Archive for the year 2024
December 2024
No. 501 |
Yellow-haired Sun Fly
Myathropa florea is a very common European and North African species of hoverfly. Adults may be seen on flowers from May to September. It is of similar size as the drone fly, but living Myathropa are generally more yellow, with two light bands to the thorax, interrupted with a black central smudge. In museum specimens, any yellow colour soon fades to brown after death. Like most Eristalini, Myathropa are rather variable in size, shape and colour.
November 2024
No. 470 |
banded rhopalid
Stictopleurus punctatonervosus is a species of scentless plant bugs belonging to the family Rhopalidae, subfamily Rhopalinae.
October 2024
No. 440 |
Common Nettle Flower Bug
Plagiognathus arbustorum is a species of insects in the family Miridae, the plant bugs....
No. 436 |
Pipizella
Pipizella is a genus Hoverflies, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.
September 2024
No. 409 |
Golden Digger Wasp
Sphex funerarius, the golden digger wasp, is a species of digger wasp belonging to the family Sphecidae.
August 2024
No. 379 |
Calocoris affinis
Calocoris affinis is a species of insect in the subfamily Mirinae of the family Miridae that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Switzerland and Greece.
July 2024
No. 348 |
red-spotted plant bug
Deraeocoris ruber (also known as Mirid Bug) is a species of bugs in Miridae family.
June 2024
No. 317 |
Marsh Damsel Bug
Nabis limbatus is a species of damsel bug in the family Nabidae. It is found in Northern Europe and the northern part of Western and Central Europe.It occurs in the East in Eastern Europe and across the Palearctic to Siberia to China and Korea.It is introduced in Canada. In the Alps, it rises to about 1400 meters above sea level. In the South of Europe,found only in the central uplands....
May 2024
No. 287 |
Common Green Capsid
Lygocoris pabulinus also known as the common green capsid, is a species of bug from the family Miridae which can be found throughout Europe (except for Greece, Malta, and Iceland). It feeds on plants.
April 2024
No. 256 |
Thick-legged Hover Fly
Syritta pipiens is a common species of European hover fly. It is sometimes called the thick-legged hoverfly, from its distinctive broad hind femora. They are fast nimble fliers, and the larvae feed in rotting organic matter.
March 2024
No. 226 |
Marbled White
Melanargia galathea, the marbled white, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae....
February 2024
No. 195 |
Common Green Capsid
Lygocoris pabulinus also known as the common green capsid, is a species of bug from the family Miridae which can be found throughout Europe (except for Greece, Malta, and Iceland). It feeds on plants.
January 2024
No. 166 |
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Coccinella septempunctata, the seven-spot ladybird (or, in North America, seven-spotted ladybug or "C-7"), is the most common ladybird in Europe. Its elytra are of a red colour, but punctuated with three black spots each, with one further spot being spread over the junction of the two, making a total of seven spots, from which the species derives both its common and scientific names (from the Latin septem = "seven" and punctus = "spot").
