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I almost went for Large Skipper.....
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It is a Lauxaniidae. This is a family of small flies which, as far as I know have no common name and are generally found in damp and shady place such as woodland. Many are yellow like this (but a couple of genera are shinning black) and typically have these horizontal eye stripes. The larvae are little known but are thought to be in leaf litter. I cannot see enough of the key characters from this photo to take it any further.
Is this a Yellow Dung Fly?
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Looks like a sawfly.
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Yeah it is sawfly possibly r Tenthredo notha or similar
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Thanks
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And thanks again
Sorry late coming back to this. Thanks, Dave, for the ID, never heard of them before. One lives and learns.
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Crab spider.
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Thank you Alby
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I would appreciate a name for this critter. I think it must be a wasp of some sort (very thin waist) but that is as near as I can get. It was at Gibralter Point, Skagness yesterday. To the west was sand dune, to the east was salt marsh. It was on the footpath between the two
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It looks like one of the parasitic Ichneumon ( Sp?) wasps
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Thank you, Cobra.
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So good I said it twice eh John?
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Podalonia hirsuta, Hairy Sand Wasp. Sorry to pee on your parade Chris.:banghead:
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No worries Alby
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Thank you, Ajophoto. I do have a book on the British Hymenoptera but there are so many of them and the keys require microscopic features. The book has the proud boast of nearly 300 illustrations which is next to useless.
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It is very difficult to get an exact id but hopfully that is pretty close for you John.
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Nice shot Laurence, looks very much like Curculio venosus to me which is one of the nut weevils.
who or what is Mr.Scary please?
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Thanks Alby.
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thanks, I've had the cheek to put it in "macros" now, (cross posting!)Its a cracking image Laurence.
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Any idea's guy's
it was covered in white sticky stuff, very much like the "old school glue" in viscosity.
It was stuck on one of my Bonsai
Sorry about the quality it was only a couple of mm long, and the best I could do in breeze.
Arse end I assume
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it was covered in white sticky stuff, very much like the "old school glue" in viscosity.
It was stuck on one of my Bonsai
Sorry about the quality it was only a couple of mm long, and the best I could do in breeze.
Arse end I assume
Top view
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It looks like an insect called scale,
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Thanks Gary, I think you nailed it
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These tiny whiteish/yellow insects have started proliferating in the garden. They seem extremely sensitive to my movements, they just scuttle to the underside of the leaf with amazing speed so it's not worth setting up my usual tripod based kit.
This is the best I could get hand held this morning.
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It is a froghopper nymph, on its way to adulthood. Nice photo btw.
These tiny whiteish/yellow insects have started proliferating in the garden. They seem extremely sensitive to my movements, they just scuttle to the underside of the leaf with amazing speed so it's not worth setting up my usual tripod based kit.
This is the best I could get hand held this morning.
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Report the sighting here
These tiny whiteish/yellow insects have started proliferating in the garden. They seem extremely sensitive to my movements, they just scuttle to the underside of the leaf with amazing speed so it's not worth setting up my usual tripod based kit.
This is the best I could get hand held this morning.
Identify froghopper & leafhopper species | Xylem feeding insects
www.spittlebugsurvey.co.uk
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Reported, thanks for the link, very interesting information.Report the sighting here
Identify froghopper & leafhopper species | Xylem feeding insects
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Probably some sort of hoverfly larva is my geuss
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A butterfly but I can't tell you what speciesAnybody have any ideas about what this small clutch of eggs/larvae will mature in to? They're approximately 0.7-0.8mm diameter and in France.
Cheers....Bob
