Hi As this is my first posting to the group perhaps an intro is in order. I run a website devoted to the natural history of the Basingstoke, Hampshire area ...
Dear Mike, Your Sawfly larva is that of Rhadinoceraea micans, a Sawfly common on Iris sp. (see my website: http://www.gardensafari.net/first/sawflies.htm and...
Dear Mike, Your bug looks very much like Calocoris sexguttatus. You can't be sure however until someone confirms my id. Greets from Holland, Hans Arentsen url:...
Hello and thanks, I really need to buy a digital camera, I used to use my Brothers, but he has suddenly realised how handy they are, and never lets me have it...
Mike Nice photos. Bumblebee is male Bombus pascuorum. Hoverfly down as Volucella pellucens is in fact Leucozona lucorum. Regards Matt Message text written by...
I'm looking for photos, facts and anything else to do with insects to put on my website. If you have any, or know of any good sources please email me. Thanks. ...
Your beetle has me perplexed. It is a ground beetle (Carabidae) and I would be inclined to call it Agonum but the elytral pattern doesn't fit anything! I'm...
Paul, Shame I let it go then! Habitat - it was in an egg box in my moth trap! This is situated near a small pond with good ground cover, with the usual lawn ...
Does regular moth trapping, at light ...ie nightly, have any noticeable effect (positive or negative?) on the immediate local populations, of moths and other...
Hi Chris, ... moths ... Not all moth-ers trap nightly, some only trap at weekends, others only when conditions are favourable, some every other night. It all...
hi all 3 nights ago, I got in the trap a member of the family LIMNEPHILIDAE most probaly from gender Micropterna as I cannot find anything about this family,...
<SNIP>I marked Common Quakers (which form some 60% of the catch at this time of the year) four nights in a row with a black indelible marker pen on the apex of...
Dear Paul and all, I think one obvious thing to do is ensure that the marking is in line with the natural colouring. Obviously 'tippex' on a dark insect or...
Paul, I did have the same thought myself (that they might be more obvious), but discounted it. This was one relatively insignificant black mark at the apex of...
Hi Mike As I said in my response I do agree with your findings about re-captures, I was merely stating that the result was open to different interpretations. I...
There was a push a couple of years ago to encourage members of the public to report any signs of mole crickets, any body have any (positive) information on...
Can anyone help with this one? ... From: Ivan Proctor To: uk-leps Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:32 PM Subject: [UK-Leps] Forest of Dean sightings Speckled...
Hi Mike Probably a Tawny Mining Bee female, right size, colour, time of year. By the way Grape Hyacinths are absolutely great early nectar sources, everyone...
hi All while reading the Chinneru-y book : garden wildlife of Britain and Europe, Chinery says that Clytus arietis the Wasp bettle is probably extinct in the...
Well Paul, I must say that I'm surprised as well. I still see them regularly here in NE Hampshire. Paul ... From: pf1331fp To: british_insects@yahoogroups.com...
What, please, are these orange flies, seen on a cow pat? <http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/orange.jpg> (~50Kb) You can imagine the comments made when I stopped...
... Andy I'm not being sarcastic - but they look like "Yellow Dung Fly"! (I think Scathophaga sp.) ... Yeah - like when a group of us stopped on a very busy...
... Orange dung-flies with dark antennae are probably Scathophaga stercoraria unless very bright orange (like yours!) and in the west where there is a 2nd...
Are you sure you aren't reading it incorrectly? I saw one in Cambridge in 2001 and my garden doesn't host many extinct insects! Keith ... regularly here in NE...
Hi Keith and Paul book is Garden Wildlife of Britain and Europe , Collins Nature Guide edition 2001 book I bought last autumn in London see page 80 last...
Hi Paul, I raised the question of extinction of the Wasp Beetle on the British Beetles group. I think there has been a mistake here. I do not possess that...
Avond Paul and others Chinnery is obviously confused because in ‘Insects of Great Britain & Western Europe’ he describes this species as common in gardens...
Hallo to all, In most books you will find a mistake or two. Especially when a book deals with the presence of insects all over Europe mistakes are bound to...
Hi I found this beetle under a fallen log in Stapleton Woods Wirral.I think that it is a devil's coach-horse.I would like an i.d.. The beetle would curl its...
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