Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

@sciencebase I think it was that I came across,thanks!

@sciencebase 'I'm so sure I saw it somewhere. It seemed unlikely to me but that's it lost forever I think.

@sciencebase I read something about a similar thing which has a eye with a lens, we well as compound ones. I can't recall it nor find it now. Does it ring any bells with you?

@sciencebase This came out well. I think it's a Southern Darter. Look at its eyes.

@sciencebase You can hear them snoring if it is very quiet. Ease to mistake it for a bee in the next garden. ;-)

@sciencebase That's my reading for today.

The stuff I've found so far doesn't mention grubs emerging from catterpillars' bodies like in Weirdo Watson's film (for it was he). Dozens of them writhing their way out of the 'sides' of a never-to-be Small White.

@sciencebase I see ones like this one, but I don't know what it is nor if it is parasitic. Their white deely bopper antennae are somehow comical, always clean despite they seem to live in the soil.

@sciencebase This guy had some big green caterpillars that had been infected by a wasp, so its grubs ate through their skins. And
he made super 8 film of it to show us. It was horrible for a mixed class of 12 year olds.

@sciencebase He had a lot of those white ermines in what looked like a fish tank. He had breed them somehow. He had locusts in another one. We had him down as a nutter and his teaching was Victorian. I remember him blushing when Sharon Clark asked "Have the males got pricks, then, if the females have a fanny?".

@sciencebase It seems to be but I didn't realise that nearly all motherflies were like it. Did it at school, and he was talking about ermines, so we thought they were special in that regard.

@sciencebase Does Ditrysian mean what I said?

@sciencebase I understand that the females have one for shagging and another one for laying eggs, for which there is a word which is damn hard to google. Is that right?

@alx @academicchatter @phdstudents My one was really about looking for solutions and I was restless and anxious about whether any of them showed any promise towards solving the problem. Bit weird I suppose!

@freemo They look as if they are to keep the rain off the gun. If you had one here, it would be something to consider!

@freemo Not in the UK, but I see cops with ones which have a button-down flap over it in Europe. Is that not a type you can have?