... Hi Chris, Not only do they carry their pollen under the abdomen, but when they're collecting pollen on a composite flower the way they shake their abdomen...
... On the subject of Megachile, the Perkins key has two couplets (6 and 13) with only one alternative. Is this: A. an error, B. just confirmatory info that...
Hi everyone, Just got back from Languedoc region of France. I am sorting through a couple of hundred photos of insects. There is one I have uploaded to the...
Patrick, Your analysis of how insects and other inverts get selected for conservation action is probably spot on! I am not particularly concerned about showy...
Escaping the dire British summer and finding myself in the fabulous insect haven that is southern France I went in search of magnificent prey. Armed with my...
Storey, M.W. wrote, apropos leafcutter bees ... Hi Malcolm They flounder and wallow about in what I can now see is a very distinctive fashion.... found some...
... It's not just the ones that are selected for conservation (ie BAP) it's also the ones selected for Notable and RDB status, which, at least originally, was...
Hello, Well I cannot understand the text. It is full of acronyms, gobbledygook like not uncommonly meaningless statements. I would hope such documents for ...
Hello, I am especially concerned about what is happening in Sussex regarding preservation of habitats. The County Ecologist may look for rare? species to...
Hello, Is this a 5-spot Burnet or a 6-spot a few days ago. http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Burnet005.jpg on the downs. I had it down as definite 5-spot until I...
Does anyone know if there is a term for the insects and other creatures that live under logs and stones? 'Sublignicolous' and 'subsaxicolous' (which I have...
Patrick, Subsaxicolous sounds rather good. In their book 'animals under logs and stones', Wheater & Read describe the animals simply as 'cryptozoa' but surely...
Hello, I am sure there must be a word for hiding under rocks (maybe hypolithic [both Greek]) and I do not know the word for logs, branches, wood, trunk etc. I...
PS something wrong with hypolithic as the opposite would be hyperlithic and epilithic is in reasonably common use. Andy Horton [Non-text portions of this...
J.R.Dibb in his Field Book of beetles published in 1948 used "Lapidicoles" for beetles living under stones. He also called beetles living under "Logs, timber,...
Wonderful - I remember buying Dibb's book (which I still have) in Crowborough, probably in 1948 when it was first published. So far as the words are concerned,...
Andy, I think not. Epilithic describes things living on/attached to rocks (e.g. lichens) rather than carrying out their life activities on top of/above rocks...
Dear Paul, I think the usual terms for species living in/under bark corticoles/subcorticoles. But this is a fine area! I know that the Fremch literature is ...
A friend has seen a Green Tortoise Beetle, which he believes is C. viridis, recently at a site in the east of Peterborough. My oldish guide suggests this is...
Hello, My tendency is to agree with you. Epilithic can refer to both the underneath and the top and sides of the rocks. There are many "hyperlithic" creatures...
Dear Brian, C. viridis is indeed British. Its stated usual food plant is water mint, Mentha aquatica but is known to feed on various lamiates. The tortoise ...
Hi everyone I've been a member of this list for a few weeks now and have been a bit of a 'lurker', but reading all you're posts has been absoloutely...
Thank's for your reply Mike sorry for the delay in replying. I have taken several more pictures of the two winged Myrmica in my original post and have also...
Not a dealer but a searcher: Paul Talbot put me on to www.abebooks.com which searches through a large number of retailers (new and s/h) - always a good first...
Thanks for the feedback on the Tortoise beetle. I still haven't got a photo but I am now told it is green on the underside and about 10mm long. Does that...
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