Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Found this running around on the pavement, thought it looked interesting so took some photos. I believe it's a female Variable Cockroach, a non-native sp. that seems to be spreading in Britain. 0111
Reposted by Tim WorfolkJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Looking forward to giving a talk on Westcountry Wildlife to the Mid Devon Natural History Society at Tiverton on 24th September 2026 non members welcome www.mdw.org.uk 0227
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fantastic. Looking forward to them getting to Devon! 020
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Southern Oak Bush Cricket new for garden. I've been expecting this sp. for a while now so nice to get in on the list. #orthoptera 0162
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A real beast of a fly and one that until today had somehow eluded me in the UK. Thanks to @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social for the location info. Hornet Robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis) @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social #Diptera 1263
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A visit to the local bee/wasp bank produced the latest unexpected addition to the Topsham list: a lovely Heath Potter Wasp (Eumenes coarctatus). A female collecting from a hedge bank and pot-building just 2 metres away. #hymenoptera @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social @melcoate.bsky.social 3210
Reposted by Tim WorfolkPortland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Also, some better photos of the Verge Cricket Eumodicogryllus bordigalensis caught last night by Nigel Jones and Mark Edgeller whilst they were moth-trapping at Freshwater Bay 47511
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I can't remember the last time I saw so little water at Topsham BGM. Four Spoonbills, Seven Cattle Egrets and over 60 Little Egrets: the new normal or will this become the good old days? 1191
Reposted by Tim WorfolkGraeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Here's the full story of what we believe to be the start of the colonisation of yet another new orthopteran to the British Isles.analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.comTeam cricket - how we found a cricket new to the British IslesThis following italicised sections were written by Matt Phelps, who first heard this unusual cricket... I strolled over to Sussex Wildlif... 510230
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Can't beat proper field sketches and these are wonderful! 180
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Bystock DWT Reserve this morning. Most of the best stuff on the ragwort as usual. No Hornet Robberfly but nice to find a Heath Potter Wasp. Names etc. in Alt Texts #DevonWildlifeTrust 080
Reposted by Tim WorfolkJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Blue Ground Beetle eating a Tree Slug. Once caught it injects digestive juices into the slug turning it into 'slug soup' then sucks up its insides. Dartmoor, Devon. I will be talking about the conservation of this amazing beetle at Coombeshead Farm Devon next weekend keepitwild.uk/if-not-now-w... 5859
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Day out by train Topsham to Okehampton looking for shade in woods along East Okement River. Lovely walk and found a few good flies: Conops flavipes new for me; Megamerina dolium I've only ever seen once before: 16 years ago. Names in ALT Texts #diptera @dipteristsforum.bsky.social 0121
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Just found another of the nationally scarce hoverfly Myolepta dubia. About 50 m away from and 2 yrs after the 1st Devon record. #diptera #hoverfly 0111
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Mediterranean Spotted Chafer (Oxythyrea funesta). This is my fourth record from Topsham: 2019, 2020 (two) all in our garden. Found this about 1km away near Bowling Green Marsh. I think no other Devon records of this increasingly widespread sp. but possibly now established around here? #coleoptera 1253
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I found this spectacular Musk Beetle in a bit of scrub near a new housing development. The larvae develop in willows and the upper Exe Estuary area seems the best place to find this sp. in Devon. #coleoptera 2355
Reposted by Tim WorfolkZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026This is exactly why we have Pride. Because a few years ago this would have just been a hateful fringe figure - but this is where our politics is heading with a Government that kertows. We will resist. And bring hope (*and* electing progressive politicians.) We will win. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 1532681562
Reposted by Tim WorfolkWillem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026It's worth stressing that the *magnitude* by which some of these records are being broken is nothing short of astonishing 6344175
Reposted by Tim WorfolkZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026When trans people are under attack, "don't be political" is not an option. And we'll never be silent when a Labour Government are making life impossibly hard for trans people. We see you. And we stand with you. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 291521349
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026News from the local Wasp Bank: Beewolves very active now also two new spp. for the site: Orange-horned Nomad Bee (Nomada fulvicornis) and White-spotted Digger Wasp (Harpactus tumidus). This tiny spot just gets better and better! Details in ALT Texts. #hymenoptera 0182
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Good day for moths it seems. Names etc in ALT Texts though any ID help with first would be much appreciated. #teammoth 160
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 26/06/202635C forecast in Topsham this week so it's decided we go camping in South Devon. About 5 degrees cooler near the coast so not a bad idea. Pond campsite at Beeson held a few Brown-eyed Hawkers so everybody happy. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social 080
Reposted by Tim WorfolkJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I will be at Longmarsh, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5UH with Georgi Gilpin looking at moths and caterpillars this Sunday 21 June 2026 at 9.30 am. Free event with art materials available for producing your own 'moth art'. 05311
