Delighted to find my first Roncus lubricus aka Reddish Two-eyed Chelifer in west Norfolk last week. Not sure it was as pleased to see me though as it scarpered off pretty smartish! Certainly wasn't expecting this species to turn up in a churchyard. #pseudoscorpion #arachnids

Fabulous Large Tree Chernes (Dendrochernes cyrneus) found in west Norfolk last week while on holiday with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social Worth the windy weather and cycling in a thunderstorm to get to see these beauties! #pseudoscorpions #arachnids

Finding pseudoscopions. Our compost bin had Pselaphochernes scorpioides in it. To search: scoop out top layer of kitchen/garden waste & put in bucket. Sieve next layer down using garden riddle over a bowl. Then use finer potting sieve over tray. They are small, around 2mm. 1/2 @duleyp.bsky.social

Excellent day in the Wyre Forest, Shropshire with fungi, ants, 60 Crossbills and the highlight a lovely female Araneus alsine (Strawberry Spider) found by Denise B on Neil's trousers (not their preferred habitat). nth try for these for me - what a belter! @lancefly.bsky.social #spiders #ukwildlife

The Diplodoma laichartingella larva in it's case just before I released it earlier today. #teammoth

Diplodoma laichartingella larva with case covered in particles, incl insect remains. A moth lifer of me on Exmoor today. #teammoth

A moth lifer for me on Exmoor today. Diplodoma laichartingella larva with case covered in particles, incl insect remains. Found attached to the underside of a rock I'd turned over in Horner Woods today looking for something else. #teammoth

Some footage of the male Scytodes thoracica (Spitting Spider) from last night. @britishspiders.bsky.social

A nice find on the bathroom floor around midnight last night. Scytodes thoracica (Spitting Spider) - male. I think it's only the 5th time I've found one in the house. For a slow-mover, it was surprisingly difficult to get a photo of. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Was going to post pics of Shining Guest-ant and Dinarda maerkelii from Wyre on Tuesday w @lancefly.bsky.social @exmoormothman.bsky.social @vc40orthops.bsky.social and Jim C but others got lovely pics of them. Also saw Rhyparochromus pini and occupied cases of Coleophora milvipennis #teammoth

Male Bledius spectabilis,fantastic horned pronotum. A cracking Staphylinid beetle, Dorset. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera

Shining Guest Ant, Formicoxenus nitidulus, a tiny (less than 3mm) ant which lives in Wood Ant nests. Another top find by @lancefly.bsky.social from our trip to the Wyre on Tuesday. The 2nd pic shows one top left with a Wood Ant btm right. @exmoormothman.bsky.social @pilning.bsky.social

Dinarda maerkelii, found by @lancefly.bsky.social in the Wyre Forest, with @exmoormothman.bsky.social & @pilning.bsky.social on Tuesday. A species of rove beetle which is found in Wood Ant nests where they seem to be partly parasitic, there are very few British records. A very top spot!

Shining Guest Ant Formicoxenus nitidulus in the Wyre Forest on Tues with @pilning.bsky.social, @lancefly.bsky.social, @vc40orthops.bsky.social & Jim Cresswell. @lancefly.bsky.social spotted them first. The general consensus was we saw 20+ on the Wood Ant Formica rufa nest.

They're here!! 😉 First Black Rustic ('devil in a black dress') of the year. #teammoth

Callicera spinolae, the Ivy Hoverfly, is one of the UK's rarest hoverflies, as well as one of the most spectacular. This morning, I recorded a female on the Ivy in my S. Cambridgeshire. This is the 5th consecutive year that I have seen this wonderful fly in my garden, four days earlier than before.

Another photo of the Convolvulus Hawk-moth from y'day, before I put it in a safe place. #teammoth

Not easy to photograph, and also from the trap last night was this Tephritis divisa. New for me.

Only my 2nd L-album Wainscot of the year in the garden and this one was pristine.

Back again so soon!

Driftwood - the treasure lining our beaches. Understand the importance of driftwood to some of our rarest invertebrates, and why we really should leave it on the beach... www.buglife.org.uk/blog/driftwo...

A Convolvulus Hawk-moth nectaring on the Nicotiana in the garden at 5.15 this morning was a lovely surprise! #teammoth

A trip to the Somerset Levels on Sunday to find Large Marsh Grasshopper was successful (more anon). But it also produced this VERY unexpected 13-spot Ladybird, Hippodamia tredecimpunctata, a lifer for me and possibly the first one recorded from the Levels.

