Well done Stuart - should be useful. Happy new year, Paul ************************************************** "It is not really an exaggeration to say that...
Hi Nigel, It certainly looks similar to the occasional Psyllid that has jumped out of the odd psyllid-induced plant gall while I've been photographing it. ...
Last November 24th I posted a link to a description of how a cheap type of 8x21 roof-prism binocular could be modified to focus to 1 metre. I was most...
Having wondered what has been eating the leaves of a couple of Primula plants, I finally found a small green caterpillar on one yesterday. I've looked through...
Hello, David and all, It looks like a young angle shade caterpillar (Phlogophora meticulosa) and there seems to be no impossibility relating to year time and...
Tough question. How about a male Andrena, perhaps flavipes like this one ? in Heron (B) June 2004 CP 995 Philippe http://users.skynet.be/fa213618 ... From:...
Hi Hans Looks like a male Andrena species, if it was taken in the UK my first guess would be Andrena flavpes. Regards Matt Hans Arentsen <arentsen@...>...
Hello, When was it discovered? Have you got a picture showing its legs? Any other information please? Try: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/ Cheers Andy...
Dear Andy and others, The animal was photographed on July 24th, 2004, in my garden in Holland. I looked in my books at A. flavipes, but don't have a picture of...
As you will see in the picture I uploaded to the photo "Andrena" file , the flavipes male's hair is greyish, in contrast to the female. I can't think of a...
Following a very 'warm' winter, yesterday seemed almost spring-like (well, at least the wind had dropped) and there was correspondingly a lot of insect...
Hi, i don't know whether this may be useful to people. There is a free site for displaying photos at: http://www.dotphoto.com Thought i'd mention it whilst the...
The beetle was on the trunk of my Birch tree a couple of nights ago. It measured about 6.5mm in length, had a dark brown body with pale edges to the thorax,...
David The larva looks like a hoverfly. Sarah The larva was found this afternoon on the underside of a Red Campion leaf. It is about 10mm in length, plain...
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Hello David, The beetle looks like Agonum obscurum - pale legs, narrow pronotum - the size make this more likely than the slightly larger A. albipes (although...
... pronotum - the ... (although on ... found in ... Thanks Paul, At least I was on the correct page in Chinery! Neither of the species you have named appear...
Hi David, Your larvae is a hoverfly larvae. One of the aphid eating species I would think. From pictures in "Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae" (Rotheray, ...
It's possibly a Pipiza sp., David, looking at the limited no. of illustrations in 'The Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae' by Graham Rotheray. You'd need to...
I don't know whether it appears in Chinery but A. albipes used to be A. ruficorne ... It may have changed again, I think some of the Agonum sub-genera have...
Hello, As it is off-season, I will ask the query: what advantage does the Erastalis tenax (the Drone Fly) gain by mimicking a Honey Bee? Cheers Andy Horton ...
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:32:31 -0000 ... Hi Andy I see you've also posted this on UK-Hoverflies following one of mine. May as well respond here. As there are so...
Hello all, Apologies for cross-posting. I wonder if anyone can help Malcolm Burrows who is searching for specimens of Cercopis vulnerata and other hoppers for...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the british_insects group. File :...
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Sorry, going to have to re-post as the file was huge!! Sarah ... From: british_insects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:british_insects@yahoogroups.com] Sent: 13 March...
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