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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:41 pm
by Richprins
Another moth?
It prefers to hang upside down!
About 2cm - Nelspruit
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:56 pm
by Klipspringer
Antigastra catalaunalis
Red Veined Pearl or Sesame Leaf-roller
The caterpillars make shelter by rolling up young leaves and webbing them together with silk.
A pest of sesame crop, Sesamum indicum.
Very elegant moth
O like the large eyes
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Spilomelinae
Crambrid snout moths have a characteristic triangular shape, with the wings usually folded over the abdomen, the forewings covering the hindwings.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:19 am
by Richprins
Klippies!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:41 pm
by Richprins
A big bug - 3cm.
Nelspruit
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:56 pm
by Lisbeth
A kind of stink bug?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:46 pm
by Klipspringer
Lisbeth wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:56 pm
A kind of stink bug?
a member of the family Pentatomidae, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs.
Lisbeth will take over here now
Brown Shield Bug
Basicryptus costalis - this species has been transferred from the genus
Dalsira to the genus
Basicryptus.
Uniformly ochre, with 2 thin cream stripes on the margins of the hemelytra and a black spot below each side projection of the thorax.
The forewings of stink bugs are called hemelytra, with the basal half thickened while the apex is membranous. At rest, the wings are laid across the back of the insect, with the membranous wingtips overlapping. The hindwings are entirely membranous.
They are predatory stinkbugs and prey on fat caterpillars. Good to have them around in your garden to control some hungry pest caterpillars.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:50 am
by Lisbeth
Klipspringer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:46 pm
Lisbeth wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:56 pm
A kind of stink bug?
Lisbeth will take over here now
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:25 am
by Richprins
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:35 pm
by Richprins
A HUGE mantis, 8cm.
Nelspruit.
(Pretty sure it was dead!)
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:01 pm
by nan
wow nice one
it's seems I got one at Punda Maria
same specie
