Hi, My colleagues and I were working in South Devon earlier this week and found 3 Violet Oil Beetles (Meloe violaceus). This is a Nationally Notable species,...
Hello, What year was it when there were so many ladybirds on the south coast that got in cups of tea, even the fridge when I opened it, eating them in ...
1976 was the last ladybird 'epidemic year'. It wasn't just in Britain - I spent most of that summer on the eastern Mediterranean and Black Seas (hard times)...
Hi All I have uploaded an image into the wirralbirder album in the photo section.I would like an i.d as I am not even sure if it is a weevil as the antennae do...
Harry It is indeed a weevil, just one with a short rostrum :-). Similarly. although the antennae look straight, you can just see the large first antennal...
I have started a page to list all of the new Arthropods I have taken pictures of, and will post a short message here when there are new insects. If any one...
Hi, Oil-beetle on coastal path near Nanquidno between Sennen and Cape Cornwall 2nd May, Bernard ... From: Michael Lush To: british_insects@yahoogroups.com ...
... taken ... I ... I think "Verry long front legs" is Tetragnatha extensa: http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspiders/tetragnathaextensa.htm I'm impressed by...
Hi all, I was doing my yearly gardening (I seem to have the antithesis of green fingers) and I remembered that last year I saw some bees doing something I'd...
Hi all, I photographed what I think is a weevil species at the weekend at Titchwell in Norfolk on the boardwalk in the dunes. It was c 10mm or so long. Also a...
Andy Your bug from Foxley Woods is a beetle. It is Oiceoptoma thoracicum. Found under dung and carcases, it also can be found in rotting fungi. Allan & Annette...
Hello Amy, I can't help you with the butterfly eggs, but the bees you watched last year are called (believe or not) leaf-cutter bees. There are a number of...
... Hi Amy If you could tell us what plant they were on that might help. Sure they were butterflies? (There aren't that many species about yet.) Malcolm...
... Hi Chris, We have the wild Solomon's Seal in our garden (it has berries) and it gets blasted by the sawfly every year. Presumably the sawfly population is...
... Watch out for small midges - Forcipomyia spp (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE) feeding on them. They insert their probosces between the abdominal segments. There...
The link below shows a butterfly I seen today here in Ross-Shire. It's not one I've seen before in this area and unfortunately I didn't get a shot with it's...
Hi Alan, Yes you are right, the butterfly is a Speckled Wood. I think the pupa is that of a Large White. Best wishes, Paul ... From: Alan Melville To:...
Browsing through the wing pictures in "Tephritid Flies" by I. M. White in the Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects series the nearist match...
Thanks Alan, that's really helpful. Sounds like that's another volume I need in my expanding library! Campanula latifolia is common in this area and is...
Hello.. I saw an Adonis ladybird, Adonia variegata, in Reading on April 23rd, but without a book on the subject I'm not sure about its distribution.......
Dear Chris, Hippodamia (Adonia) variegata is quite variable (thus the name) but like other Hippodamia has somewhat elongated hind-body; the pronotum is...
Hi Paul.. Thanks for the information on Hippodamia (Adonia) variegata. "Ruderal" exactly describes the area, between a stream and a dual-carriageway, though...
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