Who is it? Identification of different orders of insects

Does anyone know ant lions by sight?

This is for you only to V. A. Krivokhatsky in the ZIN
here is his page:
http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/Coleoptera/rus/krivohat.htm

I have a bunch of these strange insects in my new dacha. what is it? they sit in whole colonies on nettles, but have not been seen on other plants. the soil is peat (drained swamp). are these pests, or harmless "nettle lovers", you can safely score on them and not strain, or do you need to destroy them? I describe it in words: the color is white, as if fluffy, only the "fluff" is too small. or maybe it's the wax that stands out... when one of them fell on the hot stove, then on the hot white disappeared, there was some kind of slug with legs... The next time I go, I'll grab a magnifying glass and try to see more clearly, tell me what you need to pay attention to.

I have a bunch of these strange insects in my new dacha. what is it?

It looks like some worms, I can't be more precise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccoidea - link to chervets and others like them.

And by the way it looks like I can)



Dorthesia urticae-nettle worm) eats only nettles and milkweed, in theory it is safe for your garden

- You can scoff at the quality of the photo and my lack of education... - but I really don't know and want to know what, at least, the order belongs to this very small (2 mm) insect photographed yesterday in Pyatigorsk?
"I daresay that's what it is.".. hymenoptera

This post was edited by Andreas - 08/14/2008 18: 14

- You can scoff at the quality of the photo and my lack of education... - but I really don't know and want to know what, at least, the order belongs to this very small (2 mm) insect photographed yesterday in Pyatigorsk?
"I daresay that's what it is.".. hymenoptera  

It seems to me - some kind of hay eater

Astrakhan region. Early August. Length 8-10cm.
Who is it? Dragonfly larvae ?

Pictures:

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A fly of some sort. Tabanida can?

This post was edited by Fornax13-08/15/2008 23: 45

Larvae of lion cubs.

Yesterday I saw an insect similar to a wasp (color). About 5 cm long, straight wings. It was sitting on the root of a spruce tree, with a black leg-trunk sticking out from the middle of the abdomen perpendicular to the body. With this foot, the creature pokes at the root and collects something (puts it aside). The beast is terrible! At the end of the abdomen, the stinger is about 1 cm. Who is eo? There are a lot of them flying and the child is afraid. Biting this byaka or not?
P. S. Leningrad region.

Yesterday I saw an insect similar to a wasp (color). About 5 cm long, straight wings. It was sitting on the root of a spruce tree, with a black leg-trunk sticking out from the middle of the abdomen perpendicular to the body. With this foot, the creature pokes at the root and collects something (puts it aside). The beast is terrible! At the end of the abdomen, the stinger is about 1 cm. Who is eo? There are a lot of them flying and the child is afraid. Biting this byaka or not?
P. S. Leningrad region.

I believe that you might have encountered an insect from the order hymenoptera: either a horntail (family Siricidae) - if the body is relatively massive and "very similar" in color to a wasp; or a rider from the family Ichneumonidae (if the insect is relatively slender, black in color with small white spots). Both of them are completely harmless to humans.

Thank you for reassuring me. Is it safe for spruce trees? A tree grows on the plot...

Yes, this is Urocerus gigas, I found his photo. I have lived on the Korel Isthmus for 30 years and have never seen such an animal. Is this a rare species?

Ordinary even beyond the Arctic Circle. But not massive. They just didn't get it.

I read that it lays larvae in the bark of conifers. Will they harm the kerdyk tree? What should I do with these Urocerus gigas - wet them, or let them fly?

I read that it lays larvae in the bark of conifers. Will they harm the kerdyk tree? What should I do with these Urocerus gigas - wet them, or let them fly?

And that's your own business. If I had, I would have been thrilled to have such beautiful creatures on my property. For some reason, people immediately want to kill everyone (some particularly prominent representatives do not make exceptions even for their fellow tribesmen who are located in the toilet). But in reality, the most harmful creature in this world is a human being.

And that's your own business. If I had, I would have been thrilled to have such beautiful creatures on my property. For some reason, people immediately want to kill everyone (some particularly prominent representatives do not make exceptions even for their fellow tribesmen who are located in the toilet). But in reality, the most harmful creature in this world is a human being.

