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Found this little thing ambling about on this flower in the Rockery this morning. Any Idea what it is, or family?

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Hey Rogaldine,
Clearly your camera is better than mine, or you've been developing your skills. The last probably with help of all the beauties on the Shetlands, Diptera or otherwise......
But, anyway, your insect is a thrips, so Order Thysanoptera!
Greetings

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Thysanoptera?


Edit: Gerard was faster

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Hey Geraldine
All of the above..... Except the beauties bit. I have my own one of those. 35th Anniversary yesterday . I checked out Thrips on Wikipedia, seems they are food for these little ones.
http://www.dipter...d_id=24824. I wondered what they ate. The hard part about getting this image was spotting the insect in the first place. Like a speck of dust that was moving about. Let my Samsung GX20 Cameraphone do the rest .
Hi Hakon
Geraldine wasn't faster....faster connection I bet. Yours will be like mine...snails pace
Thanks for the ID...
Rogaldine or whatever

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for information:
two days ago a checklist of Thysanoptera has been published'

Zootaxa 2412: 21–41 (29 Mar. 2010)
Thysanoptera of Great Britain: A revised and updated checklist by DOMINIQUE W. COLLINS (UK)

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The Checklist for Shetland has the following written information:
"Thrips or Thunderflies certainly occur, but have not been studied."
So about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.

Roger

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You could start collecting! The first Thysanopterologist of Shetland! They are to be collected in alcohol, as I recall first to alcohol with some detergent (washing-up liquid). Than transfer them to 70% ethanol. This will make them to pull out the ovipositor. Then they can be stored or studied. Always note host plant.

I have some dozens of different specimens but only 2 could I determine

Regards, Walter

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I mean the thrips. Not the Thysanopterologists.

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Morning Walter
I would need to be looking through the bottom of a Rum or Beer glass with very good magnification properties to find it again. The type of glasses I normally drink out of usually have the opposite effect. They are commonly called Beer Goggles. Or is that just the effect????

Roger
PS. Re; Cathedral.... I thought you were more a Thrash Death Metal Freak than a Stoner Doom kind of guy....or something

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Not really More into something with a little Folk in it.