Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026An early Cyclamen hederifolium in Send, Surrey today. #wildflowerhour 050
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Painted Lady Butterfly, Vanessa cardui, on Field Scabious, Knautia arvensis, at Sheepleas today. Three seen today, one in the greenhouse, one in the garden and this, number 34 for 2026. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Macropis europaea in our Send Surrey garden today, the second from yesterday. 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026My 25th Painted Lady of the year, this one ovipositing on Echinops in our Send, Surrey garden this morning. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A wasp new to me and our Send, Surrey garden yesterday (13 June) is Holopyga ovata. First record in England in 2020 but known previously from Jersey and Sark. @surreybic.bsky.social 130
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Today at Puttenham Common Dasypoda hirtipes, Pantaloon Bees and Silver-studded Blue males. 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026A minimum of 14 Painted Lady Butterflies today at RHS Wisley, bringing my total for May to 21. Amazing! Here's one from today. 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Last year I was really happy to see six Painted Lady Butterflies in our Send, Surrey garden. So far this month I've seen four in the garden and one each at Squires, East Horsley, RHS Wisley and RSPB Pulborough. The photo is garden No. 4 (yesterday). 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Crabro peltarius, Intermediate Shield Wasp, in our Send, Surrey garden today. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Bryony Mining Bees, Andrena florea, are back in the garden. Always happy to see them. 020
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 03/05/2026A nice new plant species for me this morning. Subterranean Clover, Trifolium subterraneum, in Send @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @surreybic.bsky.social 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 28/04/2026New species for our Send, Surrey garden today. Ballus chalybeius 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Peacock Butterfly in the garden today. It was still managing to fly! 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 22/02/20261st of this year's frogspawn in our Send, Surrey garden. 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 27/12/20257C, feels like 3, and Buff-tailed Bumblebee busy on the Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis' in our Send, Surrey garden. 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Painted Lady. 6th Surrey garden record this year. Wow! #butterflies 110
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 15/09/2025A daily garden sighting since August 21st has been Locust Blowfly, Stomorhina lunata. Today, two males on their lookout on the back of a metal chair and this one on a Hydrangea flowerhead. Females are here but not seen so often. @surreybic.bsky.social 031
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 24/08/2025A new Tachinid for the Send, Surrey garden and me yesterday, a female Phasia hemiptera. @surreybic.bsky.social 021
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Female Brown Hairstreak, Thecla betulae, seen in our Send, Surrey garden today. The third this year. 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 30/07/2025New for our Send, Surrey garden and me today is this Six-belted Clearwing. Gorgeous! 120
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Female Coelioxys conoidea in our Send, Surrey garden this morning. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Ectophasia crassipennis in our Send garden this morning. 2nd year running. The plant is Aster × frikartii 'Mönch', very good for attracting all sorts of insects. @surreybic.bsky.social 020
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 27/06/2025A new species for me and our Send, Surrey garden today. Cordulegaster boltonii, the Golden-ringed Dragonfly. On iRecord. @surreybic.bsky.social 031
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Very happy to find the snipefly Chrysopilus laetus in our Send, Surrey garden this afternoon. Near Threatened/ Nationally Scarce in Drake (2017, Natural England status review). Info from Steven Falk's Flickr site. 110
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025A lifer for me today at Oaken Woods in Surrey. Eucera longicornis, the Long-horned Bee. Very happy to make their acquaintance. Photo-bombed by a Swollen-thigh Beetle, Oedemera nobilis. #SolitaryBeeWeek 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Another bee active now is Andrena florea. The females only collect pollen from White Bryony and males can be found patrolling over the plants. Sometimes the males will settle in the flowers for the night and the petals close over them. #SolitaryBeeWeek 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is the bee that started my interest in bees and then wasps. She is a rare Andrena nigrospina that visited our Surrey garden briefly in May 2017. #solitaryBeeWeek 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025To celebrate #WorldBeeDay and #SolitaryBeeWeek this is one of my favourites, Andrena labiata. This pic of a male is from 2019 but the first for this year showed up last week. 020
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Must have been a good hatch of Mayflies on the River Wey. Now a lot of females are egg laying on ours and our neighbours cars (the white smudges on the windscreen). 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025On Puttenham Common this morning looking for bees but also found this very nice Dendroxena quadripunctata. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Back in our Send, Surrey garden, a new species for me, Conops vesicularis. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Beautiful start to my third Surrey BBS/WBBS of the week. Skylark singing over this field as well. 030
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025A self sown seed from Myosotis sylvatica produced this lovely little variegated plant this year in our garden. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 29/03/20251st Melecta albifrons of the year in our Send, Surrey garden. 030
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 02/03/20251st Tree Bee, Bombus hypnorum, oty in our Send garden today. Records were down 39% last year. Hope they have a better spring in 2025. 010
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Moth trap out this evening with mild, dry weather. Tathorhynchus exsiccata, a first for me and our Send, Surrey garden. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @surreybic.bsky.social 3163
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Have you seen this paper? Characterisation of some species groups of Brachymeria (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), with a review of the B. tibialis-group........ Duval,G and Shaw,M. August 2022, Zootaxa. This male from Surrey id'd to recently described Brachymeria zygaenae 110
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 22/11/2024First photo from early September when four fields of Sunflowers were at their peak. Second photo shows one of the fields today. Chaffinches in numbers not seen for some years. Greenfinches with them, 1 Brambling as well, probably more. Approx. 76 acres of prime bird food on the papercourt patch. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 20/11/20246, Postia caesia, Conifer Blueing Bracket Fungus, October 13. 000
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 20/11/20244, Megachile maritima, Coast Leafcutter Bee. July 22 100
Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Some of my favourites from this year, 1 A early Colletes cunicularius on Feb 15. 100
