Hi Dave, i agree with Gordons comments below - i'd also add that DSCN 6627 is a bug nymph, possibly Leptoterna dolabrata (i only know this as i posted a very...
Hi, i'm not sure i'm afraid, you could try posting it on the hets newsgroup. Its definitely a shield bug nymph of some sort...but i think they often have up to...
Craig, I think it may well be the Pentatomidae Sp. ' Zicrona caerulea' nymph See site http://www.koleopterologie.de/heteroptera/ Regards Gordon [Non-text...
Thanks Gordan and Richard. I will take a look at the info. Even if its not spot on, it may lead me to the right place. The beetle I mentioned in my last mail,...
Hi all - found this strange looking beast on a tree trunk in Bedfordshire this afternoon whilst looking for bagworm moth larvae. I think it is a mayfly sp and...
It's a male imago of Baetis fuscatus. Baetis species have two tails and small oval hindwings. B. fuscatus is the only Baetis species with bright yellow eyes...
Hi all, In 2005 I took a red/black bug I'd found at Newton Park (just w. of Bath) to the Avon Ent. recorder, he identified it as Corizus hyoscami, and I've...
Hi all I have uploaded a photo (link below or if this does not work, its in the files area under Paul Talbot's Insects) of a presumed ichneumon of wood boring...
Hello everyone!! I'm Scarlett O'Rara and I'm new to your insect group and to insects in fact!! So far today I have seen and managed to identify a small ...
I've just made another identification which I thought I would share with you all. At the beginning of June, I was walking along the floodbank here with my...
Hi, I found him on the edge of a crop field/mixed wood down here in West Sussex.But i think i spooked him so he flew off soon after. It was quite windy so the...
It's a Cranefly. They often end up with only two legs (or even one). I'm afraid I can't identify it any further than that. BTW it looks like a female from the...
Hi, Thanks for that. Someone else told me it was a cranefly,but then another person planted a seed of doubt saying that its definately not a cranefly,and that...
... I use a Raynox DCR-250 snap-on macro lens. It fits most cameras that allow you to add lens filters, and there are adaptors for some that don't. ...
Hi It definately IS a a female cranefly, its just lacking a few legs. Regards Matt j_a_y_c001 <noelcornwall@...> wrote: Hi, Thanks for that. Someone...
Hello Lansing, I've had a peek at your website and it has already helped me to identify a red admiral which I saw today - most of the butterflies out today...
Hi Lansing - i have attempted to reply to you on the relevant thread to no avail!! So here is my reply (which I copied after my third attempt - just in case :...
Thanks guys, It definately got my interest anyway,when i first saw her she was doing some strange manouvers with some kind of silky (spiders maybe) thread,but...
Hi, Please could someone help ID/check any of these,I've stuck them into a folder in the pics for id section called 'jc s pics for id'. I had a go at ID'ing a...
For butterflies you can't go for wrong with this website. _http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/_ (http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/) [Non-text portions of this...
... (http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/) ... Thankyou Dave. How kind of you. Your link has been saved to my faves. I recently found some sort of a crysalis thingy...
Sounds like the empty cocoon of a Burnet Moth, there are plenty of them about at the moment. Doing a Google image search on 'Burnet Moth' brings up a few...
Spot on Matt! Well done! So I guess that was an empty skin then. [:D] ... them about at the moment. Doing a Google image search on 'Burnet Moth' brings up a...