Longitude (deg): -3.6. Latitude (deg): 50.2. Longitude (deg/min): 3° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 20' N. Vice county name: South Devon. Vice county no.: 3. Country: England. Stage: Nymph. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".
Longitude (deg): -3.6. Latitude (deg): 50.2. Longitude (deg/min): 3° 40' W. Latitude (deg/min): 50° 20' N. Vice county name: South Devon. Vice county no.: 3. Country: England. Stage: Nymph. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".
I found this broad-headed bug, Alydus pilosulus, crawling up the wall of my house on a warm fall afternoon. Length is 11 mm. I've not seen this species before. Of members of this family, usually I find the (abundant) Alydus eurinus or Megalotomus quinquespinosus.
I'll get around to posting the rest of my photos from my Ash Ranges visit, but after a comment on Libby's lovely site photo, I thought I would share a favourite: my first alydid and the only one found in Britain, Alydus calcaratus.It was a nice warm day when we visited and I thought this was a wasp at first because it was flying around. We potted it up and bagged it for a while in the hope it would cool down enough to stay still for a photo!