Insects and Spiders

What a whopper!!

Another fucking massive beetle. This one a rhinoceros beetle of some variety (doesn’t take a genius to figure that out). Didn’t manage to give this one the finger for scale, but larger than the last one, probs about 10 - 12cm or something.

Also saw a massive centipede, maybe about 20 or so cm in length, but that fucker was not for hanging about for photos.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-66468444

The pashas are now munching through the figs

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Great photo

Beautiful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-66468444

Popped up on the beeb, some lovely photos.

My addition is this flying set of scissors (who was actually pretty chill).

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Bastards!

Female Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi) looking pretty fine this morning.

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A couple of recent shots... Came across a cockchafer stuck on its back, and after a few attempts, managed to get it to stay right way up. A nice cinnabar moth catapillar, and a couple of dragonflies.

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Superb

The hornbeams in the wetlands centre are smothered in these alder beetles

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Great photos, particularly like the cockchafer!

Thanks!

Thanks! It seemed determined to lie on its back, flailing legs, carapace and wings. My wife turned it right side up about four times before it seemed to accept that it was better off that way.

I found this wonderfully named morning glory plume moth this morning.

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Nice. I love a plume moth, they're v sci fi looking. I mean, most insects are sci fi looking when you get in close, but like plume moths have more of a spacecraft aesthetic rather than a monster aesthetic.

:-D

I thought at first that the handlebars were the wings, before sense dawned. I wonder what the evolutionary advantage of mahoosive eyebrows is...

Making the most of this evenings sunshine, a Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) nectaring on a French Marigold

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and one of the Tube Wasps, I think Ancistrocerus gazella

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Spotted yesterday in a wilder part of the garden:

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U must be in the Land of the Giants?

Made sure this lad got across the Surrey Canal path without getting run over or trod on

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What is this little shit, and why is it trying to eat . sting / mate with me?

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Is there any chance of identifying the wasp(?) responsible for this small, single layer nest found in a (distant) neighbours outhouse?

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