Hi All Just thought I'd let you know that the new Amateur Entomologists' Society* Web site has now launched. The best way to discover what's there is to visit...
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lucylarwood
Apr 4, 2008 11:51 am
Hi, I would be grateful if you could help me identify these insects which I have seen on various blankets/curtains in my house (London, UK). I will upload a...
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Andy Chick
deviant_myotis
Apr 4, 2008 12:24 pm
Its the variated carpet beetle, they tend to feed on wool, dried skin (dust) and shed hairs, they dont bite, altho some people have a reaction to the hairs of...
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bty13988078
Apr 6, 2008 3:34 pm
Hi I have just found a flying bug in my garden, hovering above the edge of the pond, the like of which I have never seen before. The main body is approximately...
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lucylarwood
Apr 6, 2008 3:34 pm
Thanks a lot! Lucy ... skin (dust) ... to the ... the ... insects ... (London, ... have ... could ... but am...
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margaretgalliers
margaretgall...
Apr 6, 2008 3:34 pm
I'm looking to identify a bright red, soft bodied insect: roundish, 4mm 3 pairs of legs, feelers: a kind of indented pattern on its back. Moves quite slowly....
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Apr 6, 2008 3:58 pm
Hi Darryl, Assuming you're in the UK, it sounds like a Bee-fly (Bombylius major). HTH Malcolm...
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Matt Smith
matsmith60
Apr 6, 2008 3:58 pm
Hi Darrell I assume from your e-mail address you are in the UK somewhere. Your insect is probably a bee fly - most likely Bombylius major. It is a parasite...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Apr 6, 2008 4:02 pm
Hi Margaret, If you mean really BRIGHT red (like a strawberry) it might be a Silky Earthmite (Trombidium), but that's a guess! HTH Malcolm...
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D OSBORNE
bty13988078
Apr 6, 2008 9:12 pm
Thanks Malcolm I have had a look on Google and that is the one. Regards Darryl ... From: Malcolm Storey <malcolm.storey@...> To:...
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Margaret Galliers
margaretgall...
Apr 6, 2008 9:13 pm
Malcolm: thanks! I've never seen one before, but that's it: found an image at www.cirrusimage.com/Arachnid_velvet_mite.htm Interesting! Thanks again ...
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Gordon Jarvis
gordon1127
Apr 6, 2008 9:13 pm
Try lookijng at beeflies. They tend to look a bit triangular and when feeding at flowers have a long protruding tongue. There is the dark edged beefly and also...
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jeannie_luck
Apr 10, 2008 6:45 pm
My friend in coast in S E Englandsent me a photo of an insect we cannot identify. It was found 2 days after the snow. Is there somewhere i can add a photo for...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Apr 11, 2008 8:04 am
Good description. It's a Bee fly. Bombylius major. Malcolm...
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lank_ee@...
lank_ee
Apr 25, 2008 7:43 am
Hello We have found a number of these bugs in our kindergarten sand pit (please see pics), and not being able to find it on bug id website i thought i would...
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Andy Chick
deviant_myotis
Apr 25, 2008 10:50 am
its some form of scarb/chafer larvae, but with out know where in the world you are it will be hard to narrow it down...
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Matt Smith
matsmith60
Apr 25, 2008 11:31 am
Hi Iain I assume from your e-mail address you are in the UK somewhere. Is your kindergarden sandpit one that is sitting on the soil in some way, ie not a...
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Jean Michel Maes
jmmaes
Apr 27, 2008 10:53 pm
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chipschipschips2000
chipschipsch...
Apr 29, 2008 1:15 pm
Hi, I found this in E.Sussex The other day on sedge. It looks a bit like an alder fly, but don't think it is, any ideas? It is in the folder section Folder...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Apr 29, 2008 1:26 pm
Hi Dave, It's a Stonefly. HTH Malcolm...
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DaveMonkc@...
chipschipsch...
Apr 29, 2008 4:11 pm
Thanks, Malcolm. I think the amount of help you give me, you should move in next door. :) Maybe I could lend you a lawn mower or something. Dave...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Apr 29, 2008 4:17 pm
... Thanks for the offer but we have a meadow not a lawn. We've let the grass grow for the wildflowers for about 10 years now. First 8 years it was dominated...
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Jean Michel Maes
jmmaes
May 1, 2008 4:18 pm
VIII Latinoamerican Scarabaeoidology Meeting – RELAS Selva Negra – NICARAGUA 2008 Organized each 2 years, the Latinoamerican Scarabaeoidology Meeting are...
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Jean Michel Maes
jmmaes
May 1, 2008 9:44 pm
Dear friends, There is a mistake in the URL of Selva Negra Hotel, Nicaragua. The good one is as follow: http://www.selvanegra.com/es/Home-Resort.html ...
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Graeme Stroud
graemestroud
May 6, 2008 12:43 pm
Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me what this aquatic larva is please?
It was swimming around in a pond in North-West Kent (UK) and is
currently just over an inch...
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Kieren Pitts
kierenpitts
May 6, 2008 1:19 pm
Hi Graeme Looks like a larvae of one of the Hydrophilus species of water beetles to me. Cheers Kieren...
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Matt Smith
matsmith60
May 6, 2008 6:54 pm
Hi Graeme Best guess from the pics - it's a larva of Colymbetes fuscus, a very common species. It is certainly not a Hydrophilius larva - no gills down the...
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Jack Schmidling
arf60152
May 7, 2008 8:10 am
I am calling this a Wood Tick because it probably is but I do not see the white markings on any of the photos in the references that I have. js -- PHOTO OF THE...
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Ted A. Irving
tedirving
May 12, 2008 7:47 am
I posted two images in a new folder in the photo section called "Home Spider." It is located on the photo section at 1 - 16 of 125. I get these very tiny...
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tringland
May 13, 2008 10:21 pm
Helping me clear ivy from a lilac today, my son found a grey-brown stick like caterpillar on the move. It moved by bringing its end right up to its front pair...
