I would say it almost certainly is the species you suggest. The correct name for Phaonia viarum is now Phaonia valida (Chandler's check list, 1999). Patrick...
Hello Patrick, Thanks for the confirmation and new scientific name. I assume this is a common species. It was found on a bramble leaf near scrub (unruly...
Yes, very common across nearly all months of the year. Patrick ... From: british_insects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:british_insects@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
I have put 3 Grasshoppers and a Bug for ID in the Files section in a folder called Hoppers if any one could help I would be very grateful Regards Colin D ...
Dear Patrick, Many thanks for your helpful response and the web site link. Regards Robert ... There is ... menuentry=soorten&selected=beschr ... is, ... (?) ...
Your 'Bug' is in fact a fly a member of the family Empididae, there are several with the characteristic short fork in the long vein that ends near the wing...
I have uploaded a couple of photos to Gordons in the file section. I would be gratful for any suggestions as to their ID. They were all photographed in East...
Hi, i've posted two photos in the files section in the folder 'Richard Thomas'. One is of the larval leaf mine of Phytomyza ilicis, the Holly leaf miner. The...
Hi Malcolm, thanks i'll have a search - do they cause galls on holly? It does seem to be laying something. Richard Message: 3 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:59:51...
Hi Richard, According to the AIDGAP galls book, there are no galls on Holly. Maybe it isn't a cynipid. It could equally be a braconid. They're parasitic and...
Strictly, cynipids are parasitoids - of plants rather than of animals. What would set it apart from (e.g.) a braconid parasitoid of the leaf miner? I think...
Malcolm, as a matter if interest do you know where the BPGS web site is now? The address I had is on btinternet but that gets redirected to btopenworld but not...
Hello, No Flies on U (Quiz) http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Flies2.html This will test your arthropod mettle of a collection of terrestrial flies. Your mission if...
Hi all, As its quiet I thought I'd post some Bumblebee sightings for winter 2005/6, all of them in my back garden in Corsham, (Wilts) O/S ST876 695. Nov 27,...
Hi Darrel, Interesting you should post these. I had a Bombus terrestris nectaring from Mahonia on 1st January 2006 in Mid-Bedfordshire Cheers Andy B ... From:...
Starting from last Friday small (1cm head to wing tip) black slightly downy flies have appeared inside the windows of a room in my workplace, a large Georgian...
They sound like cluster flies - Pollenia spp. - which hibernate in houses and similar places and often come out in the way you describe when they think it is...
21 May 2006 (Sunday Morning) Butterfly Walk on Mill Hill, north of Old Shoreham Meet at the southern car park (layby just north of the bridge) at 10:00 am. ...
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