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Insects of the day (2)

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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @Papi Jo Thanks! Yep, I think so too, I'm brushing up on my damselflies this year as I'm not too hot on them but I've got a good guide.
    I use the French version of Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe by Klass-Douwe B Dijkstra, which I find excellent.
  • A Wasp Beetle. Apparently common in England but this is the first one that I have seen, in a Cheshire garden.


  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778

    Not my garden thank God, just on a tree by a path where I was walking. They had covered the entire tree and it looked pretty dead - not sure if they caused that or they chose it because it was dead?? 
  • Ermine moth caterpillars. The tree should recover!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57356372
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    I just looked up the moths @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool they're quite pretty!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'm glad you're celebrating wasps after your troubles with them! @Crazybeelady
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    Ha yes I'm open to accepting some species!
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm not really sure where to post slugs since they're unlikely to get their own celebration thread on a gardening forum but I was very excited to finally find the only slug with a Latinised Welsh name in my garden. Selenochlamys ysbryda, the Ghost Slug. This was the new species found in Wales in 2008 but is now thought to originate in Crimea and is actually invasive, although I don't think this has been properly proven yet. You can see they have no eyes and normally live underground eating worms, but this one was in my leaf mold.

    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 always love to see the stained glass details on the wings.

    The eyes are kind of sci-fi. 


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