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Insects of the day

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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    ID?
    Can any of you insect lovers suggest a name for what I saw a day or two back?
    It was sitting on a long grass blade, bright red, small black spots, similar shape and size to a ladybird larva, but I never got a chance to spy any more details because when I tried to move in closer it jumped high, off the leaf!
    It defo wasn't a ladybird or a lily beetle and most of the other things that looked  a bit similar online, were not from these shores. Any ideas folks?
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Maybe a froghopper?

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I love this thread.
    I'm very jealous of your stag beetles @1634 Racine  :)
    We don't get them here. 
    Great hawkmoth pic too @pitter-patter :)
    @wild edges  - never seen one of those moths either. Slightly peeved, considering my forum name  ;)
    I love that hoverfly/kalanchoe though.  :)

    My camera is more suited to my other pastime, so getting really good close ups isn't possible. I got two shield bugs not social distancing yesterday, but they aren't good enough to post here. I enjoy everyone else's photos though. Delightful.


    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    From @Buttercupdays 's description I agree with @wild edges suggestion of froghopper, maybe Cercopis vulnerata, similar to the one I posted recently here : https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/comment/2186165#Comment_2186165

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I saw this tiny beetle that I'd never seen before on a daisy. So tiny I needed a macro photo to ID it properly. Turns out it's a varied carpet beetle so more of a pest than a new garden friend. I'm not sure if it's varied because of it's patterning or if it just likes lots of different types of carpet.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Just messing about with some more of the photos but just look at the pattern on this guy. Bear in mind how tiny this beetle is then look at the bug hidden under the petal below.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    A couple more:
    A sloe bug
    and a common swift moth that crash landed in the house. I just like how fluffy it is.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    More moth action today. This time a silver-ground carpet moth.
    and a spangly beetle that I think is a false blister beetle of some kind. That's an erigeron karvinskianus flower for scale so pretty tiny.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    I took lots of photos of bees but this was as good as I could get it :/


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