Hello, 4 September 2007 Ten species of butterfly put in an appearance in the weak sunshine including 36 Adonis Blues (33 males and 3 females) on the lower...
Could be Narrow-winged Pug (Eupithecia nanata)? See the photos on: http://www.ukleps.org/Comnames.html (scroll down to find the pug). Martin Martin Harvey ...
Thanks the pictures Martin mentioned match, and the habitat and season match here:- http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=1846 I think I will leave it as...
Sorry Joe, can't really see enough detail in these photos to suggest anything definite. Think it might be a leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae), possibly genus...
Hello, 16 September 2007 At the northern end of the lower slopes of Mill Hill, near the Devil's Bit Scabious, I was attacked by a swarm of twenty or so Common...
Hi Andy, Similar thing happened to a group of us, many years ago. A wasps' underground nest in a field had been excavated and largely eaten (presumably by...
You must both have led sheltered childhoods - I remember being stung at least once a year between the ages of about five to thirteen. Or maybe wasps are less...
Hi all, I've uploaded a pic to the files area in: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/british_insects/files/SJC/ of what I at first thought was a hoverfly but...
I saw a glow worm at Beer in East Devon at the end of August. This seems very late to me compared to when I used to see them on the Downs in Kent- is it late...
Hi all, I've been on a field course in S. Wales, whilst doing some vegetation surveying on the heathland, immediately inland (50m) from the hill fort at St....
Hi all, I found this homopteran while visiting Salisbury Plain this afternoon. Not sure if it's a leaf or plant bug or if it's a nymph or adult. Any help, even...
Hi Steve, I had a very similar patterned one here (Newton Park, Bath), it was ID'ed as the nymph of a leafhopper - Evacanthus interuptus. I don't know if there...
Thanks Malcolm, I should have thought to look at the NBN gateway, and I should have retained the specimen. Having said that Ectobius panzeri does seem to be...
... I had that on Sept 4th. http://homepage.eircom.net/~hedgerow22/sept04.htm It was identified for me on the Hets group as Evacanthus interruptus. The person...
Many thanks Darrel and Stuart, I saw that one in my copy of Chinery and thought it was a good likeness - but then thought...naa!... it couldn't be that...
Hello I would be grateful for some help in identifying these 2 larvae. The first is, I think, a sawfly and was found on a fallen black/balsam poplar twig on...
Robert I have found larvae that look like your last picture in leaf litter, I suspect they are fly larvae but am not sure. They seem to cover themselves with...
Hi Alan, Don't think yours are the same as Robert's. Nearest I can find to yours is either Platypezidae (but yours is too skinny and head too pointed) or ...
Thanks for your suggestion Alan - I put the larva on top of a container of garden compost yesterday and it very quickly disppeared from view. Perhaps something...
... length ... Googling "Poplar sawfly" comes up with: Nematus melanaspis (Gregarious poplar sawfly) Pale green apart from orange 2nd and last two segments ...
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Lots of Harlequins are coming into my house (mid-Buckinghamshire) at the moment, and today I found one dead in the web of a 'daddy-long- legs' spider (Pholcus...
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