Still battling with identifying wasps in the garden. To even get close to an accurate ID you need four clear photos from different angles and the buggers usually don't sit still for a second. Today's wasp seems to be a Tree Wasp but for some reason it's completely missing a crucial yellow triangle mark under the wing. This ID guide has been really helpful if anyone else feels the need to chase wasps around their garden... http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds2/insectswaspsidentification.htm
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
It's a dog eat dog world in the garden at the moment. Or more specifically a robber-fly eat predatory wasp world
and a tree wasp eat fly world (kicking myself for never using a flash with this one). I thought it had caught a bee but it appears to be a bee-mimic fly of some kind. @Fire asked about the size of the mandibles and this kind of gives you an idea of what they do with them.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
You'd think a bug with eyebrows this hairy would have a common name. Heterotoma planicornis seems to be as good as it gets though. I had to evict it from a raspberry I wanted to eat.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We did a moth trap last night. I had someone from the local Natural History group supply it and help identify moths. I never knew we had such pretty moths.
Some lovely moths there. How did they go about identifying them out of interest? I record every moth I find in the garden with photos and it takes an age to sort them out, especially all the little beige ones. I'll probably not even look through most of them until the winter when I have more time.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The lady who bought the trap with her had a lot of knowledge, a camera and a book. Most she could just identify. Any she couldn't straight off were photographed. Book consulted. One, a photo was sent to someone else to identify. There is a lot of knowledge out there to tap into.
We did a moth trap last night. I had someone from the local Natural History group supply it and help identify moths. I never knew we had such pretty moths.
A bit of a change from social wasps. I'd really hoped this was a nomad bee but I think it's some kind of mason wasp. As always the useful identifying marks didn't show on the photos
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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