Nouveau pokémon (une araignée) à mon pokédex (iNaturalist) : Synema globosum, aussi appelée thomise globuleuse. Avec en bonus une mise en abîme où je suis pris en photo en train de faire les photos de cette araignée. Merci @Lunai ❤️🕷️
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Finally today, a somewhat pollen-encrusted beast taking some late sunshine.
iNaturalist seems sure that this is a sawfly (family Tenthredinidae), but none of its more detailed suggestions seem to match well 🤷♂️
There are >7,500 species of sawfly in the world, so if anyone can help refine this ID, I'd be much obliged 🙇♂️
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And in a much worse picture, because the little blighter wouldn't stop running & hopping through the vegetation, this is a bright-spotted groundbug (Rhyparochromus vulgaris; 🇩🇪 Gemeine Bodenwanze).
It has nice patterns, so hopefully I'll get another chance when it's more relaxed.
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A timely reminder that not *every* postbox red & black insect in the garden is a firebug, even though you've been seeing those every day for months.
First & new today: a pair of the superficially similar but quite unrelated cinnamon or squash bug (Corizus hyoscyami; 🇩🇪 Zimtwanze).
Second: European firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus; 🇩🇪 Gemeine Feuerwanze).
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These fellows have been fluttering around for weeks, however, but today's the first time I was able to get close, as it was feeding.
It's a common brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni; 🇩🇪 Zitronenfalter). They overwinter in wooded areas like those around us, but then move to wetlands to breed & lay eggs. They live for up to 10-12 months.
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Both warm & sunny on this Easter Monday, & one of our garden's big beasts has emerged, albeit only in miniature form so far 👶
This little fellow, less than a centimetre in size, is a nymph of a Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima; 🇩🇪 Großes Grünes Heupferd), & once it's grown up, it will truly deserve the name – they're massive 😱
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Second one's harder. A tiny black fly, likely in the subfamily Empidinae, the dance flies.
Nailing the species is tough – Wikipedia has an image of Rhamphomyia umbripennis which looks almost identical, but they're not common. There are few shots on iNaturalist, where they typically have redder eyes.
Do the feathery hind legs help narrow it down? 🧐
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A couple of bonus flies from the garden today – it was cloudy & dark, & while not cold, it wasn't warm either.
The first one seems fairly clear: it's a heleomyzid fly (🇩🇪 Scheufliege), Suillia variegata. Pretty patterns on the thorax.
First picture is a macro stack, while the second is a single image taken a bit closer, showing the compound eye nicely.
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This much smaller shield bug was perched on a nearby leaf at the same time, but fell off (!) when a gust of wind came by, meaning I didn't get such good pictures.
This one is a woundwort shield bug (Stagonomus venustissimus; 🇩🇪 Schillerwanze).
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Ok, it's time for Mark's "Fun with shield bugs".
It can be very confusing telling the many species apart, especially the nymphs, which change a lot as they mature.
But ... I think this large one is a northern fruit bug (Carpocoris fuscispinus; 🇩🇪 Nördliche Fruchtwanze), not C. mediterraneus (too far north) or C. purpureipennis (no black shoulders).
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