Hello Everyone This is Carol from Cali. I really would like to learn about your insects so I am starting over. I wont try to push my insects on you, such as...
Hello folks Last year I found a beautiful insect...what I thought was a staphylinid /Rove beetle ..very active, during the day , about 1-1.5 cm, apparently...
Chris You wonder about a Velvet Ant (Hymenoptera; Mutillidae). At 1-1.5cm there is only 1 candidate in UK: Mutilla europaea. There is a pic in the BWARS ...
Hi Chris Sounds like you might have met with Staphylinus caesareus, of which you'll find plenty of pictures on the web, including on my website (a rather ...
Chris, If your size was a measurement of nose to tail, it's more likely to be Ontholestes murinus (10-15mm) rather than Staphylinus caesareus (17-22mm). Think...
Thanks for the links It was certainly a velvet ant.......as stunning as the rove beetles and oddly matching almost perfectly in colour...do rove beetles...
- Hey Chris your in luck. The Velvet Ant (Multillidae) are one of my favorite insects. The one you are discribing is called Thistle Down. I wrote a small...
Hi Carol ... One always has to be very careful when attempting to identify anything from descriptions alone, even when one is familiar with the fauna! There...
Hello, Chris. I've never heard rove beetles, or any other beetle squeak. Explode, yes ... bombardier beetles! ...do rove beetles squeak?...has any one been...
Thinking on other squeaky beetles...one of the more common New Forest Dung Beetles squeaks plenty ..not really loud, but audibly if you hold it to your...
Hi all, I've uploaded an image to my folder at: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/british_insects/files/SJC/ I believe it's a 10-spot Ladybird but haven't...
Thanks Chris, I agree, the shape of the 'spots' are good - it's the background colour that's different; orangey-red rather than black. Cheers, Steve [VC7/8] ...
Hi, With the fairly recent very wet weather , we discovered that under our house there had been an ingress of water into our sub-floor void which is about 3...
Hi Patrick, Yes - looks like it might have been N. aquilex or N. kochianus. Does it indicate a spring/underground stream under the house? There is a freshwater...
Martin, In the standard textbook British Freshwater Crustacea Malacostraca: A Key with Ecological Notes published by the Freshwater Biological Association ...
Hello, 21 March 2007 Basking on Footpath 3138 (as it winds its way through Mill Hill amongst the first bit of Hawthorn scrub to the north of the lower slopes)...
I found a couple of these in leaf litter anyone know what they are? http://www.micropics.org.uk/side.jpg As you can see they are mainly red, the antennae and...
Hi All I've downloaded two images of a white larva found in a bracket fungus on a birch stump at Thurstaston Common -Wirral Cheshire VC 58 - on March 21st 07. ...
Hi all, managed to combine a day off with some fine weather today. Tried to do some gardening but was constantly diverted by various insects becoming active!...
You will find many insects where they should not be, they don't read the text books and have this habit of popping up unexpected. I live about 120 miles north...
Hi Steve, I found it in Pamber Forest last year. There was some discussion on this beast on the Hets group last year and Bernard Nau put a note in the hets...
Hi Steve, Last year there was also an explosion in there numbers on the south coast. I myself found 8 Corizus hyoscami down here. They tend to stay in the...
Hi Steve, I've recorded Corizus hyoscyami, both at Newton Park (W. of Bath) and in Corsham (Wilts.). I sent the NP one to Ray (Barnett) at the museum in...
Hello, This Bombus picture confused me (got in a right muddle) at first. The Queen had a white tail with slight V-shaped black markings a lemon-coloured ...
Andy Who is in a muddle? You have already posted this pic to the BWARS board and had answers from several very experienced bombologists. Is it necessary to ...
Hello, The puzzle is the object rather than the ID which has been resolved. Other members may have encountered the same thing? However, I thought it was all...
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