Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / October 2006

Do you know how they find their way to ther nest ?

I reside in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. I have many photos of insects/
bugs I've been trying to ID for years. Can you specialists help me,
please?
Jan

This guy is a regular visitor to my workbench. Can
anybody tell me what he is?
http://homepage.eircom.net/~ei9gq/bug.jpg
Thanks.

Thanks for any identification -- I think it is probably a common type -
found it in my house and it was different than the usual kind I see.
http://tinypic.com/2ry6lfq.jpg
Thanks.

I posted photos of some butterflies and moths taken in Veracruz, Mexico this
past month to the alt.binaries.pictures.nature newsgroup under my name John
J. Collins.  Would anyone be able to ID these leps?  Thanks for your help.

I found one of these the other day underneath a pipe for the swimming
pool pump.
I figured it was dead and sappy from some spider that got it, or
something else.

Please let me know if anyone can ID the gray and checkered butterflies in
this photo.  I know the yellow one is the Tailed Orange.  Please respond to
jjcbird@verizon.net if you can do so. Thanks.

Earlier this Summer we featured the Imperial Moth and a few weeks ago,
we found this caterpillar under a maple tree. We presume it matured
eating the leaves and then crawled or fell down to find a place to dig
in for the Winter.

Dear colleagues,
I would be obliged for any information about late autumn moths
(Geometridae, Noctuidae) in Finland. I am going to spend about a week
in Finland around 20th October due to some work. I have to go to

Hiya,
I moved house a couple of years ago (Summer 2004) and straight away
noticed loads of Cinnabar Moth caterpillars.
They did well on this particular weed or plant (Is it Ragwort?) but

This morning was humid and cold, which caused dew to condense all over
my garden, making the observation of nature's favourite arachnids
particularly easy. Most of the webs in my garden seemed to be the
standard circular "orb webs". Their owners were usually to be found at

Thanks for your help identifying Nicrophorus humator the other day - I
have a new invertebrate for you to ponder. This one was spotted
chilling out on my shed door, and did not seem to be the least bit
bothered about me approaching it rather closely and using quite intense

I live in Melbourne, Australia, and I wonder if anyone could explain
this phenomenon to me.
In our back yard we have a few rosebushes and lots of small black ants.
One one rosebush, I noticed that the ants were milling around a couple

I also posted this a few days ago in the biology newsgroup in italian,
without answer.  The link here shows a (very bad) photograph of an
insect that, despite my efforts in book and booklets, I was not able to
identify.  I am admittedly no expert, my interest arises mainly from

The other day, I was performing a photographic survey of my recently
deceased grandfather's potting shed, where he liked to potter around.
As I was taking photos I became concious of a tapping from a nearby jar
and found this large insect trapped at the bottom. This photo was taken