What is buzzing or flying near you today??

LOL

Re your flying mothra!

try contacting... http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

where they try and identify bugs from all over the world. If they don't answer first time, try re-submitting your query, as apparently they are often snowed under with requests for Unidentified Creepy Crawlies!

I have googled and googled but can't come up with an answer!

Good luck Sherlock!

 

LoL could be a type of carpenter moth.

 

Or even a carpenter bee!

http://www.utoronto.ca/forest/termite/pest1.htm

 

No, walnut, I don't think it's a moth or a bee, Cookie. I'm sure it's a beetle of sorts.

Like your story,Cookie, and thank you for that link. Mine actually is similar to the Metallic Wood Boring Beetle from Brazil if you scroll down their page, but mine is smaller and fatter. I have e-mailed them and will let you know the response. It's a good link, lots of neat critters, so I've saved it.

 

It looks like a bee to me LoL,

 

Here's a Wiki entry for wood boring beetles.

It mentions this is one of the largest of the beetle families so chances are you may well be right about your one LOL!

Better watch out for that lovely orange tree in your garden!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_beetle

http://www.barkbeetles.org/Buprestidae.cfm

 

Hi, Cookie ... are you a particular flavour by the way ... chocolate chip, ginger ????

No, they are not my critter who is big and fat and hard shelled and mean ... and I hope your bug people answer me sooooooon.

I was bird watching today and I'm proud of these two photos I took ...

 

Beautiful shots LOL!

Is that a yellow legged gull?

*Cookie thumbs through birds of Europe desperately!*

More birds please!!!

PS: I'm definitely a ginger! .... and chocolate....
... and lemon... and orange... and shortbread...

oh sod it ... I'm an everything Cookie!

 

Probably CM, Yellow legged or Lesser Black Backed. Gulls are notoriously difficult to ID.
Good shot Lol, now go and find a Hoopoe or a Bee Eater. :D

 

good shots lol, the second one looks like he did a little dance and pose for you

 

Thanks, guys.

I just thought they were seagulls ... a pigeon-toed one in the first instance and a strutter in the second. :D

My friends have Hoopoes in their garden, strongy, but I understand you have to have grass to have them ... so I'm sh*t out of luck!

Just looked Bee Eater up in my book ... what a beauty! Must now go trawl to find the bird I hear early in the morning that sounds like a puppy crying ... and no, it's not a puppy somewhere here for years!

 

Sorry, imp, missed you there ... think he was winking at me actually. They were just feet away from our table, quite incredible. I guess they are used to tourists and thought we were as well. :rolleyes:

 

Marley your photo's were so lovely.

LoL, .....shiver..... Don't like it :( Let us know when you find out what it is.

Good photo's everyone.

cheers