Macrocera phalerata that was at rest on the back wall of the house last night. I was confident that's what it was, but my thanks to @lancefly.bsky.social for sending me the relevant key info this morning via @pilning.bsky.social (thanks again, mate).

Wasp Spider and egg sac at Selworthy Exmoor today and a bonus 6 Spotted Flycatcher @britishspiders.bsky.social @creechsm.bsky.social

Etainia decentella new for the garden. It's only the 2nd time I've seen this delightful little moth. The other was when I ran my portable trap in my friend's garden in Porlock on Exmoor a few yrs ago. Acrocercops brongniardella was new for the garden last night as well. #teammoth

The UK's tiniest pseudoscorpion, Cheiridium museorum or Book Scorpion, is difficult to spot as it is less than 1.5 mm long. Usually found in very dry places including book stores, museums, old thatch, buildings and bird nests, I found this one under the loose bark of a large Oak tree. #Arachnids

Superb addition to my natural history library.

Black V Moth (Arctornis l-nigrum), Striped Hawk (H. livornica) and Convolvulus Hawk (A. convolvuli), to light at Ponsongath, Lizard, Cornwall on 19/8. J. Foster. The Black V Moth is new to Cornwall. #teammoth

I've joined the Small Rufous in the garden club! #teammoth

The Gothic was a nice surprise in the trap this morning, as was the Yellow Wag calling overhead as I was releasing the moths.

Yellow Wag calling overhead was a bonus while I was releasing the moths from the garden trap in Filton early this morning. New bird for garden list. @bristolbirding.bsky.social

Sallow Kitten from the trap this morning. Nfy. Along with Udea ferrugalis, European Corn-Borer & Lyonetia clerkella. That brings the garden moth list up to 400 spp for the year. The 'moth trap intruders' list is now up to 62 spp. #teammoth

Eremocoris fenestratus from the garden trap in Filton this morning. My 3rd here. @britishbugs.bsky.social

The photo won't win any awards, but I've just found Nigma walckenaeri on Ivy in the lane behind the house (only metres away from the garden). Only my 3rd site for it locally, after yrs of searching. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Deleaster dichrous from the trap this morning. My 8th this year. Anyone else catch them?

Vestal, which I found on the back door mat this morning. It must of flown in when I went out to check the trap last night. It was new for the year, as was Agonopterix liturosa. I'm only 4 spp away from 400 for the year in garden.

A lovely encounter before going through the moth trap just after 6 this morning.

When you feel something crawling on the back of your hand and look down to find what turns out to be one of the UK’s rarest Sawflies mistaking you for a Willow leaf it’s helpful to be standing a few feet away from a local and national Sawfly Recorder: the beautiful Arge enodis (Clophill Lakes, Beds)

We're now laying out the Tachinids for #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z to be published this Autumn TOP Cistogaster globosa & Gymnocheta viridis; BOTTOM Phasia hemiptera & Tachina grossa @gailashton.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @georgemcgavin.bsky.social

Carnation Tortrix Cacoecimorpha pronubana on the outside of the kitchen window. It has one of my favourite micro moth scientific names. Shortly after she'd flown off, I noticed eggs had been laid on the window. #teammoth

At least 40 Jersey Tiger to my 20w actinic in the garden last night. Obviously, it was easy counting the ones at rest on the trap and nearby, but less so the ones already inside. It was hugely disappointing otherwise, but it was nice to see Lobesia abscisana again. #teammoth

Opheltes glaucopterus at the Bristol & District Moth Group field meeting at Gordano NNR last night. A parasitoid of Cimbex larvae. I'd seen it once before in N. Devon.

I'm so glad I checked the trap around midnight last night and saw this Ptocheuusa paupella at rest on the funnel. A lifer for me. #teammoth

It's always nice to see Volucella zonaria in the garden. One was on the Buddleia a short while ago. My first this year.

I didn't expect this Coriomeris denticulatus to walk across the tray I'd pulled down from the back of the seat in front of me on the train home from Taunton y'day.

It's always nice to see Serica brunnea. Also, from the trap on Exmoor this morning.

Cloaked Carpet. A garden speciality where I run my trap on Exmoor. #teammoth

Barred Chestnut from the trap on Exmoor this morning. I'm pretty sure this garden is the only place I've seen it. Small Rufous as well, which is good for here. New the garden, which would please my old mate John Robbins. Also, another Cloaked Carpet. #teammoth

Male & female Four-spotted Footman from the trap on Exmoor this morning. I had 13 (10 male & 3 female). #teammoth