Hi, I need a pen pal outside of the U.S.A. for a school project. If anyone is interested, please E-Mail me at mantidave@.... I collect and preserve dead...
Hi Reg, I live in Arizona and volunteer at a Monarch pavillion locally. Are you sure it was a Monarch? There are many species that are regularly mistaken for...
Hi Dave, Thanks for replying. No, there is absolutely no doubt that they are Monarchs - I have seen them flying on all the main Canary Islands on holidays...
i want help by sending data about about the affects of fungus on tribolim sp. or bugs or affects of Bacillus thuringiensis on tribolium sp. or bugs thnk you...
I live in Central Florida, (Port St Lucie) and lately I have seen a lot of brown colored walking sticks. I am haveing trouble finding information about them. I...
Here is a site that has more info on Walkingsticks... http://www.whatsthatbug.com/walking_stick.html It states that walkingsticks do bite. Some species even...
Hey, try this link photog, it has a lot of information on it: http://www.bugsincyberspace.com/phasmids.html ... From: photogz1x Sent: Saturday, November 06,...
dont worry photog! the walking sticks in your area dont spit venom and they are veggie eaters so their mouth parts are different than other insects, they do...
Hi Photog, If your son is interested in Stick Insects when he is older there is an excellent book for beginners, title "Rearing and Studying Stick and...
I was wondering if anyone could help me with some resaerch that I am carrying out looking at insects using exotic/introduced plants species in the UK. Ideally...
Hello Ted, What about Elephant Hawk moths and Fuchsia/Himalayan Balsam/Virginia Creeper? Death's Head Hawk Moths on potatoes? In fact, I should think many...
Can anyone help me, I was out walking in a beech wood last weekend and my son found a very large mass of small ( about 1-2cm long) light grey lava. They were...
Just spent a couple weeks in Central America. While in the Belizean mountains - near San Ignacio - I spotted the oddest looking bug I've ever laid eyes on. Not...
I WILL MAKE THIS SHORT AS POSSIBLE A BUG RECENTLY IN MY HOME I FOUND. THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT IS TO SAY IT LOOKS LIKE A HAIRY MAGGOT IT HAS LEGS ONLY IN...
Hi Ted, Buddleia can also be host to the several Cionus beetles that normally feed on Mullein or Figwort. There's an AES publication: "Hostplants of British...
Is it possible to get a digital picture (the more the better)? There are many things jit could be. It sounds like some sort of larvae (not adult) but, like I...
Hi Chris I found pretty much the same thing as few weeks ago, also just under the surface of the leaf litter in a beech wood. My initial thought were that...
Hi Chris, Sounds like Biobio larvae (Diptera - True Flies, Bibionidae). http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P4/P41957.HTM These overwinter in aggregations as you...
Hi I've been trying to identify this wasp like insect I found in our house in England. It was about 25mm long with wings and it made the most horrible smell,...
hi, i had similiar bugs in my house this summer and was lost also, however i discovered they were the larvae of a carpet beetle, there are differentt types of...
I have just posted a photo to Files/Identity4 section called 'beetlespp' as an associate of mine has an excellent photo of a beetle filmed at the Singapore...
Just had a look at the file 'Identity2', British insects. The first one is definitely a plume moth, (nice picture!) The second one is a female stag beetle and...
Hi all, This is certainly an unusual bug - one of the Entomologists at the Oxford University Museum(UK) has identified it as a fulgorid bug (Homoptera: ...
Reg, As it happens I got an email from Dr. Jean-Michel Maes of El Museo Entomologico in Nicaragua with the same information. So thanks for the confirmation and...
Oh, guess it was named after all...and that photo definitely looks to be the same creature. Great catch Reg. "Planthopper" seems such a mundane name for...
Hi Jared/all, The praise for the identification should really go to Darren at the OUM, but I did have to post it elsewhere to get a reply. Another one of the...
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