Wildlife photos please

[Verinda]

I spied this mysterious moth on the door. It looked like the black moth but on another setting it came up on the screen looking like this more beautiful version!

[Green Gerkin]

Mr toad or mr frog?
We don't have a pond so i filled a shallow tray with water and put some big stones in it for him



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[Jeanied]

Mr Frog - smooth skin and a dark patch behind the eye - lucky you!

[PyreneesPlot]

Female stag beetle (I think) who I almost stood on as she marched through the veg garden! We often see them in the woods but this is the first one in the garden.

[WPG]

That's a brilliant photo PP - what an impressive insect (though I don't think I could bring myself to hold one)

[Nannysally99]

My daughter has had lots of stag beetles in her garden this year, quite large ones too

[Catseyes]

. Just introduced my 23 month old to them today. It's the second female I have seen. Saw a male earlier in the year


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[roitelet]

That's a brilliant photo PP - what an impressive insect (though I don't think I could bring myself to hold one)

You are OK with the females but beware of the males they don't half nip with those great big pincers!

[Small pumpkin]

Dose anyone know what this is? It's just been evicted from my poly tunnel. I've looked in all my bug books and Internet searches, a few times and I can't find it anywhere.
I was very brave putting the tape next to it ( I have seen a horse run away from one of these ). If it's any help, it sound like a chinook when it's flying

[veggiechicken]

Is it a Horsefly?

[Martin H]

I reckon VC is right as usual. I don't know what species though. This Wikipedia pic has similar markings and sunglasses, but it doesn't live that far north: Horse-fly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Martin H]

Ah ok, it's Tabanus sudeticus: https://www.flickr.com/photos/630752...7629593547525/

[veggiechicken]

It was a guess really Martin - because Small pumpkin said that horses run away from it

[PyreneesPlot]

That's the chap! We have lots of them here - Chinook is a great description - at least you can hear them coming. I have to say, I've never been bitten by one unlike the silent and almost indestructible cleg fly.

[PyreneesPlot]

And forgot to say that the male stag beetle is fine if grasped behind the head - just like a snake!!