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Insects of the day

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  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    Little spider
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Could orange fly be a sawfly?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Sometimes I tell people we get giant horseflies here and they think I'm exaggerating but they're actually called giant horseflies, and they are...

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • mikeymustardmikeymustard Posts: 495
    Lol @wild edges we get them here too. I got bitten by a common clegg the other day, little beggar came back for more too, but I was ready for her!
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm not sure if these just bite or if they knock you unconscious first. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @Bijdezee, well-spotted. Graphosoma italicum neither good nor bad.
  • FlyDragonFlyDragon Posts: 834
    Bijdezee said:
    I've had quite a few of these guys lately, in their red and back striped pyjamas. Not sure if they're good or bad. 



    I guess he's a shield bug of sorts. We get a lot of them, various types. 
    Ooh do we have those in the UK?  
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Another tiny bee species from the garden today. I think it might be some kind of furrow bee but it has a very horsey face. On one of my favourite plants too, erigeron canary bird, which is having a second flush at the moment after peaking a bit early with this year's erratic weather.


    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
    and just a bit of interesting behaviour. I'm not entirely what's going on here but it looks like a type of wasp and it's using it's oviposter to either lay eggs into the plant (ox-eye daisy) or into grubs that are already living in the plant. It was very specific about where it stuck its oviposter and spent a lot of time searching around for the right place.



    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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