The photos were all taken in Cambridge, nearly all in my garden (location details).
Thumbnails Indexes to main orders: Coleoptera | Diptera | Lepidoptera | Hymenoptera
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A random collection of insect photos taken with a Kodak DC240 Digital Camera (fitted with a
X6 magnifier
for the smaller insects); from 2002 with a Nikon Coolpix 995.
The photos were all taken in Cambridge, nearly all in my garden (location details).
Thumbnails Indexes to main orders: Coleoptera | Diptera | Lepidoptera | Hymenoptera |
| No insects were harmed in the production of these pages (apart for natural instances of predation!) | |
| Order | Sub-Order hierarchy | Family | Species | ||||
| Odonata Dragonflies & Damselflies | Zygoptera Damselflies | Coenagrionidae |
Enallagma cyathigerum Common Blue Damselfly
Ischnura elegans Blue-tailed Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Large Red Damselfly | ||||
| Anisoptera Dragonflies | Aeshnidae |
Aeshna grandis Brown Hawker
Aeshna mixta Migrant Hawker | |||||
| Libellulidae | Orthetrum cancellatum Black-tailed skimmer
Sympetrum striolatum Common Darter | ||||||
| Orthoptera Grasshoppers | Ensifera Tettigonioidea | Tettigoniidae |
Meconema thalassinum Oak Bush-cricket
Metrioptera roeselii Roesel's Bush-cricket | ||||
| Heteroptera True Bugs | Cimicomorpha Miroidea | Miridae |
Calocoris norvegicus Potato Capsid
Deraeocoris ruber Red Bug Heterotoma merioptera Liocoris tripustulatus Common Nettle Capsid Lygocoris pabulinus Common Green Capsid Stenodema laevigatum Grass Bug Campyloneura virgula | ||||
| Cimicomorpha (contd) Naboidea | Nabidae |
Himacerus mirmicoides Ant Damsel Bug
Nabis rugosus Common Damsel Bug | |||||
| Cimicomorpha (contd) Cimicoidea | Cimicidae | Anthocoris nemorum Common Flower Bug | |||||
| Pentatomomorpha Pentatomoidea | Acanthosomatidae | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale Hawthorn Shield Bug
Elasmucha grisea Parent Bug | |||||
| Cydnidae | Sehirus luctuosus | ||||||
| Pentatomidae | Aelia acuminata Bishop's Mitre
Eysarcoris fabricii Palomena prasina Green Shield Bug Piezodorus lituratus Gorse Shield Bug Nezara viridula Picromerus bidens Troilus luridus | ||||||
| Pentatomomorpha (contd) Lygaeoidea | Lygaeidae | Scolopostethus thomsoni | |||||
| Pentatomomorpha (contd) Coreoidea | Coreidae | Coreus marginatus
Rhopalus subrufus | |||||
| Homoptera Cicadas, aphids & hoppers | Sternorrhyncha Aphidomorpha Aphidoidea | Lachnidae | Tuberolachnus salignus Giant willow aphid | ||||
| Auchenorhyncha Cicadomorpha Cercopoidea | Aphrophoridae | Philaenus spumarius Common Frog-hopper | |||||
| Cicadomorpha (contd) Membracoidea | Cicadellidae | Eupteryx aurata
Eupteryx melissae Idiocerus vitreus | |||||
| Neuroptera | Chrysopidae | Chrysopa perla
Chrysoperla carnea Mecoptera
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| Panorpidae
| Panorpa communis
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Some other sites showing European garden insects: A Small Wildlife Garden (Newport, Gwent) My bit of the planet (Aldershot, Hants) A Nature Observer's Scrapbook (Horncastle, Lincs) InvertebrateIreland Hania's and Hans' Garden Safari (Netherlands) |
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Please credit: Photographs: Keith Edkins: or if technically possible <A HREF="http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/insects/">Keith Edkins</A>