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@dfozzie68 @SaveStagBeetles @NatureofDorset @SightingDOR @wildlife_uk @NatureUK @Britnatureguide @DorsetWildlife @iNatureUK @InsectNews @DorsetBirdClub @harbourbirds Female Lucanus cervus

Lesser Stag Beetle I believe, in Oakdale garden a little earlier @SaveStagBeetles @insectiduk @NatureofDorset @SightingDOR @wildlife_uk @NatureUK @Britnatureguide @DorsetWildlife @iNatureUK @InsectNews @DorsetBirdClub @harbourbirds

@suerob50 @HornimanMuseum @rvodden @LevParikian @RoyEntSoc They do look very much like Cabbage moth eggs. Have a look at this great online resource. Choose English names, then look through Noctuidae for Cabbage moth

@HornimanMuseum @rvodden @LevParikian @RoyEntSoc @insectiduk Good morning. I’ve since had word that they could be from a Cabbage Moth. Or a Turnip Moth. They all look very similar. Who knows what other species have similar eggs? Aargh. Going to have to wait and see what happens with them, and if I can get an ID from the larvae. 😫

Still hoping someone can help me ID these tiny eggs found on salad leaves in our veg plot yesterday. The silver is the edge of a 5p coin. @RoyEntSoc @insectiduk #insect #insectegg #Sussex #etymology #insectidentification

@suewatling @InsectNews Yes, hoverfly, one of the Eristalis spp. E. pertinax as mentioned above would be a fair shout

Can anyone identify this insect who looks like it’s considering a tightrope walk on a bit of spider web! Amazing colours but l can’t find anything like it online... #insectidentification @InsectNews @insectiduk

@AndrewPlatt4 @iNatureUK Lasioglossum ?calceatum

Can anyone ID this bee please? @iNatureUK @insectiduk lots of them in my garden today enjoying the Verbena.

@robandmaryb Fly is Rhingia sp. a Hoverfly. ‘Slime’ could be one of the Nostoc spp. a colonial cyanobacteria

@insectiduk Can you please I. D. This insect/fly seen in Dorset garden last year? Also is this thick slim an egg lay or trail of high slug seen today?

@PaulWellmanuk @SteveBackshall @ChrisGPackham Volucella pelluscens, one of our larger hoverflies. Larvae feed on organic midden and larva in wasps nests

@insectiduk @SteveBackshall @ChrisGPackham Can someone ID this please 🤔

@SteveBackshall @LBrooker11 @ChrisGPackham @michaelastracha @BBCSpringwatch @Buzz_dont_tweet Yep, a Hornet Clearwing moth ... straight ‘out of the box’ and a great example of Batesian mimicry

@LBrooker11 @insectiduk @ChrisGPackham @michaelastracha @BBCSpringwatch I may be making a fool of myself (no ref books to hand!) but it looks like a clear wing moth to me... @Buzz_dont_tweet will set me right!!!

@dianafphoto @InsectNews @theroyalparks A crab spider eating a St Marks fly with a lacewing larva in attendance - cool ain’t nature interesting

@Killgerm Not good that the image is an Eristalis app of ‘Hoverfly’ an important group of pollinators 🤔

Around 120,000 species of fly have been described by science. The actual number is likely to be much higher. Many species transmit bacteria, viruses and parasites to man via their feet (especially the ‘pulvillus’ sticky pad) and body hairs (‘setae’). #PestOfTheMonth #Flies

@emilyegg1 A ‘Vine Weevil’, Otiorhynchus sulcatus. Usually from out of potted plants where the larvae have been feeding on roots

@insectiduk can you help?

Help Twitterati I need to id what this is for a friend it was found marching across her coffee table.. #insect #identify #idmycreepycrawly #creepycrawly

@kimberley82h Western Conifer Seed Bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis- britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Co…

@james32249857 Morning glory/Convolvulus plume Moth, Emmelina monodactyla

@Trumpete @insectweek Steatoda nobilis, one of our 6 species of False Widow spider. An introduced species but still expanding its range in the UK

@insectiduk @insectweek Any ideas about this spider? I know they’re not insects! And it’s a terrible image... Horizontal web, spider has a garden spider shape and a dark back. Thanks!

@gerryorourke Yes, V. zonaria 👍🏻

This morning we have been talking Blanford Fly, Simulium posticatum, with @BBCOxford - its the original ankle bitter

Another visit earlier today to @thismorning - how to deal with the nuisance of clothes moths itv.com/thismorning/ho…

@girlenegreen Red Admiral butterfly

@girlenegreen Juniper Shieldbug 👍🏻

@girlenegreen His yellow face and those long hairs on his middle legs - a sexually dimorphic species females are all black with yellow hairs on back legs

@stpetershc @InsectNews No but use crevices to build brood cells in - made of mud bwars.com/bee/megachilid…