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08-12-2009, 04:55 PM
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Hi Gascar, and welcome to WAB 
Nice photos, and I like the montage! I think your orane insect is a Mite, though these things are very hard to identify to species-level ( ...the two-part scientific/Latin name). Your black one is also a Mite, though again I have no idea which. There is fairly little on the 'Net about them. I saw a similar one recently in Battersea Park, London.... 05/10/2009   Distant view, and individual... ...seen on a Plane Tree
They were pretty hard to focus on, as they just looked like multiple groups of ground pepper on the lichens! 
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08-12-2009, 05:05 PM
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Thanks Jason, Mites - ok , something to look up! Do some mites have 8 legs?
I knew I'd make a mistake of some sort, the little black fellahs are shown twice the scale of the little whitun, so they're each just under a millimetre-ish.
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08-12-2009, 05:22 PM
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Yes Gascar, Mites have 8 legs and belong in the same Class (... a high-up hierarchical position in biological classification) as spiders |
08-12-2009, 05:39 PM
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I like the idea of this thread, like the still in flower one..................
Does this count Jason? In leaf litter last week, millipede Polydesmus angustus I think? 
Some lovely jumping mites/springtails too, very very tiny and yellow, couldnt get a pic therefore!
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08-12-2009, 05:44 PM
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... yes, it most certainly does Ken! Thanks for adding |
09-12-2009, 10:17 PM
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09-12-2009, 10:51 PM
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Hi Hed, thanks for posting. I think your snail is a young Garden Snail Helix aspersa - though I think due to splitting and clumping the genus has changed, which I can't remember! So yes, that's very helpful... 
Your woodlouse looks like the Common Rough Woodlouse Porcellio scaber. |
10-12-2009, 09:02 AM
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The current taxonomic name for the garden snail is Cornu aspersum. There was some discussion of this and a link to more info in the Slug or snail of the day thread.
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10-12-2009, 09:28 AM
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... thanks Dave - that's it |
10-12-2009, 10:24 AM
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Hello all
Inverts still active this week. Two Episyrphus balteatus, one honey bee and a very bedraggled Bombus terrestris queen yesterday (9 Dec).
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