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Post by owdboggy on May 19, 2009 12:21:01 GMT 1
 Found in the greenhouse. Anyone recognise it? |
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Post by Sleepy on May 19, 2009 12:42:53 GMT 1
Found in the greenhouse. Anyone recognise it? It's a Longhorn Beetle - Leptura maculata It is not a problem to gardeners. I believe it feeds on pollen and lays it's eggs in dead wood. |
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Post by owdboggy on May 19, 2009 14:42:25 GMT 1
Ta, we thought it was Rutpela (Strangalia) maculata Are they the same thing with different names. But friend it seems.
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Post by Biggles on May 19, 2009 15:49:08 GMT 1
Ooh-It looks a horrible thing--Where about was it in the Greenhouse? Under a Pot? or just lurking around?
I have never seen anything like it before.
It seems as though they are both the same with different names ;D
I have just Googled it on the internet and this is what it says--
"Longhorn beetle Rutpela maculata (Strangalia maculata)
Rutpela maculata is a frequent Shropshire longhorn beetle. It can often be found on flowers, such as hogweed and wild rose. A walk along any woodland ride in June - July should provide sightings of this attractive yellow and black beetle"
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Post by jennywren on May 19, 2009 18:04:29 GMT 1
<shriek> 'orrible thing - SCREAM
Foe to me that's for sure
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Post by owdboggy on May 19, 2009 21:03:39 GMT 1
Oh no, we do not kill anything until it becomes necessary. They have as much right to life as we do. It was in the greenhouse, under a growbag. I took it out, photographed it and then it flew away to eat the pollen on which it feeds. No doubt the resident newt would have eaten it!
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Post by Sleepy on May 19, 2009 21:38:14 GMT 1
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Post by jennywren on May 20, 2009 7:51:11 GMT 1
Handsome ? Sleepy oh me gosh - no whey I wud never kill any insect, unless a wasp, but then I would not like it living in my home either  |
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Post by Biggles on May 20, 2009 11:30:55 GMT 1
I wouldn't kill it either--even if it was 'Foe'-I would carefully 'pick it up' in a plant pot and put it as far as posible away from my garden-- I bet you got a surprise when you lifted that pot--you are brave ;D to take a photograph of it aswell- Now Slugs and Snails I can hapily dispose of them without feeling guilty-  Bigs |
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Post by emseypop on May 20, 2009 17:26:56 GMT 1
quite elegant looking, isn't he. Looks poisonous. I suppose its to try to warn off predators, he be welcome in my GH, but no in my house!
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