#1
Apologies for the poor quality, I snapped it with my phone on the way to bed!
It's a big bigger than the usual green lacewings we get here, about Grashopper sized, and brown.
#3
Paul Beuk wrote:
Caddisfly, Trichoptera
Thanks Paul! I wouldn't expect to find one in the house as we have no pond in the garden!
#4
Identifying Trichoptera is something of a minefield for the unwary. If you encounter something like this in future, a voucher specimen sent to a relevant expert in the field would be your best bet if you require a
definitive identification.
One of my associates at Liverpool Museum, Dr Ian Wallace, specialises in Trichoptera, and he provided a presentation on the difficulties of identifying these organisms for the Lancashire & Cheshire Entomological Society a while ago. We noted with some amusement how one of the characteristics described as purportedly "large and obvious" in an outdated Trichoptera key, was only "large and obvious" at 400× magnification under the microscope! Dr Wallace received numerous nods of assent, when he explained how being asked to help with a new, updated key, involved numerous moments of exasperation arising from this and similar incidents.
There are
some Trichoptera that are amenable to some degree of narrowing down in the adult stage, but if you're unfortunate and have a member of one of the awkward clades, then even an expert will have to spend a fair amount of time performing a detailed anatomical analysis.