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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hummingbird Hawkmoth visiting Abelia this morning

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lots of Ivy Bees in the chalk at Dumpton Gap this morning #SolitaryBees

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Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Artist Yayoi Kasuma has died, aged 97. Kasuma's famous polka dot art pieces and installations drew on the hallucinations she had experienced since childhood. In a 2012 issue of Selvedge Magazine, Dr Catherine Harper explores the work and motivations of Kasuma: exacted.me/YayoiKasumaS...

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Muriel FRANCIUS @murielfrancius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Mon hommage à Yayoi Kasuma avec mes photos. Immeubles Louis Vuitton à Paris, en janvier et avril 2023. #RIPYayoiKasuma bsky.app/profile/lepa...

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Female Lasioglossum calceatum visiting Eucomis flowers on the front porch today #solitarybees #gardening #pollinators

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The lawn’s looking really scorched now, a few wildflowers clinging on still #gardening

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Terrible photo - but really happy to have my first ever jersey Tiger record in the garden! Euplagia quadripunctaria #teammoth #gardening #naturgarten

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Jesika5555 @jesika5555.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

290726 OM1ii after 9 days pupation, 1st EVER Painted Lady safely eclosed overnight and kindly posed for masses of photos outside before taking off @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social I have 4 more pupae, maybe one will allow me to witness and record eclosion 🤞

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Lesser Calamint,Calamintha nepeta very drought tolerant and a real favourite of Gatekeeper butterflies in my garden #gardening #WildSpaces #naturgarten

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seems to be quite a few Comma butterflies about at the moment - this in enjoying some over ripe watermelon. Polygonia c-album #Lepidoptera #gardening #naturgarten

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Red admiral visiting Buddleja ’buzz’ in the garden this morning #gardening #Lepidoptera

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Painted lady butterfly and a wasp patrolling Lantana Camara in Cascais, Portugal last week #gardening #butterflies #flowers

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wall Brown butterfly dropped by whilst I was sat in Lisbon botanic garden last week #gardening #lepidoptera #Lisboa

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Pomegranate ‘Provence’ flowering for the first time since I planted it in my UK garden about 5 years ago. Punica granatum #gardening #flowers

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Also hundreds of Painted Lady cats on Mallow in the fields behind my house @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 08/07/2026

Count binface is my favorite bin

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Peacock Butterfly visiting Hemp-agrimony/Eupatorium cannabinum in my garden this afternoon #gardening #wildflowers #naturgarten #flyingflowers

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Scared it off before I could get a decent photo, but v exciting to see a Small Copper butterfly in my garden just now! Don’t think I’ve ever spotted one in my locality before #butterflies #lepidoptera #gardening #naturgarten

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Peacocks are back! Lovely to see this one nectaring on Lantana window boxes as I came home from work just now 😃 🦚 Aglais io #gardening #lepidoptera #naturgarten #wildspaces

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Pollen laden Leafcutter Bee visiting Spiny Restharrow in the front border too #gardening #wildspaces #naturgarten

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Meadow Brown butterfly visiting spiked speedwell and lavender ‘grosso’ in my front garden just now. Maniola jurtina #wildspaces #gardening #naturgarten

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Nicole @fairiesandfancies.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We’ve had so many hummingbird moths at the nursery and I’m loving it. Such amazing insects. #moth #insects

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Nice to see a Small tortoiseshell butterfly in the garden - don’t see many these days. Aglais urticae #Lepidoptera #Butterflies

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Seeing lots of Painted Ladies along the coast this week. Vanessa cardui #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Hummingbird Hawk-moth Macroglossum stellatarum on Crabrock Point, South Devon, nectaring on Red Valerian this morning. Macroglossum (Greek root, Macro = large/long and glossum =tongue). Video shows why it got this name and how it puts this tongue to good use.

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Lovely Green hairstreak butterfly I spotted at lunch - never seen one of these before! Callophrys rubi #Lepidoptera #Butterflies

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Paul M0XDX @paul-m0xdx.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I can highly recommend Erysimum Bowles's Mauve to attract butterflies to your garden. Over the last few days Green Hairstreak, Painted Lady, Brimstone Peacock,Orange Tip, Holly Blue have been nectaring on mine @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Disturbed this Frog whilst doing some potting up earlier 🌱 #gardening #naturgarten

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Some more lovely Cuckoo Flowers, Cardamine Pratensis 🌱

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Some lethal looking thorns! Think it’s Scotch rose, Rosa Spinosissima or a similar double hybrid maybe? 🌱

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Green-veined white butterfly on my dog walk this morning

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Web of Spindle ermine cats on my garden Spindle, Euonymus europaeus 🌱 #Moths #naturgarten #gardening #wildspaces

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Julian Sidney @butterflyjulian.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Been seeing plenty of Nomad Bees around and got this photo of a Gooden’s Nomad Bee in my #wildspaces garden. Unusual shot with it's proboscis out with the labial and maxillary palps easily seen. #nomadbee

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Urban Butterfly Alliance 🌱🐛 @peterpeatfree.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Bit late for #wildflowerhour but just spotted some lovely Lady’s Smock Flowers on my lunchtime meander. Cardamine pratensis 🌱

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Mark @markde.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Good morning, 10C and grey. I have however got some help dead heading the daffs🌱

A lamb in a field who has decided that is particularly likes eating gone over daffodils. This is very handy as the lamb is surrounded by blooming and gone over daffs

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