"Supper!!! - No comments!!!

The fact of the matter is that it's a pity to wet them. But the tree is also the same! The question is what will happen to the tree...

It all depends on the condition of the tree itself-age, etc. The horntails of Urocerus gigas themselves do not cause much harm to a healthy tree. In our Trans-Ili Alatau, they sometimes climb out of hundred-year-old Tien-Shan firs, and they cost nothing. The large coniferous horntail still prefers a freshly cut tree with bark or a damaged tree. Another thing is that other insects or fungal infections that are dangerous for the tree can enter through their flight passages. Holes can be covered up with var, if the tree is sick, if it is healthy, it will tighten them with resin itself.
Here is his relative Horntail blue pine-Paururus juvencus will be worse, he has females when laying eggs bring infection into the wood. Sacks with spores of symbiotic tree-destroying fungi are connected to the female's ovipositor, and their spores are deposited in the wood along with the eggs. The burgeoning fungi help the larvae feed on wood, which they convert into digestible compounds.

And we have much more fir trees than horntails, humanoid pests are harmful. When you see piles of garbage piled up at the foot of trees, burnt or cut trunks, plastic bags hanging on branches and their fragments, sorry for the expression, it sucks, it becomes. That's who you need to wet, so this kind of "tourists" and "lovers of recreational recreation"

"Bukashechnik" - many thanks. The house on the plot is under construction, the tree is damaged. I will bury the roots, wrap the damaged area in P. E. These animals do not sit on other spruce trees.... I understand the reaction of entomologists to the word "wet", but looking at the dead bird cherry at home eaten for a month, there can be no other reaction...
I beat and will beat mosquitoes, flies (domestic), fleas ( dog) - do not blame me... I'm sorry that I'm not in the subject, I'm a tech guy myself, the whole CP is littered with snails. There are 1000,000,000 of them! No one eats them! They didn't exist before (exactly 20 years ago). They do not bother me, but this is not normal, either someone who ate them died, or they are newly arrived guest workers. Kick me stupid on the forum suitable.... Grandmothers collect them and extinguish them, but there are few grandmothers and a lot of snails are already terrible...
P/S>... There are more than enough hedgehogs, starlings, etc. living on this territory. Once again zvinyayte if that is not so, kick..,

"And we have much more fir trees than horntails, humanoid pests are harmful. When you see piles of garbage piled up at the foot of trees, burnt or cut trunks, plastic bags hanging on branches and their fragments, sorry for the expression, it sucks, it becomes. That's who you need to wet, so this kind of "tourists" and "recreational lovers"

In Kazakhstan, such tourists are much less than in St. Petersburg. We have the whole area is polluted by itself... Everywhere they come on bibikas, and they throw garbage as if the forest is a solid dump... Near Karelia is already the same... Finka is clean and beautiful, but you drive into the Russian Federation... One thing pleases, people spoiling their native piroda is becoming less and less ...
P.S.: Not everything is as bad as it seems...

At night, these strange insects fly to me at a wild speed, the speed is just crazy, be kind if you do not find it difficult to say that THIS
is the link to the photo below
Thank you in advance

photofile.ru/users/bizbashnya/3609421/

Cute little animals are cicadas from the raven-winged group. They fly into the light. You can not be afraid of anything and sleep well

- Please explain - these are female praying mantis of the same species? - Both were taken from us on KMV.

- Please explain - these are female praying mantis of the same species? - Both were shot at our CMS.

