Author Topic: Bugs (Read 136201 times)

Pingu · « **Reply #250 on:** 06 May, 2020, 10:17:36 pm »

400kΩ insect.

IMG_3261_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Salvatore · « **Reply #251 on:** 08 May, 2020, 07:41:33 pm »

A bit of research suggests this is a green leaf weevil

Salvatore · « **Reply #252 on:** 09 May, 2020, 11:05:31 am »

A mayfly in my garden this morning. They are supposed to be aquatic, but there is no water in the immediate vicinity.

Salvatore · « **Reply #253 on:** 10 May, 2020, 11:14:26 am »

A spear-winged fly in my garden yesterday. 4-5 mm long. Magnificent eyelashes, n'est-ce pas?

Salvatore · « **Reply #254 on:** 11 May, 2020, 08:14:25 am »

HeltorChasca · « **Reply #255 on:** 11 May, 2020, 09:00:58 am »

Loving the inverts @salvatore Keep them coming

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Salvatore · « **Reply #256 on:** 12 May, 2020, 11:23:56 am »

Thanks HC. Too windy yesterday, but ideal conditions this morning in my garden.

Salvatore · « **Reply #257 on:** 13 May, 2020, 02:41:18 pm »

Yesterday I spent several minutes following the progress of this handsome beast walking across and posing a leaf before it scrambled across a gap between the tip of the leaf and this stalk and scuttling up under a leaf.

1:1 magnification, cropped. I've measured its length (in pixels) on the uncropped raw image, and using the size of the image (~~4000~~ 4600 pixels wide) and the sensor (18mmx12mm), calculated its length to be ~~6.99~~ 6.08 mm. To the naked eye it's a small thing on a leaf with a slightly brighter green colour than the leaf.

Salvatore · « **Reply #258 on:** 14 May, 2020, 05:50:02 am »

Salvatore · « **Reply #259 on:** 15 May, 2020, 04:48:24 pm »

Empis tessalata apparently. On an nettle.

Pingu · « **Reply #260 on:** 17 May, 2020, 07:03:48 pm »

Ladybird with a borked wing.

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Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #261 on:** 17 May, 2020, 08:36:47 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on 14 May, 2020, 05:50:02 am

Very nice. I do like a shiny insect

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #262 on:** 17 May, 2020, 08:38:07 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 17 May, 2020, 07:03:48 pm

Ladybird with a borked wing.

IMG_5978_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Quote from: The Ladybird

I am raising the gin pennant. WHERE IS MY GIN?

Salvatore · « **Reply #263 on:** 19 May, 2020, 06:23:22 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 May, 2020, 08:36:47 pm

Quote from: Salvatore on 14 May, 2020, 05:50:02 am

Very nice. I do like a shiny insect

Thanks. Allegedly they are pests. Here it is today (or a close relation)

HeltorChasca · « **Reply #264 on:** 19 May, 2020, 08:57:56 pm »

I think this has become one of my favourite threads. Thanks Mrs Pingu and Salvatore.

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Salvatore · « **Reply #265 on:** 20 May, 2020, 10:25:54 am »

Ladybird eggs on the underside of a leaf on an apple tree this morning. Very close to where I saw a particularly sluggish ladybird a few mornings ago, almost cocooned in a curled-up leaf.

Salvatore · « **Reply #266 on:** 22 May, 2020, 01:34:30 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on 20 May, 2020, 10:25:54 am

Ladybird eggs on the underside of a leaf on an apple tree this morning. Very close to where I saw a particularly sluggish ladybird a few mornings ago, almost cocooned in a curled-up leaf.

Yesterdays eggs are this morning's larval hatchlings.

Salvatore · « **Reply #267 on:** 22 May, 2020, 04:17:31 pm »

The little yellow ones have turned dark brown, and they are crawling all over each other.

A few seconds of ladybird larva scrum on youtube.

Salvatore · « **Reply #268 on:** 22 May, 2020, 07:39:33 pm »

If they can't find enough aphids and mites to eat they eat each other. Allegedly.

Salvatore · « **Reply #269 on:** 23 May, 2020, 05:03:36 pm »

This afternoon I took a look at what was left of the ladybird larvae (the shed skin after the first moult). But with a naked eye rather than a macro lens. Blimey, they are tiny - about 1 mm long.

A couple of feet away was this comparatively giant crane fly on a bramble leaf.

Salvatore · « **Reply #270 on:** 25 May, 2020, 05:51:17 pm »

A tiny speckled bush cricket on a bramble leaf in my garden this afternoon. 3-4 mm long (excluding legs and antennae). The speckles are not visible to the naked (i.e. my) eye.

Salvatore · « **Reply #271 on:** 26 May, 2020, 06:05:23 pm »

Same one as yesterday

Salvatore · « **Reply #272 on:** 29 May, 2020, 08:50:29 am »

A tiny leafhopper

andyoxon · « **Reply #273 on:** 29 May, 2020, 09:54:25 am »

Large red damselfly; male 'parently as females are black.

IMG_20200528 by a oxon, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #274 on:** 29 May, 2020, 07:25:20 pm »

IMG_3565_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr