(I am aware that it’s not a baby Robin!)

Thanks – and if you know a web site where I can get a reliable ID in future I should be grateful…)

Looks like grass mate.

Lilly Beetle? Not at all sure, bad angle for id, but good picture.
Try the RHS website.

Adolescent robin?

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

Lilly beetles have a round body look rather like a walking red smartie.

is it one of these?

Second some sort of beetle. The “grass” is a sedge.

Yes, I wondered about ‘beetle’, and I thought it might be on a sedge.

Will Google ‘beetle identification’.

That am bugzilla

These guys would sort you out.Here

Thanks Nico, will do some digging.

if you know a web site where I can get a reliable ID in future I should be grateful

😯 Why ? Have the little buggers been upsetting you ?

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if you know a web site where I can get a reliable ID in future I should be grateful

Why ? Have the little buggers been upsetting you ?

Only ‘cos I can’t figure out what it is! And I should like to get better at identifying things myself…

Definitely from a really crap film I saw the other night. (The Mist, avoid at all costs.)

It probably should have wrapped itself around your neck, stung or sucked you, and then you’d swell up and die in agony. They were a couple of feet long so that’s some big sedge you’ve got there.

I’d run away before it gets foggy.

Think it may be some form of cricket. Was it making any particular noise?

Don’t know what it is but it has one hell of a knob.

Soldier Beetle – Cantharis rustica

@notlocal – No audible noises!

@sharki – thanks, think you are right there! Are you a beetle expert?

No, but recently have been taking pics of bugs and have been looking them up, so saw this as a challenge.

Not so easy as that shot didn’t show the wing casings, at first it looked like a type of long horn, but the legs didn’t match, most common uk types.
So a little further search came up with..

Leg features, etc seem to match.
Here my fave pic so far..

Nice one sharki!

That pic was the only one I could get before it flew off. We should like to get better at identifying all wildlife. We’re just good at orchids and birds at the moment, but it will come…