I know this is about butterfly id's, but you all seem very knowledgeable and I have no idea what this is, please can anyone help?
If it's a butterfly it's not like any I've seen, the same applies to dragonflies and it's not a lacewing, I don't know much about moths.
Head to tail length is about 1"+; it's antenna are over 2 times it's body length; it had four wings; six legs; an earwig look to it's tail end and lime green in colour.
I live in the countryside and have quite a variety of butterflies, moths, dragonflies and other flying insects around. I found this creature floating early one morning on my new, 6 month old pond. The pond has sticklebacks and normal water life; no non-native weed and two or three waterlilys, but the pond seems too new for anything to have hatched from there. It's body looked soft, but that could have been from the water, one underwing was damaged.
The photos of the subject in question are quite large, so I've put two of them on a spare web page at www dot zest-it dot com/bitsbobs dot htm they are too big for here.
I hope someone can help, thank you in anticipation, Jacqui
Can someone help me with this please?
Thank you Dave for putting the photo up.
Thank you Chris, you set me on the right track, digging around on the net tells me it's an Oak Bush Cricket - there is an Oak tree near the pond!!!
I have never seen a cricket before, let alone a dead one with chewed off legs, I also didn't know they were night flyers.
So again, many thanks for solving the problem Chris,
Jacqui
Thank you Chris, you set me on the right track, digging around on the net tells me it's an Oak Bush Cricket - there is an Oak tree near the pond!!!
I have never seen a cricket before, let alone a dead one with chewed off legs, I also didn't know they were night flyers.
So again, many thanks for solving the problem Chris,
Jacqui
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Oak Bush Cricket
Hi Jacquib
After a time searching this one on the internet I'm sure its a male Oak Bush Cricket.
On the American site I found, they name it differently but it carries the correct latin name.
See it on http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/103pm2.htm
Hope this helps
Cheers
Colin
After a time searching this one on the internet I'm sure its a male Oak Bush Cricket.
On the American site I found, they name it differently but it carries the correct latin name.
See it on http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/103pm2.htm
Hope this helps
Cheers
Colin