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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 1h

🦋🐞🐜Critters from the Garden 🐝🐛🦗 Pests or Benefical to gardens? Twin-spot Centurion (Sargus bipunctatus) Vine Weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) Box Tree Moth (Cydalina perspectalis) #Pest #Gardens #Weevil #Moth #Flies #BugSpotting #Insects

Box Tree Moth (Cydalina perspectalis) - wings being purplish brown with a white spot near the centre of the forewing - pest

Twin-spot Centurion (Sargus bipunctatus) – two distinctive white spots located on its frons (forehead) hust above the antennae, metallic green thorax, orange legs. ♀ reddish/orange base to abdomen. - Benfical?

Vine Weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) - elytra black mottled with small brown patches, grooved, not shiny. Antennae relatively long - pest?

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Footballer hoverfly on Buddleia. #WildWebsWednesday

A yellow and black Hoverfly on a mauve Buddleia flower, against a blurred grey green background.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Batman hoverfly on Ivy flowers in Cambridge this week. #InsectThursday #Hoverflies #Diptera

Yellow and black Batman hoverfly, Myathropa florea, on yellow green Ivy flowers.

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Birthday - the the stall is a success

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚀 The Star Trek Book: Lost to Eternity 🛸 Good read – nice tie into the film: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home So had to watch it again whilst reading this book. What did you think to the book? #ScifiBooks #BookTok #SciFiReads #Scifi #BookSky #Startrek @startrekbookclub.com

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a haul, hope you didn’t eat some of them

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favourite nature activity at present stand by some Ivy and watch what pollinators come in.

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🐝 Ivy Bee – It’s New!🐝 The Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) on the wing. New: Science in 1992 (previously considered to the be the Sea Aster Bee (C.halophius). New: UK in 2001 Dorset. New: My garden S.Yorkshire 2026. #Bees #Insects #Pollinator #NaturalHistory #GardenWildlife #WildlifeWatching

Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) on the wing early Sept – early Nov

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Julian Sidney @juliansidney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Eristalinus aeneus seen today about 3 miles in from the coast on a walk around our village. This one a male, 2st male seen this year and the 3rd of this species all year @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social #hoverfly #irecord

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ghosts, locked in dark rocks. Coal-age creatures - stay stone, or You’ll see what we did. #haikuSaturday

Close-up photograph of Carboniferous coral fossils in black limestone found at Hartlepool, northeast England

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fading Asters are still a magnet for Drone Flies. Eristalis arbustorum. #Diptera #VC55 #flies

Drone Fly, Eristalis arbustorum, on purple Aster flower.

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🌻Seeing this made me smile 🌻 Happy Autumn Equinox also know as Mabon What’s put a smile on your face today? #Smile #Sunflower #Flower #Yellow #Mabon #Autumn #Equinox

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

super article - wasps are wonderful, yes they do have a big PR problem. Well done for fighting their corner.

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🐝 Hoverflies on the Buddleia 🐝 Probably the last one, as the #Buddleia has turend now, which is a shame. But the Ivy will be flowering next in the garden, there is already a #buzz. Let’s see what comes to visit. #Insects #Pollinators #NaturalHistory #GardenWatch #Hoverflies

A Greater Hornet Plumehorn (Volucella zonaria)

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Super - you are getting closer. Leicester is a super place. 1st Ivy bee in the garden a few days ago. Both Hornet plume horns been around in my part of S.Yorkshire for a few years now but large numbers of V.inanis this year in particular.

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well spotted yes Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

wonderful it was this time last year i spotted one in a garden in Sheffield not seen one since, good spot.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I got my 1st Ivy bee on the Ivy today, a first for my garden

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🦋🐞🐜Critters from the Essex coast 🐝🐛🦗 A Wall #Butterfly A #Firebug Cherry Slug #Sawfly. What critters have you seen recently? #Insects #NaturalHistory #InsectLife #BugSpotting #Bugsky #NaturalHistory #WildlifeWatching

A Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus) masses of them feeding on the seeds of Common Mallow

A Wall butterfly (Lasiommata megera) a coastal butterfly.

Cherry Slug Sawfly larva a pest that infests various fruit trees, including Cherries and Pears

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That’s brilliant. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago on the very last day of my cottage holiday at Mariandyrys I had the pleasure of seeing a family on the rocky shores, whilst i was rock-pooling what an amazing day that was.

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hope Andrew helped this caterpillar cross the road not just point the way…

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This species shares a connection with the Batman hoverfly, any ideas what that might be?

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Super flower don’t see many of these and wonderful name

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s great must go out with my UV torch

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant I love finding Waxcaps hoping to see some tomorrow

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Ben @benjyhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ivy has the juice. Batman hoverfly, buff- tailed bumblebee and one of several ivy bees. No hornets on this visit sadly. #Ivy

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Garden Ivy is flowering and attracting Ivy bees. It was noisy there this morning :-). #pollinators

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🦋 Bees on my Buddleia 🦋 Buff, Carder and Honeybee What in your garden is still in flower and attracting the late pollinators? #Insects #pollinators #NaturalHistory #GardenWatch #Buddleia #Bees

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is it ever coming to IOS - I am a big fan of you games play wingspan ever day but only have Apple devices. Game looks wonderful.

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🖍️ Charcoal & Pastel 🖼️ Sounds like an '80s cop show, but it's actually been about that long since I last used these materials It feels great to reconnect with something I used to love. Looking forward to creating more. #Nature #Landscape #Art #Sketching #ArtAppreciation #Charcoal #Pastel

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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📖 📚 Scaeva Acrostic Zine ✂️📖 Here I have taken one of my Acrostic postcards and put into a zine. Hope you like it. #Zine #Art #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration #Crafts #Hoverflies #Acrostic #Scaeva #HockeyStick More acrostic postcard here 👇 hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/search/label...

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some other nature from this morning’s walk. A Giant Puffball (which apparently is edible 😬), a Tachina Fera/Magnicornis( a parasite of caterpillars) and a little Hoverfly Common Globetail? It’s great that there is so much nature content on social media. It means we can all learn from one another!

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Terry & Judy Wood @tandjwood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Usually appearing around this time of year in the garden - Twin-spot Centurion (Sargus bipunctatus) Soldierfly. Photo'd on 8.9.26 @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social

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