Any help with a Gloucestershire ID please

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Any help with a Gloucestershire ID please

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Any help identifing these would be very welcome please.
They were all taken in Gloucestershire this month
Many thanks
cheers Nigel
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Hi Nigel,

The moth is Common Heath (Ematurga atomaria) http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=3641

The second is probably a leaf hopper of some kind, but I don't know. Beetle may be Red-headed Cardinal beetle: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life ... q=node/224
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Hi Nigel

The middle image looks like a froghopper?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froghopper
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hi nigel,

the frog hopper is cercopis vulnerata and the beetle looks like what dave suggested and is one of the cardinal beetles pyrochroa serraticornis.

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Thank you all for your help, very much appreciated, cheers Nigel
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