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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I don't know how it manages to walk around on a nettle like that when it looks so soft.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I guess some animals aren't sensitised to formic acid. Like ants.
  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    Hoping for identification of this romantic couple, in which one of the partners drew the short straw for the upside-down back-to-leaf position.



  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    A green veined white, look at those big green eyes!


  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    edited May 2021
    micearguers said:
    Hoping for identification of this romantic couple, in which one of the partners drew the short straw for the upside-down back-to-leaf position.


    It looks like St. Mark's Fly. The lady fly is on top, she has a much smaller head than the male.

    https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/flies/st-marks-fly
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My acer aphids have started to go through their final moults to become adults. I love how they just shed their old skin and then leave it standing there as they walk off.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    crazy @wild edges - great pics. Is my pic above of a kind of fly? Seems so to me, a bee mimic, though I can't find which one.... Thanks
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It looks like a female drone fly but hard to tell from those angles.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 716
    Please please can you help me to identify this bug. I have never seen them before in my garden but this season there have already been three of them there. They are small, no bigger than 1cm and shiny. 




    Thank you ☺️ 
    Surrey
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