My Garden Insects

[glsammy]

For about the past three months I've been unable to travel far and for the most part I've been restricted to taking shots from our small garden.
There's nothing unusual here, but I thought some of you may like to see how some of these mundane insects look like close up. All these shots were taken with my MP-e65 lens.

Make sure you click on the image twice to see it at its "best".

Here's a common enough sight, a spider and prey:



This little beauty looked next to nothing without the lens:



Some small flies:







Yet another unknown (to me! )tiny creature:


Small Hoverflies:









A Brown Lacewing Larvae:
















I've no idea of the id for the majority of these, I just enjoy taking shots of them!

[Dogghound]

1. The prey is a Scaeva spp. The spider is a Enoplognatha.
All small hoverflies are Episyrphus balteatus
Brown lacewing larve is correct

How big was the weevil? what plant was it on?

[Dogghound]

The frog hopper looks like Neophilaenus campestris but tis isnt really my field.

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by Dogghound

1. The prey is a Scaeva spp. The spider is a Enoplognatha.
All small hoverflies are Episyrphus balteatus
Brown lacewing larve is correct

How big was the weevil? what plant was it on?

Thanks for the id's. Always appreciated, I just wished they'd stick with me!
The weevil was a small one and on a Buddleia.

[Jason Green]

Evening Graham,

The Weevil is most likely Phyllobius argentatus; usually I'd say given the subtle characters they're best done under the microscope - but then again I always think the MPe-65 lens' images are the next best thing, and the only one I'd consider capable of picking-up near microscopic characters (depending on what they are of course, excl. DoF issues).

The Froghopper just looks like spumarius to me, the sixth image is a Barkfly nymph, likely Loensia sp., the fourteenth is the nymph of the Hawthorn Shieldbug and the last is a Mirid, could be Lygocoris pabulinus.

Take care,

Jason