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@rockwolf74.bsky.social
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Love photography, wildlife, Entomology (especially Pentatomoidea, Coreoidea and Coccinellidae!) ...nature in general! National iRecord verifier for Terrestrial Heteroptera. 333.19 PPM also @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social

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Terry & Judy Wood @tandjwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Haven't seen a Hawthorn Shieldbug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) for a while so pleased to spot this one on Lantana on the 24th in the garden. One of our (many!) favourite Shieldbugs. @rockwolf74.bsky.social @bugmanjones.bsky.social
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Louise @lou-birds-bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Made me smile today, brilliant shieldbug action
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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A random car park stop gave an opportunity for a late-season @pomscheme.bsky.social FIT Count on Ivy, with plenty of wasps + hoverflies, other flies, butterflies and honeybees
Shrubs at the edge of a car park, including plentiful flowering Ivy. A grey duct-tape quadrat marks out the Flower-Insect Timed Count.
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Baroness Louise Von Pfaff of Taylor Towers @lmtaylor42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#TunbridgeWells folk - please support this event today! I'll be selling my handcrafted ribbon bunting, fleece mittens & more 🤗 www.threads.com/share/_mu0mE...
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#TunbridgeWells folk - please support this event today! I'll be selling my handcrafted ribbon bunting, fleece mittens & more 🤗
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Baroness Louise Von Pfaff of Taylor Towers @lmtaylor42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christmas is coming - & those stockings aren't going to stuff themselves! Cosy fleece mittens from etsy.com/uk/shop/StillDisgusted make perfect gifts; 80% of all sales income supports #RejoinEU causes #WinWin
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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Female Great Green Bush-cricket Tettigonia viridissima basking in the warm autumn sunshine yesterday at Start Point, Devon
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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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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Still buzzing with bees and hoverflies, the Nepeta in the garden is also home to a few bugs. A Corizus hyoscyami doubler, the occasional wandering Rhopalus subrufus and some very hairy Hairy Shieldbug nymphs. #bugs
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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some cockroaches seen in Jersey last week: female Tawny Cockroach with ootheca; female and male Variable Cockroaches. These last are now rather common, their rate of spread across Europe in recent times is incredible.
Tawny Cockroach, Ectobius pallidus, female carrying ootheca.Female Variable Cockroach, Planuncus tingitanus (potentially an aggregate of three species which may end up being anywhere between one & three when the taxonomists have made their minds up!). Note the length of the wings and the pale bar between the eyes.Male Variable Cockroach, Planuncus tingitanus. Wings longer than female but still a bit shorter than a typical Tawny, plus lacking the overall spottiness of Tawny & again with a pale bar between the eyes.
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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please sign if you love European wildlife
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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bugs of Beeston Bump. Hundreds of Fire Bugs out today. Here’s an adult gathering, and a couple of nymphs. Also two other Beeston locals, Eurydema oleracea and Strictopleurus abutilon. #bugs #UKwildlife
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Sybalan #TheSpiderWhisperer @sybalan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wasp Spider taken in Jersey 🇯🇪 🕷️🕸️
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Mark Hows @mammalmark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Brown marmorated Shieldbug to lure in my Little Nature reserve, not sure its established locally or it could have come in on one of the lorries from the two large hauliers next door
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Sectie Bink (NEV) @bink.nev.nl · 24/09/2026
Slim verpakt voor de winter: Europse bidsprinkhaan (Mantis religiosa) legt haar eieren in de herfst in een beschermend schuimkapsel op een stevige ondergrond (tak, stuk schors etc.). Zo’n bijzonder eipakket heet een oötheek. #SectieBink #Entomologie #ElkeDagEenInsect #InsectenWeetje
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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) in the garden this afternoon. #Dragonfly
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sergius @aurumnostrum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Acrosternum heegeri 24/09/2024 C Serbia
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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Female & male Wood Crickets, Nemobius sylvestris, seen in Gorey, Jersey last week. The females were quite easy to spot walking around on the road surface at the edge of the wood. Males very audible but more skulking & had to be searched for in the leaf litter.
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Dr Stuart Green @stuvigreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Visited the Somerset Levels last week. With a bit of help from the locals + some timely sunshine, we found Large Marsh Grasshoppers.
