Anyone Know What This Is?

[OEH]

This landed on my windscreen while we were walking the dogs and I have no idea what it is. Any ideas?

 

[gilliwigs]

This landed on my windscreen while we were walking the dogs and I have no idea what it is.  Any ideas?

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No idea, but it looks a bit scary!! (w00t)

 

[AnnSa]

Ewww glad i haven't found one

 

[Janimal]

Havnt a clue what that is....been scanning the insect pages on the net...nothing even remotely like it??? :unsure:

I think its a pupae of something...

 

[Trish]

ive no idea either,never seen anything like it before :blink:

 

[Karen-Coral]

looks like a butterfly with ingrowing wings....

 

[~elizabeth~]

Lady bird larvae.

Haxyridis axyridis?

Try the identification key and see if you come up with this one as well. If it is, the people below might well be interested as it's a non-native, asiatic species.

Lady bird survey

 

[OEH]

Brilliant identification Elizabeth. How on earth did you find that? I'll tell my old entomology tutor and see if he's interested.

 

[AnnSa]

That ugly critter is going to be a ladybird

 

[~elizabeth~]

Seems there are more and more strange things to identify every year. My parents' evergreens are being ravaged by viburnum beetle.

Coincidentally I find the Multi-coloured ladybird is an efficient predator of viburnum beetle larvae, though it sounds like that may be

it's only advantage:

Harmonia axyridis eating Viburnum beetle larvae

http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extensio...ictureBoard.htm

They also have a large nest (like a paper football) of Median Wasps living in remains of the viburnum hedge,

impressive but I'm not quite sure what to do about them; they haven't been aggressive

so far, even when I was trimming it.

Median Wasp

 

[Janimal]

Well done Elizabeth.

I found it eventually too... gosh it looks nothing like the finished article.. :lol:

 

[Darcia]

I was just going to say the same thing - that it looks like a lady bird larva - they are real lttle carnivores and will eat any other living insects - including themselves!