Hello All,
Just bought 'Complete British Insects', Michael Chinery, Collins at
£16.99. It's all photographs with a number by EN's Roger Key who sits next to...
Hi all, a garden first! Bombylius major late this afternoon hovering and then sunning itself on our west facing brick wall - along with a queen wasp and...
Hi Steve We had out first glimpse of the sky here in Calderdale today for the first time in 8 days !! We have had wall to wall grey grot since last Friday, its...
Hi Steve Your memory served you correctly. Beeflies have indeed been covered in BW vol 8 pages 175-179 with an illustrated plate and key. The article is by...
Hi I've uploaded images of water and 24- spot ladybirds into the wirralbirder folder in the photo section of the group.These were taken at West Kirby's red...
Nice ones, Harold. Both species are fairly numerous in the right habitat but not too often recorded. The water ladybird has its winter colouration (ochre ...
Hi Paul Thanks for the reply,it would be interesting to know how common or otherwise both species are in this part of the world. Harry Davies(wirralbirder)...
It would indeed. I'm informed that there will be a revived national ladybird survey starting soon (www.ladybird-survey.org.uk I think) so everyone can log ...
Hi All I've uploaded an image of what looks to me to be a member of the harpalus beetles.It measured about 13mm long .It appeared at our moth trap a few days...
Hello Harold, You're almost certainly right about it being Harpalus but it isn't possible to make out several critical points at this magnification. At that...
Hello, Old record 18 October 2004 A keen-eyed member of the Observatory brought in some unusual Ladybirds found in the wall of her house in Sandwich. The...
Hi All Last saturday apr 2nd whilst photographing lizards at Red rocks near West kirby ,Wirral i took some photos of a small beetle on the board walks...
Hi All I forgot to mention that the photo of amara aenea can be found in the wirralbirder album in the photo section of the group. Cheers harry davies...
Hello again, Harry, I'm not sure that you'll be able to confirm this from a photo - some of the diagnostic features are not revealed. It looks like A. aenea - ...
Hello, 10 April 2005 There was what looked like an Andrena Mining Bee (illustrated below) on yellow flowers on the south-facing A27 road embankment north of...
Hello, 10 April 2005 There was what looked like an Andrena Mining Bee on yellow flowers on the south-facing A27 road embankment north of the Dovecote Estate,...
You're not the first to have discovered old records! Hope it prompts everyone to look at any beetles that they find and don't recognise. There have been many...
Hi Everyone I have been running a survey of the beefly Bombylius major for some time now and wondered if anyone had any Scottish records of this very ...
Hello, If anybody local to south-east England wants to participate in Adur World Oceans Day (Environmental Fayre) on 4 June 2005 in Shoreham-by-Sea, there are...
Hi all Anyone any ideas as the a possible culprit causing the damage to moths described below. Our local spider expert seems to rule out spiders being the...
Wasps? There's quite a lot of queen wasps flying around at the moment looking for nesting sites, and the only time I've had headless moths in my trap is when...
This is a further reply that I put to moth group. And I've already aired my thoughts on whether wasps are involved. ... -- No virus found in this outgoing...
Hello, April Insect Quiz (Sussex Coastal) http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Pixieland.html Location Page: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Waterworks2005.html I think I know...
Thanks Nigel, I thought it had to be as all the other Rhopalus spp. seem to occur on acid heath/bog type habitats - nothing like my back garden on clay near...
I have a copy of the 1983 edition of Stubbs and Falk – British Hoverflies. It’s in good condition (one page loose, has seen some use!) and I would be happy...
Sarah Patton
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Hello, An aerial dogflight occurred between two types of bee-fly in a Shoreham garden; the Black Bee-fly* with a short proboscis and a loud buzzing sound ...
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