Can you identify this-Friend or Foe?

[Nicos]

Humph.....see what you mean.....but it's still a friend.....
It does hunt other insects though which eat our crops.

[Kathie]

Friend or Foe

Many, many thanks for putting my mind at ease with this---If I see anymore I will carefully dig it back into the soil--my friend-no more 'cutting you in half'!--Kathie

[Kathie]

Ahhh!!! But is it a friend!!

http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th11d(1).htm

Yes you are quite right-What a good picture and site you have given me to view---Kathie

[Nicos]

look at this...

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/e...terraneus.html

[Benacre]

You should by this book. "Garden Creepy Crawlies" by Michael Chinery.
It will tell you how many different species of Wums we have too

[Kathie]

look at this...

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/e...terraneus.html

Hello Nicos--It is identical to the one in my photograph! Thanks for your assurance that it is a Friend!--
And thanks for all the other links you kind folks have given me--it is worth reading these books etc. to find out more- There is more to this gardening 'lark' than just 'sowing' seed--I am learning fast!!!--thanks to GYO. members
Kathie

[Nicos]

Thank you for that as I started doubting myself as my father always told me they were pests!
I think some of our co-habitees are both beneficial and not , so it's a balance I think.
Not many fast moving insects/etc are hervivors I think.
This one is probably an omnivor???

[Kathie]

Thank you for that as I started doubting myself as my father always told me they were pests!
I think some of our co-habitees are both beneficial and not , so it's a balance I think.
Not many fast moving insects/etc are hervivors I think.
This one is probably an omnivor???

Now you have made me look up the dictionary for those two names -Omniverous is in the dictionary but not hervivors!--Kathie

[Brookfield Growers]

oops! they may be friends but my chickens find them a tasty treat!

[Nicos]

Sorry...
Herbivores....

[Kathie]

Sorry...
Herbivores....

Hope we are still Friends--I now know what they mean!!--Kath

[roitelet]

I might be worth getting a copy of Biological Control in Plant Protection by Neil Helyer, Kevin Brown, Nigel D Cattlin published by Manson Publishing ISBN 1-874545-28-6. www.manson-publishing.co.uk It is a bit technical but does help to identify benificial insects and gives some practical tips for gardeners.

[roitelet]

Oops A bit expensive but worth the money. Mine was a pressie

[Kathie]

Oops A bit expensive but worth the money. Mine was a pressie

If only I had posted this 'thread' before Christmas when hints were being dropped about pressies--Now I have to buy my own--Thanks for your suggestion or I might just get it from the Library?--Kathie

[Nicos]

?? birthday??