is very unlikely (but not entirely impossible). It likes drought/nutrient ...
A friend sent me some photos of a curiosity. The photos are of a Silver-spotted Skipper taken in the Kent Downs, and appear to show a fungi (a proper...
Mick, you've surpassed yourself with this one! A quick look at Spooner & Roberts' 'Fungi' New Naturalist, which is a mine of information for offbeat fungal...
Mick and Keir I have had a look at photos I have taken of Silver spotted skipper in Kent (Lydden) and it seems to be a common phenomenon. I suspect that it...
hello, i've just posted a photo of a pink grasshopper i happened across on a cornish coastal walk last week, in the queries section of the photos folder. i...
Many grasshoppers come in a great variety of colours, and so you can't use colour to identify them. I'd say this was Chorthippus brunneus, the Field...
A breeding colony of Nezara viridula found just north of Wandle Meadow Nature Reserve yesterday(21/9/08). No adults but mainly last-instar nymphs (black and...
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A breeding colony of Nezara viridula found just north of Wandle Meadow Nature Reserve yesterday(21/9/08). No adults but mainly last-instar nymphs (black and...
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