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And two pristine Merveille du Jour at yesterday's Grosvenor & Hilbert Park moth morning

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Dewick's Plusia is a migrant we've not had before at our Grosvenor & Hilbert Park moth mornings

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Brindled Green from yesterday's Grosvenor & Hilbert moth morning

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Clancy's Rustic, another migrant, from yesterday's moth morning. Has a lovely dove-grey colour but couldnt get the camera to capture it.

Some migratory species - White Point, Delicate & L-album Wainscot - at yesterday's moth morning at Grosvenor & Hilbert Park

Satellite - note the white planet & its 2 tiny satellites - at yesterday's moth morning

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A nice Vestal with pink suffusion across the whole wing, from yesterday's Grosvenor & Hilbert moth morning

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September Thorn, which we've not had before, at yesterday's Grosvenor & Hilbert moth morning

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Colour forms of the very variable Lunar Underwing at yesterday's moth morning

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Two classic autumnal species - Black Rustic & Barred Sallow - at yesterday's moth morning at Grosvenor & Hilbert Park

I've never seen one, but the peculiar antennae seem to match as well as the abdominal pattern

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This elsewhere in Calverley Grounds is Rough Hawkbit, scarce away from the Chalk in Kent #wildflowerhour

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I've been looking at Hawkbits. Here are Lesser Hawkbit & Autumn Hawkbit growing confusingly together in Calverley Grounds #wildflowerhour

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Flowering ivy 'tree' in Woodbury Park Cemetery. Ivy on dead trunk has taken on the shape of a tree canopy. Rowan is growing out of the top of the trunk. #wildflowerhour

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Agrimony by the lake in Dunorlan Park - with its seedheads that catch on to things like burdock does #wildflowerhour

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's one of the flea beetles which are a group (Halticini) in the larger leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae). The thick appendages are the enlarged hind femora that enable it to jump (convergent evolution with grasshoppers etc). What you see behind those are the tarsi of the same legs,so only 3 pairs

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I get them quite regularly when I do moth trapping here in Tunbridge Wells

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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dear councils, Are you helping restore 30% of nature by 2030? By cutting verges annually like traditional meadows, and not spraying, 1000s miles could become beautiful wildflower havens, while ensuring driver visibility prioritised. Pic courtesy @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Wildflowers growing in a sloping grassy verge alongside a road

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My last moth morning of the year is this coming Sunday 4 October at the Hub in Grosvenor & Hilbert Park. Drop in between 1030 & 1230 to see what we've caught overnight.

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tiny worker Common Carder Bee in Grosvenor & Hilbert Park today. Still a good number of these about. Before the rise of winter-active Buff-tailed colonies, Common Carder was the latest species of bumblebee to stay on the wing.

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The White Falcon @markgolley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Shocking Pinks!!! At some point, there will be a natural conclusion to the Vestal images from Cley but this might well be the Vestal to out-Vestal all others. Today's field-fringe visitor was the most outrageous one we've seen anywhere. Wow! @linnetincley.bsky.social #cleymothobs #norfolkmoths

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The White Falcon @markgolley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nice surprise to see @pilning.bsky.social & Jan along the Drift today. Bird-free but the march of the Vestal has cranked up a notch again. The same field margin as the summer produced at least 10 Vestals in the grass & beet. Four of them 👇 @linnetincley.bsky.social #cleymothobs #norfolkmoths

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Several Willow Emerald damselflies carrying on into October in Dunorlan Park today. Look for them along the boundary hedge by the fountain

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I saw a Clouded Yellow in Dunorlan Park today - there have been an unusual number in Tunbridge Wells this year. It didnt settle, so this is one from Calverley Grounds last autumn.

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MBA Library @nmbluk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What an amazing find 😍

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On my way into work today I noticed a cranefly, Tipula confusa, resting on a wall. This is an autumn species (the similar Tipula rufina has a black stripe on the side of the thorax and is more common in spring).

A top-down view of a cranefly with long legs and brown-and-white patterned wings, resting ona grey wall with a metal bar running horizontally across the photo.

A slightly side-on view of a cranefly with long legs and brown-and-white patterned wings, resting ona grey wall with a metal bar running horizontally across the photo.

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Over the moon (to put it mildly) to find this first year male SIBERIAN BLUE ROBIN in our garden at Hillwell, Shetland this morning. The fifth record for Britain and a first for Shetland. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife

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Treble-bar moth flying by day in Calverley Grounds

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Queen Red-tailed Bumblebee in Calverley Grounds - first one I've seen for a while as they've mostly all gone into hibernation

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Ivy Bee nesting aggregation in steep terrace bank in Calverley Grounds