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Post by htcdude on Jun 1, 2015 12:47:33 GMT
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Post by lizb on Jun 1, 2015 15:05:00 GMT
Good, I like this thread. Too windy here for flies today but damp weather with intermittent sun has brought out a lot of plant preditors. I am doing a sequence of photos of villains "caught in the act". Here is todays
aphids-1 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 1, 2015 17:32:34 GMT
Bombus hypnorum in the garden yesterday.
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Post by htcdude on Jun 4, 2015 8:47:12 GMT
A nice insect I found yesterday - Black-headed Cardinal Beetle Nige
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Post by lizb on Jun 4, 2015 16:00:46 GMT
My insect of the day - loads of mating azure damselflies at RHS gardens, Wisley. I found them in the same spot as last year/
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 4, 2015 18:46:35 GMT
I was looking at some low Pyracantha in full flower today + was alive with insects: a Wasp Beetle, several Honey Bees, Several bumblebees including B.hypnorum, B.pratorum +B. terrestris plus my IOD,several Andrena cineraria.
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Post by rowanberry on Jun 4, 2015 20:30:48 GMT
Lots of bees still buzzing about the comfrey early this evening. Not sure exactly what sort... will have to try and find out.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 5, 2015 5:17:14 GMT
Top left is Bombus pratorum. Bottom might be B. lucorum but very difficult to distinguish workers of this + B. terrestris.
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Post by htcdude on Jun 5, 2015 8:09:21 GMT
Hayfever was a nightmare yesterday as I went trudging through the long grass in a local CP. Favourite insect was some Red and Black Froghoppers Nige
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Post by petecollins on Jun 6, 2015 19:02:18 GMT
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 6, 2015 21:10:23 GMT
Four-spotted Chaser for me too today with large numbers at Hickling. Only other dragonfly I saw was a single female Broad-bodied Chaser.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 15:45:14 GMT
This was on my tomato today, pleased about this, and also the tomato plant (which is looking healthy). It has to be Corizus hyoscyami. Other insects of note were a confusion of Azure Damselflies, a stringency of Large Red Damselflies, a singularity of Broad-Bodied Chasers, a whimsicality of Common Blue Butterflies and a friendlessness of 7-spot Ladybirds. Insect of the Seventh of June by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 7, 2015 18:23:36 GMT
Other than the Lepidoptera at Bison Hill we had a green Cryptocephalus, probably C. hypochaeridis, a 24-spot Ladybird,several Oedemera nobilis +probably the star of the show, a seemingly huge Cockchafer in flight.
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Post by htcdude on Jun 8, 2015 15:15:11 GMT
My first Harlequin Ladybird of the year this lunchtime Nige
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Post by htcdude on Jun 10, 2015 10:17:20 GMT
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