Lucky snap of this Pearly Heath Coenonympha arcania when it flicked its wings open. Normally always sits with wings closed. @europebutterfly.bsky.social

Did u know? The spring/summers erratic temps this year are showing in the varying sizes of my Cinnabar moth larvae. Some adult moths emerged early & mated, then the temps dropped. Then it got warm again, so more adults & more mating...The end result - tiny new larvae & older chubby dudes. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🐛🌍🦋🪲

🔥 Hoverfly Hotspot Found 🔥 Three hoverflies seen last few days Tuberculate Mini-stripeback, Common Compost Hoverfly & Narcissus Bulb Hoverfly morph-nobolis #hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae #entomology #entomologist #naturalhistory

About 90/53 last night with Muslin Footman, Beautiful Hook-tip, Double Square-spot and Lozotaenia forsterana nfy. Outside chance of one of the D Sq-spot being a T-s Clay (to be investigated). Elephant & Poplar, Small Angle Shades, 3 Bird's Wing etc. #TeamMoth

Reckon we had the #fox #cub in the garden again last night, seems without Mum 🦊🧡 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Nic is a BNA Fellow, well done on book!

On the way to the pub and the Barn Owl flew across the car park so slight detour to the field. Couldn’t not. No matter how many times I see it I get so excited 😬

Good to see Wild Liquorice (Astragalus glycyphyllos) and Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) are still present locally here in North Lincs. The patterns on Henbane flowers are probably one of my favorites 🌼 @lincswildlife.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

A new generation of Green Dock Beetles (Gastrophysa viridula) making short work of any remaining docks, Water-pepper or Amphibious Bistort at Trent Port this morning 🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲 @colsocbi.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social

Nic is a BNA Fellow…

Over 50 newly arrived migrant Silver Y moths Autographa gamma fueling up on Bluebell nectar at Emsworthy, Dartmoor, Devon this afternoon.

Extraordinary discovery, shows the huge risks these butterflies take when migrating

Dangerously hot, today has been the hottest day in May on record for the UK, 34.8C at Kew Gardens, London. Would be exceptional even for mid-summer. Met Offices recognised it as global warming.

c.60 #moths of 23spp in the garden last night. 3 new for year: Scalloped Hook-tip, Codling Moth + Plum Tortrix. Also, Pale Oak Beauty, 3 Diamondbacks, Large Nutmeg and 2 Ox-tongue Conch. Up to 102 moth species for year. @lincswildlife.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

A garden visitor we haven’t seen for some time came back last night 🦔🤎 #hedgehog 😊

Been a good couple of days for local Fife Orchids. Yesterday while looking for the WWS i had my 1st flowering Northern Marsh, this morning at Townhill, several Broad-leaved Helliborines & Common Spotted. #Fife #orchids @ukorchids.bsky.social

Solomon's Seal, Polygonatum multiflorum, an ancient woodland indicator species, amongst the Wych Elm, Large-leaved Lime, Beech, Ash & Field Maple of the Rook Clift SSSI South Downs (Tilio-Acerion woodland). South Downs, West Sussex. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The wonderful landscape of Wych Elm, Large-leaved Lime, Beech, Ash & Field Maple of the Rook Clift SSSI South Downs; a European Special Area of Conservation; habitat H9180. Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes & ravines. Extraordinarily rare Tilio-Acerion woodland dominated by Tilia platyphyllos

Managed to finally get a photo of a Currant Clearwing moth today (Knaith, Lincs) with no pheromones required 💞. It was certainly well hidden in the shadows of a Blackcurrant bush as you can see @bnascience.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Teammoth #mothsmatter

A lovely new arrival seen in our garden yesterday. A Pied Hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri) enjoying the Sweet Rocket. Primarily a migratory species it's amazing to think of how far they may have travelled! 🤍 🌿 🐝 📷 Happy Monday! 🕊️ #MacroMonday #Invert #Insects #Photography #Nature #UKWildlife #ECK

#worldbeeday today is about all pollinators, bees, hoverflies, beetles & the rest! Reminds us that 75% of crops need pollination, & there has been an over 60% reduction in flying insects in last 20 yrs in UK, plus need the biodiversity

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A couple of smart #insects noted in Marton this afternoon, between the showers. The longhorn beetle Anaglyptus mysticus and the micromoth Anycilis badiana @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social #mothsmatter

A plant I removed from a shared driveway with my neighbor is this Yarrow. He kills everything and I managed to get one before it was poisoned. I now have clumps of it here and there around the garden. Will condense them this year. Bonus plants for the bees and birds!

