Other Insects

Springtail (sminthurus viridis), Little Assynt. Photo G.Richards

Artichoke Gall (Andricus foecundatrix) on oak leaf bud, Woodside car park, Culag Woods. Photo D.Haines

Male Heath Bumblebee (Bombus jonellus) emerging after feeding on Erica cinerea, Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) on spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare), Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Tephritis neesii, Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Adult and immature Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea) old road Little Assynt. Photo D.Haines

Leaf-miner (poss Chromatomyia aprilina) on Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) Culag Woods. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly Grey-spotted Boxer (Platycheirus albimanus) on Wall Lettuce (Mycelis muralis) the Glack, Lochinver. Photo D.Haines

Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris) flying, Norwegian Wasp (D. norwegica) on thistle, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Aphid on resin from cut spruce tree stump, Culag Woods. Photo D.Haines

'Dance Fly' - (Tachydromia umbrarum) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica) Balchladich. Photo D.Haines

Stonefly (poss.Perlodes microcephalus) reflected on car roof Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Black-slip Wasp (prob. Pimpla rufipes) male and female Lochinver breakwater. Photo D.Haines

Mining Bee, The Common Collete (Colletes succinctus) Clashnessie. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly female (Eristalis pertinax) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Nymph of Green Leafhopper (Cicadella viridis) Little Assynt Tree Nursery car park. Photo D.Haines

Leafhopper (Cicadella viridis) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Bug Froghopper (Neophilaenus exclamationis) on car roof-rail Balchladich. Photo D.Haines

Scorpion Fly (prob.Panorpa germanica) on Rush (Juncus sp.) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Dark Giant Horsefly (Tabanus sudeticus) on car mirror, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Sawfly (Trichiosoma sp.), Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Snipe fly (Rhagio scolopacea), Achnacarnin. Photo M.Anderson

Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysis vanlithi), Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Dance fly (prob. Empis tessellata) on Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) flowers, Allt a Ghamhna. Photo D.Haines

Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) on Bitter-vetch (Lathyrus linifolius) Achmelvich road. Photo D.Haines

Spiked Shieldbug (Picromerus bidens) on Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris) Achmelvich Road. Photo D.Haines

Active nest of Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris) Stoer. Photo D.Haines

Mirid bug (Calocoris roseomaculatus) on yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Stoer Green. Photo G.Richards

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Female Giant Woodwasp (Urocerus gigas) dead in water trough, Strathan. This is Britain's largest sawfly. Photo C.Chant

Sabre Wasp (Rhyssa persuasoria) Inverkirkaig. Photo K.Taylor

Gall caused by a sawfly Eupontania sp., (probably E. herbaceae) on fruiting Dwarf willow (Salix herbacea), Glas Bheinn ridge. Photo C.Puddephatt

Dark Giant Horsefly (Tabanus sudeticus) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo C.Langford

Giant Tachinid Fly (Tachina grossa) SE slopes of Canisp. Photo J.Wakefield

Fruit Fly (probably Xyphosia miliaria) on Marsh Thistle near Oldany. Photo D.Haines

Lacehopper (probably Cixius cunicularius) on willow twig nr Oldany estuary. Photo D.Haines

Mountain Ash blister mite galls (Eriophyes pyri) on Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) leaves, Glencanisp Road. Photo D.Haines

Common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) on cotoneaster Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Sawfly (Tenthredo sp.) Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Lacewing (prob. Wesmaelius nervosus) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Broken-banded Bumblebee, female (Bombus soroeensis) Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Red-legged Sheildbug or Forest Bug (Pentatoma rufipes) Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Mirid bug (Closterotomus norwegicus) on Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Dagger-fly (Empis tessellata) on Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) nr Oldany. Photo D.Haines

Potter-wasp (Ancistrocerus scoticus) nest building in shell, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris) on Amphibious Bistort (Persicaria amphibia) Loch an Aigeil. Photo D.Haines

Dark Giant Horsefly (Tabanus sudeticus) Loch Dubh, Ardroe. Photo R.Evans

Muscid Fly - female (Graphomya maculata) Achmelvich Road. Photo D.Haines

Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) and Bog Hoverfly (Sericomyia silentis) on Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly (poss. Eupeodes luniger) on garden poppy Lochinver. Photo J.Young

Caddis Fly, Welshman's button (Sericostoma personatum) near Loch Mhaolach-coire, inland from Inchnadamph. Photo G.Richards

