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  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 716
    edited July 2019
    Those pictures are amazing @Papi Jo

    Look what I saw today: tiny insect, less than 1cm, but with huge antlers 

    Just hope it’s not somebody who will eat up my garden 


    Surrey
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    How about this parasitic Ichneumon wasp, female.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Big Blue Sky said:
    Just hope it’s not somebody who will eat up my garden 


    Looks like a mid-instar form of one of the squash bugs.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    I didn't manage a photograph but a bit of excitement in the garden as one of my wish-lists turned up — a ruby-tailed wasp. The bricks on my garage are somewhat potted and so I often see bees and wasps checking out the holes, today it was the turn of a Ruby-tailed and I was able to spot it from some distance thanks to the bright colours.
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 716
    wild edges said:
    Big Blue Sky said:
    Just hope it’s not somebody who will eat up my garden 


    Looks like a mid-instar form of one of the squash bugs.

    Thank you, that’s exactly what it is! Seems to be a pest though, so maybe it’s not such great news for my plants 😄
    Surrey
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Big Blue Sky said:
    k you, that’s exactly what it is! Seems to be a pest though, so maybe it’s not such great news for my plants 😄
    I get quite a few dock bugs on my raspberries at that stage and I've never noticed much damage. I think they're fairly low key as pests go but I guess no one minds if they nibble a few docks to death.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Type of bush cricket, I assume, anyone know which one? (for scale, tile is 10x10cm). I like it’s lacy yellow collar:

    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • matt_fendermatt_fender Posts: 169
    Lucky enough to grab a couple of images of a dragonfly around our pond today, which I assume was laying eggs? I don't know much about dragonflies, but I think this is either an emperor or southern hawker? It was big, anyway - dwarfing a damselfly nearby.


  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    edited July 2019
    Mother Nature showing of her best for the camera!  Beautiful photos. 
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  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    @Nollie, I think it could be this one?

    ps://www.google.com/search?q=barbitistes+fischeri&rlz=1C1CHMO_enFR586FR586&oq=barbitis&aqs=chrome.5.69i57j0l5.18839j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie

    Barbitistes fischeri. What a mouthful!
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