I'm an iggly, I'm an iggly, what iggly am I ?

[slack ma girdle]

This fella visited me today:

Ooooo, you beauty.
Chysolina cerealis, like dry sandy soil and feeds on wild time.

[timbernut]

Cool, never seen one before, we’re on heavy boulder clay with sand lenses, have cultivated thyme within feet of where it landed though. Is it gonna decimate it[emoji33]

[openspaceman]

On 24/03/2019 at 17:22, Darrin Turnbull said:

The only exit hole to be found was the one the woodpecker made .

 

I found the same last week in a birch and an adjacent silver maple, I guessed leopard or goat moth, the woodpecker had got them both times having chased the tunnel with several exploratory holes till it opened up where the grub was, I wonder if it could hear the grub??

[openspaceman]

On 10/05/2019 at 17:51, openspaceman said:

I found the same last week in a birch and an adjacent silver maple, I guessed leopard or goat moth, the woodpecker had got them both times having chased the tunnel with several exploratory holes till it opened up where the grub was, I wonder if it could hear the grub??

[Mick Dempsey]

Found on a dead Douglas stump.

 

Any ideas, I can’t search google atm, will do later.

Edited May 17, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[Steve Bullman]

On 10/05/2019 at 07:07, slack ma girdle said:

Ooooo, you beauty.
Chysolina cerealis, like dry sandy soil and feeds on wild time.

Am I the only one whose going to comment on your camera roll?

[Paul in the woods]

19 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Found on a dead Douglas stump.

 

Any ideas, I can’t search google atm, will do later.

Sabre Wasp - Rhyssa persuasoria ?

 

If it is it feeds off the larvae of wood boring insects.

 

https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/the-sabre-wasp

[AJStrees]

41 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Found on a dead Douglas stump.

 

Any ideas, I can’t search google atm, will do later.

Great find and good shot. Learn something new every day. 

[Mick Dempsey]

30 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

Sabre Wasp - Rhyssa persuasoria ?

 

If it is it feeds off the larvae of wood boring insects.

 

https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/the-sabre-wasp

Great ident, thanks, macabre little devil.

[timbernut]

Am I the only one whose going to comment on your camera roll?

It wasn’t slack’s it was mine[emoji33] thought I’d got away with it!