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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why have I never been to the Horniman Museum & Gardens before??? Just wonderful, & we will be back when the natural history gallery opens next year. @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social #museumlove
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Dave Hutton @davehutton1969.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rosemary Beetle - Chrysolina americana (Nuneaton,Warks 23/9/26) Only my 2nd ever in the Garden this afternoon. #bugs #beetles
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Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
European Mantis (Mantis religiosa). Spotted in a bowl of wax apples inside an antique/curio shop in Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, SW France, on Saturday (19/9/26). I got some funny looks from other browsers but I couldn't not photograph it
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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the garden this morning a gathering of Southern Green Shieldbugs, Nezara viridula, maybe 3rd, 4th & 5th instars. Are they missing the climbing beans that were dug up a week ago?! 😬 Lower right photo seams to show nymph with discarded exuvia. #Bugs #Hemiptera #Cambridge
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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A bug nymph found this morning on Rosebay Willowherb. Could it possibly be Peribalus strictus? @britishbugs.bsky.social @rockwolf74.bsky.social #bugs
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Joël Meunier @jmeunierearwig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎙️ Pourquoi les forficules sont-ils intéressants pour comprendre l’évolution de la vie sociale ? J’en parle dans une interview à la radio suisse, où je présente nos recherches sur ces étonnants petits insectes et sur l’évolution de la vie en famille. 🎧 À écouter ici : www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
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Quand les perce oreilles éclairent lʹévolution des comportements sociaux
Parmi les nouveaux modèles émergents qui viennent enrichir la boîte à outils des biologistes, le perce oreille occupe une place à part. Présent sur Terre depuis plus de 200 millions d’années, cet inse...
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EntomoNews @collemyria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Les insectes sont des "bricoleurs de génie", ils font de tout avec tout ! L'usage que certains font de leur urine en témoigne. Les moyens mis en œuvre pour exploiter ce ramassis de déchets tiennent vraiment, quelquefois, de l'astuce biologique.
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L'urine des Homoptères, un matériau utilisé ou recyclé de façons étonnantes
Chez la plupart des insectes, l'urine est purement et simplement éliminée. Les Homoptères, et notamment les Cercopes et les Cigales font preuve de plus d'imagination.   • Boulard M., 1981 – L’urine des Homoptères, un matériau utilisé ou recyclé de façons étonnantes (1e partie. Insectes n°80 & 2e partie. Insectes n°81) Les insectes sont des "bricoleurs de génie", ils font de tout avec tout ! L'usage que certains font de leur urine en témoigne. Les moyens mis en œuvre pour exploiter ce ramassis de déchets tiennent vraiment, quelquefois , de l'astuce biologique.Mouiller la terre pour faciliter son forage, maçonner les parois de ses galeries pour les consolider, constituer un véritable milieu aquatique où baigne la larve ... les cigales utilisent et recyclent aussi l'urine d'une manière astucieuse et pour le moins étonnante.   ------ via Le Membracide bison, un Insecte original Codex virtualis, par Sandrine Heusser   image : Tête de Membracide bison adulte (Lyon, août 2010)
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Pesky PB @peskypb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A Southern Green Shieldbug nymph in Switzerland #bugs #hemiptera
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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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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
M & F Guanchia pubescens, another southern earwig sp which has spread north & is now breeding in Jersey(+ seen on Guernsey & seems to have been present in central London for maybe a couple of decades). This pair + others seen in Gorey, Jersey, last week.
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Andrew Jewels @andrew-jewels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Found two Clouded Yellows (Colias croceus) in a meadow in Nazeing, Essex on 21st September, one typical and one pale form helice. Had fun trying to get some upper shots of the helice form, but as usual only a few blurry photos were the result. #EssexWildlife #UKButterflies
Clouded Yellow butterfly on yellow flowerClouded Yellow butterfly on yellow flowerBlurry flight shot of Clouded Yellow butterflyBlurry photograph of Clouded Yellow butterfly in flight
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With solar roofs on large car parks, #France generates as much electricity as 10 nuclear power stations, whilst at the same time protecting cars from the scorching heat #ActOnClimate #SolarPower #ClimateActionNow
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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 22/09/2026
Bonne soirée. #eclipse #cigogne
Cigogne perchée sur son nid en Pologne, avec en arrière-plan la phase partielle de la récente éclipse solaire totale d'Août dernier.
Crédit : Włodzimierz Bubak
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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa. #slimemould
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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Off to Holt Lowes yesterday to see what could bee seen. Absolutely loads of Gorse Shieldbugs in various hues. We always look out for them, but usually see none. #shieldbugs #UKwildlife
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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Blue Shieldbug, Zicrona caerulea. Walking across a piece of boardwalk. West Acre, Norfolk, last week. www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/... #Hemiptera #ShieldBugs #UKWildlife
A Blue Shieldbug, Zicrona caerulea, walking across a piece of wooden boardwalk.
