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    Beetle ID Wasaga Beach, ON???

    It's the Variegated June Beetle, Polyphylla variolosa
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    Insect ID help

    Looks like to be a Mystacides sp. given the banded antennae and furry long palps
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    Scarabaeidae? California

    Yes, a scarabeid and definitely in the subfamily Melolonthinae. I think it's a Dichelonyx species but I'm not sure.
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    Beetle ID Paphos, Cyprus

    Possibly a Chrysolina species.
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    Fly ID help needed

    While Bibio marci is a likely species, I don't really know what other species may be about in Hungary. There's generally fewer species of all insects in the British Isles compared to the continent thanks to the cool weather and the island effect. Relying on British ID resources alone may not...
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    Beetle I/D required

    ^^There is one other silphid which is a bit like this: Necrodes littoralis. However it's got a distinctive kind of kink in the elytra and with much stronger ridges running down them.
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    Fly ID help needed

    It's a male Bibionid fly of some sort. The males have very large eyes to help them find the females.
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    Large Insect from Gambia for ID please

    A pompilid wasp of some sort. Maybe a Hemipepsis sp.?
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    Beetle ID (Sweden)

    It's a dung beetle in the family Geotrupidae aka a Dor Beetle. Species level ID of these involves checking the presence of hairs on the underside so I can't take it any further.
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    UK grasshopper books

    I find this key quite easy to use in the field. It misses out some of the very rarest species and doesn't cover the song but it's a good way to get to grips with the vast majority of UK species and their main clinching features (wing length, thickened tips to antennae?, shape of pronotal keel...
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    beetle id please

    One of the sexton beetles: Nicrophorus investigator. It's a carrion-feeding species and the mites use these beetles to hitch a ride to new food sources.
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    Weird but adorable insect

    That's definitely not a stick insect; it's a mantis. Classic mantis face and abdomen in particular. It's really well camouflaged though.
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    Large white faced fly

    Tachina grossa
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    A Bug and Two Beetles, from the Balkans

    The Albanian beetle is a leaf beetle in the tribe Clytrini within the subfamily Cryptocephalinae. Given the hairs on the pronotum, I think it might be a Lachnaia sp. but I'm not familiar with this group at all (despite there being 100+ European species in this tribe, there's only 4 to be found...
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    Wasp sp: Herts. UK

    It's a honey bee
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    And I thought it was Grasshoppers of Zurich, not Fortaleza !

    I've heard Tropidacris sp. get bandied about for this one.
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    Tiny green beetle

    I've just seen the blurry photo in your gallery. It's obviously really hard to tell what's what but it appears to be very round with a dark section (unless that's just shadow). Perhaps a nymph of the Common Green Shieldbug, Palomena prasina? These don't have any blue metallic bits though.
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    Tiny green beetle

    Can't really help without a picture. Are you sure it was a beetle? Many of the true bugs have arrowhead-like markings on the scutellum.
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    ID for (rare/continental?) Hoverfly

    Perhaps a particularly worn Volucella bombylans? (I'm thinking of the Bombus lapidarius-mimicking form - rub off the bum hairs and it'd look a lot like this)
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    cranefly Id??

    It's a female Scorpionfly (Panorpa sp.)
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    Bee and a Beetle

    The weevil is probably Otiorhynchus porcatus
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    Crickets(I think) SWTurkey. ID help please

    Orthoptera are actually surprisingly hard to ID with some cryptic species out there. You might see some of the Brits on here managing to identify species in their home country but we don't have nearly as many species as you will in Turkey. I can confirm they're bush-crickets though (family...
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    Bumblebee listing

    ID of some species is going to require a microscope, key and, in certain cases, dissection. I don't know if you're prepared to do that. Otherwise, there's some good info at the Natural History Museum's Bombus project: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/bombus/ and the...
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    A beetle and a fly ( W.Mids UK )

    The fly is actually an ichneumonid wasp and I think it's in the sub-family Ophioninae. There's a key to the species of wasps in this group that get attracted to light traps here: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/keys-for-nocturnal-workshop-reduced-109651.pdf
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    Which Stag beetle is this? Surrey, UK

    That's a male Stag Beetle. The other species, the Lesser Stag Beetle, is much smaller, doesn't have that dark brown colour on its elytra (they're pretty much all black) and the males don't have the enlarged mandibles that you can see here.
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