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RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Can the Man - 03-07-2020
i found this guy in my poly tunnel today resting on a chillie plant.
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Commoner Daddy longlegs I think
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Small chilli - 03-07-2020
(03-07-2020, 12:43 AM)Can the Man Wrote:(02-07-2020, 08:56 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Found this little fella in my Chilli tunnel.If it’s parasitic does that mean he’s Bad News
After looking through my books & the web. I couldn’t find it.
So I sent the photo here
https://www.royensoc.co.uk/identifying-insects
I got a response very quickly. It’s a parasitic tachinid fly, Tachina grossa.
They didn’t actually go into much detail but probably.
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - JJB - 03-07-2020
No picture unfortunately but a red kite was eyeing me up overhead this morning on my trip round the 'estate'. They were rare here until recently so such a joy to see one close up..
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - PyreneesPlot - 03-07-2020
Love the red kites JJB. I was lucky enough to see one in west Wales when they were down to just a handful of breeding pairs. Thirty years on and Mum has them nesting at the bottom of her garden in suburban Reading. What a conservation success
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Mark_Riga - 03-07-2020
(03-07-2020, 07:44 AM)Small chilli Wrote:(03-07-2020, 12:43 AM)Can the Man Wrote:(02-07-2020, 08:56 PM)Small chilli Wrote: I got a response very quickly. It’s a parasitic tachinid fly, Tachina grossa.If it’s parasitic does that mean he’s Bad News
They didn’t actually go into much detail but probably.
It would only be bad news for the insects it lives off. So likely good news for you.
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Mark_Riga - 03-07-2020
I've only seen a red-kite once, last year. I was in the garden when a massive shadow went low over and made me duck. My wife sa it when she returned in the car. It was flying down the lane. Hopefully it liked what it saw and will be back.
We do have all the commoner birds of prey though: sparrowhawk, kestrel and buzzard with barn and tawny owls nesting near by.
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Small chilli - 07-07-2020
Nearly missed this little fella. Dug himself very well inti the tunnel bed.
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RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Jay - 07-07-2020
Great photo SC and great camouflage !!
RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Small chilli - 27-07-2020
This red admiral has had a very hard life. Still beautiful and able to fly.
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RE: Nature & wildlife pictures - Small chilli - 11-08-2020
Another little toad. Sat on a tromboncino leaf
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Grass hoppers ( not looked up species yet )
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