Pressing some wonderfully coloured Raspberry Ripple (Rosette) apples for cider today. Fantastic flavour for single-varietal cider with juice so red that it's hard to believe it's not artificially coloured! #cider #apples #brewing

These little bastards have caused havock to my box hedging, but you gotta admit that the melanic form is kinda pretty... #TeamMoth

The departure lounge... swallows queueing #birdwatching #kentbirding

Baby pyracantha with berries for the first time #Bonsai

Rhubarb & custard to light #TeamMoth

Hi @mothiduk.bsky.social, is this N janthe please?

Old Nonington between thunder storms today #EastKent #Kent

On closer inspection, the twig looks grumpy at being recognised... #TeamMoth

Pinion-streaked Snout new for me #TeamMoth

Barred Yellow and Beautiful Hook-tip a couple highlights from last night #TeamMoth

A nice range of Common Swift variations! #TeamMoth

Amazing show last night in East Kent! #lightning #storm

Birth of a giant (hopefully). First female giant pumpkin flower pollinated today. Hoping for a PB but will need to hit >800lbs to do so! #GiantPumpkin #gardening #pumpkin

Swollen-thighed beetle #beetles #insects #ukwildlife

Hi @mothiduk.bsky.social is this Clay Triple-lines or Maiden's Blush please? East Kent

The elephant cocoon that we over-wintered finally emerged today! Such stunning colours! #TeamMoth

A pristine Green Carpet and Treble Lines ab. obscura from the other night #TeamMoth

Rhagium mordax on a ping pong paddle. Not it's usual habitat as far as I know. #beetles #ukwildlife

Blue mint beetle (Chrysolina coerulans) looking rather dashing in the evening sunlight #beetles #ukwildlife

Some interesting Heart and Darts from last night- a very red one and one with a bifid dart #TeamMoth

Hi @mothiduk.bsky.social could you help with ID on this pug from my VC15 trap please? A darker Grey?

I love the disgruntled expression! #TeamMoth

Struggling with an ID on this one from last night. Marbled Minor agg? @mothiduk.bsky.social #TeamMoth

Met this colourful chap in the strawberry patch today. Black-headed Cardinal Beetle #insects #ukwildlife

That skipped heartbeat when you pick up the last egg carton...😂 Otherwise still quite slow with 11 of 3 predominated by Treble Bars #TeamMoth

Look at the size of this thing! Papaver orientale enjoying the May sunshine #flowers #gardening #poppy

Just the Red Twin-spot Carpet and Barred Hook-tip in the trap to keep Sir Terry at bay, but I'll take them! #TeamMoth

Another giant Fredville Park chestnut #thicktrunktuesday

A crickets-eye view #ukwildlife

An impressive Sea Slater at Kingsgate Bay yesterday #crustaceans #ukwildlife

Hi @mothiduk.bsky.social is this a Celypha lacunana please?

Happy May! #cockchafer #beetles #ukwildlife

#spiderweb #nature

A misty start #trees #sunrise

One of the truly monumental Sweet Chestnuts in Fredville Park, Nonington #thicktrunktuesday

Trapping has remained dismal, but it was nice to find this NFY Bright-line Brown-eye in the glasshouse #TeamMoth

A very colourful Red-and-black Froghopper on an unfurling grape bud #uknature #insects #froghopper

Easter bonsai #bonsai

@mothiduk.bsky.social Barred Hook-tip? Observed flying in daylight today. #teammoth

The reinforcements have arrived! New crop of spiderlings to control the flies in the glasshouse. Araneus diadematus #spiders #nature #ukwildlife

Amazed to see 20+ Cattle Egret at the beautifully sunny Stodmarsh today, at the same site that I was very excited to see my first UK record 20+ years ago. How times change... #birds #birding #kentbirding #ukbirding #stodmarsh

Waxing gibbous through flowering plum #moon #spring #flowers

Brown-tail Moth caterpillars tucking into some new hawthorn growth #TeamMoth

A very pretty Clouded Drab (I think) last night, otherwise the usual suspects: 8 Hebrew Character 2 Common Quaker 2 Small Quaker 1 White-shouldered House Moth #TeamMoth

A crowd of solitary bees... #solitarybees #bees #ukwildlife #nature

Last September's vintage of Blackberry Wine finally racked, cleared and bottled. Wild, hand-picked, the taste of bottled Autumnal sun on Kentish hedgerows... now gotta keep my mitts off it long enough to age #winemaking #homebrewing #blackberrywine

Black Oil Beetle (I think) out for a walk in the sun today - helped it off the road to avoid being squashed #oilbeetle #beetles #insects #ukwildlife

18/8 moths on a damp night with 2 NFG 1 Twin-spotted Quaker 1 March Tubic 1 Chestnut 1 March Moth 1 Early Grey 1 Common Quaker 3 Dotted Border 9 Hebrew Character +1 Black Sexton Beetle trap invader #teammoth

Blue Mint Beetles (Chrysolina coerulans) glistening with raindrops in the morning light. Seems like a small colony that I first found last summer has survived the winter. #beetles #insects #ukwildlife

I'm a birder but not a photographer, so you'll have to believe me when I say that this is a hawfinch 😄. Chuffed to bits that a flock of 10+ have been hanging out on my patch for the last week. They are very good at hiding! #hawfinch #kentbirding #birdwatching #ukbirding