2nd September |
Original Hedgerow, leg 2.
Updated 22nd August with some partial id's for Ichneumonids. Dull with heavy showers. |
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An adult Pentatoma rufipes - Forest Shieldbug. The specific name rufipes refers to the red legs. |
Second and third instar of the Nematus pavidus larvae.
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The other day I showed the sequential egg-laying. Here I have (clockwise from 12) newly laid eggs surrounded by hatched larvae, mature eggs (1 o'clock), instar-2 larvae (large hole, 6 o'clock), and a hatching batch at 10 o'clock. These must be from different females, since a single female wouldn't lay batches this close to each other.
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