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Hi Newt,
Thanks for your comment on the wasp. It does look like a vespula vulgaris but they are all quite similar. The German wasp vespula germanica looks very much like it but a bit hard to say from the side view.
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New Bugsnapz update. This is an unusual angle to see this bug but I think it ids useful to see thinks from a different viewpoint. I hope you like it.



Enjoy this and other updates on Bugsnapz.

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Hi all, here are a couple of different variations of Sawflies. I really like the alien type heads of these creatures.





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Hi all,

Here is a picture of one of my favourite wasps, The Hornet. I was out looking for fungi to photograph and on the way back to the car I spotted this beautiful creature. Don't you just love the colour of the eyes.



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[Newt]

Beautiful! Can't get enough hymenopteran photos.

[brontodocus]

Wonderful! I've only seen a few this year. Too bad many people fear them, they are actually quite docile.

[bugsnapz]

Thanks for your comments, it has been hectic at work hence no updates for some time. I hope you like this shot of a Ruddy Darter male close up. Worth going in full size to see the eyes on this guy.



Enjoy,

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[brontodocus]

Wonderful detail in this photo, you can see individual ommatidia of the compound eye and also an ocellus just at the base of the left antenna!

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Hi y'all,  Not an animal but one wierd fungi that I had never seen before last weekend. I thought you might like to see it.



Its full name is 'Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)'  At this stage the conical olive green head gives off a smell of drains which attracts the flies who will eat the green slime and leave a white honeycomb head. I hope you like it.

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[brontodocus]

This is probably the most hilarious scientific name for an organism that's ever been established!

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Hi Brontodocus, I am glad you liked it. I guess scientists do have a sense of humour. 

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Sorry I have not been around but been ill for some time and then Xmas arrived.

I found these little beauties and could not resist taking the picture of them. I hope you like them,

Regards, Bugsnapz.

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Hi Y'all, I hope you like this latest picture of a crab spider. It took a lot of shots to get one that got the eyes and legs in focus at the same time  but was worth the effort. Enjoy.



Regards, Bugsnapz.

[brontodocus]

Great photo! Yeah, I guess this was not easy to achieve but it was well worth the effort!

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Hi brontodocus, you are quite right. This spider was between two laurel leaves just about head hight. It took a lot of shots to get right.

Her is another Bugsnapz update of the popular Beefly (Bombylius major) there are a lot of them about just now.



They are such cute creatures and so fluffy and quite harmless. It is good to get out and about now the better weather is with us again.

Regards, Bugsnapz

[brontodocus]

Wonderful! Currently I'm guiding field trips for biology students to a beech forest and these are ubiquitous at the moment (several specimens per square metre) at the forest margin. But they disappear promptly as soon as the sun doesn't shine.

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I haven't been around for a while because of illness, but I'm back on the scene now and planning to upload more photographs soon.

I've also just uploaded a Youtube video trailer for Bugsnapz!

https://youtu.be/XEl7g-M4YUk

[brontodocus]

I haven't been around for a while because of illness, but I'm back on the scene now and planning to upload more photographs soon.

I'm glad to see you're back and whatever it was, I hope you could already recover from it completely!

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 Lacewing (Nemoptera sinuata) vs red assassin bug (Rhinocoris iracundus)

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Sabre wasps, male & female. Dartmoor, England. The larger wasp has the ovipositor which may look dangerous but it is just the sheath that covers the ovipositor itself and is quite harmless.