I have some excellent books on flora and fauna - but am sure that people on this list are better able to tell us about what we find on our allotments... and if we should do anything about them.
Photos obviously help
http://2aorda.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prUcBHaA12_wliSFJOJWJOvBCdGoL5xkve77SkbVXDB6LiQaq7SiZrPwjQKwgW0DMuhMghS6mhqKoF2I-ER273qHpUEiK-YGJ/Creepycrawlie_2.jpg
Janval
Certainly would.... ::)
Oh heck.. I can't see how to get the photo from my album to here. Help, anyone?
Janval
Picture posting instructions here:
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/mediawiki/index.php/Picture_Posting
Thanks Baccyman... :)
looks like a hornet to me!
(http://2aorda.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prUcBHaA12_wliSFJOJWJOvBCdGoL5xkve77SkbVXDB6LiQaq7SiZrPwjQKwgW0DMuhMghS6mhqKoF2I-ER273qHpUEiK-YGJ/Creepycrawlie_2.jpg)
Yup, a hornet. Apparently quite gentle, unless you stick your head in their nest, then you'll catch it.
Yipes!!! I thought it was a BIG beastie!
The colour threw me a bit.. as the last one I saw was a) smaller and b) more yellow!
Thanks to those of you 'wot know' these things.
Janval
(off to allotment now)
If its very big (5cm say) it could be a newly arrived hummingbird hawk moth or a bee hawk moth.
Tis an Ornet Janval :(, I had an 'Ummin' bird Moff in me garden the other day......beautiful.....and sooo fast too ;D