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mark smyth

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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #585 on: August 29, 2009, 05:58:29 PM »
Should I keep it or let it go?
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #586 on: August 29, 2009, 06:59:59 PM »
Don't be cruel, you've frozen it, taken it's picture and you haven't even given it the sweetened cotton wool treatment. Let the poor we soul out into the world where he/she belongs
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #587 on: August 29, 2009, 08:25:20 PM »
I don't think it will be a pest species? Most hover-flies have carnivorous larvae which feed on aphids and the like.
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #588 on: August 30, 2009, 08:16:04 AM »
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #589 on: August 30, 2009, 09:24:10 AM »
An amazing pic of the moth Syntomis phega. This moth is so similar to the burnet Zygaena ephialtes coronillae that it would be interesting to find out if it is also distasteful, or whether co-evolution has produced a mimic that gains protection by resembling the distasteful and poisonous burnet? Neither species is found in the UK.
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #590 on: August 30, 2009, 11:01:02 AM »
I tried to make some research, about your question but I did not find an answer unfortunately

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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #591 on: August 30, 2009, 12:29:48 PM »
Good grief! Shield bugs! :( This is a serious pest of many vegetable garden plants, such as peas and potatoes, and evidently tomatoes (which are also solanaceae). This looks like the nymphs of Nezara viridula? They have a piercing proboscis with which they suck sap. :P
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #592 on: August 30, 2009, 12:42:40 PM »
Isn't this the new threat to UK farms?
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #593 on: August 30, 2009, 12:50:45 PM »
ugly and stinky bugs! those Nezara viridula-s are  first time in my garden!!
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #594 on: August 30, 2009, 12:53:36 PM »
Anthony, are there different forms of Shield Bugs? I have always had one or two in my garden but haven't noticed the markings on them shown in the pic?
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #595 on: August 30, 2009, 01:10:38 PM »
David these are 'babies'
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #596 on: August 30, 2009, 02:37:11 PM »
David, there are dozens of species with a variety of colours and patterns in the UK. There's even one in Europe which is red with black stripes!
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #597 on: August 30, 2009, 09:45:43 PM »
I've never seen a live one anywhere in my garden but see the occasional dead one, with its toes turned up, lying on my seed or bulb pots. They are always coffee-coloured.
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #598 on: August 31, 2009, 06:21:43 AM »
do you think this one?? Pyrrhocoris apterus

We have grape in the garden and Forficula auricularia like army - those are most ugly insects
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Re: Wildlife mid 2009
« Reply #599 on: August 31, 2009, 09:37:29 AM »
Fire bugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus ) not only feed on vegetation, such as fallen seeds, but also attack other insects.
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