Hoverfly female (Helophilus pendulus) on Wild Thyme, Glenleraig. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly (Eristalis horticola) on bracken, nr Oldany. Photo D.Haines

Birch Sawfly, Club-horned sawfly (Cimbex femoratus) Torbreck. Photo C.Yates

White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) on willow sp. Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Galls of Common spangle gall wasp (Neuroterus quercusbaccarum) on oak leaf Inverkirkaig. Photo D.Haines

Hawthorn Shieldbug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Winged red ant (Myrmica ruginodis) Clachtoll. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly Tapered Dronefly (Eristalis pertinax) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly (Eristalis intricaria) Pollachapuill, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) on Spear Thistle, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Hoverfly (variation of Volucella bombylans) on Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Potato Capsid (Closterotomus norwegicus) a 'Mirid' bug on Creeping Thistle, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Bracken Chafer (Phyllopertha horticola) Stoer. Photo C.McGaw

Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus oviventris) Stoer Lighthouse. Photo C.McGaw

White-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) on Blackthorn, Inverkirkaig. Photo D.Haines

Common Groundhopper (Tetrix undulata) Oldany Dornie. Photo D.Haines

'moth fly' of family Psychodidae and possibly genus Pericoma, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Male fly of the genus Serromyia family Ceratopogonidae-the biting midges, Oldany. Photo D. Haines

Females of fly 'black fungus gnat' (Sciara hemerobioides) on Hogweed nr Oldany. Photo D.Haines

Female Scorpion Fly (Panorpa germanica) Glencanisp. Photo D.Haines

Caddis Fly (possibly Limnephilus sp.) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Red Ant (possibly Myrmica ruginodis) Achmelvich. Photo D.Haines

Froghopper nymph (Philaenus spumarius) Oldany. Photo D.Haines

'Cuckoo-spit' of Froghopper nymph (Philaenus spumarius) on nettle Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

'The Fever-fly' (Dilophus febrilis) mating on house window. Photo D.Haines

Cironomid sp. of non-biting midge Loch Ruighean an Aitinn. Photo D.Haines

Hawthorn Shield Bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Red-legged Shieldbug or Forest Bug (Pentatoma rufipes) Glencanisp. Photo D.Haines

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) Badnaban. Photo D.Bird

Lacewing (Westmaelius nervosus) from moth light trap Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

White-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) Clachtoll. Photo H.Lockhart

Parasitic Wasp (possibly genus Ophion) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Thick-headed fly (Physocephala nigra) near Torr a'Ghamhna. Photo D.O'Driscoll

Greenbottle (Gymnocheta viridian) Badnaban garden. Photo L.Pearce

Cranefly (Tipula maxima) Badnaban, the largest cranefly in British Isles. Photo L.Pearce

Mating Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria) on cow dung Raffin. Photo D.Haines

Bristletail (Petrobius maritimus) on lichen Achmelvich. Photo D.Haines

Blow-fly (Calliphora vicina) Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Larva of Green Lacewing (Nineta vittata) Glencanisp. Photo D.Haines

Gall of Midge (Jaapiella veronicae) on Germander Speedwell, Culkein Drumbeg. Photo D.Haines

Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) Torbreck garden. Photo G.Richards

Gall of fly (Chirosia betuleti) turning lady-fern frond into mop-head, Nedd. Photo I.Evans

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Torbreck. Photo G.Richards

Caddis Fly near Loch Coire Riabhach south of Quinag. Photo G.Richards

St Mark's Fly (Bibio marci) Clachtoll garden. Photo A.Cook

Crane-fly near Raffin, one of nearly 300 British species. Photo Mr Dunlop

Close up of head Giant Tachinid Fly (Tachina grossa) found in a house at Badnaban. Photo L.Pearce

Giant Tachinid Fly (Tachina grossa) feeding on wild thyme Glenleraig. Photo D.Haines

Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) wild colony near Ardvar. Photo D.Haines

Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) near Cathair Dhubh. Photo R.Glover

Mining Bee, The Common Collete (Colletes succinctus) near Raffin. Photo D.Haines

Mining Bee, The Common Collete (Colletes succinctus) near Raffin. Photo D.Haines

Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) Clachtoll. Photo A.Summers

Late instar larva of larger green lacewing (Chrysopa vittata) Achmelvich. Photo B.Ritchie

Female Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) near Cathair Dhubh. Photo R.Glover

Red Wasp (Vespula rufa) Badnaban. Photo L.Pearce

Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris) nest found in letter box at Clachtoll. Photo A.Summers