The "What is this bug?" thread
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Interesting, although I suspect a bit sensationalist and Daily Mail - like article on the False Black Widow in The Independent yesterday.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...f-britains-most-poisonous-spider-8827447.html
Love the false eyes on your finally found quarry. Excellent photo too.Yay! I found one at last!
Spiders get such terrible reporting. A spider bite resulting in a bit of inflammation or any sort of reaction, especially in a child, will make a national newspaper without difficulty, evben though it amounts to little more than a standard allergic reaction. A wasp sting, which is far more severe, more toxic, and for which an allergic reaction is potentially life-threatening, gets nothing.
Steatoda paykulliana female has never been reported in the UK, and is only believed to be maybe dangerous - no one has been bitten badly enough to do the test
Spiders get such terrible reporting. A spider bite resulting in a bit of inflammation or any sort of reaction, especially in a child, will make a national newspaper without difficulty, evben though it amounts to little more than a standard allergic reaction. A wasp sting, which is far more severe, more toxic, and for which an allergic reaction is potentially life-threatening, gets nothing.
Steatoda paykulliana female has never been reported in the UK, and is only believed to be maybe dangerous - no one has been bitten badly enough to do the test
I lived in Queensland and then in Adelaide for a year and Black-widow spiders were very easy to find even in your garden. Still bites were rare and people just lived with them. Used to have a big huntsman in the garden called Herman, used to feed him at night
Yes, hilarious I'm sure. Saved the link to my iphone, then picked up the ipad instead.
Difficult to be sure from that picture, but that looks like another Steatoda to me, probably S. grossa this time. Native, and pretty harmless.
That's handy to know, thanks. Lots of them up around the eaves of
the house and under the tiles.
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Unknown catterpillar:
2 mating beetles, while for some reason the female is feeding on another beetle
2 mating beetles, while for some reason the female is feeding on another beetle
Ooh, Ooh I know this one....Miss, miss, pleeeze, miss, I know!! I think!!!!
Is it the caterpillar of the knot grass moth?
and black ground beetles?
Is it the caterpillar of the knot grass moth?
and black ground beetles?
I agree. The caterpillar is definitely not grass.
Cheers,
Leif
(I'm almost ashamed of how funny I find that.)
Woo hoo! Finally got one right!!!!!
2 mating beetles, while for some reason the female is feeding on another beetle
Now that's just being rude, she could at least pretend to be paying attention
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