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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Turning the garden compost today, & thought I'd have a quick sift, just in case. And (*does air punch*) got my first garden record for Lesser Earwig, in the shape of this apparently one-winged female. #KentNature #earwigs #dermaptera
A small, brown earwig with pale legs. Part of its one wing projects beyond its short, squared-off elytra. Its short, stubby forceps indicates that it is a female.
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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Woodland Grasshopper, Omocestus rufipes, here at @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Flatropers Wood Nature Reserve, near Rye, is Nationally Scarce. This one is a classy charcoal-black and fiery-orange. 🖤🧡 #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife #insects #orthoptera
A black and orange insect, with long antennae and legs, on a bright green bracken frond.
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Lloyd Davies @lloyd9632.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two nice little finds with appropriate names from the Abbotsbury Beach today. One of the Golden Keyhole Weevils, Sibinia arenariae and the Rhombic Leatherbug, Syromastus rhombeus
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Matt Ames @mattames6.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stopped off at Painswick yesterday whilst passing, a fascinating and very picturesque place. Lots of Pellitory-of-the-wall in the churchyard, some covered in mines of Cosmopterix pulchrimella including an adult. Also found Bedellia somnulentella larvae, and a Speckled Bush Cricket in the lavs.
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Chlorociboria aeruginascens. #MushroomMonday
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🦗 Whether you're a recorder, researcher, student or simply fascinated by #Orthoptera, this event is for you. The Orthoptera SIG brings together enthusiasts & professionals to share knowledge, ideas & discoveries across the field. 📅 4 November 2026 ⏰ Registration deadline: 26 Oct buff.ly/NxtFRRq
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Join us this November for the Orthoptera SIG
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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
M & F Forficula decipiens (Deceiving Earwig) seen in Gorey, Jersey last week where they were actually rather common after dark. A sp. from southern Europe which has moved north in recent times. Similar to Common Earwig but slightly smaller, wingless & almost completely lacking setae on the body.
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George @bemoremammoth.com · 21/09/2026
Wet shieldbug #shieldbug #insects #nature #photography
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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every celebration deserves cake! In 1950, Museum botanist John Ramsbottom's retirement was marked with this fungi-bedecked baking showstopper! We wonder who got the Stinkhorn slice... #NaturalHistoryMuseum ##GBBO #Bakeoff #ExploreYourArchive
Black and white photograph of a large circular iced cake. There are 30 plus candles placed in a circle round the entire edge of the cake. The cake is elaborately decorated with hand piped icing on all the edges and eight different realistic mushrooms.
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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Orionis coxator, only recently identified in the UK but seemingly becoming common (though hugely under recorded of course). #Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #Braconidae
Braconid wasp Orionis coxator, head: Broad, G. R., & Stigenberg, J. (2021). The genus Orionis Shaw (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) in the Old World. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 88, 133-145.Braconid wasp Orionis coxator: Broad, G. R., & Stigenberg, J. (2021). The genus Orionis Shaw (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) in the Old World. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 88, 133-145.
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Terry & Judy Wood @tandjwood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Surprised to find this female Sharp-tail Bee (probably Coelioxys inermis) in September as haven't seen a leafcutter since 21st July! Notice that others have also seen Sharp-tails in Sept. so wonder what they could be using as hosts?
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Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First dive in Abu Dhabi since the war started - water temperature was 36C (97F) so the corals were stressed and not many slugs about. I did find this minuscule Costasiella - probably the smallest one I have ever seen.
Photo of a tiny sea slug Costasiella
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John Martin @pilning.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The inspiring Wern Farm in adjacent Monts with the wildlife groups on Weds produced several of the fine Calliphorid Cynomya mortuorum, Small Copper and fleeting views of Barn Owl amongst others. #diptera @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #mybutterflyyear #ukwildlife
Several sightings of the fine, indeed spectacular, blowfly Cynomya mortuorum, which we don't often find. A big Calliphorid with a yellow faceSmall Copper on Scentless MayweedRubbish pic of the brief Barn Owl sighting. Always a treat to see
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alfagrl @alfagrl.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Ik had vanmiddag #seksendesprinkhanen op mijn vinger. Denk ik... de bovenste was wel echt flink wat kleiner #ElkeDagEenInsect #buitenspelen
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Levon Dymond @levondymond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hairy Shieldbug, August 2026 #shieldbug #insects #Stunday #nature #macro #sonyalpha #pentax #photography #bugsky
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