#RecordOfTheWeek today is the well named Beautiful Plume (Amblyptilia acanthadactyla) spotted in Newport by Bethan Dalton. Many thanks for the record and photo, submitted via the LERC Wales App www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app

#recordoftheweek is Athalia rosae, Turnip Tigress, a Sawfly found in Llanelli Carmarthenshire by Helen Pryor thank you for submitting your records #cofnodyrwythnos

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is Otter (Lutra lutra) one of two adults photographed and recorded by DavidP at Trefnant. We don't get many daytime photos of these. @sewbrec.org.uk @bispowys.bsky.social @wwbic1.bsky.social @northwaleswt.bsky.social

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Cofnod's 20th Anniversary on Friday was great. 100 attendees, great speakers and cake covered in North Wales species!! @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @bispowys.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social

Enjoyable @cofnod.org.uk conference @bangoruniversity.bsky.social, celebrating its 20th anniversary, all under Roy Tapping's leadership. Gathering of #NorthWales nature people, great opportunity to learn about other taxa, kicked off by Clare from @rspbcymru.bsky.social @naturambyth.bsky.social...

Some of the #Natterjack Toad breeding pools at Gronant have been freshly scraped to rejuvenate them for the next breeding season. Nice to see them filled with water. @arc-trust.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

#RecordOfTheWeek today is some spoOOooOoky Dead Moll's Fingers (Xylaria longipes), spotted in Fforest Ganol by Mark Waldron. Thanks for the record and photo, submitted via the LERC Wales App www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app #HappyHalloween #Halloween 👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃

A good news spider story from the BBC today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new family has arrived at Cors y Sarnau! This three-generation trio of Carneddau ponies (grandmother, mother and daughter) are here as vital conservation grazers to help keep our peatland healthy for wildlife.🐴 📷 Berwyn Jones

Think it’s a spider? Think again! 🕷️ Opilio canestrini is a harvestman—one of the UK’s most visible urban arachnids. Join @megabunus.bsky.social on 30 Dec 2025 (18:30–20:00) for a deep dive into arboreal harvestmen ecology. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859... @britishspiders.bsky.social

WOS Conference 2025: 'Hear it! See it! Record it!' Great talks about the importance of monitoring & recording birds and flora & fauna sightings. Fab day👌🏼 @birdsinwales.bsky.social @rivers-disguise.bsky.social @penrhynbirder.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @btocymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social

My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...

Busy and enjoying day at Cardiff Museum for a spider ID course with K.Slade @sewbrec.org.uk , R.Gallon and T.Dallimore. Nice to meet a mix of people new and from previous events. Great fun but professional. Easy ID for today's #Aractober, Steatoda nobilis

1/2 Looking for Badumna! Over the past two weeks this Aussie has been spotted at stores from Barry, Cardiff, Brecon and Llandudno! When visiting any local store type mini garden section could you check for Badumna? The webs are easy to spot. Take a picture and add to the feed for ID help.

Somebody at the reception door for Cofnod... @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @bispowys.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

Amazing crabapple crop on Bryniau Clwyd this year @cofnod.org.uk Mostly unprotected trees in a heavily sheep grazed area. These two trees show how variable their fruit can be - suggesting even some isolated trees may be crosses with domestic apples. See: www.rbge.org.uk/news/media-c...

What does "rarity" mean anyway? This Sphagnum-fringed pool in Westmorland yielded 1 Lophomma punctatum, 2 Bathyphantes gracilis, 1 Mecynargus morulus, but 'only' 39 Semljicola caliginosus (new hectad record too & commonest 🕷️in sample🤔) @britishspiders.bsky.social @ecology-digest.bsky.social

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is this amazing Death's-head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos) recorded in Llangollen by JanS. Anybody else seen one of these beehive squeakers in North Wales? @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

#recordoftheweek is Neuroterus quercusbaccarum f. agamic, the Common Spangle Causer, found and recorded in Aberaeron by Laura Moss 📸 Thank you for your records. You can send us your records using one of the ways listed on our website here www.wwbic.org.uk/wildlife-rec... #gallwasps #recordoftheweek

Fungi season in the garden, including Parrot Waxcap. ID by Seek App. @cofnod.org.uk

#RecordOfTheWeek today is a Portuguese Man'O War (Physalia physalis) spotted in Llangennith by Phillippa Davies, washed by after last week's storms. This species is not actually a jellyfish, but a colony of small creatures called zooids. Many thanks for record & pic, submitted via LERC Wales App.

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is this adult Marble Gall Wasp (Andricus kollari) recorded by KevinH on Mynydd Mawr. More used to seeing the actual galls on Oak, than adult. @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social

Newyddion da am adfer mawndir Ystâd Barnston; cors hynafol sy'n ymestyn dros y ffin rhwng Cymru a Lloegr, ger Wrecsam. Mae'r bartneriaeth adfer yn cynnwys y Rhaglen Weithredu Genedlaethol ar Fawndiroedd @natreswales.bsky.social, a @naturalengland.bsky.social. businessnewswales.com/estate-signs...