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #ruffled, any bird with ruffled feathers. The #alt is #songbirds any song bird. Here’s the Eurasian Jay from yesterday’s video after a heavy shower of rain. Cute? 😍 #birds #photography #ECK

Red Admiral is my favourite. If it was rare it would be the Grand Surprise!

Morning at Chew Valley Lake today. Stratford: 3 Cattle Egret, Great-crested Grebe, Lots of Reed Warbler, Villace: Orchids are putting on a nice display on the parkland @bristolbirding.bsky.social

#SuperSeabirdSunday Roseate Tern on the Northumberland coast. @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Happy Sunday lovely start here but clouding up now I have had a joyous walk today not only identifying 20 bird species including the male buzzard but also seen my first pair of #swifts this year and my first #swallow in at least 5 years Great start for my day🤗 #BirdsonX

Actually, no. We've just had the changing of the guards and now mama is on feeding duty... @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social @hertswildlifetrust.bsky.social

Combining birds & trains this morn. Sat at Rhydyronen with a couple of Swifts screaming overhead just before a Sparrowhawk drifted through pursued by the resident Swallow pair. Tree Pipit up at Nant Gwernol yesterday and Pied Flycatchers at Dolgoch again. Wall butterfly on the track! #birdingWales

Did u know? I don't think foxes are known to regularly eat snails, but my resident fox seems to be feasting on their abundance, whilst using an old piece of cardboard by our compost heap, as a picnic table. Note the large amount of chewed shells & pungent "calling card" to warn others off. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌿🌍🦊🐌

Not always a fan of egg boxes in a moff pic but this super-fresh (very chocolatey) male Large Yellow Underwing looked great just now - it was a proper fidget too, so wouldn't have wanted to be posed 😅. The lone macro NFY in 71/21 total. @linnetincley.bsky.social #cleymothobs #norfolkmoths #teammoth

Can't beat a nice and shiny Rosemary Beetle. Frequent in the garden at this time of year. 🪲 @lincswildlife.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social

Painted Lady in the sunny garden this morning. #butterfly @bnascience.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

A new #fungus for me today, from my garden pond of all places. Two tiny fruiting bodies of Common Eyelash (Scutellinia scutellata) on water-logged stick just poking out of water. Currently about 2-3mm in diameter! @britmycolsoc.org.uk @lincswildlife.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social

After months of work my Norfolk Pseudoscorpion guide for @norfolknats.bsky.social is now on the website free to see/download. Covers 20 species recorded in Norfolk so hopefully useful for other areas of UK. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

I'm seeing a few green weevils regularly now, mostly Phyllobius pomaceus on nettles and this one, Polydrusus formosus, on trees. To help with ID, a top down photo showing antennal attachment is useful, along with front legs to check for a toothed look, plus the shape of the coloured scales.

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Lovely wander after work, a cold wind but warm in the sunshine, and there, protecting her orange egg, was a female orange-tip on a garlic mustard flower, swaying in the wind! #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Did u know? If you stop mowing your lawn & let it return to meadow, you might find hidden treasures. This is the first annual peek of one of my Common Spotted Orchids. I never even knew they existed when I mowed -now their presence graces my no-mows every year. Can't wait for the flower... 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍 💚🪷

12/5/26: Masses of Early Marsh Orchids and Green-winged on the Wiltshire side of the Cotswold water park. Plus, a nice Common Spotted x Early Marsh hiding in plain sight.

What they have in common is that they're both called Common: Grammoptera (Grammoptera ruficornis) and Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna). At #RSPBLakenheathFen #Suffolk on Sunday. #WildWebsWednesday

Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoth, Hemaris tityus nectaring at Bluebells on Dartmoor. #lepidoptera #moths #teammoth #dartmoor

I saw lots of Sweet Woodruff, Sanicle and Great Wood-rush in Lydford Gorge Devon yesterday. Old fashioned vascular plants for old fashioned woods! They give the woods they are in a feel of endlessness. But endlessness is an illusion in an epoch of global heating. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Red-and-black Froghopper, Cercopis vulnerata, doing its best to blend in with the reddened stalks of Hybrid Poplar leaves. At #RSPBLakenheathFen #Suffolk on Sunday. #WildWebsWednesday

Over the last few frosty nights in Ashurst, New Forest, the moths have been so sparse that any uptick like this morning's Privet Hawk is welcome (even though it is a regular here) #teammoth

One of the world's smallest caterpillars 3 mm long! Sorrel Dot Enteucha acetosae in Sorrel leaf, Bolberry Down, Devon. Largest UK caterpillar the Death's Head Hawk Acherontia atropos 120 mm long. Last picture showing Sorrel Dot and Giant Atlas amazing that all share a common ancestor about 250 mya.