Creepy-Crawlies II Quiz

Here's part II of Creepy-crawlies. Again, no spiders to frighten you.
1 pt for each recognised. Last lot of 10.

11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Bonus question. Name this large slug-like creature. No, it's not John Prescott, but close !

21.

Good luck !

[H&J]

12. Lacewing
13. earwig
14 locust
16. hawkshead moth
18. cockroach
21. jabba the hut

[beefy]

I can't see the pictures, not even Yoda and his Force could get them on my PC with Firewalls etc.... :( :(

Sorry to hear, Beefy.

The 'acid test' for me if my quiz pictures are going to work for others is to see if I can display them both on my PC at work and at home. My home apparatus is not exactly the latest state-of-the-art, quite the opposite in fact, yet the pics come up okay.

Sometimes if you have more than one firewall set, they can get in the way of each other: I have a problem in accessing Napster software for this very reason, and can't update the library of my iPod as a result.

Some more great answers from our resident entomologist Harry the Spider (and Jill). ;D

12,13,14,18 and 21 are correct. 16 - Half-point for Hawkshead moth, not quite right but a very close relation.

Leaderboard:

[glow=red,2,300]H & J 5.5pts[/glow]

[H&J]

16. deathhead moth (the one with a skull) !!

Agreed that the Death’s-head Hawk-moth is the largest seen in England & Wales :



"At the other end of the size scale are the Hawk-moths. Some of these are surprisingly common, e.g. the Poplar Hawk-moth, the larvae of which feed on Sallow. However, the very largest species are scarce migrants, the Death’s-head Hawk-moth being the biggest, with a wingspan up to 135mm, and the rather more frequent Convolvulus Hawk-moth the second biggest. Both these impressive insects were recorded in North Wales in 2003."

But this one is the largest moth in the world and is indigenous to the oriental tropics.

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

16 Is Atlas Moth I believe !

KP correctly identifies the rather bizarre looking Atlas Moth.

Leaderboard:

1. H & J 5.5pts
2. KPringle 1pt


Left to get : 11, 15, 17, 19 and the rather nasty 20.

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

20 A mosquito variant?

[Chris_Sav]

Nah KP, its an ichneumon (parasitic) wasp just like you at the bar!!

LOL

Sav ;D

PS Is 17 a centipede of some sort??

PPS are you sure 21 isn't Tupps after several beers??

sav said:

Nah KP, its an ichneumon (parasitic) wasp just like you at the bar!!
LOL
Sav ;D

PS are you sure 21 isn't Tupps after several beers??

LOL ;D
Sav's nailed it.

The Ichneumon is a nasty mofo: The female finds a host and lays an egg on, near, or inside the host's body. Upon hatching, the larval ichneumon feeds either externally or internally, killing the host when they themselves are ready to pupate.

It also has the ability to drill into solid wood to lay eggs.

Uggggghhhhhh !

[Edit after Sav's edit] - Yep, pure and simple Centipede for number 17.

1. H & J 5.5pts
2. Sav 2pts
3. KPringle 1pt

Remaining questions: 11,15 & 19.

sav said:

PPS are you sure 21 isn't Tupps after several beers??

You've started a debate now, Sav.

I would have said that Tupps has more in common with the Sheep thread, where we learned about "Tupping" - rather than any snail or mollusc like amphibian such as Jabba. However the part of the description from Wikipedia "He surrounds himself with scantily-clad slave girls of all species, chaining many of them to his dais" does seem to ring true slightly. ;D ;D ;D

[H&J]

15. a yellow jacket
19. a cicada

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

11. Imperial silk moth ?

The last three answers are so close (I would award 0.75 each) as not to make much difference, so I'll give the full point and the slightly different answer in each case.

11. KP says is an Imperial Silk Moth, which when I look it up has similar attributes to the Rosy Maple Moth which was pictured.
Both are coloured yellow and burgundy (Bradford City colours), both come from North America, and both are giants with up to a 6 inch wingspan. Main difference is that the Maple moth has a much furrier body. 1pt

15. H & J say is a yellow jacket. The colour matches the one shown, and the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly as it has no barb on its stinger. My own, the Leucospidae, or Chalcid Wasp, doesn't always have to be that colour, green and red varieties can be found. It is a sort of chameleon of wasps as it mimics others so suit the environment. It is parasitic and is used in pest control as it has a voracious appetite for aphids. 1pt

19. My pic was of a Glassy-winged Sharpshooter, but H & J's answer, the Cicada, is also a leathery-looking grasshopper-type insect as well. Only thing not quite right is the speckledy head - but - hey - good enough for 1pt.

Quiz finished:

1. H & J 7.5pts
2= Sav 2pts
2= KPringle 2pt