Reposted by Tim WorfolkWildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Fake news is putting Dartmoor’s ponies at risk. New deep dive by me into the current furore around Dartmoor's ponies. www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/ponies-...dartmoornature.org.ukPonies, Dartmoor and fake newsThere’s been a deluge of misinformation recently about ponies on Dartmoor. Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s Tony Whitehead looks at the origins and potential impacts of the current “pony campaigning". He st... 511041
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026More a wasp bank than a bee bank: a 3m section of exposed Devon hedge bank with a marvellous diversity of hymenopteran life. Just a small selection here, names in ALT texts. Topsham, Devon. @melcoate.bsky.social #hymenoptera 2302
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Moth ID help please. I suspect this may be Aethes deaurana, rare immigrant but may be becoming established? any thoughts? 5/6/2026 Topsham, Devon. #TeamMoth 4290
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Yesterday morning I found this tiny beauty on a gate while walking through Topsham. It looked smart and I didn't recognise it. Turned out to be a new one for me and apparently rare in Devon: Chrysoclista linneella - Lime Flame. #Lepidoptera #teammoth 0645
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026A new species for me and appears to be another county first: Agrilus biguttatus (Buprestidae). No records for south west on NBN and no Devon records in Martin Luff's 2021 list. Topsham, Devon. #Coleoptera 0240
Reposted by Tim WorfolkJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you are interested in learning to identify the UKs ground beetles there are free guides to download on my website johnwalters.co.uk/publications... 917267
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A few days visiting friends in Surrey, a few hours pottering around lanes, heaths and garden, a few really nice finds. Names etc. in Alt Texts. 1243
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Just found my 2nd a couple of days later! Same species this time in Surrey. 0130
Reposted by Tim WorfolkJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I am giving an online talk this evening(Tuesday 12 May 2026) 7 pm on the wildlife of Dartmoors' temperate rainforests including the slug munching Blue Ground Beetle, the weird Hazel Gloves fungus and Redstarts www.dartmoor.gov.uk/enjoy-dartmo... 3398
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Definitely one of my favourite groups. Thanks Will. 020
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Guess who just found their first Snakefly? I been wanting to find one of these beasts for years and when I saw this sat on a leaf I knew immediately what it was. Luckily it's a species that can be identified on forewing venation: Atlantoraphidia maculicollis, Pine Snakefly. 1595
Reposted by Tim WorfolkJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I am giving a talk at the Wild Gardens Conference, Totnes this afternoon (9th May 2026) tips on attracting insects to your garden including these cob brick bee hotels for Hairy-footed Flower bees www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-garde... 0307
Reposted by Tim WorfolkDawlish Warren Recording Group @warrenbirding.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Warm and cloudy with sunny spells - ideal conditions for finding co-operative insects. Today's sightings and more images on the blog dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2026/05/tues... 0111
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026From the garden today, Topsham, Devon. Names in Alt texts. 0110
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026A few beetles from a morning walk by the Exe in Topsham. Local specialities and the now ubiquitous Alder Leaf Beetles: once unknown in these parts, now they're everywhere I look. #coleoptera 0200
Reposted by Tim WorfolkRichard Allen @richardallenart.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Back here after a break, spent a couple of hours sketching Stone Curlews from a safe distance yesterday, fascinating birds #essexbirding 0361
Reposted by Tim WorfolkBill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Triungulins, larvae of the Violet Oil Beetle on L. Celandine. 3-clawed feet used to attach themselves to female bees, probably mining bees. Once in the bee's nest they will eat the bee's food store and larvae, after pupating they will emerge in spring as Violet Oil Beetles Meloe violaceus (pic 3) 1211
Reposted by Tim WorfolkBritish Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Our new Atlas of UK spider, harvestmen and pseudoscorpion records is now online at britishspiders.org.uk/atlas. It gives access to 1.6 million records and is constantly updated with data submitted and verified via irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-records. 27639
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026As they're in the garden I tend to notice (and photograph) the first emerging LR Damsels and they've been getting steadily earlier over at least the last ten years. My 1st in 2016 was on 12 May; my 1st of 2025 was 7 April. Not a rigorous study but I think I can see a pattern. . . 080
Reposted by Tim WorfolkRichard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 11/04/2026It says a lot about the state of humanity that we didn't all dress up in ape costumes for the return of Artemis II. 1868780
Reposted by Tim WorfolkJohn Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Short-necked Oil Beetle Meloe brevicollis on the south Devon coast yesterday - seems to be a good year for them with 4 found during a short search. 2545
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Spent a few hours pottering about the top end of Topsham today; much noise from M5 but a good range of insects in the hedges and scrub. Names in Alt texts 1231
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I can see this being useful although I usually photograph everything and check IDs later. 030
Reposted by Tim WorfolkBritish Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Keep an eye open now for Agalenatea redii, the Gorse Orb Weaver. Gorse is a good place to find it but it can also be found in other bushes, heather, grass, and on fences etc. Like many others in the family Araneidae, A. redii is variable in appearance, and has several strikingly different forms. 04915
Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Surprised to find this female Black Oil Beetle across the road from us today. First I've ever seen in Topsham, now just need to get one for the garden list. #coleoptera 0160
Reposted by Tim WorfolkAJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 29/03/2026BSky I need your help. Suggest scale objects for tiny (1-3mm) insects? £1 coin is too big. #Insects #Entomology #macrophotography #macro #NaturePhotography 5102