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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Next car started playing Pink Floyd and the vibes were immaculate 👌

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 07/08/2026

#RecordOfTheWeek today is lovely Little Owls (Athene noctua) recorded in Gwent by Chris Blyth. Many thanks for the record and photo, submitted via www.sewbrecord.org.uk.

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 27/05/2026

Please note this update from the iRecord team, which will also impact SEWBReCORD: Indicia data warehouse and linked websites will be unavailable overnight from 5pm tonight. It is expected to be back online tomorrow morning (28/05). This is to allow a major update to the species dictionary.

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 26/05/2026

Open for booking! Our 4 species identification courses for 2026 are all now open, email info@sewbrec.org.uk to secure a space. The courses are on Moth Trapping, Dragonflies, Dune Plants and Rocky Shore Species. Full details on the posters below. #TeamMoth #TeamOdonata #RockyShore #SandDunes

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Can be hard to balance dog needs with a wildlife garden, so I'm trying a halfnhalf lawn (V Welsh). Luckily both dogs are short so a small fence should work 🤞

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 21/05/2026

We are delighted to share the Spring 2026 edition of the Gwent-Glamorgan Newsletter! Many thanks to all contributors. Download a pdf here: www.sewbrec.org.uk/upload/libra... Or read as a flipbook here: online.fliphtml5.com/zpyru/nsib/

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 11/05/2026

Our recommended event this week is a BioBlitz Fieldwork Day on Thursday at Parc Taf Bargoed. Join SEWBReC and Merthyr Tydfil Biodiversity Partnership to learn about wildlife recording and survey techniques. Book a free space here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bioblitz-f...

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 08/05/2026

#RecordOfTheWeek today is 100 years old, just like a certain Sir David Attenborough! Lathbury's Nomad Bee (Nomada lathburiana) was recorded in May 1926 by Howard Hallett on The Garth. (Below photo © Steven Murray, 2024.) Happy Birthday Sir David 🎈 #DavidAttenborough100 #Attenborough100

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Nice to see my first tiny Oak Bush-cricket nymphs and Common Earwig wiglets yesterday in a wood in a very rural part of South Shrops. Cricket vanishingly unlikely to be M. meridionale in this location.

Oak Bush-cricket nymph. One of three seen, all from low vegetation beneath oak. I suppose they fall out of the trees, but maybe they just go downwards rather than upwards after hatching (eggs laid in bark of trunk).

Second instar Common Earwig nymph (wiglet).

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Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Delighted to find this beautiful Blue Shieldbug, Zicrona caerulea, in my local wood today, having only ever seen one once before, although they are a reasonably common species.

A metallic blue shieldbug on a blade of grass

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There was one in my moth trap on Saturday 🥰

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marcusbugs.bsky.social @marcusbugs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A close-up of the pneumostome reveals several slug mites. These #Acari could be Riccardoella oudemansi. More #Binvertebrates. Slightly disturbing pic, sorry!

White mites in the slug breathing pore. Poor slug!

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The highlight of today's butterfly transect was ... a cranefly! This is the fabulous Wasp-banded Comb-horn, Ctenophora flaveolata. I've been lucky enough to see this species several times over the years, and each one is equally stunning 😍

A large cranefly with a black-and-yellow striped body, presumably mimicking a wasp. Photographed on a path surface in Wendover Woods, Buckinghamshire.

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Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland) @migrantmothuk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Willowherb Hawk-moth (Proserpinus proserpina), to light at Seabrook, Kent on 30/4. P. Howe #teammoth

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

First lifer in a long time, Small Mottled Willow last night 🎉 #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

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Galling, @galling.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Gall of the week, currantly (ahem) hundreds being recorded on iNaturalist and iRecord, is the currant gall caused by the sexual generation of the cynipid wasp Neuroterus quercusbaccarum on oak, Quercus robur, in both of its typical positions. Photos by Tom Higginbottom.

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Dark Bush-cricket back in the garden 🥰🥰 #TeamOrthoptera

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Rockwolf 🇪🇺 @rockwolf74.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My first Meconema sp of the year! I’m sure it’s my earliest 😳 from Wrexham today! #Orphoptera #BushCricket

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Rockwolf 🇪🇺 @rockwolf74.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It was good to find the Turtle Bug (Podops inuncta), from grass tussocks, during yesterday's mooch in SE Shropshire #Heteroptera #Shieldbug #Pentatomidae

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Insects of Cley (there were birds too apparently). Corrections always welcome...

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Best Wildlife Trust view? Cley Marshes today

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A first instar Dark Bush-cricket nymph, one of 2 or 3 seen on Wednesday during wildlife group's trip to Severn Valley CP. My first cricket or grasshopper of the year and the earliest ever Dark B-C record in Shrops by 12 days.