1. Hierodula transcaucasica
2. Mantis religiosa

Cute worshippers. Dear Bolivar absolutely correctly identified you species. By the way, Andreas, for the future, Hierodula can be easily distinguished from Mantis by the large mirror on the wing. In your photo, it is just noticeable - a yellowish spot on the fold.

lintu, there are no complaints about household pests. Entomologists themselves do not nurture the leatherworms and lepidoptera that destroy their collections.
We also have a lot of snails, and to such an extent that they have completely replaced the naked slugs and now eat everything in a row. Fighting them is also harder than fighting slugs. Hedgehogs, I don't think they use them very much. As I've noticed myself, blackbirds, crows, and large ground beetles eat them very well. When I asked a malacologist friend what the reason for such an invasion was, she said something about global warming, saying that eggs and adults survive better during the winter, plus the shell insures them better from the summer drought than slugs. Well, I also added about the year of solar activity, that in such years all sorts of pests always breed in large numbers. I don't know if she's right
To fight them, you can try to collect them manually at nightfall. In the evening, put a piece of cucumber, apple or potato on the substrate and after 3-4 hours you can already collect the first batch. In the morning, the cucumber is removed to avoid the appearance of mold. Repeat the procedure until the last snail is caught. This can last from 2 to 4 weeks. It all depends on how many eggs the adults have laid. In addition, you can use beer traps that are sold in specialized flower shops. If it is not possible to find them, then you can replace them with an ordinary saucer. It is filled with beer and placed next to flowers. The darker the beer, the more snails are caught on it. As an alternative to folk remedies for fighting snails, you can use chemicals. For example, Schneckenkorn or Mezurol. When buying, be sure to carefully read the instructions for what type of snails and slugs this or that remedy helps and whether it can be used at home.

1. Hierodula transcaucasica
2. Mantis religiosa

- It is interesting that we have 5 geobotanical zones on the KMV along the length of 100 km from south-west to north-east: semi-desert, steppe, forest - steppe, forest, and mountain-meadow treeless belt. - Hierodula transcaucasica I met only in the mountain-meadow station. And Mantis religiosa - only in the steppe and semi-desert.

This post was edited by Andreas - 28.08.2008 21: 11

And in the Crimea, on the southern coast, they meet together.

And in the Crimea, on the southern coast, they meet together.

And not only in the south, in the south-east and on the Kerch Peninsula-the same. In the west, too, there is.

Can you tell me who it was that bit into my friend's wrist? What is the difference between Ixodes persculcatus and I. ricinus? Is it really possible to install it based on the photo?

Taiga common tick (Ixodes persulcatus) - tsetse fly of Siberia, reptile it is.

This post was edited by Efenstor - 25.08.2008 20: 09

And another interesting species, which flood the air every September in the area of the Bazaiha river, constantly getting into the hair, from where they are quite difficult to pick out, due to the unusually tenacious paws.

Well, if it comes to that, then two more photos:




The green one, as I recall, is a bloodsucker.

I already found out about the first one myself - some kind of bloodsucker. I wonder which one.

Taiga common tick (Ixodes persulcatus) - tsetse fly of Siberia, reptile it is.

How does it differ from Ixodes ricinus?

I already found out about the first one myself - some kind of bloodsucker. I wonder which one.

Try to make a better photo and you will get an answer. It is also important where it was shot? Europe. part of the country or Siberia? On Europe. parts from sem. Hippoboscidae common Lipoptena cervi-popularly - "moose fly "or" moose louse " Compare with the photo on the site http://encephalitis.ru/index.php?newsid=801 "M. B. she?"

Try to make a better photo and you will get an answer. It is also important where it was shot? Europe. part of the country or Siberia? On Europe. parts from sem. Hippoboscidae common Lipoptena cervi-popularly - "moose fly "or" moose louse " Compare with the photo on the site http://encephalitis.ru/index.php?newsid=801 "M. B. she?"

Taken near Krasnoyarsk. The one in the photo, of course, is very similar, but our wings are definitely shorter and the color is not so red, but darker. Alas, there is no other photo, this year I will try to do better, as I will go to the area where there are especially many of them (on the Bazaiha river). By the way, it's funny that they can walk sideways.

This post was edited by Efenstor - 26.08.2008 21: 12

I'll try to do a better job when I go to that area,

To get the best image quality, it is better to scan the fly. The image quality will be very high.
http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/berlov4.htm

good day to all.
Today I was smoking, I looked at my leg and there it is...
it tried to bite me.. can anyone tell me who it is???

http://flamber.ru/files/photos/1168338856/1186995175_g.jpg
it doesn't seem to have bitten her, but maybe she has some kind of poison that doesn't neutralize the pain???