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Soldier Beetle on Iris Pseudacorus


Soldier Beetle on Iris Pseudacorus

I get lots of these every year. They look...well, to me they look scary..but they are harmless. GOYers helped identify them for me last year.



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cracking pic - fab detail on it

19 Jun, 2011

 

Thanks paul, but if you look again you'll see that almost everything EXCEPT the beetle is in focus!

19 Jun, 2011

 

looks good to me Karen - my camera can't pick them up that well close - there's a little ant or something too in the pic :):)

19 Jun, 2011

 

actually looking close a spider :D

19 Jun, 2011

 

Tis a wee money spider! ;))

19 Jun, 2011

 

Another insect identified, thank you. I like it when they are friendly:-)

20 Jun, 2011

 

I'm not good at zooming in on the insect shots, too much detail is scary!

21 Jun, 2011

 

lol...it is!

21 Jun, 2011

 

Fascinating ... I've not heard of, or seen, these insects before ... I learn something new every week on GoY ... lol!

24 Jun, 2011

 

I had never encountered them before we moved here Shirley. I think they must come in from the farm fields.

24 Jun, 2011

 

So long as they stay your side of Hadrian's wall . . . .

25 Jun, 2011

 

lol.....I think you probably have them down there too Shirley...but I hope you keep your lily beetles and hornets on your side! :))

25 Jun, 2011

 

: o )))

25 Jun, 2011

 

And my big green scary things that look like stick insects that are determined to climb on me! After July I do very little in the way of weeding because of those 'Things', and they come in the house when the windows are open. I will get Ella to post a pic next one we see and I will remember not to look at it! Wish they would go to Hadrian's wall and stay there.

29 Jun, 2011

 

Ugh! Yeuch! you can certainly keep them!! :))

30 Jun, 2011



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