Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / September 2005

Could someone please help me ID this insect?  I've got millions of them
all over my property.  They came in yesterday afternoon, swarmed all
over, and roosted at dusk and are swarming me again today.
I took a close-up photo, and it's here:

i've a problem  how to produce acetate acetic from ethanol n acetic
acid.where can i get all the stuff related to this.
i need to know
1.the reactions involved and it's byproduct during synthesis step.

On this side of the Atlantic (Ireland), I have had several reports of birds, usually blue tits, perching on branches overlooking flowering buddleia bushes and picking off any butterflies which land on the flowers to nectar.  This can go on for days on end resulting in hundreds of ...

This is not intended to start up the collector-anti collecting debate.
For the past 3 weeks or so I have been going to one of the few spots not
sprayed by pesticides for various reasons. I have never seen so many
crab spiders in sunflowers and other yellow flowers of composits ...

Two of them, probably friends because they live a couple feet apart
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin1/spider1.jpg (36 kb)
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin1/spider2.jpg (46 kb)
Central Ohio, 3-4 feet off the ground, house to ground connection

He guys, found your newsgroup through a google search and thought this
might be the best place to get answers. Myself and several others were
camping in NW Oklahoma this weekend and someone found a rather strange
insect.  About 30 people looked at the insect and nobody had ever seen

I'm hoping someone can help me with this.
http://www.bionicbone.plus.com/SANY0092.JPG
This beetle was found in the UK, its huge at about 5cm (body), its
antennae are about twice as long as that, and so are its legs.

Any tips or links on how to get a Discoid Roach Colony to
start breeding ?
I have 13 of them, 2 are big with wings, the rest are
smaller and do not look similar at all to the larger

What kind of relationship is there between creation and science ?
HARUN YAHYA
www.harunyahya.com
As we have shown in all the questions we have considered so far, the

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread170128/pg1
What in the world sort of bug is that??
Here is a url for the image directly.
http://www.shropshirestar.com/storage/editorial/9/SD1042923@bug1.jpg

Why is metamorphosis not evidence of evolution ?
HARUN YAHYA
www.harunyahya.com
Some creatures undergo physical changes to allow them to survive and

Or has this one just been collecting dust because it's been dead for a
while?
(warning: large file, about 500K)
http://www.warrensarle.com/D2X/Bee-1241.jpg

These happy fellows perch on my raspberry plants during the summer
months and prey on other insects.  They hunt Japanese beetles almost
exclusively, although I have seen one dining on a honeybee.  From my
observation, they use their superior size and strength to subdue their

We found this handsome fellow on our tent in a campground in Maine,
USA. (Well, actually my girlfriend didn't consider it very welcome.)
It's probably very common, but can anyone tell us what it is? Any hope
that it's dangerous to humans, so we can feel we've had a narrow

I have recently contacted my local pharmacist for some ethyl acetate to
renew my killing bottle but have been told that this is no longer
available. What are others using in its place, please?