The "What is this bug?" thread

[Mad Mike]

:You_Rock_ Its only got 7 legs. Also I didn't recognise it from below & needed another angle

The biggest one I have seen so far.

Another one for ID please this time with a no 5 knife

Mike

 

[Harvestman]

oo 'eck, that second one is a lot more difficult. Gorgeous beastie though.

Looks like a Lycosid (wolf spider family) but might be a Liocranid. Will need to research this one, as they are not easy to separate on appearance alone.

Please tell me you are in the UK

 

[Harvestman]

Maidstone. Phew.

 

[Harvestman]

Ok, if you took that spider on sand, or a sandy habitat, then it is Xerolycosa miniata. Failing that it is a pale Arctosa perita. Difficult one.

 

[Mad Mike]

oo 'eck, that second one is a lot more difficult. Gorgeous beastie though.

Looks like a Lycosid (wolf spider family) but might be a Liocranid. Will need to research this one, as they are not easy to separate on appearance alone.

Please tell me you are in the UK

Sorry just back from Italy This was about 10 feet north of the wasp spider. Living in a lean to roof against a sandstone wall. Just to be awkward

 

[Mad Mike]

Another Italian for you same location I think it came down with a lot of leaves & nuts off a walnut tree. Found in the bonnet mounted spare on the land rover looking a bit wet.

Mike

 

[Harvestman]

Okaaaay. Italian. That explained why it didn't fit anything as well as I would like. In that case the first one is probably a species of Pardosa (the head shape looks right, as does the distinctive eye pattern), but the markings don't fit any UK species, so that one defeats me.

The latest one is a Clubiona, but impossible to do to species from markings alone, whether Italian of UK.
Thanks for sharing the excellent pictures.

 

[Mad Mike]

Glad you like them, this is all supposed to be fun. An old friend or offspring was still around

I think it is now larger but have no idea how long they can live. From any distance it is very difficult to tell which end the head is.

Mike

 

[Harvestman]

Wow! A Scutigera! What amazing beasts they are! I've never seen one in the flesh, and would love to.

As I'm the fool who started this thread, there's sort of a pressure for me to identify things (Geoff Dann gets the same thing on the fungus thread), although I am happy enough to say when I don't know.

Always good to see what people have found though.

 

[Mad Mike]

At least you are consistent. I 1st posted a house centipede in this thread no 309. It might even be the same individual.

Mike

 

[dwardo]

This guy has been hanging out in my workshop for a few days recovering. Saved him from some old spider webs only for him to jump straight into my can of beer!
Poured the daft so and so out and let him dry/sober up on some paper towel. Thought he was a gonner but seems in good spirits today.

Any ideas? Know nothing about moths.

 

[Kong]

This guy has been hanging out in my workshop for a few days recovering. Saved him from some old spider webs only for him to jump straight into my can of beer!
Poured the daft so and so out and let him dry/sober up on some paper towel. Thought he was a gonner but seems in good spirits today.

Any ideas? Know nothing about moths.

This is a Silver Y moth. I know this because it has an upside down Y marking on the wing.

 

[Harvestman]

That's the one. Silver Y. Goes by the lovely latin name of Autographa gamma. Very nice too.

 

[Emdiesse]

Micrommata ligurina?I heard an almighty shriek from my mum in the kitchen as this popped out of the brocolli she had bought..."I thought this broccoli was from the UK, I didn't realise it was from Spain she whimpered after her encounter"Anywho,Is my identification right? Also, what can you tell me about this spider.As far as I have found out is it's a type of huntsman and it's not really 'poisonous' (so to speak) but it's fangs would pack a punch.

 

[Harvestman]

it is certainly a Micrommata, but the only species I've ever seen is Micrommata virescens, which does occur in the UK. That one doesn't look like M. virescens though, so you may well be right. I will check.

No risk to people though.

 

[Harvestman]

Hmm, juvenile male, from the pictures, so cannot be sure. M. virescens is the commonest and largest of the genus, and therefore the most likely to be encountered, but there are at least three Spanish species. How long would you say it was, front to back, not including legs? Measure in millimetres please.

 

[Emdiesse]

I wish I measured him! I've let him go now, but from memory and looking at the glass it WAS in.I'd say the length of the body from one end of the abdomen to his eyes was about 7 or 8 mm.

 

[Harvestman]

I wish I measured him! I've let him go now, but from memory and looking at the glass it WAS in.I'd say the length of the body from one end of the abdomen to his eyes was about 7 or 8 mm.

Thanks. Based on that, and it being a juvenile, M. virescens is most likely. I've only ever seen them in Germany, although there are records local to me, and it is near the top of my 'species I'd most like to find in my local patch' list. Beautiful spiders.

 

[Harvestman]

Hmm, springtime bump for this thread. How to start? Well...

I'm a spiders person, so here's a Larinioides sclopetarius orb weaver

Follow that with this pretty girl, a female Tegenaria spider (missing a leg)

And finally a Tree bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum.

So. Whaddya got?

 

[sandbender]

A very pretty moth outside our house earlier today.