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Simon Warry

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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hornet Robberfly at St. Margaret's Bay, SE Kent, today (26th Sept).
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two of three Arma custos, two of five Ornate Shieldbugs and a single Vernal Shieldbug found at Betteshanger CP (East Kent), today (25th Sept). Others found include Birch, Parent, Hairy, Crucifer, Box and Dock Bugs.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Around 10-20 Polistes biglumis, a rare paper wasp, were found at Samphire Hoe, near Dover, SE Kent yesterday, 21st Sept. A nest probably belonging to that species was found by Nigel Jarman.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two additions to my list of shieldbugs and squashbugs for Kent, my home county - yesterday (21st Sept). Around 50 nymphs of Southern Green Shieldbug in Hythe and two Boat Bugs at Samphire Hoe, near Dover - both SE Kent. It's taken quite a lot of searching to finally catch up with Boat Bug in Kent.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Paper Wasp (Polistes biglumis)- Samphire Hoe, near Dover (SE Kent), 18th August. First two pics, a female, the third, a male.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One moment Ant's-nest Ladybird is rarer the hen's teeth, the next, 'you' find two, two weeks apart and at two different sites. The first has already been posted - this is the second, on Barham Downs, 12th Aug.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Hornet Robberfly, St. Margarets Bay (East Kent), 14th Aug.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Three of the six Blue-winged Grasshoppers found at Reculver (North Kent coast) on 25th July.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A new ladybird for me - Ant-nest Ladybird (Platynaspis luteorubra) at Covert Woods, SE Kent, 29th July.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A couple of Scymnus frontalis found at Covert Woods, SE Kent, 29th July.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sadly, I came across this deceased Spurge Hawk-moth larva today (24th July) on the dunes at Sandwich Bay (East Kent). Loads of Sea Spurge in the area.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Forget-me-not Shieldbug from Barham allotments (near Canterbury), 11th July. Good numbers of both adults and nymphs have been found this year.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Two Cow-wheat Shieldbugs from East Blean Woods, near Canterbury, today (12th July)
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Rhyzobius lophanthae, one of the micro ladybirds - and a lifer. Pegwell Bay (East Kent), 1st July. About 3mm - roughly the size of a 16-spot Ladybird.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Another sighting of Erythraeus phalangoides (a mite) - this one at Pegwell Bay (East Kent) approx 6Km north of the ones I recently founs at Sandwich Bay - today (1st July)
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A species I don't see often enough - Spiked Shieldbug (adult and nymph) - Barham Downs (SE Kent) - 29th June.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Forget-me-not and Blue Shieldbugs nymphs on my allotment plot - SE Kent. 27th June.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Single Lesser Streaked Shieldbug and Fallen's Leatherbug found under the same small Storksbill plant at Sandwich Bay (East Kent) on 24th June. However, I wasn't able to find any Greater Streaked, Heath and Sandrunner Shieldbugs.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I'm buzzing! Excuse the pun! Not a rare species, I know, but in the 26 years I've lived where I am now, I have never seen a Wool Carder Bee here. Last summer, on the IOW, I bought a Stachys with the sole intention of attracting one and today, one turned up - SE Kent, 22 June.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I found this unspotted ladybird near Stodmarsh (East Kent) on 16th June. It looks like a 24-spot without it's spots but the possibility of it being a Cynegetis sp (probably C. impunctata) has been suggested elsewhere - which if it was, would, I think, be a first for the UK.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Three 'good' ladybirds from Stodmarsh, East Kent on 16th June. Two of 7 Water Ladybirds, 1 of 2 Spotted Red Marsh and a single Red Marsh Ladybird, which is the first time I've found this species at this site.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I have spent many an hour searching countless Wood Spurge plants looking for the spurge bug, Dicranocephalus medius with no success, until the 8th May 2026, at Samphire Hoe, Kent, when I found this individual. I'm not sure what the two white patches are - probably chalk.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I came across this female Sympetrum fonscolombii (Red-veined Darter) at Samphire Hoe on 8th May. It may yet prove to be the first British record for 2026.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A rather smart fungus weevil - Platystomus albinus - from Covert Woods in SE Kent - 7th April
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Three of six Cream-streaked Ladybirds found in Lympne (SE Kent) on 6th April.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
My first Anthophora plumipes (Hairy-footed Flower Bee), a male, was seen on the garden on the 9th March. This male is one of two seen in the garden today (11th March). SE Kent.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A nice leafhopper from Betteshanger CP (East Kent) on the 2nd March, this year - Idiocerus herrichi. There were four scurrying about on the trunks of White Willow (Salix alba).
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A couple of Juniper Shieldbugs and a single Oedemera femoralis found on the Lawson's Cypress in the garden today - the latter was later photographed on Box. (24th Feb).
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
It took many years to find my first adult Spiked Shieldbug, but I've had three this year. This is the third, from Covert Woods, SE Kent in 9th October.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
14 adult Trapezium Shieldbugs were found at Samphire Hoe, near Dover on 10th Aug 2025.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A Blue-winged Grasshopper at Cheriton on 10th Aug (2025) was my second UK record, following one on there on 14th July (2025). Both different individuals.
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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
One of nine Green Tiger Beetles seen at Covert Woods, near Barham, SE Kent, today (3rd April)
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