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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 · 06/04/2026

That's a bee fly. It's common name is the dark-edged bee fly, Bombylius major. I love them! 😊😊

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Gorgeous! I was up in Holne woods today and saw a few of my favorites including this Cramp Ball weevil. How menacing are those mandibles?

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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

You on Whatsapp? My number is still the same 🖤

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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 · 03/11/2025

Yes. I remember visiting in the early 2010s and drooling over those costumes (and the wine!)

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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 · 14/10/2025

"I want to watch Coronation Street but make everyone goth..."

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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 · 10/10/2025

My ears pop over Haldon, too (Mamhead side more than the Haldon side). Have you visited the Pet Cemetery yet?

Hand holding a copy of the 21st Century Yokel book.

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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 · 04/10/2025

Oh! A book? You've just sold another copy 😀

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Oh yes!!! Wonderful. I finally found an old church ruins near me in the summer. I live for this stuff 🖤

Old decrepit sign that says Lidwell Chapel.

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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 · 06/09/2025

How wonderful!! The first time in over 10 years when I've regretted not living in London!!

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Totally adorable outfit! I swiped a cute trick or treat bag from TK Maxx the other day, boxed out the corners and turned it into my lunch bag. 😁👻

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

And whilst I'm talking about it, I can't be the only person that wants wet, decaying leaves bottled as a perfume, can I? Dirt by Library of Fragrance is close but not quite there...

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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 · 23/08/2025

It looks like part of a silverfish to me...where and when did she find it?

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

Alt text: Acilius diving beetle male front tarsus (foot) x100 ☺️

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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

It looks like a ladybird (ladybug) larva to me. 😊🐞

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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 · 20/07/2025

That brown knapweed will attract so many species. I've even had Goldfinches feeding on the seeds of mine.

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