Can anyone out there give us an ID...or even a clue...looks like a nymph of something, but what?
Many thanks to CR for the theft of his pic but it's got us both stumped...It was in the Butterfly Zone at Patch 1 earlier this arvo.
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Monday, 4 July 2011
It's just not cricket
The safari thinks, well actually, it could well be...
Can anyone out there give us an ID...or even a clue...looks like a nymph of something, but what?Many thanks to CR for the theft of his pic but it's got us both stumped...
It was in the Butterfly Zone at Patch 1 earlier this arvo.
Can anyone out there give us an ID...or even a clue...looks like a nymph of something, but what?
Many thanks to CR for the theft of his pic but it's got us both stumped...It was in the Butterfly Zone at Patch 1 earlier this arvo.
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Leptopterna dolabrata according to a very clever chap going by the name of Limnoporus on iSpot -
A hemipteran plant bug, it has "sucking mouthparts which you can see under the head. Crickets etc Orthoptera have jaws".
You guessed it - it's a first for the Fylde,well it just had to be didn't it!
Cheers
D
Thanks for the ID Dave & to Mr Limnoporus. I've now looked it up in one of my books (Chinery) & there it is in all it's glory, well in fact in all her glory as I see this is a female. I've photod a male of this species, which is much less cricket like & more plant bug like, at Todderstaffe Hall back in 2007.
Anyhow, mystery solved, & a 1st for the area, many thanks guys.
Cliff
Not a first for the Fylde then...just for Blackpool...that'll do!
Cheers
D
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