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24-06-2010, 07:27 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: East Coast, Co. Down
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| | | ID help
I've noticed a strange (to me, anyway) insect hanging around my kitchen window recently. It is black, wasp sized, & was carrying a piece of green leaf (about the same size as the insect). It was hovering at a weep hole on my pvc window frame, something I've seen it doing over the last few days. Sorry, no pics. |
24-06-2010, 07:35 PM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006
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| |  Re: ID help
Sounds like a Leaf-cutter Bee, Megachile sp. |
24-06-2010, 08:22 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London
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Evening D, and welcome to WAB! 
I agree with Aesh, sounds like a Megachile sp., a Leaf-cutting Bee. I can't think of many alternatives...
Take care, Jason  |
25-06-2010, 02:21 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: East Coast, Co. Down
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Thanks to aeshna5 & Jason for your prompt answers. I must say that this has only served to make me more curious, so I've set up the camera & took a few shots. My 7 y.o. son is now fascinated, he has aspergers, ADHD, & is mildly epileptic, but this activity has kept him enthralled today, a GODSEND really! P.S. Sorry, received a message saying 'exceeds filesize limit', can't upload my pics so can't show you my hard work! 
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25-06-2010, 06:18 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Brockenhurst
Posts: 763
| | | Re: ID help
leafcutters are very interesting insects , they make their nests in flower pots in my greenhouses, they locate their nest exactly and no matter how many identical flower pots are on the staging they will fly straight to their chosen pot.
It is amusing to see their antics when i turn their chosen flower pot around with the hole they made directly opposite to where it was.
The leafcutter wil fly in, go to where its nest was and when unable to find the hole will float around in a confused state for a short while, sometimes going out of the greenhouse and coming back in and trying again, after five to ten minutes it will work out where it is then re-orientate to the new position, after that its a beeline straight to the hole.
That is when i turn it back to its original position 
Ian
Last edited by Beekeeper; 25-06-2010 at 06:20 PM.
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25-06-2010, 06:37 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,757
| | | Re: ID help
I've played the same game with those which nest in my greenhouse. They get really frustrated. Try and see where it is cutting its bits of leaves from, could be rose leaves, snowberry, acer or other shrubs. One decimated a young acer I had in a pot to "lace curtains". So I moved the pot a few yards, but it found it again! They are fairly easy to track, as they don't fly very far away from the chosen hole. Time the arrivals and departures.
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