Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Aside from the masses of underwings of varying sorts it was a Rustic start to the day today. Vine's, Clancy's and Square Spot Rustic greeted me. @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social 0112
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Clouded Yellows. A glorious but occasional treat in a late Norfolk/Suffolk summer. Almost impossible to capture as they just don't sit still!! So I gave up on that and went for an action shot...... 🖤🧡💛🧡💛🧡🖤 1394
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There will be a 'round-up' to come but I am no longer able to function beyond saying... 100 miles done!!! Huge thanks to all those who helped, encouraged, sponsored. www.justgiving.com/page/swannya... @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social 080
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We got up. We walked 23 miles. We hurt. 82 miles since Friday leaving us with a mere 18 to do tomorrow to complete the challenge!! Dodged the worst of the weather & have seen a fantastic amount of wildlife today. Including one of my favourite spiders!!! www.justgiving.com/page/swannya... 0123
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Day 1&2 done. 42 miles covered of our Bank Hol Charity 100. Broads to Brecks- Angles Way. Sunshine, wildlife, torrential rain, an incident with a footbridge, some great bruising, laughter, ice baths & great people sponsoring us as we go!! Looking forward to Day 3!! www.justgiving.com/page/swannya... 050
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Greeted on the garden path by an old friend and one of my favourite arachnids. Particularly keen to pose for pictures too which they don't normally. Scytodes thoracica-the 'Spitting Spider' 0306
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Practice for the 'Big one'. Not too shabby, 17. 3 miles, 5hrs 25. Pretty stretches, stubble fields hotter than the sun, unmown paths 😡 & a ditch we had to bum slide down to cross 😡😡. Got to be worth a sponsor surely.....🤣😁https://www.justgiving.com/page/swannyandteresa?utm_medium=FA&utm_source=CL 011
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Not a bad tick for the garden whilst doing my butterfly count. 2 Peacocks, 3 Large White, 2 Red Admiral 2 Holly Blue and a Grayling!!! @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social 0112
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Friday friends for me from a post work excursion this week. Something a little different. Phone through binos shot with a little tweaking to sky colour courtesy of AI. 010
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We had the Violet Sea Lavender Weevil earlier in the year to bring Joy. Today I present the Disco Beetle. 010
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 09/07/2026' In a muddle if you have got a lot of Buddle?' Treasures lie within. Golden margin 20+years old, greener strip 3 years old, waiting to calm down from years of intensive inputs & allow rarities to flourish. Not sown, but emerging from the seed bank. Alive with insects and birds even in 30°+ 0111
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 05/07/2026August bank hol, my friend & I will be 'enjoying' an independent 93 mile walk for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social Gt Yarmouth -Thetford. Apparently if we make our donation target we will do a full 100 too, although I am very hazy on exactly when I agreed to that 🤣 www.justgiving.com/page/swannya... 022
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 04/07/2026#Meadows are magic. #NationalMeadowsDay. Full of colour, insects and life!!! 0100
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Another Happy Emily day. Grasses and Sedges refresher for me but also managed to find a spider!! Drapetisca socialis I think.....wonderfully camouflaged on the silver birch🕷️ @britishspiders.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social 2215
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Happy Emily. This cultivated margin had it's time full of Thistles, Mugwort, Sterile Brome to name but a few. Now a sea of Cornsalads, Venus Looking glass, Rough Poppy & Night-flowering catchfly. Patience and attention to detail- topping, ploughing and working the soil has paid off. #itcanbedone 1466
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 30/05/2026A couple of nice moths this morning in the trap. Brown Silver Line and a Toadflax Brocade. #WeekendWildlife 0132
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 29/05/2026May has been so busy my #SpiderADayForMay has been derailed somewhat. Mainly because I have been looking for spiders & finding some superb ones.😆 So here is a mash up to catch up. NB. None were actually mashed. All found on arable reversion in various locations. 0153
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I always consider this plant, Toadflax to be one of the last 'new' plant to flower throughout the year. I may be very wrong in this observation but May does seem very early for this to be on full flower. What do others think? 260
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 13/05/2026#SpiderADayForMay. Day 13. Seen today. This wonderful 'Marsh Bear Spider' -Arctosa Leopardus. 081
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Remaining in South Africa for day 12 in the #SpiderADayForMay series. I think this is Megaraneus gabonensis. It certainly was mega at least 2inches long and 1 inch wide! Can any of my spider followers confirm/redirect....... 050
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Departure from the UK 11th #SpiderADayForMay is a #SouthAfrican Beauty. I studied intensely my SA spider guide & dreamt of seeing this. With well over 2000 species to choose from I never thought I would and yet..........I did. Gasteracantha versicolor. Common Kite Spider. 190
