or anything that you might consider a creepy crawly, even if it flies.
Only rule is: it must be real.
Mine has to be a dragon fly. They are fantastic creatures, and gorgeous to look at.
Already then. I’ll post one more, then give up. Moths. They, too, can be stunning.
Giant Cicada from my hometown ...
If you catch one and it will "scream" very loudly and as a kid we found that terrifying and let it go ... 😀
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Hawk moth caterpillars are great, but i like the iridescence of beetles too
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Sweet Jesus! I screamed just looking at Chewkw’s contribution.
Giant Cicada from my hometown …
Everything's bigger in Newcastle
Sweet Jesus! I screamed just looking at Chewkw’s contribution.
It's alright, like his hero, he just has very tiny hands.
Sweet Jesus! I screamed just looking at Chewkw’s contribution.
Harmless creature and liven up the jungle and I know when I am home in Borneo when I hear them "sing".
Everything’s bigger in Newcastle
😀 😀 😀
It’s alright, like his hero, he just has very tiny hands.
Even if you have a small hand that is a big Cicada.
I like Cellar Spiders - we've made them very welcome in our house - so slender they're almost invisible. Their webs are totally invisible - the spiders just seem to levitate. They don't scuttle about they just sit motionless all day everyday..... except when the catch, kill and eat great big big hairy house spiders at least 20 times their size. Huzzah. Heros.
P.lugardi
A.bicolor
S.terrosus
Stag beetle's are pretty cool,
I forgot to add,
far too many bugs to mention so I stuck with the first three arachnids really like. I have kept two of the three at some point. All are great.
Preying mantis, was lucky enough to see this one in Spain, actually stalk and catch a Bee on a passion flower Bush.
Unfortunately now extinct but it'd be cool if these were still flying around -
<h2>Meganeuropsis permiana</h2>
We're getting a fair few of these husks around our pond:
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I forgot to add,
far too many bugs to mention
this was such a blatant paging thread for Roper 🙂
I can't post pictures, but if I could, I'd be putting up a giant Peruvian centipede.
It's a centipede, but it's massive and highly aggressive.
I think it can take down small mammals. That's quite a feat for an insect.
I'm not sure if anyone likes bikes here, but this chap sure does....
Tardigrade
More bonkers mantids and a very cool spider:
Keep hearing this droning round the garden and finally found where it goes.
Was concerned it may be a nest but it is after mud for its nest somewhere nearby but not my garden. Its a European Hornet because that was the other concern that it may have been an Asian Hornet.
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DisJockey - that's my new screensaver right there - brilliant.
Tardigrades - hard as.
Big fan of the diving bell spider but yet to find one. Stag beetles are amazing, especially when flying towards your head.
I'm with saxonrider, seen dozens of huge, i reckon body length 3 inches, emerald dragonflies on Arran yesterday.
Stunning creatures.
Huhu beetle or we called them Haircutters.
Wow it is amazing. When I look at these pictures, I realize how much we do not see each day
Has to be the gloriously named Cockchafer, something about the fuzziness and the permanently surprised expression its little antlers give it.
You can also call them May Bugs, if you really must.
I see Stag Beetles have already been mentioned. We get them every year in our garden around this time.
Took this pic a few years ago; to Mrs V's great pleasure I titled it "Beauty and the Beast - but which is which"
I hate those cellar spiders, make my skin crawl and, more importantly, eat all the proper spiders and ignore the bloody flies, whizzing midge things and woodlice etc the proper spiders do eat, so it's a double dislike.
A couple more shots of my garden Stags
Whilst in South Wales last week I saw some amazing dragonflies and butterflies. We were riding along the canal towards Crickhowell and there were lots of what appeared to be black, or dark blue, irridescent butterflies with long slender bodies with lighter blue patches. They were like a butterfly & dragonfly hybrid and were beautiful in the sunlight but I've got no idea what they were. They were too fast for me to photograph.
Any ideas what they were?
Lots of dragonflies on the quiet lanes around St David's in Pembrokeshire too.
Jewel spiders are amazing, can't get pic to work. And jumping spiders <3
They were like a butterfly & dragonfly hybrid and were beautiful in the sunlight but I’ve got no idea what they were. They were too fast for me to photograph.
Sounds like a damselfly, either the Banded Demoiselle or the Beautiful Demoiselle? They have a butterfly-like lazy-flapping flight, unlike the fast buzzy dragonflies
Spent a couple of hrs last summer hunting one down to capture a good macro. Pretty sure I posted the pic on the photos thread but damned if I can find it now
@Malvern Rider - thanks, I think you're right !
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An ermine moth on an outside wall of our house.
(okay the pointing needs looking at)
A lime hawk moth. Like a little Avro Vulcan.
These are cool
Wakefield can be a bit rough at the weekend.
Sydney Funnel Web
When you absolutely, positively, need to scare the shit out of everyone...
...accept no substitute
Dung beetles are brilliant the way they roll balls of dung but I think my phone is too ancient to let me post pics on here.
i also like the hogweed bonking beetle which is a real bug though last time I mentioned it on STW someone thought i’d made it up.