The "What is this bug?" thread
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We do get the adults battering against the outside of the kitchen window if we occasionally forget to turn out the light - cheers!
I was going to post this. the two larevae look very similar, but on Poplar Hawk Moth the last pale stripe continues up onto the projection, like in the picture, whereas the projection is green in Eyed Hawk Moth.
Re the Italian spider and scorpion. The spider is Pholcus, probably P. phalangioides, a very common house spider, but in Italy you also get P. opilionoides, and I can't distinguish them from that pic.
For the scorpion I can do little more than guess, but from that pic Euscorpius flavicaudis is a possible, based on size alone.
For the scorpion I can do little more than guess, but from that pic Euscorpius flavicaudis is a possible, based on size alone.
By the way, if it comes to it, the spider will win every time in a fight, as it can entangle the scorpion with silk using its legs, without ever getting its body anywhere near enough to be grabbed or stung. I've seen them do it.
Found a few butterflies out wandering yesterday including a gorgeous Peacock Butterfly that was most obliging in letting me get close enough.
Comma
Male Green-Veined White
Speckled Wood
Peacock
Also found this little critter on a bramble looks like a shield bug of some sort?
Comma
Male Green-Veined White
Speckled Wood
Peacock
Also found this little critter on a bramble looks like a shield bug of some sort?
ta very much I reckon I could get into entomology I've got a few butterfly and moth guides might have to get some for other creepy crawlies too. I saw hundreds of dragonflies but they were too active to get any pictures, some really good-sized ones too
This was on the window sill this morning, I can't id it, thought the experts would inform me.
But first you thought you would try us, eh?
I think that is a hoverfly of ther genus Neoascia. I'd need to see the wing veins clearly to be sure though.
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Oh well, if you are going to ask for correct answers, then I'll have to get the hoverflies book out, study it hard, and then end up agreeing with you...
Hang on.
Oh alright then
Neoascia has something of a waist, and this doesn't, and this also has a yellow scutellum. S. scripta as stated, althou as I said, for hoverflies being able to see the wing veins makes it a lot simpler.
Hang on.
Oh alright then
Neoascia has something of a waist, and this doesn't, and this also has a yellow scutellum. S. scripta as stated, althou as I said, for hoverflies being able to see the wing veins makes it a lot simpler.
Another spider for you. This one had a web on our alpine strawberries, that stretched to the wall about 2ft away. THe spider was maybe 10mm long in the body, 20mm ish leg span.
It was a lighter colour. The camera just didn't like the white background.
It was a lighter colour. The camera just didn't like the white background.
Another spider for you. This one had a web on our alpine strawberries, that stretched to the wall about 2ft away. THe spider was maybe 10mm long in the body, 20mm ish leg span.
It was a lighter colour. The camera just didn't like the white background.
It's a Cross spider isn't it?
Yes, its a common garden spider, aka cross spider, aka diadem spider, aka St George's spider, aka Araneus diadematus. Looks like an attractively marked one though.
Found a hawk moth caterpillar today about 3" long, with a lovely blue tail. Pics were taken on my phone so not as good as they should have been.
Some idiots had been ripping bark from some cherry trees, they were a right mess, axe wounds in them, trees nearly "ringed" where bark had been removed. Litter everywhere. (bushcrafters my bottom). This "piller was on that bit, it looked to be making for a chunk of resin which was still tacky.
Pics were taken on my phone so not as good as they should have been.Some idiots had been ripping bark from some cherry trees, they were a right mess, axe wounds in them, trees nearly "ringed" where bark had been removed. Litter everywhere. (bushcrafters my bottom). This "piller was on that bit, it looked to be making for a chunk of resin which was still tacky.
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Oh that's lovely. I think it is an eyed hawkmoth. Compare with the poplar hawkmoth earlier in the thread.
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