All about insects 2022

Thank you ILR, :-)

Yes it is a Speckled Bush Cricket. I think that’s a good photo.

London 

Knat 

Fly


June 

Brighton 

Kingsway, Gloucestershire 

Hornet hoverfly (mimic) 

July 

Thorpe  Forest, Norfolk, 

Wasp

Blow fly 

Meadow Grasshopper 

Unlike the Meadow Grasshopper The field Grasshoppers side lines on the shoulders are sharply Kinked

Dung Beetle 

Speckled  Bush Cricket 

Females have ovipositors that curve upwards

Male Speckled Bush Cricket  
Males don’t have a ovipositor. 

Hoverfly 

Tiger Cranefly 

Garden Bumblebee 

Dark Bush Cricket  

Liberty Orchard, Haresfield, Gloucestershire 

Rosellis Bush Cricket 

Rosells Bush Cricket has a thick greeny yellow or yellow U on the side with yellow spots 

20th August 

23 August 2022

Tuffley

25 August 2022

Rosellis Bush Cricket  

PimperneBloke said:

I am thinking it's a flower!!

There's always PB with an answer!    

Excellent Ed. Well captured. I usually use one of two lenses, a 100mm macro or a 70-300 zoom, and like you I usually have the wrong one on when someting appears unexpected !!

Thanks James, I think you just might BEE correct ...  ... Sorry, I'll BEE off now ...

Queen Red Tailed Bumblebee with mites

That's a bit of excess baggage she has Linda.

I am trying to work out how I have got to my 6th decade without knowing that weevils had wings 

This little  Dorytomus longimanus was pottering about the moth trap so I potted it for a closer look and wings appeared and it flew!  I then re-captured it to watch for a while - fascinating to watch it tapping the surface with different feet and cleaning it's antenna.  I have no idea how I thought they moved about 

Linda257 said:

Queen Red Tailed Bumblebee with mites

That's a good clear photo Linda.