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Louby

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  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
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anyone tell me what this bug is, found it in the garden the other day.

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Also saw this on a tree on a walk through Reigate Priory, not sure if its a nest or growth or what , any ideas?

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Posted
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Anything
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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Ahem.

I think it is...

Wasp beetle - Clytus arietis - Family: Cerambycidae

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Wasp beetle.

Posted
  • Location: Lindum Colonia
  • Location: Lindum Colonia
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Are you sure the Elephant Man isn't hiding up that tree?

Posted
  • Location: Castle Howard, North Yorkshire
  • Location: Castle Howard, North Yorkshire
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Yes my son who loves insects...Says it's a beetle too...Apparently from the locust family

Hes a handsome fellow though isn't he. :lol:

My apologies Azores is right. It is indeed from the Cerambycidae family.

He is still a cutie though :cray:

Posted
  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London
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thats not one of those nest full of hairy caterpillars is it?? or is where henne hides his stahs of carlings

Posted
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Anything
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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Yes my son who loves insects...Says it's a beetle too...Apparently from the locust family

Hes a handsome fellow though isn't he. :lol:

Not quite, the locust is from the Acrididae Family, which includes all types of locusts and are from the larger order of insects Orthoptera, the grasshoppers.

The wasp beetle is from the Cerambycidae family which are the long horned beetles which are included in the wider insect order of Coleoptera, the beetles.

Oh dear, geekdom here I come :cray:

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
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Are you sure the Elephant Man isn't hiding up that tree?

:cray: No Hemmy is in Lincoln not Reigate!

Thank you guys and gals on the info on the bug :lol:

Posted
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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I think the tree thingy is a burl, but I'm not sure about that!

Oh yes, cute as a button that beetle, and a great picture Louby!

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
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Thank you AH :lol: now could you explain what a burl is?

Posted
  • Location: Castle Howard, North Yorkshire
  • Location: Castle Howard, North Yorkshire
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Not quite, the locust is from the Acrididae Family, which includes all types of locusts and are from the larger order of insects Orthoptera, the grasshoppers.

The wasp beetle is from the Cerambycidae family which are the long horned beetles which are included in the wider insect order of Coleoptera, the beetles.

Oh dear, geekdom here I come :cray:

Thanks Azores yes I realized you were indeed correct and altered my post above.

I think we are agreed now mate :lol:

Regards

Brian

Posted
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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Thank you AH :lol: now could you explain what a burl is?

Burl

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
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Ooooo didn't think of looking on there!!! :cray: ta very much, trouble is makes Joe bloody right! :lol: never going to hear the end of that , lets hope he doesn't look in this thread tomorrow :lol:

Thank you kindly one and all

Posted
  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
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Is it a wasps nest in the tree?

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
Posted

Think I will have to take another trip over there with my zoom lens.

Posted
  • Location: Salisbury , Wiltshire
  • Location: Salisbury , Wiltshire
Posted
Is it a wasps nest in the tree?

I think Mr Bown has it right , well thats what i think it is , if we had a decent picture if it we might be able to decide :lol:

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
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really did look woody! hang on will see if I can crop original and get a more decent pic.

Posted
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Anything
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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It's not a wasp nest, although it looks similar, wasp nests only reach that size in late summer. At this time of the year the queens will only just come out from hibernation and will have built a small nest, about the size of a apple.

Posted
  • Location: Salisbury , Wiltshire
  • Location: Salisbury , Wiltshire
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it possiblly is a nest from last year?

wasp nest are made of mashed up wood you often see wasps grazing off wood from fence panels and the like then they chew it up and spit it out where they want it and build the nests

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
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as good as I can get it for now.

Posted
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Anything
  • Location: Ashford, Kent
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it possiblly is a nest from last year?

Not out in the open, the nest is very fragile, a bit like papier mache (sp) It wouldn't survive the winter in the open.

as good as I can get it for now

That's wood.

Posted
  • Location: Salisbury , Wiltshire
  • Location: Salisbury , Wiltshire
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Not out in the open, the nest is very fragile, a bit like papier mache (sp) It wouldn't survive the winter in the open.

That's wood.

you are probablly right AH

with the damage next to it on the tree a decent branch ripped out will point to your burl

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i thought that critter was one of them things that eats potatoes...................not the irish but a beetle thats name escapes me louby.not Mc cartney but..................erm i believe i think i'm thinking of a colorado beetle,they were all the rage in the 80's

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