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Title: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 18, 2008, 11:41:59 PM
I saw this bug on our window screen the other day, and I wondered what it was. I've never seen one like it. Does anyone know.

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Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: JohnBrainard on June 30, 2008, 12:15:43 PM
I don't know what the bug is, but you gave me a great idea.

I set up a piece of white cardboard outside with a lamp shining on it to attract moths and bugs for a little close up fun. I think I'm going to build a frame and cover it with screen. That will make a much more interesting background than white cardboard. IT'll also give the moths and bugs something better to land on.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: ScottyBoy on June 30, 2008, 07:29:20 PM
Good idea! Let me know how it works out.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: JohnBrainard on July 02, 2008, 08:38:19 PM
Sorry for the late reply. I lost track of this thread.... So many things to keep up with. A photo blog, two photography forums, flickr, work, family, getting out taking pictures, etc... :)

I will let you know how it works out if I get around to doing it.
Title: Green lacewing
Post by: Barbarian on July 03, 2008, 01:55:03 PM
Order Chrysopidae.   Good for your garden; the larvae are voracious eaters of aphids and other garden pests.

Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: ScottyBoy on July 04, 2008, 03:16:18 PM
Oh, that's good to know. Thank you.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: JudyB on July 09, 2008, 04:02:59 PM
what knowledge we can draw on here at CP!  Thank you Barbarian!  Good photo's Scotty
Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: ScottyBoy on July 09, 2008, 05:53:37 PM
Just out of curiosity, how do you know what kind of bug that is?
Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: Barbarian on July 13, 2008, 09:59:04 PM
I'm a biologist.   I love entomology.   If you have any interest in it, you can get a copy of Borror and White's Field Guide to Insects of North America North of Mexico.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Field-Guide-to-Insects/Richard-E-White/e/9780395911716/?itm=9   

Or:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/used/ListingResults.asp?WID=1929832&TTL=A%20Field%20Guide%20to%20Insects&CNT=Richard%20E.%20White&Itm=2

Great resource at a reasonable price.



Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: ScottyBoy on July 13, 2008, 10:19:19 PM
Thank you for the links. I do have an interest in entomology.
Title: Re: Help Identifying Bug
Post by: Ellette on July 14, 2008, 01:29:52 AM
Such a pretty green colour and nice wings.  That is about the extent of my bug knowlege...glad there are people who know more.  I just know...if it can bite me I'll react to it.