On 13th November 2010 I have taken a Wood Tiger - Parasemia plantaginis caterpillar and Common Darter male in our garden. I have posted these photos (taken on 8th August 2010 on our neighbour's meadow) to Biolib. First I thought it is some flower fly but Ivo Antušek redetermined it as endangered Clu...

Today I have found another caterpillar in our garden: Length: cca 3 cm. Can anybody say what is it? Wood Tiger - Parasemia plantaginis?

On 29th October I have taken a Shark moth caterpillar in our garden. Furthermore I have taken the stuffs with some caterpillars (I found more than four in our garden), beetle Galeruca sp. ( Galeruca tanaceti ?) eggs and beetle imago male . It seems that these beetles have afinity to Yarrow in our ga...

Moment, Sparrow is a rare bird in UK?

I have attempted to search in lepidoptera.pl. Maybe the Shark moth - Cucullia umbratica?

Today I have taken to photos a caterpillar in our garden. One ate the youngest leaves of dandelions. What can it be?

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Pete Eeles wrote:

traplican wrote:Today I have snapped a pale clouded yellow in our garden. Help me with ID, please: Is it C. hyale or C. alfacariensis?

Are all images of the same individual?

Cheers,

- Pete

Yes, they are. Dye differences are caused by different illumination.

Today I have snapped a pale clouded yellow in our garden. Help me with ID, please: Is it C. hyale or C. alfacariensis?

Today was a sunny day and I have snapped a Berger's Clouded Yellow - Colias alfacariensis in our garden. I have taken firebugs - Pyrrhocoris apterus, too.

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The translation of the remark: Initially I had determinated it as Colias hyale but Guy Padfield has written me that it looks like typical Colias alfacariensis.

I hope it's alfacariensis , because if it's not then I have an even slenderer grasp on these species than I thought!! :D They're easier from the upperside but last year and the year before I netted quite a few and compared the upperside markings with the wing shapes. Your picture shows a very typic...

I'm interested in your pale clouded yellow of 8th August. To me it looks like classic alfacariensis . Do you know for certain it is hyale ? Your female hyale from 24th September is clearly hyale, not only from the wing shape but from her choice of foodplant. Guy From 7th October, posted on 8th Oct ...

Lee Hurrell wrote: I found a few beetles too.

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This is Pyrrhocoris apterus. It is not a beetle but a red bug (Hemiptera). Yesterday I have snapped one of them together with the Comma in our garden.

On Wed., Oct 20th I have found a cluster of Velvet Shank - Flammulina velutipes on the walnut stem laying behind our garden and we (me and my eife) have eaten one's pilei in soup. :P . Yesterday (Oct 24th) was a sunny day and I have snapped a Comma (and another photo ) in our garden. In addition I h...

Classification of Fly Agaric ammong the "deadly" in http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ seems exorbitant for me. Fly Agaric is poisonous mushromm and causes various pictures of poisonings related to environment where the mushroom has origined (from mountain areas soon hallucinations and neurot...

The burnet on the last picture is Zygaena carniolica . Guy has it determinated somewhere, I thing (but I may be mistaken). It is interesting that the size of the white margins is dependent on the temperature. While in Spain are the wings nearly white, near me look so: 10710_138.jpg ... and along to ...

They were definitely mating. I saw cca 10 specimens flitting above the bed (maybe through the Common Shepherd's Purse because there wasn't another plant interesting for them, if it isn't Peruvian Groundcherry). Among them was at least one pair connected by abdomens and flying together. I have wathed...

Today I saw small whites mating in my garden.

I was alluding to the shapes of the objects when I “invented” the word phalloid . I hadn’t realised that there is a real group of species called phalloid . I wonder why they are so called? :) I'd better shut up before I cause further misunderstandings. Jack Phalloid group of Amanitas , phalloid gro...

Paul: ...no idea what they're called.... Obviously one of the phalloid group of species. Jack You exaggerate. In fact there is no hazard in eating Lycoperdon sp. . I eat in a aprox. 40 years. There is a risk in confusion of button mushroom with phalloid group of species (The Death Cap - Amanita pha...