Latest posts tagged with #VC55 on Bluesky
Euplectrus bicolor female
Euplectrus bicolor female
Euplectrus bicolor female
Euplectrus bicolor female on a UK 2nd class postage stamp
Euplectrus bicolor.
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55
Aprostocetus spp. on a pencil
Aprostocetus spp. female
Aprostocetus spp. female
Aprostocetus spp. female
Aprostocetus spp.
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55
Microterys tricoloricornis on a UK 2nd class postage stamp.
Microterys tricoloricornis on the royal nose.
#wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #PutItOnABanknote
Springtail, Katiannidae genus nov.1. sp. nov.2
Katiannidae genus nov.1. sp. nov.2
One day it will get a formal name...
#Springtails #Collembola #VC55
Peacock Butterfly, Aglais io
Two tatty overwintered Peacocks, Aglais io, chasing each other round the garden.
#Butterflies #VC55
Puccinia lapsanae, gall on young Nipplewort leaves.
Puccinia lapsanae, galls on young Nipplewort leaves.
Puccinia lapsanae, galls on young Nipplewort leaves.
#Fungi #VC55 #galls
Oak Beauty, Biston strataria
I was fearful of a blank last night but my first trap of the year brought, alongside the Common Quakers, my first garden Oak Beauty, Biston strataria.
#VC55Moths #VC55 #moths
Asaphes vulgaris female
Asaphes vulgaris female
Asaphes vulgaris.
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #Pteromalidae
Microterys hortulanus female
Microterys hortulanus frontovertex
Microterys hortulanus ovipositor
Another day, another Microterys hortulanus - from a different site. This thing is clearly here in good numbers.
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55
Bristly Ladybird, Rhyzobius lophanthae
The Bristly Ladybirds, Rhyzobius lophanthae, have survived the wet winter and are still kicking around in the conifers in good numbers.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Microterys tricoloricornis?
Microterys spp.
A little Microterys help please?
I think the first is Microterys tricoloricornis - F4-6 pale?
Second one - Unsure F5-6 pale - ??
@arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55
Telenomus spp. solitary wasp
Telenomus spp. solitary wasp on tip of a pencil for scale
Telenomus spp.
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #Scelionidae
Epiclerus panyas female
Epiclerus panyas female
Epiclerus panyas
#wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #Tetracampidae
Cyrtogaster vulgaris female
Cyrtogaster vulgaris female
Cyrtogaster vulgaris
"I have rarely found any other Chalcidoid (except Cyrtogaster vulgaris) hibernating in grass."
Graham, M.D.V. (1969) The pteromalidae of north-western Europe (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Under Callitula bicolor, p 461.
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55
Fairy Wasps, Ooctonus vulgatus females, Mymaridae
Female Fairy Wasp, Ooctonus vulgatus, Mymaridae, on match head for scale.
Bring on the dancing fairies
First I'm gonna make it
And then I'm gonna break it 'til it falls apart
Fairy Wasps, Ooctonus vulgatus.
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #Mymaridae
Trichomalus repandus Head in dorsal view temples less strongly convergent, and one third or slightly more than one third as long as the eyes ; head about 1-3 times as broad as the mesoscutum. Antennal flagellum testaceous, at least beneath; legs except coxae testaceous; head and thorax tending towards bright green. (Graham, 1969)
Keys out to Trichomalus repandus.
(see alt text). #wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55
Steatoda grossa female
As County Recorder, one of my responsibilities is relocating the spiders my wife doesn't like from the house.
Steatoda grossa
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55
(I occasionally cheat and relocate them to a quiet spot elsewhere)
Leafhoppers & allies: identification, ecology and recording - Professor Alan Stewart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNt...
#Bugs #VC55 #Auchenorrhyncha #Insects #Entomology
Unidentified Braconid wasp
Unidentified Braconid wasp
Unidentified Braconid wasp
So many Braconids, so few I.D.s ...
#wasps #Braconidae #Hymenoptera #insects #VC55
@jasboparai.bsky.social @gavinbroad.bsky.social
Creeping Thistle Lacebug, Tingis ampliata.
Creeping Thistle Lacebug, Tingis ampliata.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55
Epiclerus panyas female propodeum
It's Epiclerus panyas: "female propodeum very densely setose, medially with many punctures bearing white hairs"
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55
Callitula bicolor
Callitula bicolor
Callitula bicolor, first record for #VC55 :-)
#Wasps #Hymenoptera #Insects #Entomology
Achenium depressum
Achenium depressum
Achenium depressum.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Egg cases
A friend passed me these empty eggs cases to identify, found on Oakmoss, Evernia prunastri. Shieldbug eggs I think, but too small for Green Shieldbug. Any guesses? No species particularly associated with lichens as far as I'm aware?
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lichens
