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Thread Author: spamcan61	Replies: 22

New Tue 19 Apr 11 12:34   creepy-crawly ID request - spamcan61

Hello everybody, Found this little bug (about the size of a fingernail) crawling up the front door today, just wondered what it was? TIA for any info. tinypic.com/r/dc5wz7/7 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 12:44   creepy-crawly ID request - Armel Coussine

Great photo spammer. I've seen these but I don't know what they are. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 12:47   creepy-crawly ID request - henry k

Shield beetle ? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 12:56   creepy-crawly ID request - spamcan61

>> Shield beetle ? >> >>www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Pentatomidae/palomena_prasina.htm l Thanks chaps, looks very much like a Green Shieldbug (do yet get stamps with it?) to me. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 12:54   creepy-crawly ID request - spamcan61

>> Great photo spammer. >> >> I've seen these but I don't know what they are. >> Cheers! The little blighter wouldn't keep still long enough to get the head properly in focus but I'm happy with it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 12:45   creepy-crawly ID request - rtj70

www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Pentatomidae/palomena_prasina.html Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 16:05   creepy-crawly ID request - Perky Penguin

This site run by the Open University will do the work for you www.ispot.org.uk/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 16:44   creepy-crawly ID request - spamcan61

>> This site run by the Open University will do the work for you >> >> www.ispot.org.uk/ >> Cheers for that, definitely one for the bookmarks folder. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 17:28   creepy-crawly ID request - Stuartli

Looks like a particularly large aphid. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 19 Apr 11 22:31   creepy-crawly ID request - Bellboy

on a different creepy we seem to have lots of little bug like things this year camera at work so cant photo them looks like a spider with its legs in hope we are safe here as they seem to be multiplying as i spea Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 10:00   creepy-crawly ID request - Boxsterboy

We've had these shield beetles for a while now - they do look very exotic and don't feature in my childhood memories. Are they another side effect of "global warming"? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 10:02   creepy-crawly ID request - Iffy

...and don't feature in my childhood memories... Where did you grow up? It says on the linked site the beetles are not common in the north. I've never seen one in Yorkshire or County Durham. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 12:59   creepy-crawly ID request - Boxsterboy

>> ...and don't feature in my childhood memories... >> >> Where did you grow up? >> Hertfordshire Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 10:14   creepy-crawly ID request - CGNorwich

Probably are an indication of climate change. We now get a lot of these rather beautiful beetles munching away on the Rosemary and lavender. I think they originated in the Mediterranean. www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/wildlife/the-rosemary-beetle/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 10:20   creepy-crawly ID request - spamcan61

I don't remember seeing these bugs when I was a kid growing up in Luton in the 60s/70s, in fact I only recall seeing them over the last 5 years maybe, so I go along with the global warming theory. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 11:28   creepy-crawly ID request - Iffy

...so I go along with the global warming theory... I asked one of those global warming types why it was so cold and wet. Ah, he says, the melting ice cap has shoved the gulf stream south, so global warming elsewhere in the world is global cooling and wetting in the UK. Very convenient explanation, if you happen to be pursuing a certain political agenda. But it conflicts with the 'palm trees in the Trossachs' type stories. M'thinks we are not being told the plain unvarnished truth. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 11:31   creepy-crawly ID request - CGNorwich

"I asked one of those global warming types why it was so cold and wet." Must be very localised weather you're having. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 11:36   creepy-crawly ID request - Iffy

...Must be very localised weather you're having... The next question I asked him is why do so many people on internet forums deliberately mis-interpret posts. He said there are some right morons about online. It was the only thing we agreed on. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 11:41   creepy-crawly ID request - CGNorwich

"He said there are some right morons about online." For humorous effect? Sorry, thought you might have a sense of humour. Obviously wrong. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 15:19   creepy-crawly ID request - Iffy

...Sorry, thought you might have a sense of humour. Obviously wrong... CG, My reply to you was humorous, or at least I thought so. Everyone has a sense of humour, it's just that everyone's sense of humour is not the same. Last edited by: Iffy on Wed 20 Apr 11 at 15:20 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 20 Apr 11 16:47   creepy-crawly ID request - CGNorwich

My reply to you was humorous, or at least I thought so. Ah, I see. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 20 Apr 11 13:18   creepy-crawly ID request - Stuartli

>>But it conflicts with the 'palm trees in the Trossachs' type stories.>> But palm trees can easily be found on the west coast of Scotland - seen them for myself many times.... See, for instance: tinyurl.com/4y68raq As for the Trossachs, I once went fishing there in the middle of November and all of us were in our shirt sleeves because it was so warm. Mind you it froze very hard that night... Last edited by: Stuartli on Wed 20 Apr 11 at 13:19 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 21 Apr 11 15:03   creepy-crawly ID request - L'escargot

During the summer we get lots of very small red spiders (less than 1 mm across), which are especially noticeable on white outside windowsills. What are they? They're definitely spiders, not red spider mites. Reply to this message | Report message