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Natural History of Radley

Unidentified Fauna
 
Help wanted: Can you identify any of the creatures in the following photographs? If so, please contact us.
 

 

 

 

grasshopper, photographed 31 July 2005 by B Crowley

A Grasshopper (Omocestus sp.)

(31 July 2005)*

Grasshopper, photographed 31 July 2005 by B Crowley

A Grasshopper (Possibly a male Chorthippus parallelus or a green variety of mottled grasshopper (Myremeleotettix maculatus))

(31 July 2005)*

 

 

Hoverfly, photographed 31 July 2005 by B Crowley

A Hoverfly (Syrphidae)

Could be one of several species.

(31 July 2005)*
   

Bumble bee, photographed 02 August by B Crowley

A cuckoo bee (Psithyrus campestris?)

(02 August 2005)*

Bumble bee, photographed 02 August 2005 by B Crowley

A Bumble-bee or cuckoo bee. Note the orange tibia on the hind leg.

(02 August 2005)*
   

Bumble-bee, photographed 31 July 2005 by B Crowley

A tatty bumble-bee. Thought possibly to be a life-worn Bombus hortorum, but Ivan Wright says definitely not.

(31 July 2005)*.

Photographed 15 May 2005 by B Crowley

(15 May 2005)*
   

bumble-bee, photographed 14 Aug 2005 by B Crowley

Another one, like the above

(14 August 2005)*

 
 
If you have any photos of unidentified fauna taken in Radley that you would like to put this page, please contact us.
 
 

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