Search - Sitewide

and saw what was clearly a very distinctive spider that I knew I would not have much difficultly finding in an ID guide. I picked it up to have a look under the lens. Ouch. It's not at all human-lethal, but it was as sudden and painful as a wasp sting

, then this is the creature. But, sadly, it is just 'one of the ichneumons', which is quite frankly pathetic. Ichneumons are large and striking insects, allied to bees, wasps and ants. (Ichneumon is also another name for the Egyptian mongoose but we don't get those in East

galls (swellings caused by tiny wasps) were used in the manufacture of high quality ink.6. The oak has very hard and deeply fissured bark (thus providing shelter for the aforementioned bugs). Hugging them may not be that comfortable, but you can at least

blues, and speckled woods.The hoverflies have appeared in earnest, and bumbles, wasps and solitary bees are everywhere. There is an audible hum, usually only heard in June. They are all squabbling over the raspberry flowers. Pond-skaters are frolicking

hoverfly). Both of these are supposed to resemble the common wasp to deter predators, and are completely harmless. They lay their eggs on plants and their larvae eat aphids.Having abandoned hopes of growing the world's tallest sunflower, I'm now content

to Novice JoanUnlike wasps and honeybees, bumblebees are very docile nesters. For one thing there are far fewer of them in the small untidy nest, probably only a couple of hundred at the height of the season, where wasps may have 10 – 12,000 and honeybees up

worrying. The swarm seems very relaxed and placid but not sure what to do about this really. advice would be good?Higgyhttp://higgysgardenproject.blogspot.com/ please be carefull how you phrase the context of bees doing the damage Sidrah,wasps

use pesticides in my garden. Is this natural? I have notice a great increase of hoverflies in my garden all shapes and sizes and my leafcutter bees or wasps are doing well. Not been stung yet!!! lazygardener - it's that time of year, I wouldn't have

Can anybody please help Identify what this may be? Two faint yellow bands and 3 band black back.   Bee, Wasp or just a Fly? Whatever it is it's a regular visitor to my Poached Egg Plants.  Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.   Hi, it looks

the leaves are dwarfed. However, the marble galls, the smooth round growths caused by tiny gall 'wasps' Andricus kollari, are exactly the same size as usual, no matter that the trees are only one metre rather than 30 metres high. Against the backdrop