Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / July 2005

If you're interested. All images in this album were
taken with a D70s and a 60mm Nikkor macro lens.
http://community.webshots.com/album/397308444ruhLLG
Cheers All,

Dear reader,
I am looking for eggs from butterflies native in the UK, or tropical
species.
At this moment I only have eggs from the Red Admiral and puppa from the

I thought I might be able to get some direction from people in this group.
I appreciate your indulgence...
Yesterday while watching my daughter in a shaded garden in Maryland, USA I
was rooting anout in the leaf litter and mulch.  Near an overflow pipe for

Any advice about a well illustrated book about common insects?
Thnaks, G.

Hawaiian caterpillars hunt like spiders -report
Jul 22, 10:18 AM  (ET)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tiny, snail-eating caterpillars found in Hawaiian  
rain forests tie up their prey with sticky silk and snack on them at leisure,  

Does anybody know where I can obtain copies of diagrams / pictures of the
taxonomic structure / phylogenetic tree, either of the general structure or
for specific species (arthropods in particular)?

I need your help.
What is this ?
http://motyle.pl/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=125
thanks

Recently I observed a Silver Spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) feeding
on a thistle head. A hummingbird flew very close by it to a spot
opposite to the position of the skipper where it proceeded to feed also.
It amazed me that the skipper did not get alarmed and fly off because ...

Please can some id this spider.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11099733@N00
Full diameter is about 2.5 inchs (~6cms) and I think it is either from
the UK or south east asia (where my backpack had been).

Im a biology student from Slovenia and I need Melolontha Melolontha
"white grub raster location" to prove the apperiance of it on a meadow
for my science degree. I would be very grateful to anyone who can
provide it for me cause I cant find it anywhere.

http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/species/bdata/marbled_white.html
It's supposed to be common, actually.....
Cheers,
Xi

Could someone tell me what kind of bug this is?

I am not a lepidopterist. I joined the list to help my 7 year old
grandson, who is a keen naturalist, and have sugared for moths, and
enjoyed their beauty in situ and in photographs I have taken.
I have read the recent correspondence with interest, and felt impelled

A friend recently came back from a trip to Costa Rica, took some very
interesting bug pics, and wanted to find out what species they were:
First, this looks to me like some sort of Argiope. Exact species?
http://bzettler.com/photos/TanarBugs/014_14.JPG

I wonder if one of you can identify an insect that I found at work.  It was
shaped like a gumdrop with two red eyes and six legs.  The whole thing was
about 3 mm across, and it could jump about a foot straight up.  About 100x
its size, in other words.  So it seems like a flea but ...