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Beetles & Ladybirds

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Grammoptera ruficornis

This delicate little longhorn beetle is 4.5 to 7 millimeters long. The body is elongated and narrowed slightly to the rear. The top is black, the legs and sensors have a partial yellow-brown color.

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The Wasp Beetle is a small, narrow-bodied longhorn beetle. The larvae live in warm, dry, dead wood, such as fence posts and dead branches, and particularly favour willow and birch. The adults can be found feeding on flowers along woodland rides and hedgerows during the summer. The Wasp Beetle lives up to its name by mimicking the Common Wasp in both colouration and in its behaviour, moving in a jerky fashion similar to a wasp's flight. This mimicry keeps it safe from predators, even though it is actually harmless.

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Rutpela Maculata

This is a large but well-marked longhorn beetle with a variable pattern of black and yellow markings. Usually found along hedgerows and woodland margins where the adults are most often seen on Hawthorn or umbel flowers.

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Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn - Agapanthia villosoviridescens

A large and very distinctive longhorn beetle with a golden iridescent bloom on the elytra and thorax. The antennae are also very distinctive with dark and light bands. The elytra are somewhat bristly with hairs. Length up to 20mm.

Mainly found in moist meadows and hedgerows. Adults feed on umbellifers such as Hogweed and Cow Parsley as well as on nettles.