Matt, Thanks very much for your comments - I will have to ignore female Sphaerophoria I think in future and hunt for the males!! By the way, what do I look for...
Born to Be Wild (a series of five programmes) Radio Four Sun Jan 12, 2003, 2.45pm 3: A Passion for Bumblebees. Manfred Ingenthron's suburban garden in...
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Hi All, I've uploaded pic into photos to ID folder in the files area. 7th Oct 2002 in Eastern Ireland. For good measure, the tip of my finger is included! ...
Hi Angus It looks very much like a female Speckled Bush Cricket ( Leptophyes punctatissima ) as illustrated in Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of GB&IRL...
Hi, I agree. This is Leptophyes punctatissima, female. I have quite some pictures at my site: http://www.gardensafari.net/first/locusts.htm and just go to the...
Hello Everyone, Can anyone please tell me anything about an insect that I've always called a Silver fish, I don't know whether its the correct name or not & I...
... called a ... Silverfish in Britain are usually Lepisma saccharina (Order Thysanura) and are quite common in warm, damp places especially in country houses....
<SNIP>Joint Independent Silver Distributors for Kleeneze Europe Ltd) Hi Joy Obviously you work provides a chance for you to export any surplus Silver Fish ;-))...
Hi Patrick Not seen a flying butterfly yet this year, we have had so little sun! I found 3 Peacocks and A Small Tort. hibernating in a wooden farm building, I...
Hello On Lancing Clump, West Sussex this afternoon at about 2:30 I saw a butterfly which I think was a Small Tortoiseshell. It took off and out of view giving...
<SNIP>Chinery show the female with a distinctive brown dorsal line and no mention of a thin cream line yet Hi Steve It could simply be that in a certain light...
Yes I got my copy from him as well - he must have bought the remaindered copies:) - and thanks for recommending Wasp Farm by HE Evans - I'm fired with...
Hi All Its a good book, but don,t tell too many people about Ebay ! This chap has some good books at reasonable (in the past) final prices. Its probably...
Hi all I have been experimenting with various (solitary)bee and wasp homes in my back garden. I have had some success with drilled logs and florists Oasis over...
Andy Eristalis tenax keys out on couplet 1 of the Eristalis key - "Face with black central stripe very wide, max one third width (of face between eyes). All...
Hi Paul Yes, I've got a couple in my garden. I got the original Red Mason Bee box 2 seasons ago and had success within a few weeks. Then, as I thought I ...
Thanks Paul and Hans ... several areas. This of course does not mean that it doesn't occur over a much wider area. The disribution maps for a lot of Taxon...
<SNIP>What I would REALLY like (but they are very expensive) is one of those flashy woodcrete boxes with glass tubes so you can really see what is happening! ...
Dear Steve and all others, I have no literature on the striping of the female, execept for Chinery and I think the drawing in his book is wrong. Or a...
... What I would REALLY like (but they are very expensive) is one of those ... You can do this yourself inexpensively. Just order glass tubes used in ...
You can do this yourself inexpensively. Just order glass tubes used in laboratories in various sizes, e.g. from your local chemists. Get a piece of wood and...
Hi Hans I shall try your suggestion this season. Just two questions; The wood, does this have to cover the tubes for their entire length? Has anyone tried...
Maybe another case of an unintentional error being perpetuated in subsequent publications. I've made an enquiry to my county Orthoptera recorder for his views....
Hi Sarah and Hans, I fancy having a go at this too. What diameter tubes would be best as looking at the oxford bee co site it looks as if the red and blue bees...
<SNIP>Out of interest I also get the Tawny Mining Bee in my garden in the Spring but have yet to find any of their tunnel mounds. Hi Steve I see these...
Hello Everyone, Thanks to you all for your comments, both those sent to the list as well as those who wrote to us privately. Having looked at the Web page...
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