Identify a thingie

[Jaded]

You can get them in Waitrose too.

[Wowbagger]

My brother caught lyme's disease a few years ago after a tick bite. I think that was in Wales but I will ask him to make sure. Fortunately he noticed the early symptoms of the disease and had the right treatment so it didn't develop into anything especially nasty.

[mcshroom]

If you think you may have been bitten by a tick, it may be worth a chat with yuor GP: -
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Lyme-disease/Pages/Diagnosis.aspx

[Jaded]

Here's another thingie. Well over an inch long.

[bumper]

Looks like a horse fly. They can bite through jeans too!

[Regulator]

Most of the UK is free of Lymes disease, though it is becoming more of a concern.

Most of Yorkshire and lancashire has lymes.

From the PHE* info on Lymes Disease:

Cases have been reported from most counties in England and Wales, with infection occurring most frequently in Exmoor, the New Forest, the South Downs, parts of Wiltshire and Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex, Thetford Forest, the Lake District and the North York Moors.

*It's PHE now, rather than HPA, but they haven't updated the web-site.

[mattc]

Another thingie.  Sorry about the poor photo.  The thing was escaping fast.

Is it a Murray Mint?

[clarion]

I didn't want to pick it up and suck it to check.

[Jaded]

Looks like a horse fly. They can bite through jeans too!

Horse flies are cleggs up here, and that thing was about 5 times larger than a clegg.

[bumper]

It's a brown horsefly

http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=50368&pid=217140

http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/2009/06/check-out-this-massive-fly/

A tabanus sp.

[Jaded]

Here's a new one.



Slightly smaller than a housefly. And now outside, so no more piccies.