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15-05-2006, 09:03 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: May 2006
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| | | Can any one identify this creature?
Hi everybody,
Can anyone please help.
I found this creature recently whilst walking in our local woods.
I've not been able to find it in any of my reference books.
Many thanks
Phillip |
15-05-2006, 09:10 PM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.E. Lincolnshire
Posts: 4,130
| | | Re: Can any one identify this creature?
Hello Phillip, and welcome to WAB 
I think it is a type of Longhorn Beetle - Rhagium mordax. |
15-05-2006, 09:12 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
Posts: 943
| | | Re: Can any one identify this creature?
It looks similar to a Nettle Weevil but the colouring of the body doesn't look right. |
15-05-2006, 09:14 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.E. Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: Can any one identify this creature?
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15-05-2006, 09:14 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
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| | | Re: Can any one identify this creature?
Edit :i think Alan may be right looking at a pic of one in my book.  |
16-05-2006, 08:29 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2005
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| | | Re: Can any one identify this creature?
Definitely Rhagium mordax - emerging now (from the pupal cells - they emerge from the pupae in autumn/winter), so there should be plenty about from now on. Associated with oak trees.
henrya | |
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