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22-05-2009, 06:59 PM
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| | | Wine coloured insect with green legs?
Any id-eas please?
On Jacob's Ladder Polemonium in West Lothian, Scotland 22nd May.
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22-05-2009, 09:48 PM
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| | | Re: Wine coloured insect with green legs?
Possible Soldier Beetle Nymph (Cantharidae) ? |
22-05-2009, 10:04 PM
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| | | Re: Wine coloured insect with green legs?
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Originally Posted by WestLothian  Possible Soldier Beetle Nymph (Cantharidae) ? | Beetles undergo complete metamorphosis - they don't have a nymphal stage (they go from larva, pupa and then straight to adult). Hemiptera (which I'm guessing is what you've shoot) on the other hand undergo incomplete metamorphosis - they do have nymphal stages (varying numbers of nymphal stages to adult). |
22-05-2009, 10:10 PM
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| | | Re: Wine coloured insect with green legs?
I will have a look - thanks for narrowing the field. |
23-05-2009, 07:53 AM
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| | | Re: Wine coloured insect with green legs?
I think its a bug nymph, dont know which one though. None of the red ones I can think of have those black feet. Sorry
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23-05-2009, 10:32 AM
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Ditto. It's an early instar, though, so it may change colour completely by the time it's an adult...  | | |
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