Dear Readers, our winner this week was Belinda Robinson, who got 8 out of 10 – well done Belinda, and thank you for playing!
The Invertebrates
1) E) Bog mole (Mole cricket. Those front legs really do look like those of a mole…)
2) F) Summer snowflake (In this case a large white butterfly, but applied to all the white species)
3) I) Red-coat (Scotland) Ladybird (though presumably only the red ones)
4) A) God’s Little Pig (Somerset) (Woodlouse)
5) H) Horse-pincher (Stag Beetle. Though they don’t pinch horses, they certainly look as if they could)
6) D) Devil’s darning-needle (Dragonfly – children were told that if they didn’t behave themselves the dragonfly would sew up their mouths!)
7) C) Vibrating Spider (Cellar Spider – named for its habit of ‘vibrating’ at high speed if disturbed)
8) J) Dumbledore (Cornwall). Bumblebees of all kinds!
9) B) Jock wi’ the monyfeet (Scots) Centipede (also sometimes known as Jenny wi’ the monyfeet.
10) G) Bella Donna (Painted Lady butterfly)
Photo Credits
Photo One by Fir0002/Flagstaffotos under this creative commons licence
Photo Two by Matt Prosser, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Three By Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium – Coccinella magnifica, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7694675
Photo Four by Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Five by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Six by Bugwoman
Photo Seven by David Short from Windsor, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Eight by Bugwoman
Photo Nine by AJC1, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Ten by nottsexminer, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Yay! 😀