Considering that even specialists are usually reluctant to give ID from photos with most tipulidae, ... I should say it has some probability of being...
Hello, 2 July 2009 The brilliant sky blue of the first Chalkhill Blue Butterfly of the year rose from the lower slopes of Mill Hill, Old Shoreham just before...
Hi I have uploaded a picture to the area Photos/Miscellaneous It is named "To be Identified" I would be most grateful if anyone can tell me the group or even...
It's a staphylinid beetle (roving beetle). Looks very much like Creophilus maxillosus, although the colour of the legs is puzzling - should be black. Were...
I thought the group might be interested in the photo I have just uploaded to album "bensonbirdman". Only the second Musk Beetle (Aromia moschata) I have ever...
I have posted a pic of some sort of longhorn beetle in Andrea's pics. I shall be so grateful if someone can name it, i can't find it in Chinery, althou it...
Hi Andrea, it looks to me like Pseudovadonia livida [Fairy-ring Longhorn Beetle]. I have the two issues of 'British Wildlife' which covered all the Longhorns...
Hallo Steve, Thankyou for that amazingly quick response! I have just started a sub to British Wildlife, having accidently come across an issue in the doctors!...
You're welcome:o) The relevant issues are: Volume 18, Number 6 [August 2007] and Volume 19, Number 1 [October 2007]. It is an excellent publication and the...
Yes I think you're probably right. I've not seen an actual example of the Longhorn beetle I mentioned so difficult to compare, but your darkling beetle [which...
Literally scores of these little fellows were climbing the walls at the Seadrift (Ranger) centre at Dunnet bay, Caithness on 290609. The rangers were unable to...
... Hi Tom, Great shot. I saw my first one last year here in SW Scotland,it was only the third siting in Dumfries & Galloway and a rarety for Scotland...
Hi can anyone identify this horsefly ? http://g4oep.110mb.com/tabanid/tabanid.htm I thought it might be a tabanus eggeri, but I am now no longer certain. It...
Not a horsefly. It is the harmless hoverfly Myathropa florea - they breed in wet rotholes in trees. Not an Eristalis as has been suggested, colour of...
ok we do realise that these little fella's have the odd couple of legs more than most insects - but where else could we go to have an input from sympathetic...
Hello, 16 July 2009 My first Clouded Yellow Butterfly since 2007 flew over Frampton's Field, Old Shoreham, and disappeared from sight amongst the Creeping...
Hi Terry, It is only four days since you posted your images! And it's a busy time of year for entomologists! I had a quick look at them a couple of days ago...
Hi Martin, Many thanks for your reply, my posting was supposed to be humourous and I really did feel that the cross posting was a bit of a cheek - particularly...
Hi I have put two pictures in my Pocklington Insects album of a Snipe Fly (Rhagio sp.)...one with flash, one without. I don't have it anymore, as it escaped...
I see what you mean, but I think the pale legs mean that Rhagio tringarius is more likely. Also, I can't see any dark stigma marking on the wing, which notatus...
Thanks, Martin. I shall follow that up (and try not to lose the next specimen!) Ian ... From: Martin Harvey To: british_insects@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday,...
Philippe Firstly appologies, I posted this request and promptly forgot I had done so. Put it down to a busy life or old age. Secondly, thank you for the...
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