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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A phone pic can’t quite capture the beauty of the moon hanging low in the sky tonight. The sight of it took my breath away.

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On a visit to NorfolkWT #HolmeDunes, a Buff Tip caterpillar walking the tightrope #caterpillar #MothsMatter #moths #UKWildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Moff! This little wonder - an Early Thorn - posed obligingly #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #nature #UKWildlife

Posed like a butterfly with wings up, a chestnut red and lilac winged moth

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Having lunch in Winchester, our walking route took us across Magdalen Hill Down. No proper camera so we wouldn't be tempted to dawdle & photograph. Erm...phone pics of a Rosy plant bug and a Hummingbird Hawk moth.

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

When we asked ‘are you ready for your close-up?’ we didn’t mean that close! A Bordered Beauty sitting on rather than in front of the lens. #MothsMatter #UKmoths #moths

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

One of a pair of Swallow-tailed moths seen today. Sitting on the patio door watching over the garden in the relative cool of 5am. #UKmoths #MothsMatter

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A couple of lovely moths from a recent actinic trapping, a Flame Carpet and a Delicate #moths #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Bringing sunshine to a somewhat cloudy day.

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hello old friends, good to see you Tawny Shears and Sandy Carpet #UKmoths #mothsmatter

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Sneaking about and hanging out. Polydrusus formanosus abundant in the garden today #weevils #beetles

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I’m not fat, I’m just cold. Same, Mr Chaffinch, same. #Birds #GardenBirds #Nature #UKWildlife

A round fluffy bird sits on a frosty fence

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Surprise moth on the back door this chilly Southampton evening, the Viburnum Tortrix, Acleris schalleriana. #Moths #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Walking through wet wooded Woolston, a spot of fungal interest. Pterula multifida, Xylaria polymorpha (my 1st sighting), Scleraderma citrinum (with a longer stem than I’m used to). Finally a teeny bit of jelly fungus. #fungi #fungifriends #nature 🍄

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Autumn palette, fungi of the past 2 days. Amethyst Deceiver, Blushing Bracket, Blackening Waxcap and False Chanterelle. Though I could be wrong on any or all… #Fungi #Autumn #Mushrooms

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A dawdle through the autumn colour of Thursford Wood. Big swathe of Tripe Fungus, Yellow Stagshorn and Glistening Inkcap #MushroomMonday

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

For some bizarre reason this Xerocomus makes me think of Chico Marx. I think I may need some therapy #fungi

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We nearly didn't get there - a 10k run, a cycle race and a pony round up affected our route and destination. Worth the perseverance when we finally got to walk in the New Forest near Brockenhurst. One rotten log, 3 slime moulds. #SlimeMoulds #NewForest

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

More mushrooms at Dersingham Bog. Is this the Heath Navel (Lichenomphalia ericatorum) @robyaxley.bsky.social? #Fungi #Mushrooms #lichen

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Visited Dersingham Bog on two occasions just a couple of days apart. Big difference in the number of mushroom species on the second day following some serious rain. Splendid pair of Blackening Waxcap, or for US viewers, Witches Hat. #Fungi #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday #DersinghamBog

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Autumn mothing, not always full colour sometimes classy black and white. Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigrans) and Large Wainscot (Rhizedra lutosa). #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #Moths #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Trollop! Glorious Pink-barred Sallow (Xanthia togata) today. Larvae feed initially inside Willow catkins then on a broader range of plants when they drop off the tree #MothsMatter #Moths #TeamMoth #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A parasitic fungus on its favourite fungus. The bolete eater, Hypomyces chrysospermus. #Fungus 🍄

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Bulgaria inquinans aplenty, on a beautiful September day #fungi 🍄

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A last reminder that there is an NNNS Sawfly workshop running on Sunday 21st Sept 2025 at Sheringham Park - see details below and get in touch with Mark Welch if you are interested in booking a place.

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Sawfly Identification Workshop with Andy Musgrove

21st September 2025

Description: Bring your own microscope if you wish, but we will have 5 suitable ones available on the day.

Where: Meet at 09:45 in the courtyard by the cafe (as we did for the Diptera workshop in May). Sheringham Park

Bring a packed lunch and drink - or you could go to the cafe.

Booking & Price: £15. Please email Mark Welch m.welch@nhm.ac.uk for details and to reserve a space.

A photo of a sawlfy on a green leaf. The saefly is mostly black but with a large red band around the body and some white on the hind femur.

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Let’s hear it for the Penny Bun! Bright spot in a miserable day. #fungi 🍄

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We meet at last Mr Footman, Four-spotted Footman. New for garden. He’s a cracker. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #Ento #Moths

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I was behind the times and hadn’t realised the Engrailed and the Small Engrailed had united as one species. Ya live and learn. Very happy to find this one taking the air on a gatepost. #MothsMatter #Moths #Ento #TeamMoth

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Great night for migrants. Blair’s Mocha (x 2), Rush Veneer, Vestal and Palpita vitrealis. Happy Hampshire moth-ers. #TeamMoth #MigrantMoths #MothsMatter #UKWildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The slugs are really struggling this year… #slugs #UKWildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

A Pale Prominent (Pterostoma palpina) ponders life on a stick. #Moths #TeamMoth #MothsMatter. #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Overachieving Common Carline Thistle. I never tire of this plant. #Plants #Thistles

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Another delightful pair of moths to the trap in the Walsingham garden, a Scorched Carpet and Straw Underwing #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #Moths #UKWildlife #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A couple of migrants arrived together, Tawny Wave and Small Mottled Willow. Both new for garden. #MothsMatter#TeamMoth #Moths #UKWildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Looking for a bit of shade on a very hot day, we went to Thursford Wood. Not expecting much mushroom so pleased with the Beefsteak Fungus (Fistulina hepatica) and a Whitelaced Shank (Megacollybia platyphylla). #Fungi 🍄

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Four different Spangle galls on a single oak branch. Each is the agamic (parthenogenetic) life stage of an oak gall wasp, with a single larva in each structure #spanglegalls #oakgall #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia). Our first visit to Holt Lowes and won’t be the last. #carnivorousplants #BogPlants

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Nothing rare but none commonly seen in our trap #moths #MothMatter #ento

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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Struggling with an ID for this caterpillar. Quite a chunky one as can be seen with Thick Thighs giving it scale. Looks like it may be about to pupate judging by the silk threads. No good side pic, so can't count prolegs. @rlewington2.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @norfolkmoths.bsky.social

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I planted a big fat zero Hollyhocks in my garden. Here are all the different Hollyhocks flowering in my garden 😆 #garden #flowers

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A couple of micro moths enjoying an early morning sit, Garden Pebble and Diamond-back #NationalMothWeek #MothsMatter #Moths #gardenwildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Colour co-ordinated with the ripening blackberries, I spy a final instar Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus).

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

walk along the shore, dotted with Common Burdock (Arctium minus) and False Mayweed (Tripleurospermum maritimum) #wildflowerhour

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A better dressed couple than Bezos and Sanchez? Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing fashion #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Upon reflection, a rather attractive Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella). #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #UKwildlife

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Centaurea erythraea (Common Centaury) and Rubio peregrina (Wild Madder) both in profusion near Ringstead, Dorset #WildflowerHour

Mid-pink star shaped flowers, clustered together.

Masses of small bright yellow-green star shaped flowers.

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The Peach Blossom (Thyatira batis) is widespread and unmistakable, but this is probably only the third one I’ve seen in 20 years. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #ento

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Topknot Crew @topknotcrew.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

In the past few days, the Gatekeepers seem to have taken wing. Wasting no time on creating the next generation. #butterflies #ento #UKwildlife

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