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flying cheetah

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:10 pm

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Does anyone knoe the exact name of this wasp (if it is a wasp, but I think so..) ? I saw this beautiful insect while I was doing the Rhino walk in Berg n Dal in November.

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Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:50 am

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*Bump*

Can anyone help here?

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Meandering Mouse

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:29 am

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Flying Cheetah's wasp could be a Synagris analis.

I think that Kjii"s first picture is a Sunflower seed bug. Agonoscelis versicoloratus. Very pretty little thing, but can be a pest if you grow sunflowers.

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flying cheetah

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:27 pm

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Thank you MM :clap:

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annapangolin

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:42 pm

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Need some help with this tiny little bug. I've nicknamed it the 'echidna bug', but i'm hoping for something better!

There's nothing like it any of my reference books.

Seen on the banks of the Limpopo River, north of Alldays.

Any ideas?

edit: Doesn't look like the video is working

http://vimeo.com/32407470

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arks

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:56 pm

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Does anyone have any idea what these insects might be? They appear to be mating? Flies of some sort, perhaps? Seen at Cape Point near Venus Pool in September 2011.

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onewithnature

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:01 am

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They certainly look like flies. Do we not have any entomologists on this forum that could help?

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charbel

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:34 pm

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Hi,

Could someone help me in identifying these two insects seen last january (2011) in KNP?

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charbel

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:35 pm

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Forgot: They were seen north of Letaba. The first at S93, the second at S94.

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ross hawkins

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:59 pm

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@ arks - Take a look at the Robber Flies n you should get close to the species here
@ Charbel the first one is a Carpenter Bee and the second pic is of a grasshopper species, sorry can't get closer than this

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Roan

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 10:51 pm

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@ Charbel: The grasshopper is one of the Catantops humeralis species
Hope it helps.

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arks

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:36 pm

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ross hawkins wrote:

@ arks - Take a look at the Robber Flies n you should get close to the species here

A belated thank you for your help, Ross!

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arks

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:14 pm

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Can anyone help with an ID for this insect — possibly some sort of grasshopper? :hmz:

Seen at night on the door netting of my safari tent at Punda Maria, 16 April 2012.

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arks

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:06 am

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Anyone?

arks wrote:

Can anyone help with an ID for this insect — possibly some sort of grasshopper? :hmz:

Seen at night on the door netting of my safari tent at Punda Maria, 16 April 2012.

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onewithnature

Post subject: Re: Insect ID needed

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:23 am

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Arks, I'm struggling to see detail clearly from the photo, but if it was wingless, my best guess would be a bush grasshopper species. I'm no entomologist - maybe we need to find who is on these forums? - but, from my reference books, that seems the most likely.

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