Hi, ... shiney ... Someone has said it may be a Rose Chafer but after looking at pics of one i can say its definatley not a little green bug. Any ideas? Thanx....
This might be another one for you Malcolm,
The first picture with the smaller, black larva, I took last year and you identified it as the aquatic larva of the...
Hi Graeme, I'd guess it was the same. Stick it in a jar with a bit of wet mud and a stick for the adult to climb up. Cover the top and see what emerges! ...
Hi, got interested watching moths around the lights on our terrace, did not realise they were so interesting, and agressive, any suggestions on the best way to...
Hi David, tonight is national moth night in the UK - we count them and try to identify them and pass the findings on to relevant organisations here in the UK....
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I saw this creature yesterday (Sunday 8th June) on an outing near Scunthorpe. It'd behavious was very Bee like, flitting from flower to flower - collecing...
Hello I still stand by that it is a hoverfly. The wing veneration shows the false margin that hoverflies have. I can't see the false vein though. I am not ...
It is the hoverfly Eristalinus sepulchralis Matt davidfromscunny <david.peter.smith@...> wrote: I saw this creature yesterday (Sunday 8th June) on an...
WISLEY, the Royal Horticultural Society's HQ situated just off the A3/M25 junction (J10) in Surrey, England, has had an entomology department for over 100...
Hello I photogrpahed the attached in a boggy area alongside tidal mudflats in North Kent. Can anyone suggest what it might be. It was stuck to the leaf and...
I have managed to get around making my album if any one want to look at it,it is called Tony,s i have taken all the photos in my garden , i will put names to...
Hi The black and white striped thing on the righ side is the silk coccon of some sort of parasitic ichneumon wasp. Quite a few species make attractive striped...
Hi, I love spiders but I am having difficulty identifying this species. It measures 5mm in length with 4 sets of eyes. Buff/Fawn coloured with speckled back....
Spotted this walking around a loch in north Scotland a few days ago. I heard it before I saw it as it had a very loud clicky noise to its wing beats. About...
Hi BTY, It's a sawfly of the genus Trichiosoma. T. tibiale(Hawthorn Sawfly) is the only one I've seen: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P5/P54281.php The other...
This most curious insect was found chomping on an eggplant in the garden. It appears at first to be a large scale insect until it starts walking around or...
Hi I have posted a fly for identification here: Photos \ 1 For Identification I think it is Nephrotoma flavescens, would anyone care to comment/confirm? ...
Would this insect taken at MV light in Black Park (Buckinghamshire) be Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha)? http://freespace.virgin.net/david.howdon/cock_1.jpg ...
http://www.surrounded.org.uk/QD/bug.jpg Terrible quality picture I know, sorry. The colours are awful, so I'll describe a little. The bug was around 5 inches...
Hi I found a very odd looking bug in Clinton New Jersey. It looks like a cross between a wasp and dragon fly. The body is long and thin. It has a head and...
It seems to be the only ones flying to light this spring.I got 6 in my moth trap last week...and no moths ( again). bw, Blanca On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:11 PM,...