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22-04-2008, 08:01 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2008
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| | | Your favourite insect
Mine would have to be either the green tiger beetle or the marsh fritillary.
You? |
22-04-2008, 08:06 PM
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| | | Re: Your favourite insect
This greater horntail has to mine as it was in my garden.  |
22-04-2008, 08:11 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Outside Bewdley in a wood with stream in garden.
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22-04-2008, 08:12 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Outside Bewdley in a wood with stream in garden.
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| | | Re: Your favourite insect
One of the damselflies - but can't remember what they're called and that id book is in a box  Can't remember which way round but think males are blue and females green? |
22-04-2008, 08:17 PM
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| | | Re: Your favourite insect
ruby tailed wasp for me, great looking wee beasties.
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22-04-2008, 08:25 PM
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| | | Re: Your favourite insect
I used to sit in an attic window with my feet dangling into space,a candle and sheet of white paper as a reflector, attracting those round, tough, black beetles in.They arrived like bullets and always fascinated me as they moved purposefully across the floor folding their wings neatly as they went.Then I met The Devils Coach Horse, wow! and Dragonflies taking Wasps as they emerged from their nest on a sunny riverbank, Cockchafers,Dysdera Crochata
Sorry love 'em all
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22-04-2008, 08:32 PM
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| | | Re: Your favourite insect
the 'uglier' the better. |
22-04-2008, 08:34 PM
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| | | Re: Your favourite insect
Oh this is hard!
In each of these orders
Odonata-Scarce Emerald Damselfly
Lepidoptera-Adonis Blue
Colepotera- Stag Beetle
Orthoptera- Grey Bush-Cricket
Hemiptera- Sloe-bug
Hymenoptera-Hornet
Diptera-Volucella zonaria
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22-04-2008, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Your favourite insect
Bumblebees, big furry friendly and useful. If I had to narrow it down then the Red-tailed species.
Oulema melanopus was the first insect I identified from my Collins Field Guide so I have a soft spot for that cereal pest! | | | |
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- ever tried them Paul - lovely and crunchy on a nice salad
