Conservation Pioneers Radio Four Saturday 7 Feb. 2004, 10:30am Julian Petiffer tells the story of the heroes of the conservation movement. Only a few pioneers...
I'm doing some experemental pictures of a few creatures I extracted from leaf litter, placed in a funnel with a lamp over the top and then collected in...
Hello Alan, I have no chance of helping you with the ID. But how were the pictures taken? Cheers Andy Horton. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hello Andy, Home brew equipment and software see my website:- http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ under the Equipment and CombineZ headings. Most of the...
I have just added some more picturesm, follow the link on the first page to the second one, there is a curious mite who's 2nd pair of legs is oddly modified,...
Dear Alan, Can't give a lot of help. On your first page #1 and #4 seem to be sminthurid springtails, probably Sminthurus spp.; #2 looks larval although I...
Hello, Any opinions on the recent spate of Painted Ladies on the south coast, including Sussex? I would plump for hibernating adults. Adur Valley Butterfly...
... The usual technique is to warm them for a few minutes in 10% KOH. ... Adult springtails have a "springer" ... The microscope slide is optical glass so the...
... It's not true that all springtails have a springer. Many species of the superfamily poduroidea have "lost" their spring, especially species that live deep...
Thank you George and Malcolm. I have posted some more pictures at:- http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Test/test_pictures_3.htm (I'm getting a bit...
... Some mites start as a parasitic deuteronymph stage which is commonly seen as red blobs on insects (land and water). The colours are a bit off here but...
Been doing some web searches and I think the 5th picture on page 2 is a Falsomia (Collembola) there is even a movie out there. The spring is probably bent...
Dear All, I had considered an immature earwig but really don't know; nor what type of beetle larva it would be! ... A set of books on 'The Terrestrial Acari of...
A bug in love with mistletoe A small, sap-sucking bug, new to Britain, has been discovered on mistletoe in the National Trust's gardens at Barrington Court and...
Hello, In 2003, there appeared to be two major irruptions of Painted Lady Butterflies in the Adur valley. These were at the beginning of June and the end of...
Hello Andy, down here near Land's End on Rospannel Farm, we get a few Painted ladies every year in early Spring which then breed on our thistles with the next...
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Dear all, I have just uploaded a photo of a group of shield bugs which emerged from hibernation in an ivy bush in my Cardiff garden last weekend (they're...
George The sheildbugs in your photograph are Palomena prasina (Green Shieldbugs) they are very often found in hibernation in the brown form. A & A E Binding ...
Hi George, They look like the Green Shieldbug, Palomena prasina, to me. They go brown during the winter and then green again in the Spring. They must have had...
Interesting picture of the Green Shieldbug, for I have never seen one overwintering in green. So far all the ones I saw turned brown. As I guess it was too...
Thank you all for confirming the identity of my shield bugs. It's interesting that they normally overwinter in the brown form and then turn green again before...
I've created a new webring - Nature Diaries. It's intended to link sites that are a natural history resource and are frequently and/or regularly updated. The...
Hello to all in the British Insects group. I'm a new member to this group (a hour in fact!) and I feel a bit cheeky asking a question straight away, but here...
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