General Chat

About an inch.....25 mm ish long..........

thanks Maggie.......

If it's tiny, I'm almost sure it's a Rusty Tussock, a Vapourer moth caterpillar.
I saw my first one this year in the garden, on holiday in Devon!!

If it's huge, Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggggg!

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Trowbridge/photo587979.htm

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/edit/40477455

try now.........dont think I clicked save before............

Doesn't work from the url you posted previously - can you check that it hasn't changed?

ooops Sorry............done......!

Doesn't work Bob. Go to the image and select 'open to all' or words to that effect.

Added - click the edit button then select 'shared with everyone'.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/edit/40477455


dunno if that'll work.... any one know what it is?

Bob

If only... I could give them the location of quite a few bbqs.
We have these superwasps native in France where they are not a problem not even for bbqs mores the pity.

Now, with Brexit - how DARE the Germans send their wasps over here!! :-|

Do spiders like wasps?
http://www.derryjournal.com/news/warning-swarms-of-drunk-unemployed-and-angry-german-wasps-could-hit-the-uk-1-7559800

...yet again, calling them GIANT spiders. They're not - it's their normal size - they are a large species. :-(

OH heavens! it MUST be serious...............

AOL has it as a headline.....................!!!

Huia, The reporters would come down my chimney because it could be referred to as a 'point of access', and as Santa uses it, why shouldn't they :-D :-D

Oh okay !

There are colonies elsewhere ;-)

Detective
Sorry it was just off the top of my head couldn't be bothered to actually goggle it !

Maggie, why would ignorant reporters have come down your chimney in the past?

we HATE the cockchafer here ............... larvae must have been in some incompletely washed and cleaned roots of plants imported by a nursery some years ago, and it LOVES it here.

.......................... especially the lawns on the West Coast. Almost everyone now has bare lawns or lawns with bare patches because the larvae eat the roots, then along come the raccoons and the crows to pull up the grass to get at the larvae.

We cannot get rid of them because we are not allowed to use the pesticides needed. The only treatment appears to be the application of solutions of nematodes which has to be done during a certain 3 weeks in June, lawns kept well watered BUT we have lawn watering restrictions in June


and anyway .......... the neighbour doesn't do it, so you just get an infestation coming from their adults

Have the scorpions migrated? There's definately a colony of yellow-tailed scorpions in the Sheerness dockyard walls. Mind you, as they are supposed to have originated from Italy in the 18th Century and hitched a ride on a ship, it always possible some prefered to see the Capital rather than a Kentish town.

The poor things aren't doing too well, and ignorant reporters don't help.
They used to come down my chimney, but not for many years :-(

They've had a hard life, even ordered to leave town:

https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/common-cockchafer