Insect ID

[Kevtherev]

 

[Kevtherev]

 

[Kevtherev]

Approx 1inch half in size seen one before was thinking some kind of wood wasp?

 

[davidroberts30]

wood wasp i think

 

[The law of sod]

I saw one near enough the same At weekend
Interested to see what it is

 

[TheShrike]

My pocket nature book says its a horse fly (Tabanus Sudeticus)

 

[Kevtherev]

Pale giant horsefly (according to google)

 

[ollie989898]

Don't let the things bite you, I had two on my arm once when soil testing and my forearm swelled up like you wouldn't believe! Second picture looks more like a hover fly which are harmless to humans (voracious predators of other insects from memory).

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Another vote for giant horse fly. We get them every summer here.

 

[Kevtherev]

Certainly a horrid looking beastie

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Cows hate them

 

[Kevtherev]

 

[Steevo]

Let me guess......Pete has gone and got himself another pet without speaking to you first?!

 

[Kevtherev]

Let me guess......Pete has gone and got himself another pet without speaking to you first?!

We are going to use it for crop spraying

 

[yellowbelly]

We are going to use it for crop spraying

Pop it under this donkey's tail and you'll do four times the acreage a day..........

..........you might have to buy Pete a crash helmet though

 

[neilo]

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I think you’ll find that’s a healthy example of the Biteus Buggerous and, thankfully, not Stingy Buggerous. It’s equally annoying as it buzzes around you before honing in on it’s target though, but it will hurt slightly less.

 

[Kevtherev]

I think you’ll find that’s a healthy example of the Biteus Buggerous and, thankfully, not Stingy Buggerous. It’s equally annoying as it buzzes around you before honing in on it’s target though, but it will hurt slightly less.

I ran the bugger over with the dumper

 

[Gong Farmer]

Cows hate them

I expect his mum loves him though. Poor chap.

 

[Lackey]

Don't let the things bite you, I had two on my arm once when soil testing and my forearm swelled up like you wouldn't believe! Second picture looks more like a hover fly which are harmless to humans (voracious predators of other insects from memory).

This is too good an opportunity for sympathy for me to miss, normal horsefly (I think anyway) took a liking to me whilst I was putting fencing up on Sunday and I now have a rather gigantic hand and two fetching red welts on my legs. Who says farming isn't glamorous ??

 

[Lackey]

For comparison here's my other hand