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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In honor of #Springwatch returning to our UK screens, here are some beetle shots I caught this afternoon in Dunsford Nature Reserve 😍

Rhagium Mordax, the Black-spotted Longhorn Beetle.

Afternoon delight for a pair of soldier beetles (likely Cantharis nigricans).

Male Violet oil beetle, Meloe violaceus.

Alder leaf beetle (Agelastica alni) and her admirer 😍

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This was such a long wait. My Actias luna moths have finally hatched today!! 🖤🖤 #ActiasLuna #moth #EntoSky

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I have only recently found #TheMagnusArchivrs podcasts. I have gorged on the full 5 seasons and am now wading through the sequel/prequel/sidequel, #TheMagnusProtocol. Why on earth did I not find this years ago?!

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Posted without comment...unless you're reading the alt text, I guess...

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I am 30 minutes into Del Toro's #Frankenstein. It's beautiful. Beautiful.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Spooky Morris is the best Morris...

Portrait of Morris dancer with blue hair. She has black makeup around her eyes, black lipstick and a black stitched smile. On her hat are taxidermy hare ears and a rabbit skull.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Sometimes a walk on Dartmoor is a bit like passing through a curtain in reality that leads directly into a fairy tale.

Two ponies drinking from a moorland stream in preparation during a break in their long trek to a magic, moss-covered castle to buy some ketamine from a wizard.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

It was Exeter Comic Con and Gaming Festival this weekend. We decided to go today and have a look. There was one - count it - one actual comic stall. 😒 There was way too much 3D printed junk and Cricut made bits. Which totally has its place but shouldn't take up the majority of the Festival.

White woman cosplaying Death from the Endless. She is looking into the camera whilst leaning against a mirror. The reflection is also visible.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I have just spent the most delightful afternoon in the company of Martin Luff (Devon county recorder of beetles). I had the pleasure of seeing his beetle collection and talking all things entomology. I am a very happy girl. #coleoptera #beetles

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This morning I caught sight of the Atlas beetle. As she's the first of my larvae to successfully eclose, I shall call her Lilith. I've never bred Atlas beetles before and so I'm really chuffed! #beetle #beetles #ChalcosomaAtlas #entomology #entosky #coleoptera

Large beetle sitting on an index finger with its legs wrapped around the finger. It is about 5cm in length.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I am SO EXCITED that I'm going to shout at the Internet. I was just checking on my Atlas beetle larvae, making sure they had enough rotting leaves etc and in one of the tubs I noticed a cocoon 🤩 I am so excited about this 😁

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Anyone else love listening to the birds that signal the start of the #BBCFour broadcast?

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I agree, love. Everything can eff off, cos it's too hot! #catsofbluesky

Tabby cat with white paws covering its face as it sleeps.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Spent the afternoon at a local (and I suspect poorly advertised) outdoor bushcraft show. Hardly any people were there but it meant that we were able to attend talks and see demonstrations without crowds of people about.

Woman with black and blue hair wearing a fedora and black crochet poncho. She is standing in a field with tents behind her. The sky has high wispy clouds breaking up the blue.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Me (grocery shopping online): oat cream. Supermarket website: Out of stock. Would you like a bread bin instead? Me:...

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Quote with a picture of you from the 80s.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Sure, Frank Herbert's Dune series is a work of diminishing returns but what if we appropriated his titles for a series of heavy dub albums? Results: Amazing. Dub World The Prophet of Dub Dub Messiah Children of Dub God Emperor of Dub Heretics of Dub Chapterhouse: Dub The Road To Dub

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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

They could use his photo from the front of the Waitrose paper.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

OK. How do I get hold of one of those enormous #beetles on the top of the Other Stage at #Glastonbury? It would AMAZING in my garden. Big lust.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Doubletake ad just popped up on Reddit. Kinda impressed that they were brave enough to leave the comments on 😂

Kickstarter ad for a Glute Activator.
It looked like the handlebars of a bike draped across someone's arse.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Hello gorgeous. The gothest of moths - 6 spot burnet

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Ahh finally caught some goldfinch action at work in my pollinator patch. 🖤

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Hey @squidita.bsky.social!! Looks like K. Tastes like White Lightning 😂

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

How can this not make you happy? I commandeered a wee plot of land at work last year and this is the result. Ox-eye daisies, ragged robin, buttercups, vetch, thistles, brown knapweed and cuckoo flowers so far. Oodles of pollinators. And tonight I saw goldfinches feeding on the knapweed 😍😍

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Today I had the delight of showing my husband a Green Tiger beetle. He'd never seen one before. This little dude posed for me a little before I let him go on his way. #GreenTigerBeetle #CicindelaCampestris #BeetleSunday

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Made another Frankenskirt this week. It's been cobbled together from various tops, skirts and leggings that were old, broken or didn't fit. #recycle #frankenskirt

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

That acorn weevil segment on #Springwatch was worth my licence fee alone. Thanks @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and team.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Oh Emm Gee. Lawrence Fishburn (Fishcake as he's called in our house) was Cowboy Curtis in Pee Wee's Playhouse...

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Highlight of my weekend so far has been gorging on The Old Fools podcast. Thanks @ianmartin.bsky.social and @quantick.bsky.social

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The small tortoiseshells have started to emerge 🖤🖤

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Amid GROWING RECOGNITION??? What the actual fuck?

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Oooh my Sapphires of Persia (Cetonischema speciosa cyanochlora) have started to hatch. They're absolutely beautiful. #beetlesunday #beetles #sappiresofpersia

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

We took the bike up to Hound Tor this afternoon. Kinda loving that my hair appears to be a million different colours in this photo.

Selfie of a goth woman with sunglasses on pursing her lips at the camera. Her usually black and grey hair appears blue and purple and brown as well.

Hound Tor rocks with a cloudless blue sky behind them.

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Who else panicked that they'd hit the TV control and turned off the TV during Ukraine's song? 🤣

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Episode 4 of The Eternaut is SO up my street!

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