Dear WWF

Dear WWF

I have been a keen wildlife fanatic for years now and I thought I knew all of the animals, however, while rumaging around my garden yesterday I came across a new species! Imagine my surprise!

I think it's a kind of beetle, about four inches long and an inch tall, is mainly black and flanked either side by a yellow marking that I can only describe as a `go-faster stripe`. It has six legs and pincers that I observed it used to kill and bury a small chaffinch. It has an unusally long neck but other than that, it's exactly as you'd expect a common beetle to look.

I haven't seen the beetle since otherwise I'd have killed and sent you it but I am delighted to attach a drawing drawn by me from memory (excuse the lack of yellow marking as I didn't have a yellow pen)


As this is the first new species I've discovered I'm not sure how to go about naming it or getting famous but for the interim I suggest it's named the `Hayfever Beetle` as my sister-in-law had hayever at the time of its discovery.

Let me know your thoughts

Yours faithfully

Mr Benjamin F Foster