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Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Aug 24, 2019

• #1

I think this is a migrant hawker?
What is the bug that looks a bit like a black ladybird.
Spider?

 

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Andy Adcock

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• Aug 24, 2019

• #2

1 Looks to be a Migrant Hawker.

3 Is a Cabbage Bug I believe, Eyrydema oleracea

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Aug 24, 2019

• #3

andyadcock said:

1 Looks to be a Migrant Hawker.

3 Is a Cabbage Bug I believe, Eyrydema oleracea

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Agree with these, first is a mature male.

Not sure about the spider.

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Aug 24, 2019

• #4

Thanks, Both,
Could it be a male wasp spider?
I only ask because there was a female in the same spot earlier.

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Aug 25, 2019

• #5

Surreybirder said:

Thanks, Both,
Could it be a male wasp spider?
I only ask because there was a female in the same spot earlier.

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It doesn't look like one to me, though the males are far less distinctive than the showy females. We had 8 females in a relatively small patch of grass on walk I was leading at Ruislip yesterday. One had wrapped up its lunch-probably a grasshopper.

 

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salticus

Well-known member

• Aug 27, 2019

• #6

The spider looks like a Zygiella - but is this in the UK?

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Aug 27, 2019

• #7

Thanks for the idea. It is in the UK. I wonder whether Zygiella x-notata could be a possibility. It apparently often builds its web on window panes.

BTW - the wasp spider has now made a rather neat web.

 

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Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Sep 1, 2019

• #8

Another one for ID, please

 

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salticus

Well-known member

• Sep 1, 2019

• #9

Surreybirder said:

Another one for ID, please

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Araneus diadematus

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Sep 2, 2019

• #10

Thanks!