Yes! You read it correctly. There are scores of them in a 500g bag of "Cerrato" brand organic chickpeas bought in Waitrose about three months ago with a...
Hi Shaun, sounds like members of the family of Bruchidae, or seed-beetles. If this is the case, it's not because of poor storage conditions, as these beetles...
Ad my last post, more unlikely it also could be the Khafra beetle. But this bugger fits less to your description, as it is a bit smaller & has a bigger...
Rudiger, I thank you for both your comments. I should have added in my description that the insect has wings. The wings work like those on a ladybird in that...
Hi Shaun, both suggested options have wings & can fly. I still believe you have seed-beetles in there, but if you wanna be sure about your specimens, just send...
If anyone can help I would be very grateful. We, or should I say my little boy, found a new bug this year in our garden, its mainly on the fence but its also...
You do not say where you are from which makes attempting to identify this thing difficult.
What size is it?
Could it be a pupa of a ladybird.
persia_elvis...
Sounds like a ladybird pupa. Keep an eye on it and you might see the ladybird which emerges. After emergence they usually stay within a few inches for an hour...
Ruediger I followed "seed-beetle" through Google and have seen a picture of my bug. That's good enough for me. I am not an entymologist. I just want to be able...
I bought my 7-yr-old daughter a stick insect which I was told may be an Indian. I've never owned one before. I bought her about 4 weeks ago but she has become...
Hi my friends found this wierd bug in thier flat I have posted a picture in my album called - chrissy's wierd bug. If anyone knows what it is please help, it...
Hi there It's a cranefly or daddy long legs. There arn't many species with reds and yellows on them like your picture, so I would go for a female Ctenophora...
Hi There, thanks for your reply helped solve our mystery! stefaan brinckman <stefaanbrinckman@...> wrote: hallo, looks like a tipulid species (daddy...
Hi, I've just uploaded a couple of pictures to an album Spanish Battery Bug. (The battery is for size comparison.) The bug committed hari-kiri in my pool...
Hello, thanks for your reply really helped solve our mystery, how do you mean a good record? who do we tell? Chrissy Matt Smith <matsmith60@...> wrote: ...
I have posted three photos of a bug we saw last summer in south Lincolnshire. It makes a loud grasshopper like sound by rubbing its leg onto its abdomen. it...
The Cranefly recording scheme is run by Alan Stubbs, details from the Biological Records Centre are : TAXONOMIC GROUP (ENGLISH) craneflies TAXONOMIC...
Looks like a House Cricket Acheata domestica. These are the things sold in pet shops as live food for reptiles etc. Colonies are are occasionaly found in the...
Someone posted a touching account of a stick insect that among other problems, lost a leg. It is my understanding that they re-grow limbs when lost so if the...
I have kept Indian Walking sticks before and still do, just recently receiving more eggs from a friend. If your bug has matured, she has probably laid eggs,...
http://www.small-life.co.uk/index.html only if you are in the UK, they won't ship to me in the U.S. : ( Catherine ... other ... other ... experience ... ...
Does anyone know what a grasshopper might eat? Charestics: Green all over Full body not legs 1cm Back leg length 1cm Full body w/ legs 1.75cm I found it on my...
Hi, I moved to a beautiful apartment with hardwood floors on the 31st floor in NYC about 3 months ago. It's clean, I live alone and I do not have pets, but I...
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