Interesting bugs thread

thebishop

Moth trap.

thebishop

thebishop

Bright -line Brown-eye Caterpillar ?

Mothman

thebishop wrote: »

Bright -line Brown-eye Caterpillar ?

I believe it is

thebishop

This mating lasted for more than 24 hours.( They were near the door)

Mothman

4 views of a female Speckled Bush Cricket Leptophyes punctatissima that was on outside of window last night.





I think the reflections add a certain coolness

Mothman

Wasp Beetle Clytus arietis


Found on my daughters hair...inside the house!

cherrieblossom

took some photos of these last year and i never found out what they are, anyone know ?

cherrieblossom

not sure what these are any one able to help ?

wgsten

Hawthorn Fly (bibio Marci)


Olive Upright Dun (Rithrogena Semicolorata)

littlebug

Walnut Orb Weaver (I think)

Velvet shank

cherrieblossom wrote: »

not sure what these are any one able to help ?

2nd and 3rd ones, I'm fairly sure, are both Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum)

cherrieblossom

Velvet shank wrote: »

2nd and 3rd ones, I'm fairly sure, are both Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum)

thanks for that:)

littlebug

Beetle heavily laden with lice. Not sure what type it is... maybe Minotaur? I couldn't upend him... those legs weren' t bending! Nice purple sheen to him.

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cockchafer

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whyulittle

So I was walking along one of the paths at Boora today when I see a dead mouse. Looking at it closer, it looks like it's only half dead as it's still moving about....then this fella crawls out from underneath it.

It must have some strength to move it as much as it was.

Mothman

whyulittle wrote: »

So I was walking along one of the paths at Boora today when I see a dead mouse. Looking at it closer, it looks like it's only half dead as it's still moving about....then this fella crawls out from underneath it.

It must have some strength to move it as much as it was.

Sexton Beetle.
At least 4 species with similar black/orange colouration.

They bury such carcases and lay their eggs in them

F.R.

Elder Aphid (Aphis sambuci) with an ant looking for some honeydew

littlebug

Vine weevil found in my daughters bed this morning :eek:

I suppose I should have released it somewhere other than my garden :rolleyes:

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alie

Mothman wrote: »

Wasp Beetle Clytus arietis
Found on my daughters hair...inside the house!

Do these sting?

Mothman

alie wrote: »

Do these sting?

NO!
Wasp is reference to the colouration

Mothman

littlebug wrote: »

Vine weevil found in my daughters bed this morning :eek:

I suppose I should have released it somewhere other than my garden :rolleyes:

Check your indoor plants, I remember having about 30 emerge from a cyclamen.
Also I do release what I find to garden, but in a rather flat state or for hungry hen

littlebug

Mothman wrote: »

Check your indoor plants, I remember having about 30 emerge from a cyclamen.
Also I do release what I find to garden, but in a rather flat state or for hungry hen

nothing I can see on the indoor plants. I wasn't really thinking straight at all when I released it :rolleyes: but I did leave it next to the bird feeders and have sprinkled some nyjer sees around there so maybe something will have found it.

wgsten

I spotted this bug on the Great South Wall, Dublin. I have no idea as to its ID.

alie

Mothman wrote: »

alie wrote: »

Do these sting?

NO!
Wasp is reference to the colouration

I find this thread interesting but have an aversion to wasps, I'm grateful for your answer but was there a need for the exclamation mark?

littlebug

10 Spot Ladybird (I think- correct me if I'm wrong). My son finds all sorts on the trampoline

Desmo

wgsten wrote: »

I spotted this bug on the Great South Wall, Dublin. I have no idea as to its ID.

It is a sea slater or Ligia oceanica which is a kind of woodlouse but one that lives partly in salt water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_woodlice_of_the_British_Isles#Ligia_oceanica_.28Linnaeus.2C_1767.29

fryup

thebishop wrote: »

Moth trap.

how come so many get caught?? whats attracting them to the web??

Desmo

fryup wrote: »

how come so many get caught?? whats attracting them to the web??

It is a larder; they are being stashed there for later

cocoshovel

Found this guy on top of Mt Leinster today. He seemed to be fairly active. Any idea what it is?

F.R.

cocoshovel wrote: »

Found this guy on top of Mt Leinster today. He seemed to be fairly active. Any idea what it is?

Looks like a stonefly, order Plecoptera.

fryup

can anyone id this big spider i found in the garage ??

Desmo

fryup wrote: »

can anyone id this big spider i found in the garage ??

