Hi, I confess that I'm completely stumped about what I just witnessed today. I found a grounded swift in my garden (a rarity in its own right for me). My...
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Graeme Stroud
graemestroud
Sep 17, 2010 6:22 am
Nice story Chewfish - I've never seen a grounded swift. Well I think your swift was in a pretty bad way by the sound of it - as you know they never ground...
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docrogers911
Sep 17, 2010 11:50 am
im researching the effects of ultrasonic frequencies and their effects on insects (and spiders). i have found some existing research that suggests ants can be...
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sudhakar.patel36
sudhakar.pat...
Sep 18, 2010 8:48 am
Hi, I've got these insects crawling round my house. They are up to 3mm long. Elongated oval or shield shaped. Quite flat. They have a white/cream strip across...
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chewfish
Sep 18, 2010 10:57 am
I think that's the very devil! Excellent detective work Graeme, many thanks indeed!...
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Jean Michel Maes
jmmaes
Sep 18, 2010 10:57 am
Looks like a parasitic fly. Hippoboscidae or something like that. Sincerely, JM Dr. Jean-Michel MAES MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO AP 527 LEON NICARAGUA tel...
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terenceeden
Sep 19, 2010 10:15 pm
Found this in Woking, Surrey, UK. http://twitpic.com/2q3hd7 Would have taken a better photo - but it was freaking my wife out. Ok... I was a little freaked...
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David Howdon
davidhowdon
Sep 19, 2010 10:26 pm
Pretty difficult to make out in that photo but perhaps it is one of the Bush Crickets. Try Meconema thallasiniuim for a starter. ... -- David Howdon...
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Graeme Stroud
graemestroud
Sep 20, 2010 6:15 am
Hi Terence, It's definitely a female bush cricket. Looks from the photo like the speckled bush cricket Leptophyes punctatissima, but if your size estimate is...
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markj
mulattokid
Sep 20, 2010 11:32 am
Hmm It should be an Oak Bush Cricket, but it looks different somehow.... Dark green instead of emeral, plump upper limbs and body and casting a determind...
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terenceeden
Sep 20, 2010 11:32 am
Thanks for the replies. From looking at the pictures, it was almost certainly Leptophyes punctatissima. Mind you, I would have said it was much larger than...
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bel
bellebridgen
Sep 21, 2010 9:03 am
Hi Mark It was found whist on holiday in the Greek Island of Zante / Zakynthos. It did indeed have wings as it was the the 'brrrrrrrrr' sound that initiallty...
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Graeme Stroud
graemestroud
Sep 21, 2010 12:57 pm
Is anyone able to tell me what's happening here? I found this wingless female moth with its eggs on my garden fence yesterday. I'm assuming this is a vapourer...
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Jim Jahelka
jjahelka@...
Sep 21, 2010 1:04 pm
Found in Wichita KS, USA, while inspecting for bed bugs at my home. There were several of these (but no bedbugs) between layers of plastic, i.e. the bed liner...
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markj
mulattokid
Sep 21, 2010 2:19 pm
Hi Belle You are welcome I am getting my replies mixed up...ever since I had to resort to using Microsft Explorer :( Your insect is Acrida ungarica: The slant...
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Jim Jahelka
jjahelka@...
Sep 22, 2010 8:52 am
Markj Im probably responsible for the reply screwup. I just joined and got an email this morning before reading the greeting and the instructions on how to...
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Sandra W.
tralac
Sep 24, 2010 3:12 pm
Photographed in a meadow in Westchester county, New York, about two weeks ago. There were many of them, but this one stopped still long enough for me to take a...
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pokal7
Sep 24, 2010 3:13 pm
I found this bug in the kitchen inside a metal cooking pot. it is red and has hard shell, my location: [lakeshore and kipling] etobicoke, ontario, canada ...
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alison
aljanicol2
Sep 25, 2010 10:03 pm
Hello all, Hope you can help. This bug has been in our house for a couple of days and we've finally been able to catch it and put it outside. It's about 2"...
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nicolaszekri
Sep 26, 2010 8:36 pm
I have a bright green praying mantis that is on its last days and when it dies, I would like to preserve it in a jar of liquid. What's the best way of doing...
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bel
bellebridgen
Sep 26, 2010 10:07 pm
I use apoxy ressin to set specimains in ( they look like paper weights) It works well on Invertabrates with no prior treatment, but Reptile & Mammals are...
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Jim Jahelka
jjahelka@...
Sep 26, 2010 10:07 pm
Found in Wichita KS, USA, while inspecting for bed bugs at my home. There were several of these (but no bedbugs) between layers of plastic, i.e. the bed liner...
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Ron
talon...
Sep 27, 2010 9:00 pm
unable to I.D. caterpiller. I have raised many of the large silk moth caterpiller's but nothing of this size. Just a little over 4inches long. I took a pic...
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Bugclubquestions
bughunteruk
Sep 27, 2010 10:34 pm
With a tail-horn it is obviously one of the Sphinx Moths or HawkMoths but it is difficult to see much detail from your photo. Unless someone on here can...
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amyvj1969
Sep 29, 2010 3:52 pm
I've just found an insect crawling from under my sofa. It is: 1- About 1.5cm long 2- Pale brown with dark brown joins between each body segment. 3- 3 pairs of...
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ravi kumar
ravi_kumar3566
Sep 29, 2010 4:26 pm
It is looking like some larvae ________________________________ From: Jim Jahelka <jjahelka@...> To: bugclub@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, 27 September, 2010...
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ravi kumar
ravi_kumar3566
Sep 29, 2010 10:09 pm
That may be a beetle larvae. ________________________________ From: amyvj1969 <amyvj1969@...> To: bugclub@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, 29 September, 2010...
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Vanessa
vanessa.moore3@...
Sep 29, 2010 10:11 pm
Hi, Can anyone identify this bug I found on my window sill today? Thanks....
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Amy Johnson
amyvj1969
Sep 30, 2010 11:55 am
Thanks for that, after looking at images this does seem likely now. I know it's hard to tell without knowing which type of beetle it is, but is it likely to ...
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Guy Manners
guyatmbe
Sep 30, 2010 3:26 pm
Vanessa  where are you? We need to know approximate location to even guess. Guy Re:identify bug please Vanessa where are you? We need to know approximate...
