Hello Folks!Be they big or small, insects are undoubtedly highly fascinating creatures. Chances are wherever you are, whatever you're doing, an insect is not a million miles away and you might not even know it! So what better reason than to have a quiz to see how much you know about them.
Each Monday for 12 weeks, I will be posting a little teaser for you. Without looking in books or on the internet (i.e - no cheating), see if you can identify the insect. On Wednesday, so as long as no-one has guessed it, I will post one clue. On Friday I will post the answer along with some additional information for your interest.MYSTERY INSECT QUIZ#4I'm a musical WAG.
Best post the answer tomorrow folks, please forgive me if it is not first thing, being Good friday and all, but will do my best :)
Mrs T its 6.15am got up early for the clue!! still waiting!! hee!hee!
Regards Mick
Work is for those people that don't Bird-watch!!!!
Been thinking about Bees and honey bees WAG their tails to show where food is
Ray Just a last ditch
a good laugh is better than a tonic
I too was up at 6.15am as I am most mornings dog walking! Even on my days off! anyhoo...
Congratulations to all of who guessed Horntail. First, a bit of about the clue I gave you earlier: A musical WAG. Well...WAG was to distract you (please forgive) and what I was after was wag as in tail (wagging). The ‘musical’ element was referring to a horn, a wind instrument, which leads my nicely into Wednesday’s clue: A fanciful, if slightly wooden story in the wind. A fanciful story might be a tale, from which you would get ‘tail’. ‘Wooden’ refers to the fact that Horntails are sometimes referred to as Wood wasps, as the females may lay their eggs in the trunks of pine trees, from where they can be seen around May to October.
The Horntail belongs to the sub-order of bees, wasps and ants (Hymenoptera), known as Sawflies (Symphyta). Sawflies are those critters that supposedly have saw-like ovipositors (used for laying eggs). The female horntail can easily be mistaken for a wasp, but before you flap, this lady is harmless. The male horntail has an orange coloured abdomen and both males and females have yellow spots behind their eyes. A picture of a horntail can be found here.Keep an eye out for next week’s mystery insect quiz!HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!Claire x
I'm going back to finding the port hole cleaner on the Titanic lol
RAY
happy easter
Hey Ho...I could sort of justify my Wood Cricket, never mind, try again next week..
Caroline in Jersey
Cin J
Happy Easter Claire and I wonder how we did not get it with those great clues,none of which were misleading it should have been easy for us.
Going to join Ray and help with the cleaning.
I'm not sure anyone did get it did they? If they did - 'we're not worthy'!!!:-) Can we please go back to only being VERY difficult as with the last Quiz please? Happy Easter Mrs T & everyone.