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Tim Strudwick

@timstrudwick.bsky.social

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Norfolk UK based former nature reserve manager, bee and wasp county recorder, biodiversity obsessive, allotmenteer, stuff like that.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Succesfully avoiding the heat today at Gorleston with grey sky, cool breeze and max 20 degrees. Insects not very active but a sluggish female Andrena nigrospina or pilipes was my reward. If the latter, it may be the first for Norfolk.

A black bee carrying whitish pollen is held in gloved fingers.

A seafront with sandy beach and beach huts under overcast sky with the town beyond hidden in mist

A cliff slope with diverse vegetation and bare ground with sandy beach in the background

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some highlights from a warm morning hunting insects on Halvergate Marshes with Paul Brock and Helen, included the Fen Mason Wasp, Long-horned General, Ornate Brigadier, (almost certainly) the tiny Apsidapion soror on Marsh-Mallow, and (evading the camera) a Moss Carder Bee.

A rather furry fly with long antennae, Stratiomys longicornis or Long-horned Colonel, taking nectar from the white flowers of Hogweed

A fly with large brown eyes which touch in the middle, and large orange spots on its abdomen, Odontomyia ornata or Ornate Brigadier, on tine white flowers of Hogweed.

The silhouette of a tiny weevil, Aspidapion soror, on the underside of a marsh mallow leaf.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Visiting Ranworth Church this am, following up a belated report of a new bee for Norfolk on iNaturalist by bhunt27, I quickly discovered a thriving colony of Osmia cornuta nesting in the south-facing wall of the church. Most nests are 3-5m up but a few were at head height.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I stumbled across these "gendarmes" Pyrrhocoris apterus at Thorpe St. Andrew Old Hospital while looking for, but not finding, a different black and red insect around the Colletes cunicularius colony. A Norfolk and UK first for me so even better than a Giant Blood Bee.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Trimingham is the only one place I know in East Anglia where I can reliably find Andrena nigripes. Today, at least 9 females were visiting in ragwort, knapweed and mignonette.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I think this is the larva of Alder Clubhorn, Cimbex connatus, under Alder trees at Broadland Country Park, Norfolk, yesterday.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Ceropales maculata, our prettiest spider-hunting wasp, not seen in Norfolk since 1986, but found today at Middle Harling Heath. The Giant Blood-Bee was also new for the site and 122nd bee species I have found there.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Andrena nitidiuscula/Carrot Mining Bee, first Norfolk record at Downham Market, found by Stephen Patmore on 14th and confirmed today. Previously found no further north than S. Essex so a big range extension.

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree. youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

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No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Just thinking Sweet Briar Marshes was a little dull entomologically, then got this tiny one under the microscope. Nitela lucens - a new species and genus for me and for Norfolk.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A nice selection of cleptoparasites and parasitoids of Osmia bees and relatives in my small garden this morning: Monosapyga clavicornis, Sapyga quinquepunctata, Stelis phaeoptera and Chrysura radians. Monosapyga was my first garden record.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This male Bombus jonellus was a surprise among 32 species of bee in and around The Walled Garden at Little Plumstead this morning, and nice to see a paper wasp Polistes dominula in the churchyard next door.

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Tim Strudwick @timstrudwick.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Another weekend and another Giant Blood Bee at a new Norfolk site - Broome Heath. Another recent UK colonist, Lasioglossum sexstrigatum, was there too. These two seem to like the same places.

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