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Insects of the day

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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    edited June 2020
    Close but no cigar. That one is oedemera lurida, a bit smaller than nobilis and the males don't have the weight lifter thighs. We don't seem to get nobilis here sadly.


    You must be right. Those 2 species look quite similar, and as you say the most significant difference is between the males of the 2 species. I've only seen O. nobilis specimens where I live, and it seems they are much more common than the O. lurida ones, hence my hasty (and erroneous) reply to your post. :(:blush:

    What about @Sazz101 's specimen? which one is it?

    I'm attaching a pic of a male O. nobilis I took some years ago, displaying the big thighs.

  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    @wild edges and @Papi Jo, your photos are always amazing. Do you mind me asking if that is your day job? (Sorry if it's too nosey 😉)
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    bullfinch said:
    @wild edges and @Papi Jo, your photos are always amazing. Do you mind me asking if that is your day job? (Sorry if it's too nosey 😉)

    Thanks! I can only speak for myself. Photography in general (and macro-photography more specifically) has been my hobby for a number of years. Link to my photo site. Sadly, recently I have restricted my field of investigation to my garden, as insects seem to have almost disappeared from my favourite spots in the nearby countryside.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Just a hobby for me. I have to use photography for recording buildings for work though so some of the skills transfer.
    Here's a question for anyone with knowledge of insects. I took a photo of this tiny, black insect that I thought was a moth. It was probably not much more than 5mm long and very thin so the detail is hard to make out. I can't find a moth to match but the more I look at it the more I think it might be a caddisfly :/  There's not much information about tiny caddisflies around either though and the antennae are a bit short for the ones I can find. Any other bright ideas?

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    @Papi Jo, @wild edges, thank you. I have teenage son who has become interested in taking photos during lockdown, and your posts are very interesting 🙂
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    My phone can’t take macro photos, so excuse the quality, but can someone identify these three insects?

    The orange fly?


    Moth


    Bee (leafcutter?)

  • I think the moth is the Broad-barred White, Hecatera bicolorata. 
    I agree that it is a leaf-cutter bee.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Thank you, Alan.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    There seems to be lots of the orange flies around at the moment. I think they're rust flies but not sure.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Thank you. I’ve only seen this one for now and it looked unusual.
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