It is a "house spider"; there are several species which can look like this, all from the genus Tegenaria. The names have changed around since I used to know my spiders in the 1970s so I cannot say which one.

When I was a kid, you got these in every house in the late Summer and Autumn when they came indoors and scurried across floors to hide under sofas.
You also got them stuck in bath tubs when they went in looking for water and could not get out.

Des

WildIreland

Bit late with this but just looked at the thread and thought I'd pitch in:

wgsten wrote: »

Here is a few to get this thread going:

Devils Coach Horse Beetle

That's actually a black or violet oil beetle (Meloe sp.) -- hard to tell which from the photo.

wgsten wrote: »

Snail identity unknown can anyone put a name on this one?

Would go with brown lipped snail (Capea nemoralis)) for this fella.

littlebug

the teeniest tiniest fluffiest little fluffy thing I ever did see!
It's a very cute moth fly! (took a while to figure out).

fiacha

I was tinkering in the garage last night, when this fella came charging out from a piece of timer. It came within about 6" of my face and then just sat there staring at me.

After the screaming stopped, I managed to grab the phone for a couple of snaps

It looks like the spider in post 44, but I'm not sure.

UPDATE : Google says it's a female Steatoda nobilis.

I'm usually ok with spiders, but this one had my lizard brain twitching so it was coaxed into a bottle and released into the ivy behind the garage.


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SdoowSirhc

mikka631 wrote: »

#1

Yes, I believe that's the party bee, genus Charilus Sheenus









:cool:

littlebug

well it's almost getting springlike.

most of my bug pictures are of bugs on the trampoline :pac: Hoverfly I assume...

splish

Only recently started looking at hoverflies recently and here are a few examples from the garden. The UK Hoverflies group on facebook is a great resource to help with ID from photos. Roger Morris who co-wrote this book and several others on there are very knowledgeable and helpful.

Scaeva pyrastri

Meliscaeva auricollis

Helophilus pendulus

Eristalis horticola

Common Drone Fly Eristalis tenax

Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus

blackbird99

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not a great pic, any ideas?

mikka631

^^^^^^^^^^
Ladybird Larvae

splish

This particular fungus produces abundant spores, and the fly must have had the misfortune of having one of the spores land on it a few days previous to its untimely demise. The spore germinated and penetrated the exoskeleton of the fly, or grew in through one of many cracks in the fly's "armor." The first thing the fungus does, according to some reports, is grow up into the brain of the fly, in order to control its activities. The mycelium of the fungus grows into a particular area of the brain that controls the crawling behavior of the fly, forcing the fly to land on a nearby surface and crawl up as high as possible. Eventually the hyphae of the fungus grow throughout the body of the fly, digesting its guts, and the fly dies. Small cracks open in the body of the fly and the Entomophthora produces sporangia, each with a single spore, in pads. Remember that most fungi want to get their spore bearing structures as high as possible, so that the spores will get caught in air currents more easily. Other fungi produce fruiting bodies to accomplish this but Entomophthora takes advantage of its relationship with the fly to get its spores as high as possible.

The yellow bands on the fly is where the fungus has burst through the abdominal segments. The fungus only affects females, since they have the abdominal space for the fungus to form internally to turn into this amazing fungal zombie! :cool:

pablohoney87

Couldnt get a better pic of this guy.

Never seen anything like it. About 3/4 the length of my baby finger. Pincer Jaws, Big red eyes and what seemed like freely moving neck joint that was slightly retractable.

Any Clues?

splish

Looks like a lacewing. Probably one of the Chrysopa sp

splish

Sawfly-Tenthredo livida


Common Awl Robberfly Neoitamus cyanurus

thyme

Anybody seen one of these around, will try and get some pic's up later.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/08/09/Northern-Ireland-braces-for-invasion-of-giant-moths/UPI-43101376091540/

whyulittle

There was a pic of one floating around somewhere over the last few days. Also a Hummingbird Hawk Moth pictured in Clara last week.

thyme

And here was me thinking I found a new one, they are big.

mikka631

tuatara

My wife found this fascinating insect in our front room today, after hearing an odd low buzzing sound. I had never seen a beetle like it before, so got the old Collins guide out and did a few searches online. I think it must be Nicrophorus interruptus, although it does look a bit different to the photos I have seen online. The behaviour of these beetles seems very advanced (parental care etc.), even if their habits are gruesome (but essential). Here are a few photos I took before releasing it. It was about an inch long.

fryup

whats this? and what is its purpose in life?.....its been on my ceiling for a week now