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01-08-2010, 09:53 PM
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Please can someone help ID these?  Click for larger image.  Click for larger image.  Click for larger image.  Click for larger image.  Click for larger image.  Click for larger image.  Click for larger image.  Click for larger image.
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Blimey charlie, quite a few there, none of which I have any idea. Can I ask, though, how big roughly would you say number 6 is/was?
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Originally Posted by nikolai_avenger  Blimey charlie, quite a few there, none of which I have any idea. Can I ask, though, how big roughly would you say number 6 is/was?
Cheers. Nik. | Thanks for your reply  .
Sorry about the quantity but they are an accumulation of images, over the last 3 months, that I have not been able to ID.
#6 was about 4-5mm long.
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02-08-2010, 05:56 PM
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Second one down belongs to the genus Ectemnius. These are sphecids that specialize in hunting flies and stocking their nests with them. They are impossible to identify from a photo like this and even with the specimen they can sometimes be rather tricky.
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Also, 1, 3, 4 and 6 are parasitica, so putting a species to these from a photo is effectively impossible. You may want to post them on hymis, where there are a lot of specialists who may be able to give you a subfamily and possibly even a genus.
7 and 8 are sawflies, but as above, they're not easy to identify, even with a specimen.
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Off the top of my head, 7 may be a Macrophya and 8 has the look of a Tenthredopsis.
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Thank you all for your replies to this post . It was made rather difficult because the images are not as good as I would like them to be for ID posts  . My apologies for that.
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Afternoon Peter, Quote:
Originally Posted by PeterD ...it was made rather difficult because the images are not as good as I would like them to be for ID posts . My apologies for that. | Even with your usual perfectly-positioned and obliging inverts, the parasitic ones wouldn't be identifiable in all probability due to microscopic features needed not available in field images.
You may get lucky with one or two distinctive ones, or at least sub-family on occasion.
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Good evening Jason,
Thanks for your kind comments which make me feel a little better .
Getting an ID from a photo is always difficult and I shall try to provide the best I have when I seek help.
Kind regards
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