I second that - Andy, efora are not places for you to brain dump.... please can you think before doing the next best thing to "spamming" nearly all the natural...
Hello, Sorry I was just asking a question about photographing insects and what camera to get? It is no good asking a sports or landscape photographer! Off...
Any one ID the Grasshopper to species and Spp 1- 3 Featured on the link link below. http://www.judywoods.dial.pipex.com/Insects.html Many Thanks in Advance ...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ray.hamblett1/nature/bugs.html#Calocoris Can anyone help with this bug please I can get as far as Calocoris but can't find species...
Hello Hoverflies are crowding onto the flowers of Fennel and also Euonymus spp. Are these plants plants producing a lot of nectar or is it the pollen? Ray...
This handsome little chap was in my garden this afternoon basking in warm sunshine. He had been on Margarite flowers and his pollen baskets were stuffed. He...
Hi Susie The bee is one of the Lasioglossum species - getting an id to most of them requires at look at a specimen under a microscope. Its a she by the way -...
Thank you, Matt. I am really grateful for your help. I should have known she was too pretty to be a man! - and who else would carry the shopping home? ;o) ...
Hello, I wonder what the recommended reference guide to British Centipedes and Millipedes is ? Eason, E.H. The Centipedes of the British Isles CD version of...
Hello, Could this be a millipede as well? http://www.glaucus.org.uk/PillBugs020.jpg Maybe it is not actually a centipede after all (but a related critter)? ...
... From: "British Marine Life Study Society" <Glaucus@...> To: <british_insects@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:24 AM Subject: Re:...
... For Millipedes use Blower's Linn Soc Handbook (but get the later edition) ... Beetle larva? Not a myriapod. Perhaps worth trying it on UK beetles. ... ...
I have posted two images to the files area http://groups.yahoo.com/group/british_insects/files/Steve-Wain/ Can anyone confirm or not Bibio Pomonae. I am at...
Hello Ray, I don't know offhand. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ray.hamblett1/nature/flies.html#Unknown I would need be sure of the ID of the hoverfly below it....
Hi Ray, difficult to be sure from the angle of the shot, but it looks as if it could be a Sawfly - but don't ask me which species;o) Cheers, Steve.[VC7/8] This...
Ray Yes a sawfly. I would suggest the turnip sawfly, Athalia rosae. Martin Love ... From: Ray Hamblett To: british_insects@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...