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Today's #EntoFashion that I can't justify, a £268 wicker Rhino Beetle bag

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Need to put mine on from Wednesday 🐝🪰

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Back in the swing of things with #GardenMothScheme! 20 of 9 species on Friday Hebrew character 2 Common quaker 7 Small quaker 3 Early grey 3 Twin spotted quaker 1 Common plume 1 Oak beauty 1 Oak tree pug? Early Thorn 1 #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Excited to have my name in the new Grasshopper and allies guide 😁 #TeamOrthoptera #Orthoptera

Front cover of "Field guide to the grasshoppers and allies of Great Britain and Ireland"

Second page of Gwent description, with authots: me! And Steve Williams 😊

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

One of my favourite planthoppers putting in its annual appearance in our garden in Norwich: Asiraca clavicornis. And a drawing I did of one a few years ago. #insects #invertebrates

A brownish-grey planthopper sitting on a green leaf facing left, in bright sunshine. The bug has stick like antennae that project out to either side of its head which end in a fine filament.

Looking down on a brownish-grey planthopper sitting on a green leaf. The bug's wings have a lines of fine short hairs on them. The top of the head is pale and the stick like antennae point out and slightly upwards to either side.

A black and white pen and ink drawing of a planthopper facing right. The hind legs have short spines on them while the front pair of legs are somewhat inflated.

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Galling, @galling.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Gall of the week is caused by a cynipid wasp, either Diplolepis nervosa (spiked pea gall) or D. eglanteriae (smooth pea gall). Without spikes they cannot be separated as D. nervosa can occur without them. They are now recorded on iRecord and iNaturalist as D. eglanteriae agg.

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Tanyptera Project @tanyptera.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🦟Not just House Flies! Join Mike Ashworth for an intro to British Muscidae on 27 April, 7:30 - 9:00pm 👉 Book now: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/muscid...

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SnosSnos @snossnos.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

#art #illustration #animalmarch #kleinekunstklasse #surrealism #wollschweber Das Leben eines Wollschwebers endet mit der Fertigstellung des Pullovers.

Der Wollschweber, ein hummelartiges Insekt, besitzt in meiner Version einen Körper aus einer blauen Wolldocke. Aus diesem Knäuel hängt ein Fadenende heraus, das zu einem angefangenen Strickstück führt. Das Insekt besitzt transparente gepunktete Flügel und einen auffällig langen Saugrüssel. Technik: Koloriertes Aquarell.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

There's a reason no one draws harvestmen. It has taken me all afternoon to ink out the legs. This is meant to be a first draft, the idea was to trace the final ink drawing using a light box to remove any errors & make minor adjustments. Really don't know if I can face doing it. 1st of 4 plates.

An A4 drawing pad with the beginnings of 7 species of harvestman roughly sketched out in pencil. Also a mechanical pencil and two erasers next to the drawing pad, to the right.

An A4 drawing pad with 7 species of harvestman sketched out in pencil and three of them just being gone over with black ink. There are two fine line black ink pens, one on the pad with the cap off, the other to the right.

An A4 drawing pad with 7 species of harvestman drawn on it. Their bodies have been gone over in black ink. There are also two grey fine line pigment markers in the photo.

An A4 drawing pad with 7 species of harvestman drawn out in black ink in a fairly geometric pattern with their long legs overlapping and inter-twinning.

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Home after 19 days at my parents' house ❤️ 8 planned, 11 unexpected. Lungwort has flowered in the meantime, hoping for a Bee-fly soon 🤞

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Stuck in Coventry (at my parents' house) due to some health issues, so no Garden Moth Scheme for me tonight 😔

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Andrew Lucas @andrewlucas103.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This could be my new pan-listing obsession. A great site to keep track of your species lists, and compare with others. panspecieslisting.com

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Pan-species Listing (PSL) by BUBO

Welcome to Pan-species Listing, online system for all species listing for any location in the UK.

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Llynfian @llynfian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Cochylis hybridella in gel pens on brown paper. #mothsMatter #mothartwork #pendrawing #welshartist #wildlifeartwork

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

First attempts at drawing psyllids. These are odd looking bugs. Working from reference photos is OK if you have a good knowledge of the anatomy of what you are drawing. Psyllids are new to me so I really need a specimen as well to work out how they go together.

A black ink line drawing of a psyllid facing left. It has a dark eye and dark patches on the wings.

Black ink drawing of a rather plain, unmarked psyllid facing right.

Black ink drawing of a psyllid facing left. This one has a dark and light striped abdomen which ends in a conical point.

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A basking Gorse Shieldbug, my first shieldbug of the year, seen during Wednesday's one day sunny spell. Back to relentless gloom again since!

A mainly green shieldbug, head uppermost, partly obscured by the spiky green plant in which it is sitting. Large areas of its wing-cases have a reddish hue, with a bluish strip on their outside edges. The yellow abdomen is mostly hidden by the wings but it edge is just visible outside the blue areas.

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Missing the forum for the first time in 18 years 😢

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

One year on from creating my pond. Perhaps frogs this year? 🐸🐸🐸🐸

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