Some Bugs and Insects Found in our Charente Garden

Here are a few pictures that I have taken during the year, both in our French garden and inside the house!  I am not good at identification, so any help that I receive will always be welcome.  Thank you Joan , Susan  Noushka and lejardinlucie for the advice you have given me with some of these little critters.

  Found in the house.

Noushka has identified this as Trichodes apiarus

My guess here is that this is one of the Rhinoceros beetles. Joan says I am correct :) family Scarabaeidae (Scarab) 

This little guy was really small but with beautiful markings, so it should be easy to identify, but I have no clue at all what it is!
Noushka has identified this as Lygus pratensis. Lygus bugs are known for their destructive feeding habits - they puncture plant tissues with their piercing mouthparts, and feed by sucking sap. Both the physical injury and the plant's own reaction to the bugs' saliva cause damage to the plant. The females insert their eggs directly into the plant tissues using piercing ovipositors, and the newly emerged nymphs are voracious consumers of plant tissue juices.

Susan identified this butterfly for me -Your butterfly is a Comma-Polygonia c-album (Robert-le-Diable in French). The V shaped nicks out of the bottom wings tell me it's had a narrow escape or two from a bird.

Just look at the damage this guy is doing chomping away in my vegetable garden!

Loved this photo but again I am left wondering!

Now this I would call a cricket but...........  I have to be right don't I?

and  I am certain I am wrong if I say grass hopper :) Yep I knew it - Joan says A Katydid - either a Meadow or a Grass Katydid.  (also see notes at the end)

So this has to be a green spider - LOL (Joan has her spider book packed, she is on the move)

P.S. I have just seen Noushka's  post and this looks very similar to me; I have asked Noushka to confirm when she sees my post.  Maybe my spider is a bit more hairy!   It is about the same size.

From Noushka the answer is: Your green spider is not mine!  It is: Araniella cucurbitina, also green.

This minute little beetle is similar to a ladybird in shape; you can see how small it was, as I found it in the husk of a hazel nut.

Joan says this may be a baby Ladybug family Covvinellidae.

Yet another beetle that looks similar to the ladybirds. 

OK so I was close! Joan says it looks similar to the South African Humbug Ladybird same family as above.

I thought this fluffy moth had a cute little face!

Noushka says this: The cute little face fluffy moth is:the Oak Eggar, Lasiocampa quercus

I suppose this slug's mother would call it beautiful? This I think is the red slug, also known as the chocolate arion or the European red slug, Arion rufus. The adults can grow up to 175 cms (7 inches) in length - can you just imagine what they eat from my garden to get to that size??

This smallish snail is quite attractive but it does a lot of damage in my garden.  I suspect this is Cepaea nemoralis -  if my research is correct.

This I have discovered is NOT a spider but a Harvestman.

These arachnids are known for their exceptionally long walking legs, compared to body size, although there are also short-legged species. The difference between harvestmen and spiders is that in harvestmen, the two main body sections are broadly joined, so that they appear to be one oval structure; they also have no venom or silk glands.

Last, but certainly not least, I believe this to be a beautiful Tiger Moth.

Yep I know I have to buy a book on Insects in Europe - In English!

Lejardindelucie has given me some further identifications- thank you

Your "cricket" is a young cricket of the Woods, Nemobius sylvestris.

The first picture is a checkered apiarius.

"" Your "Grass Hopper" is young, he must still 3–4 molts to become a 'grass Hopper" adult.

"Ladybird" Ladybug is a Hippodamia variegata.

Noushka's further comments are: Your black ladybugs look at lot like these:

http://1000-pattes.blogspot.com/2010/12/coccinelles-dans-le-buis.html
The grasshopper is a indeed a grasshopper but at a larvae stage!
And the catterpilar is most probably a Tenthredo!