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Showing posts with label beetle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beetle. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 July 2025

Soldier

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Cantharis rustica For weeks now, the garden has been awash with Common Red Soldier Beetles . But last month, we found one of their less comm...
Saturday, 7 June 2025

18 spots

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Eighteen-spot Ladybird ( Myrrha octodecimguttata ) I treated myself to a new camera last week. It can take much closer macro shots than my p...
Thursday, 29 May 2025

Leaf beetle

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Cow Parsley Leaf Beetle ( Chrysolina oricalcia ) Earlier this week, a metallic bluish-black beetle clinging to the stem of one of the Cow Pa...
Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Waspish

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Wasp Beetle ( Clytus arietis ) While wandering out to the pond the other afternoon, I spotted this waspy looking insect on one of the old cl...
Saturday, 28 May 2022

Shiny invaders

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Rosemary Beetle ( Chrysolina americana ) Whilst checking the herb garden during a coffee break this week, Mike chanced upon our first Rosema...
Thursday, 5 May 2022

Fruity weevil

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Apple Fruit Weevil ( Neocoenorrhinus aequatus ) While mooching around on this week's Bank Holiday Monday, I found this little insect res...
Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Investigator

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Banded Sexton Beetle ( Nicrophorus investigator ) When we run our moth trap (which we've hardly done at all this year), we regularly cat...
Thursday, 22 July 2021

Spotty beetle

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Spotted Longhorn Beetle ( Rutpela maculata ) The Creeping Thistle patch is in full bloom these days, drawing hordes of insects to its bount...
Monday, 21 June 2021

Thistle weevil

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Thistle-head Weevil ( Rhinocyllus conicus ) While poking around in the garden recently, I came across a speckled beetle I didn't recogni...
Wednesday, 26 May 2021

14 spots

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Fourteen-spot Ladybird ( Propylea quattuordecimpunctata ) Right now, our garden is crawling with ladybirds. Most are the ubiquitous Seven-sp...
Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Fear no weevil

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Liophloeus tessulatus While rummaging in a flowerbed this afternoon, trying to remove some of the innumerable Ground Elder plants that are r...
Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Carrion beetle

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Shore Sexton Beetle ( Necrodes littoralis ) Our moth trap turns up quite a few non-moth species on most nights. While most are various speci...
Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Soldiers

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Common Red Soldier Beetle ( Rhagonycha fulva ) on Creeping Thistle ( Cirsium arvense ) For the last few weeks, it's seemed like ...
Sunday, 2 August 2020

Spotty one

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Orange Ladybird ( Halyzia sedecimguttata ) This year has seen an absolute explosion of ladybirds in the garden. The vast majority have been ...
Friday, 17 July 2020

Herbie

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22-spot Ladybird ( Psyllobora 22-punctata ) While out exploring the garden during my lunch break the other day, I came across a few ...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Cockchafer

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Male Common Cockchafer ( Melolontha melolontha ) When we run the moth trap these days, we're catching a fair few Common Cockchafers ...
Saturday, 29 June 2019

Thunder thighs

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Male Here's another insect that has been everywhere  so far this summer, though somehow, I'd never seen one before this year. It...
Saturday, 22 June 2019

Longhorn

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Say "longhorn" to a Texan, and they're likely to picture a cow with some really long, pointy horns — the kind that could do...
Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Hunter and hunted

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It's a jungle out there. The drama of life and death is happening in our garden every day, with some of its residents hunting down an...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Invader

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Harlequin Ladybird ( Harmonia axyridis ) It was there, lurking under the shoe rack, when I went out to the porch to put my trainers on....