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Natural History of Radley

Insects
   
The following lists some of the insects that have been found, and identified, in Radley.
 
Odonata     Hemiptera     Coleoptera      Diptera
 
 

Dragonflies and Damselflies (odonata)

< Link to separate page.
   

Bugs (hemiptera)

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Beetles (coleoptera) < Link to separate page
   

Two-winged Flies (diptera)

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Wasps, bees and ants (hymenoptera)

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Butterflies and Moths (lepidoptera) < Link to separate pages
   
Grasshoppers and Crickets (orthoptera) < Link to separate page
   
Caddis Flies (trichoptera) < Link to separate page
   

Miscellaneous Orders

 

  

Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)

  • Pond Olive (Cloeon Dipterum)
  • Ephemera danica
  • Ephemera lineata

Mayfly (ephemera vulgata) photographed 30 May 2005 by L Pasquire

Ephemera vulgata (30 May 2005)
   

Lacewings (Neuroptera)

 

A lacewing larva, photographed 28 August 2005 by B Crowley; ID by J Ismay & B Schulten

A lacewing larva.

A voracious predator of aphids, this grub attaches the corpses of its victims to its body as a means of camoflage.

(28 august 2005)*

Chrysopa pallens - a green lacewing, photographed by B Crowley, 29/30 June 2009

Chrysopa pallens

(attracted to light, 29/30 June 2009)
   

Alderflies (Megaloptera)

Alder fly, photographed 30 May 2005 by B Crowley

Alderfly (Sialis lutaria)

(30 May 2005)*
   

Scorpion Flies (Mecoptera)

Scorpion fly, photographed 28 June 2006 by B Crowley

Scorpion fly (Panorpa communis) female

(28 June 2006)

Scorpion fly, photographed 03 June 2006 by B Crowley

Scorpion fly (Panorpa sp.) female

(03 June 2006)*
   

Thrips (Thysanoptera)

  • Thrips
  
   

Earwigs (Dermaptera)

Common earwig (Forficula auricularia) photographed 04 August 2008 by S Calvert-Fisher

Common earwig (Forficula auricularia) male

(4 August 2008)

   

Apterygota (Wingless insects)
Bristletails (Thysanura)  
   
Two-pronged Bristletails (Diplura)  
   

Springtails (Collembola)

Tomocerus longicornis, a bristletail, photographed 12 September 2008 by B Crowley

Tomocerus longicornis

- a springtail

(on an apple, 12 September 2008)

   
Acknowledgements  

We are grateful to Bob Eeles, Steve Gregory and Ivan Wright for their help in compiling these pages. #Springtails recorded by Dr Peter Shaw on the phase 1 PFA lagoons in July 2009.
   

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References

Complete British Insects

Michael Chinery

Published by Collins, London, 2005

ISBN 0 00 717966 9

Field Guide to Insects of Britain and Northern Europe

Michael Chinery

Published by Collins, London, 3rd edition 1993

ISBN 0 00 219918 1

Insects and Spiders

George C. McGavin

Published by Dorling Kindersley, London, 2005

ISBN 1 4053 0596 7
     
 

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