Like many ideas, this started from a pub discussion.

It was mooted that information on any subject is now available on the internet so books have become superfluous. But I use books for insect identification because that sort of detailed information isn't fully available on the internet.

So this challenge, just for a bit of fun, was to identify a number of relatively common insect species using the internet but not directly asking for advice from entomological forums.

All photos were taken in South Devon during 2011. The month when each photo was taken is given. And, yes, there are a couple of 'sneaky' species included.

The answers are given as a Comment on the last image