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.

3 comments:

Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris said...

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

cliff said...

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

Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris said...

Not a first for the Fylde then...just for Blackpool...that'll do!

Cheers

D