The "What is this bug?" thread

[Mad Mike]

Eastern Orange Tip (Anthocharis damone)

This was also in Italy. I must admit I thought it was an orange tip until It checked a book (Very lost orange tip maybe)

Mike

 

[Mad Mike]

Used to know this one seem to have misplaced a label somewhere.

 

[Harvestman]

Isn't that the Common Red Darter, Sympetrum striolatum? Or is that from Italy as well?

Odonata are yet another group I'm not very good at.

 

[Mad Mike]

Isn't that the Common Red Darter, Sympetrum striolatum? Or is that from Italy as well?

Odonata are yet another group I'm not very good at.

It was in England

I had this down as an immature male Common Darter. i am not at all good on these either

Mike

 

[Harvestman]

Can't be an immature, as the winged form is the adult form. That said, I'm not sure if this is just a different colour form, or a different species.

 

[Harvestman]

Now here's a picture that I find so impressive. Not mine, I hasten to add.

Araneus angulatus (seriously scarce species - I've never seen it) is the spider. It has caught a dragonfly :Wow:, and there's a common wasp on the wrapped prey trying to steal it just inches from the spider.

 

[JAG009]

Now here's a picture that I find so impressive. Not mine, I hasten to add.

Araneus angulatus (seriously scarce species - I've never seen it) is the spider. It has caught a dragonfly :Wow:, and there's a common wasp on the wrapped prey trying to steal it just inches from the spider.

Do you find this in the uk ?

 

[Harvestman]

Do you find this in the uk ?

I didn't. Picture posted in another forum, from southern Britain.

 

[Bushwhacker]

My best encounter this year was with a Bombylius major. Sadly, no photo. Again. Lovely creatures, though, and what a brilliant sounding name!

 

[JonathanD]

How about these bad boys? I'm always finding these under my artificial refugia.

 

[bb07]

A bug thread-excellent I have several different ones to show from over here. I don't know what any of them are so if anyone has an idea I would be grateful.
These are concentrated on the beach of a lake in northern Saskatchewan

And a closer view

These next ones have appeared here for the very first time in this area. The tree is a birch

 

[Harvestman]

A bug thread-excellent I have several different ones to show from over here. I don't know what any of them are so if anyone has an idea I would be grateful.
These are concentrated on the beach of a lake in northern Saskatchewan

And a closer view

These next ones have appeared here for the very first time in this area. The tree is a birch

The beetles at the top make me think of chafers, which often have mass-emergences - thousands of them all emerge from their pupal state at once, as adults, to quickly mate and disperse. its a way of overewhelming the local predators, so that they can't all get eaten, and guarantees that some will get away. That's what this looks like to me. However, as to a species id, I haven't a clue

The second ones are true bugs, Hemiptera, and I think they are juveniles (possibly an adult in centre pic). From the colouring I'd say this species is poisonous (or would like others to think it is), and so the clustering increases the warning effect. I've a feeling that I've seen these sorts of pictures before, but can't recall where, but yet again, I don't know what species it is.

Thanks for posting the pictures.

 

[Harvestman]

How about these bad boys? I'm always finding these under my artificial refugia.

Jon, on this one my expertise stops at the point where I say "Those are ants". After that, I haven't the faintest.

 

[JonathanD]

"Those are ants".

I bow to your genius

 

[Harvestman]

I bow to your genius

I can recognise a snake when I see one too.

Usually.

 

[Mad Mike]

Can anyone do better than praying mantis x2 (Manti?)

Sorry about the blurred paler one couldn't see what I was doing in the bright sunlight.

These were about 20m from each other - in Italy

Mike

 

[mcniac]

This was a lucky shot I took years ago, I was looking for firewood during the night and had a camera at hand.
I asked some specialist on a webpage what's the name and he told me that was some sort of hunter spider, I don't remember the latin name, it is very common here in Argentina, the spider was about 10 cm in diameter (4 inches)

Cheers
Esteban

 

[Adze]

One for you Harvestman:

Dorsal shot

Ventral shot

EDIT: Forgot to mention that this shed a skin while in the pot I was using for photographs - missed it with the camera though - is that indicative of a juvenile? Scale approx 6-7mm from 'teeth' to 'tail'

 

[Harvestman]

One for you Harvestman:

Dorsal shot

Ventral shot

EDIT: Forgot to mention that this shed a skin while in the pot I was using for photographs - missed it with the camera though - is that indicative of a juvenile? Scale approx 6-7mm from 'teeth' to 'tail'

Walnut spider, the flattened orb weaver, Nuctenea umbratica. This is a mature male.

With regard to "Can you do better than 'mantis' ?" the answer is "No"

I'm still working on the Argentinian Hunstsman spider, though I'm expecting the answwer to be a Heteropoda of some sort.

 

[Harvestman]

One of mine, from today. Second record for Wales, I believe.

Male


Female