What is buzzing or flying near you today??

It was such a good photo of the Peacock butterfly - why don't you nab the spot and post it in the British Wildlife survey as our first insect pic!!!

 

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=34;t=000347

Be our first insect entry!!!

A little challenge for us to capture as many examples of British Wildlife and post them here on GC ... the thread should explain all. It started off just birds and has evolved to another to include all other wildlife. It should be a few nice condensed galleries for those cold, wet nights.....

Plus we have started a 'rest of the world' section for birds and animals, so any of your Jamaican entires would be fab!!!

 

found this little devil in greenhouse yesterday

 

sorry cant see it very well,i think its a wasp

 

Sorry, Kathy3, I can't see your wasp very well, either!

I have to give credit to Cookie ... and her Bugman. After "chasing" him for an answer he says he thinks a Carpenter Bee.

I've looked back in my book with bugs and on the net and neither t'other half nor I can 100% agree with it being a bee rather than a beetle. Our critter ... and it's mates ... are all much larger/fatter than described and pictured and are quite irridescent. Also, we can't see any furr "ruffle" on the neck. I'll keep onto this one.

But ... who am I to argue ?????

 

Yesterday, my son called me into the shed to listen...there was a definite squeeking sound! I know we have mice in there, but we couldn't locate it - until the wind blew, and we realised the sound was a honeysuckle twig brushing against the window!!!

Anyway, as we were standing ther, I spotted a wasp fly in though a wee hole. It was carrying a whole load of fibres, and landed on the ceiling, beside the nest I hadn't previously noticed it had started building.

My son took some pics, and a short video:





http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jXaBX8ousIU

I stuffed up the hole, and removed the fragile beginnings (did feel bad - but I really don't want a wasps nest in the shed!). Have yet to investigate this morning - I wonder if it's found another way in - or if it's found a more appropriate site to nest?

 

I wouldn`t feel bad about ending a nest before it`s started, if it was an established nest then I might n`t feel to pleased with myself.

There is a time and a place for wasps and having them in the shed is neither.

 

Hi, LoL!

Just logged on again and found this thread!

Your big bumblebee is indeed a carpenter bee - Xylocopa violacea, to be precise. I've just rescued a rather distressed male one from the kitchen sink.... happily it's recovered and buzzed off. We get lots of them here - probably the commonest bee, in fact. They spend all day examining the oak beams in the barn in the hopes of finding a rotten one!

No English name - they aren't found in the UK - but you could call 'em the Violet Carpenter Bee I should think. Not at all aggressive, fortunately, but they scared the pants off my stepson!!!

 

What's this? I have a squadron of them around my Waterfall and I think there may a nest under it.

 

Well ,the Sun has dipped away from the Waterfall now, and the 'swarm' has gone ,but there is certainly a steady coming and going by them from under the mould.

 

Looks like some kind of wasp to me. Today I spotted the first of the damsel fly (demoisselle) round the pond - lovely!

 

Hummingbird hawk-moth


One of these decided to buzz around my head this morning when i was getting on a bus seems there early this year...
pretty big too about 5-7cm:eek: never did like big flying insects

 

Looks like a chafer beetle maybe cock chafer? LOL not very good with insects, here's a photo for comparison (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joey7/514025360/)

 

Great seeing the humming bird hawk moth K L in 06 we had a couple of sightings up here in the n w some were sighted far north in scotland but that was a very warm summer,I assume you are down in the south.