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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:03 pm
by arks
Sorry to have missed you, nan :-( ... maybe next time O**

Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:16 pm
by arks
Can anyone help with ID of this insect? I'm not sure whether it's a fly or a bee or a wasp .... -O- Seen at Nylsvly Nature Reserve (Limpopo) in late April 2012.

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 11:43 pm
by Toko
African Honeybee Apis mellifera scutellata :-)

Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 3:21 am
by arks
:ty: Thanks yet again, Toko. You're helping me to resolve so many of my ID 'mysteries'! O\/

Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 2:44 am
by arks
Here are several more insects I need ID for.

This first one was seen in my garden in Darling in late May 2012
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These two were seen in WCNP in early December 2012
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And this one was seen along Darling Hills Road in late December 2012
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:54 pm
by Toko
arks wrote:Here are several more insects I need ID for.

This first one was seen in my garden in Darling in late May 2012
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:56 pm
by Toko
arks wrote:Here are several more insects I need ID for.
These two were seen in WCNP in early December 2012
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This a Common Geranium Bronze Cacyreus marshalli, very nice flower photo - Senecio elegans O\/ O\/ O\/

Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 2:06 pm
by Toko
arks wrote:Here are several more insects I need ID for.

And this one was seen along Darling Hills Road in late December 2012
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Phymateus morbillosus Common Milkweed Locust

Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:03 pm
by Toko
arks wrote:Here are several more insects I need ID for.

These two were seen in WCNP in early December 2012
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That's an Allopadula bee, perhaps Allodapula variegata

Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:25 pm
by arks
thanks so much for all of these Toko :ty: Glad you like the asters :-)