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 11/05/2026#SpiderADayForMay 9,10. 11 to come later! Some sandy friends. Arctosa perita and Marpissa nivoyi. Sand Bear and a Dune Jumper!! #Whatsnottolike #Nature 1182
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Eeek, spiders 7 and 8 (having too much fun looking for them to post daily clearly). Uloborus plumipes a 'garden centre' spider import and the ever formidable looking Dolomedes frimbriatus- raft spider. Both in Norfolk. #SpiderADayForMay 052
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Spiders 5 and 6 for #SpiderADayForMay as have been on a mini work trip. All good though as I managed to locate the 2 of our target species.....Pellenes tripunctatus the 'White Striped' Jumping Spider, closely guarding an egg sack & many Pseudeuophrys obsoleta, the 'Whelk Shell' Jumping Spider. 1111
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Hardy Geraniums are not everyone's cup of tea. Luckily for the Early Bumblebees they are mine!!. The garden has been alive with them today despite the typically bank holiday weather. 040
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Catching up with #SpiderADayForMay with #4 Steatoda grossa I believe. A false widow. What a beautiful creature and sadly much misunderstood. New species for the garden for me too. :) 061
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Spider 3 for #SpiderADayForMay. The Flower crab spider. An amazing ambush predator with superb, chaemeleon-like powers of camouflage. #Whatsnottolike 0203
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Day 2 of #SpiderADayForMay one of my favourites. A Sand Dune Jumping Spider- Attulus Saltator. Those eyes! ❤️ 0286
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Starting slowly #SpiderADayForMay. Everyone starts somewhere & #Spiders are sooooo cool. Here is spider #1 Enjoying an aphid snack. (Rose garden enthusiasts take note) Heliphanus species or the 'Sun' Jumping spider. #whatsnottolike. Spider 2 later today .... 1315
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Nice bit of drive by arable botany today. Shepherd's Needle and Tower Mustard. Not bad for #fridayfinds #formerlyknownasweeds 0152
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Something a bit different today. Strongylodon macrobotrys....the most amazing coloured plant I think I have ever seen. The Jade Vine. Just WOW. @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social 140
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Yesterday's bees were indeed confirmed as Bombus pratorum, the Early Bumblebee. Which brings my visibly breeding species count up to Goldfinch, Pigeon, Early Bumblebee Frogs, Orange Tips and Ruby tigers!! 070
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Lunchtime #spidering Crab spider Xysticus hanging out for a snack. 096
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Beyond excited to discover 'my'Goldfinches prospecting for a nest site for the 3rd year. Lovely to hear the nearby Greenfinches too, not heard them in a while. Seem to also have a resident Chiff Chaff and a Blackcap too. 2025 fledglings below. #UrbanNature @rspb.bsky.social 040
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Smart little fly found today. Thought it was a picture wing at first but I think having had a look at a couple of keys it could be a fruit fly....possibly Euleia heraclei......? 160
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 26/03/2026 A spring delight and not often at a height I can get a snap of European Larch..... 060
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 24/03/2026First moth trap of the season today and amongst the many small quakers a new species for me I think.....Orthosia miniosa, Blossom underwing I believe. A real beauty. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social 1112
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Love watching the garden spring back to life. Peacock, Small White, Large Garden Bumblebee Queen, Flower Bees, and the first Bee Fly of the garden for 2026. 050
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 07/03/2026#Saturdayspider time. I finally found a 'Garden centre spider' Uloborus plumipes. An old world species which seems to have made itself quite comfortable in the house plant section of my local garden centre. 0232
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature 812723
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Brilliant day in the garden today. Lots done. Came across this however.....does anyone have any ideas as to who it belongs to? 261
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Feb 14th. A day to reflect on things you love. So a little video to celebrate my coming out of hibernation on socials. Looking forward to the new season of all things arable plant and invert! #formerlyknownasweeds 0131
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Festive Chocolate Baileys Pinecones went down a treat with the squad today! 060
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Nice find this week on a new site. Annual knawel. On the disturbed edges of a sandy track which is where I mainly find this beauty in Norfolk! 0180
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 17/10/2025It has been a great garden year this year and I have been so lucky to be able to enjoy it. Still the gift that keeps on giving! And the #Spiders are loving it too! 040
Arable Emily @arableplants.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Unloaded a trap in a new location today. Adjacent to scrubby grassland. Do these look good for Flounced Chestnut and a Beaded Chestnut? Neither of which I have seen before! Oh & if anyone can ID my bonus 3rd moth all thoughts welcome! 🙂 @norfolkmoths.bsky.social 140
