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In my excitement I posted too soon ... it turned out to be an Acari mite. Very disappointed. Will go and find more tidal lichen and continue the hunt.

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Ambridge Saturday Scandals: Match the Last Words Matched 10/10, 0 mistakes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #AmbridgeSaturdayScandals That was a delicious jaunt down memory lane!

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Twenty four hours after collecting a sample of lichen from the tidal zone, and then steeping it in water, a Tardigrade is starting to emerge from cryptobiosis. You can make out two pairs of legs in the left half. #Tardigrades

An buff-ish oval animal that has two pairs of folded legs visible in the left half of the oval, and an undifferentiated leg mass at the right end.

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Sounds like Lower Loxley is going to see some action. Kenton and Harrison duelling on the roof? Fallon and Lily fighting on the grand staircase? Rosie and Martha locked in the pantry eating their way out? Eddie running a book on all three outcomes? Jolene giving Lizzie hell? #TheArchers

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Planning permission and insurance for the sodding dogging field might be a steeper hurdle than Lynda could imagine. #TheArchers

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s'funny how Eddie's 'just a bit of fun' ventures are usually at someone else's expense. #TheArchers

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Presumably a dog field business would require insurance of some sort? Wouldn't Robert and Lynda be expected to declare previous incidents on an insurance application? And would they get insurance after Monty? #TheArchers

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Yikes! A thought I wouldn't have chosen! But on reflection, he was a strippergram for a while ... #TheArchers

It is the horn of infinite length ... #TheArchers

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Clive gatecrashes wedding, slips the unicorn some LSD, it goes on rampage and skewers Helen, Tom, Natasha, Sarin and Novichok, Rosie, Bert, etc. Wedding is called off, we all live happily ever after. #TheArchers

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Lithops otzeniana is flowering for the first time. It was sown in July 2024. #Lithops

A bright yellow daisy-like flower emerging from a grey-green leaf-pair that is growing in a gravelly medium.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember a case of a child called 'Absodee' (or that's how it was spoken). Couldn't work out the derivation until seeing the name written down. It was spelled Abcde. Those parents were somewhat self-centred hipsters. #TheArchers

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lithops julii ssp. Fullergreen has flowered for the first time. It was sown on 1.3.2024 and each leaf-pair is now 15mm across. #Lithops

A white daisy-like flower has emerged from a succulent green leaf-pair that has mottled tops.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A beautiful female Oligosita engelharti wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found at Woolston Eyes SSSI in Cheshire in August 2016 by Dawn Painter. #wasps #Trichogrammatidae

Side view of a buff coloured wasp. Its head and antennae are to the left of picture. Its paddle shaped, fringed wing is held vertically above body.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Adam is a boorish bully. He's showing his true colours now. #TheArchers

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Hadn't thought of nymphs when trying to identify it. Makes sense now you mention it.

Thank you. They don't make it easy for us, do they!

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I looked carefully for any sign of clubbed setae, and there were none. Also no trichobothria on the back end.

@pseudoliam.bsky.social Does this look right for a Lamprochernes nodosus? Found in compost heap. Pointed body setae. Fourth tarsal trichobothrium sort of middle-ish, but unsure as it wouldn't stay still! #Pseudoscorpion

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of three Hypoponera punctatissima ants found in the garden today. #Formicidae #Ponerinae

Looking down onto an elongate orange-brown ant. Its head and antennae are to the right of picture.

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Congratulations! A well deserved award. It's a really good book.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Your email prices this offer at CHF89, Euro 89, and USD89, which is GBP 81.09, 76.54, and 67.19 respectively. The link on this Bluesky post takes you to the offer at GBP101. It's a good alarm clock, but this offer needs sorting out.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ambridge Arrivals 4/8 🟩🟥🟥🟩🟥🟩🟥🟩 #AmbridgeSaturdayScandals (very creative!)

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ambridge Saturday Scandals: Love Affairs Quiz 6/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #AmbridgeSaturdayScandals

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just checked the yard-arm, and the sun is peeking over it.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Little beauties. Love a Cockroach.

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) in the garden this afternoon. #Dragonfly

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An architect who creates his own house, but can't get the measurements right and leaves gaps between sections. Doesn't inspire confidence. #GrandDesigns

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's a very stylish timepiece.

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ohhh, does it get much better?

That's not 'just' an apple pie. That is a corker of an apple pie, it makes one's mouth water. Looks like a meringue topping the way it has cracked.

Love the clarity and proportions of the lettering. Also, those 'chamfered' plates add an extra something.

One of two beautiful Dimple-clawed Chthonids in the garden this afternoon. Any day with a Pseudoscorpion is a good day. #Pseudoscorpions

A tiny Pseudoscorpion on a piece of wood. Its pincer-like claws are held out in front as it heads to the left.

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A Spotted green pine needle aphid (Eulachnus agilis) found under Scots Pines in Brede High Woods this morning. #HighWeald #Aphids

An elongate oval bright green Aphid with tiny black spots covering its uppermost side. Head and antennae are to the left of picture.

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Hide and Seek. Corizus hyoscyami on a poppy flower stalk this morning.

An orange Rhopalid Bug is hiding behind a green poppy stem. The Bug's black legs are angled to grip the plant's stem.

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Ambridge Saturday Scandals: Love Affairs Quiz 5/6 🟩🟩🟩🟥🟩🟩 #AmbridgeSaturdayScandals

Is Christine Barford still in The Laurels? If so, how does she afford it? #TheArchers

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is a lot of potential for disquiet from this death. Ultimately Carol had lived a full life and departed peacefully, but we know it won't be treated as simply as that. Alan's in for a tough time over the money, isn't he? (but some of us were more invested in the bats than in Carol) #TheArchers

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The wonderful wing fringes of Epoligosita nudipennis, a wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found in November 2025 by Jon Cole. #wasps #Trichogrammatidae

Looking down onto a yellowish tiny wasp with outstretched paddle-shaped wings that have long fringe hairs. Its head is to the top of picture and has black eyes.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found at Castle Water of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in July. This wasp is a parasitoid of the eggs of thrips, but we don't yet know which species of thrips. #wasps #RyeHarbour

Side view of a tiny wasp. Its oar-shaped wings have long fringe hairs. Its hewad and antennae are to the right of picture.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A handsome Hawthorn Shieldbug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) on the garden birch tree. Unfortunately it has a couple of Tachinid eggs on the pronotum. #Shieldbug

An elongate True Bug is sitting on a birch leaf. The Bug is bright green with chestnut banding. Its head and black antennae are facing to the top of picture.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lithops pseudotruncatella looking rather fine. This plant is now 13 years old and 22mm across. #Lithops

A pair of pinkish-grey oval plants growing out of a stone-rich medium. Each plant comprises a pair of leaves that are flattish and mottled. There is a single yellow daisy-like flower emerging from one of the plants.

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A beauty! Looks like Lithops dorotheae.

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love a Gelis. They're difficult to get to species, which is no surprise, but this one might be G.trux.

DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Does this look right for Convulvulus Hawkmoth? Crossing the pavement first thing this morning (and safely relocated to the hedgerow). #Moths

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it was a great evening, wasn't it. Did you get Question 4 right? That was the one that tripped us up.