Excellent news re Barnston Estate peatland restoration at an ancient bog straddling Welsh and English border near Wrexham. The restoration partnership includes @natreswales.bsky.social & its National Peatland Action Programme, and @naturalengland.bsky.social. businessnewswales.com/estate-signs...

Thanks for strimming a way in Richard 😆 At least we had some reward for our wading efforts

Yesterday's Recorders' Day started out like Sleeping Beauty (1st time taking a hedge trimmer to go recording) - ended up like Waterworld, slopping about a flooded fen all day. Attulus caricis and Baryphyma gowerense (new site record) @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social

#recordoftheweek is Chorthippus brunneus, Field Grasshopper in Pembrokeshire, recorded by Gemma Ribakovs on the #LERCWalesApp Thank you for your records

Just add water... (and a load of warden know-how). An hour at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Cors Ddyga: the first Pintails arriving, flocks of Golden Plover wheeling through the sky and Snipe exploring the new pools. Cattle Egrets forage among the cows. Unseen, Skylarks calls above. Magic! #BirdingWales

Yesterday's Freshwater species ID course went well. Full turn out and we covered some really interesting Microbiota and Leeches. Thanks to Wyn and Rachel for leading this course. @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social @treborthbg.bsky.social @tanyptera.bsky.social

Dermatocarpon miniatum (Leather lichen) on a hard Carboniferous limestone outcrop at Denbigh Castle #ValeOfClwyd

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Last call for any images of multiple moths on egg cartons before the season is over! Can you help us reach our target? Please repost!

#RecordOfTheWeek today is Trapania pallida, a beautiful Sea Slug, spotted in Mumbles by Martin Bell. This is the first record we have for the SEWBReC area, and seems to be the 5th record for Wales! Many thanks for the record and photos, submitted via LERC Wales App www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app

Thousands of Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) at Freshwater East, Pembrokeshire, yesterday. Amazing to watch them, especially the mating balls.

700 year old Conwy Honey Fair tomorrow. Lots of local honey and crafts for sale. Wildlife Organisation stands too. www.conwybeekeepers.org.uk/fairs-festiv...

#SwyddiGwylltCymru #WalesWildlifeJobs Ecolegydd / Ecologist, Cyngor Bro Morgannwg / Vale of Glamorgan Council Diwrnod cau / closing date 23/09/2025 www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_counc...

Advanced identification skills at Cofnod office today @sewbrec.org.uk DaveS helping Moth-ers dissect preserved material to aid critical identification. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @tanyptera.bsky.social

Have photos of multiple moths on egg trays from the UK? At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image Reply with your images to help us reach our goal - make sure most moths are roughly identifiable #mothsmatter #TeamMoth Terms tinyurl.com/5xrjbv3r

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-...

Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum), Bucks 2025. Welsh name Clai Lloerol - meaning lunar clay. #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

1/2 Had a chance to spend time with R.Gallon at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales recently. Managed to find some small Pholcid's in the hot house. They relate to Quamtana sp. ZFMK Ar 12707 AFF. kabale (working name) Seemingly new to Britain. Photos/ID credit R.G @britishspiders.bsky.social

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is this male Oak Bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum) recorded at Pensynchnant by KarenR.

A quick site recce to an Anglesey Fen (with no previous spider records), seemed like a good excuse to take the Vac. NR Attulus caricis at a new site. Had to work hard to find wet Schoenus here!! @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social

The long-awaited first proven nesting of Great White Egrets in #Wales, with young fledging from nests on an #Anglesey wetland. Read all about it in this week's @northwaleslive.bsky.social BirdNotes. 📷 @rspbcymru.bsky.social and Bob Garrett. #BirdingWales www.birdnotes.wales/blog/first-f...

Some dreamy insects (and a spider) from home in the Ceiriog Valley, North Wales last weekend. 1) Chrysotoxum arcuatum hoverfly 2) male red tailed bumblebee 3) marmalade hoverfly 4) a beautiful Garden cross spider

#cofnodyrwythnos #recordoftheweek is Anguis fragilis, the Slow-worm. Recorded in Carmarthenshire, by Elen Hall on the #lercwalesapp many thanks for sending in your records. 🦎 📲Download the app here: www.wwbic.org.uk/wildlife-rec... 🖥Or use our online recording form WWBIC online: record.wwbic.org.uk

Maiden‘s Blush (Cyclophora punctaria), Bucks 2025. Welsh name Moca Gwridog - meaning blushing mocha. #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

After missing my chance there last summer it was great to see my first Small Red-eyed Damselflies today, with a few on the wing at Parc Menai - including an egg-laying female. Still rare in north Wales I think, but presumably overlooked. #ukodonata @cofnod.org.uk

2024 NE Wales Bird Report now available to download from @cofnod.org.uk Big thank you to all contributors. Majority of records via @birdtrack.bsky.social. @birdsinwales.bsky.social @btocymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social