A hairy huddle!! A group of Hairy Shieldbugs (Dolycoris baccarum) having a bit of a get-together in our local woods. #InsectThursday

Here are some cute tiny mushrooms to cheer up a wild and windy Monday - they make me smile, anyway! 😊🍄‍🟫 #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends

It’s always nice to find a Magpie Inkcap! This one was in our local woods at the weekend #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends

Very hard to choose a #FavouritePlant but do I particularly love the colour of Common Centaury. It’s very …well, pink! #WildflowerHour

Rather a stunning Giant Polypore (I think. Happy to be corrected!) in our local woods. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Hawthorn Shieldbug, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidales, final instar nymph in our garden. I never realised how pretty they were at this stage! #InsectThursday #Bugsky

I’ve always wanted to see a Blue Shieldbug, Zicrona caerulea, and now I have! Saw this one on our walk at the weekend. Such a stunning little creature! #InsectThursday #Bugsky

No moths were harmed in the taking of this photo! They do like to play dead don’t they?! Carefully removed from the moth trap, gently placed on a window sill and then they try to make you feel guilty 🙄 Ruby Tiger from the trap at the weekend (when it was dry!)#TeamMoth #MothsMatter

A Ruff on the Rushy at WWT Slimbridge #WaderWednesday

A couple of Green Sandpipers at WWT Slimbridge last Wednesday #twosday

A whole colony of dainty little Inkcaps (possible Fairy or Glistening Inkcaps?) on an old mossy log in the woods on Saturday. #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends

See Head of Wild Angelica from our walk in the local woods yesterday #WildflowerHour #SeedHead challenge.

Just taking off - a Ruff on the Rushy at WWT Slimbridge. I think it’s a female, i.e. a Reeve. #FlyDay

Much excitement chez nous today as we found a new bug in the garden! 🥳 It’s a Rhopalid, Stictopleurus abutilon (ID kindly confirmed by our county recorder) #InsectThursday #Bugsky

A couple of nice bugs on one of our recent local walks - see ALT text for info #InsectThursday #Bugsky

There’s nothing quite like a nice long soak in the bath 🛁😁

I think these are Oyster Mushrooms (happy to be corrected!) seen on an old log in the local woods yesterday. It’s great that fungi are starting to appear now. #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends

A pair of Willow Emerald Damselflies by the lake at Miserden, Gloucestershire. Only the second time I’ve ever seen them. So beautiful! #InsectThursday @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Unbelievable! 😡☹️I can’t bring myself to read this article, it’s too upsetting to even think of it. Seeing Tuna off the coast of Cornwall was just wonderful and to think that this is where we’ve ended up. Heartbreaking 💔

Hoverfly Leucozona glaucia on Wild Angelica in a woodland clearing a couple of days ago #WildWebsWednesday #Insects

A Dusky Thorn in the moth trap Friday night #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

She may be very old, very worn and very tatty but to have this Purple Hairstreak on my hand open her wings and show the gorgeous flash of purple was just magic! ✨💜

A nice fresh Blushing Bracket (Daedaleopsis confragosa) found on our woodland walk yesterday. It’s too young to blush!! #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

#NatureWithin #Quotes @pelagic.bsky.social

I’m fascinated by the behaviour of these 2 Hornets. Released from the moth trap at night & still around in the morning. It looks just like they’re trying to reassure each other after a strange experience! Or perhaps they’re kissing each other?! 😘 #TwosDay #Insects

A couple of nice moths from our woodland walk at the weekend. On the left: A well-camouflaged Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera silaceata). On the right: Clay Triple-lines (Cyclophora linearia) #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Found a couple of Hornets in the moth trap Tuesday night. We gently moved them out and into the garden where they looked to be having an intense conversation! Probably mulling over a weird experience! #InsectThursday

A Pied Smudge, Ypsolopha sequella, in the moth trap Tuesday night. I always love seeing these pretty little moths (great common name too!😁) #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Bath Time! 🛁

We had a “flaming” moth trap on Sunday night!! 🔥🤣with Flame (new one for us), Flame Carpet and a Flame Shoulder (no pic of the latter - too tatty poor thing!) #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

These three Field Bindweed flowers (Convolvulus arvensis) are so pretty I couldn’t resist sharing them for #WildflowerHour

Chicken and Beef in the woods this week!! 🤣 See Alt text for details #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Rhododendron Leafhopper, Graphocephala fennahi, one of our most attractive Leafhoppers in my opinion. On a rhododendron bush in Westonbirt Arboretum. #InsectThursday #BugSky

When he came in from the garden the other day Pete found he’d brought in this tiny, baby bug in with him on his trousers! It’s a third instar nymph Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea). It’s now back in the garden somewhere growing into an adult, hopefully! 🥰 #InsectThursday #BugSky

We saw a family of at least 6 Spotted Flycatchers in the old arboretum at Westonbirt, Gloucestershire today.

A beautiful Painted Lady on a Thistle - seen on our walk at the weekend #WildWebsWednesday

Something interesting going on on this tatty old dead Plantain head here! I think these are male Common Furrow Bees (Lasioglossum calceatum) - happy to be corrected - attracted to something, maybe there’s a female hiding round the other side! In the garden the other evening.

We had lovely views of this male Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea) on our walk on Saturday. He posed very nicely on some blackberries. (We ate lots of blackberries on the walk too! 😁) #odonata @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Mrs Batman Hoverfly, Myathropa florea, on Goldenrod (Solidago) in the garden yesterday in the sun. #SundayYellow #Hoverflies

A Double-striped Pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata) in the garden this afternoon, posing nicely on one of the water butts. Wish they would all do that! #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Thank you folks for your help & suggestions for ID of this Sawfly. So far I’ve had: Dineura virididorsata; Hemichroa sp & Nematinus sp. Whatever it is it’s got us all guessing!! Your ideas are appreciated 🙏😊 @nickgalley.bsky.social @andymus.bsky.social @suillia.bsky.social @tandjwood.bsky.social

Hoverfly Ferdinandea cuprea seen on a walk yesterday #InsectThursday

A Mandarin lurking in the bushes on the edge of Toadsmoor Lake at the weekend #MallardMonday #GlosBirds

The first Autumn Crocus (Colchicum autumnale) of the year seen on our woodland walk this afternoon. I didn’t realise it was Autumn already! #WildflowerHour

The bright orange antennae of this Figwort Sawfly (Tenthredo scrophulariae) make it unmistakeable. We saw it on a local woodland walk this afternoon. (It was on a Figwort plant too which does help!)

A Chiffchaff in the Toadsmoor Valley this afternoon #GlosBirds #Birds

This very large Beetle was a surprise visitor to the moth trap the other night - Geotrupes stercorarius (I think!) #Beetles

Sawfly Abia fasciata on Meadowsweet, seen in Ravensroost Wood, Wiltshire a couple of days ago. #InsectThursday

We came across this Sawfly a couple of days ago in Ravensroost Wood, Wiltshire. Can anyone help with ID?🙏 #InsectThursday

Hoverfly Volucella inanis on Field Scabious, Knautia arvensis. #WildWebsWednesday