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11-09-2011, 09:29 PM
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Today the Tachnid fly at pensthorpe, the only insect that posed for a photo.
Yesterday is easy, the willow emeralds at Strumpshaw fen  |
11-09-2011, 10:08 PM
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A toss-up between migrant hawker and southern hawker for me. Both at Crossness, perched low down out of the wind, and both let me get some great close-ups of their heads. They were in pretty good shape too. Usually the insects that are happy to pose are all beaten up and tatty.
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12-09-2011, 08:07 AM
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Had a quick nose about in an old acid oak woodland yesterday in the Darran Valley, plenty of Scorpionflies (Panorpa germanica) struggling about over the moss covered ground.
Did manage to find some exposed stone/rock to look under in places... there where good numbers of the Harvestman (Nemastoma bimaculatum), the Pillmillipede (Glomeris marginata) which were mixed in with various other inverts. My highlight was finding good numbers of the Three-spined lithobius ( Lithobius tricuspis) at a new site. |
13-09-2011, 12:53 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: West Yorkshire
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Originally Posted by MattPrince  OK its not an insect - but Scytodes thoracica - the house spider that spits sticky fluids at its prey was easily my mini-beast of the month.
I was in the lav. looking up at the ceiling, thinking .. that small spider has an odd shape - wahhhhhhhh! its the web spitter.
When I came out shouting "i've found it" the landlord and landlady were a little bit bemused.
Cheers,
Matt | This made me laugh as its exactly the same situation I was in when I came upon this spider for the first time except I was at work!
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13-09-2011, 12:54 PM
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| | | Re: Insect Of The Day
Yesterday's freshly emerged Silver Y clinched it for me
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14-09-2011, 12:49 PM
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Hornets nesting in an abandoned bird box!  |
14-09-2011, 12:57 PM
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A Painted Lady, in the garden today ,I haven't seen many Painted Ladies at all so far. |
14-09-2011, 05:18 PM
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Brimstone Moth Opisthograptis luteolata fluttered past I think I spoked it out of a horse chestnut tree.
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21-09-2011, 01:44 PM
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A Clouded Yellow today. |
23-09-2011, 12:10 AM
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I was in my small garden about lunchtime today and could hear buzzing from somewhere but couldn't see what it was. I thought it was a bee on my runner beans which are still in flower........ I managed to trace it to what seemed to be a type of hoverfly but they don't buzz, do they? It was in a bucket with a little water in the bottom. I turned it over and the creature landed on a plant nearby, still buzzing. I am not sure what type of insect this could be??
Any ideas please??
Naturegirl 
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