A basking Gorse Shieldbug, my first shieldbug of the year, seen during Wednesday's one day sunny spell. Back to relentless gloom again since!

Ditto is living the dream!

Missing the forum for the first time in 18 years 😢

One year on from creating my pond. Perhaps frogs this year? 🐸🐸🐸🐸

Join us on 28th February for the annual #GardenMothScheme conference! All are welcome at this free online event. Book your free space here: tinyurl.com/Moth26

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

We'll be running #RecordEveryDayJanuary again in 2026! Send us a wildlife sighting for each day during Jan and be entered into a prize draw. Records can be submitted via www.sewbrecord.org.uk, LERC Wales App: www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app or email to [email protected].

Merv new to garden last week. Hoping there is something in the trap in the morning, would be my first #GardenMothScheme run with no empty traps 🤞🤞🤞 #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

If you are not ready to hang up your moth trap for the year just yet, please do consider our winter scheme which runs through until March. Contact your regional coordinator for more information on the winter scheme: gardenmothscheme.org.uk/info #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme

It's the final week of our 2025 summer scheme 💔 Please send your results to your local organiser after emptying your moth trap. Thanks to everyone who took part this year, your records are making a real impact on moth research. #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme

The final harvest 💔

First garden hedgehog klaxon 📢📢📢

@cofnod.org.uk ObsId reckons this is Spitting Spider but it's in my greenhouse so I'm not convinced 🤔

A murder scene in the trap this morning 😱😱 #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Was admiring the Ivy Bees in the garden, then discovered the source a few doors down! (video below)

More Large Marsh Grasshoppers (Stethophyma grossum) from our return visit to Westhay Moor NNR on Sunday. The afternoon sunshine after the morning deluges brought them out & we heard much singing from the males. @rockwolf74.bsky.social spotted this fabulous female, liveried in pink & green.

SEWBReC #SpeciesOfTheMonth for September is Opilio canestrinii! Can you spot this leggy species on a wall near you? See if you can fill in gaps in our distribution map: aderyn.lercwales.org.uk/density/dens... More info including identification tips here: www.sewbrec.org.uk/sewbrec-cms-...

Another garden addition hiding in the trap this morning, Andromeda Lacebug 💞

Canary Shouldered Thorn (Ennomos alniaria), Bucks 2025. Welsh name Carpiog Gwar Melyn - meaning yellow nape ragged. #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

My first garden herptile 😍🥳😍🥳🎉 (technically in the house rather than garden but now safely relocated to a flower bed 😁)

A lovely bedroom visitor, Tipula fulvipennis #TeamCranefly

The migrants didn't arrive, but autumn did #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Lavernock Point today - Clouded Yellow 😁, an exploding caravan 😬, no Jersey Tiger 😔

Both traps out tonight, I am manifesting a Jersey Tiger 😁 #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

It was pure joy to see the Scaly Crickets (Pseudomogoplistes vicentae) with @vc40orthops.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago at Marloes Sands! #Orthoptera #ScalyCrickets

A trip to the south of England brings home just how common Southern Oak Bush-cricket, Meconema meridionale is there. We found them in numbers at RSPB Pulborough Brooks (where these were photographed) and also at Dungeness, both times in 'natural' habitat, well away from the usual urban settings.

Final work event of the year yesterday 🥳

Delighted to win a category in RCT PhotoMarathon this year 😁 Went up to Porth to see the exhibition today, lots of great images. Looking forward to 2027 event already!

#RecordOfTheWeek is Death's-head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos), with 2 caterpillars seen in Tongwynlais by H. Peel. This is the largest moth found in UK, usually only seen in Wales as a rare migrant, so this breeding record is very unexpected! Many thanks for the record submitted via iRecord.

Walk timetable for Parc Cwm Darran #BioBlitz on Saturday! All are welcome to join this free event: www.sewbrec.org.uk/diaryevents/...

Our recommended event this week is Parc Cwm Darran #BioBlitz on Saturday. Join SEWBReC & Buglife to discover the wildlife on this former colliery spoil site. All are welcome at this free event! Find other local and online nature events on our website: www.sewbrec.org.uk/diaryevents

Moth trapping with Pontyclun Environment Group last night #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Back from a trip to Pembrokeshire with @rockwolf74.bsky.social where our main target was to find Scaly Crickets (= Atlantic Beach Cricket, Pseudomogoplistes vicentae) at the well-known but hard to find population at Marloes Sands. Success! Chuffed to find adults & nymphs. A lifer! Hard work though!

‪SEWBReC #SpeciesOfTheMonth for August is Petty Spurge! Do you get this vibrant little plant in your garden or local park? See if you can fill in gaps in our distribution map: aderyn.lercwales.org.uk/density/dens... More info: www.sewbrec.org.uk/species-otm/... Bonus points if you find the rust!

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡 At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image. Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work. More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV... #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

Calling all biological recorders! Could you complete a short questionnaire for @universityofleeds.bsky.social to help understand the gaps in amateur biological recording data in UK?: forms.office.com/e/taGxQK7Adg

My old Orthoptera video is getting some traction on YouTube atm (thanks random algorithm!) so thought it was a good time to share here. I need to update to add Grey Bush-cricket and some Oak Bush-cricket footage (and improve audio quality 😁) #TeamOrthoptera youtube.com/watch?v=mjmt...

How much excitement can biological recorders cope with? Save the date! It’s @nfbr.bsky.social 40th anniversary conference next year - woohoo! Get it in your diaries… @nbntrust.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social @elaineeepoos.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social

How does anyone manage to keep a specimen intact during keying out, I'm always left with a pile of body parts by the end 🫣 (any museum curators watching this, please don't ban me from your collections). This pile of bits was Neolimnophila carteri, honest.

A pair of Spiked Shieldbugs (Picromerus bidens) I disturbed at Bagmere NR (a private site) in Cheshire last Friday. One of the predatory shieldbug species, the female has impaled a sawfly. @tanyptera.bsky.social

Important additions to my #entofashion wardrobe. Thanks Etsy! #TeamMoth #MothsMatter 🌈

Last night, I inadvertently tapped this lovely lady, Meconema thalassinum (Oak Bush-cricket) out of ivy, mid-moult. I ensured that she moulted fully out of the skin, before putting her back to finish off the process! Those hind tibiae are SO bendy!!!! Speeded up x4 #Orthoptera #Shropshire

Micros were the stars this week #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

St Fagans Celebration of Nature - 2 out of 3 working Saturdays complete 🎉 Hoping next week will be a little cooler

Slender Brindle new for me, in a surprisingly quiet trap (shakes fist at moon) #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Woodlouse is "tree pig" in Welsh (mochyn coed). Is Piglet actually an isopod 🤔🤔🤔

Beauty in the raspberries 😍 #TeamOrthoptera

Very pleased with pond progress after just 5 months

A little late but the June Species has found my garden pond 🥳