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29-05-2011, 09:10 AM
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| | | Fly/wasp with enormous antennae
Can anyone ID this little chap for me? In a field by a stream, n Shrops. |
29-05-2011, 09:40 AM
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| | | Re: Fly/wasp with enormous antennae
Not really into moths, but it looks like Nemophora degeerella to me.
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29-05-2011, 10:13 AM
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| | | Re: Fly/wasp with enormous antennae
Oh, so it's a moth? Wow. Thanks. there was a cloud of them all buzzing round my head. |
29-05-2011, 11:09 AM
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| | | Re: Fly/wasp with enormous antennae
An idea of size? Nemophora degeerella is reasonably large with around 10 mm wing length. Only the males have those very long antennae.
I'm not that good with moths either. But I have only ever found Nemophora singly in woodland. Adela croesella is rather similar but smaller.
Some of the Micropterigidae family gather in numbers and look superficially similar although I don't think any of them have antennae which are quite so long; and they are quite small. |
29-05-2011, 11:16 AM
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| | | Re: Fly/wasp with enormous antennae
There are a lot of these (well about 10 together) in my garden too, on a Hydrangea Aspera of all things.
Mine are about 1cm long (excluding the extraordinary antennae) and fly around when I approach. Haven't seen any with short/no antennae though. |
29-05-2011, 12:41 PM
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| | | Re: Fly/wasp with enormous antennae
I'd say the wing length was about 1cm, yes. I've googled Nemophora degeerella and it does look likely. | | |
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