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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Think this is Nuctenea umbratica, Chestnut Orb-weaver, in the house today - North Worcestershire. #spider

Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Very pleased to have spotted this hungry Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoth today at Cotswold Water Park. Didn't realise how scarce it is at the time! But was certain I'd never seen one before, so got photos to help identify it. Cheers James Hunter for confirmation 👍

Fluffy ginger moth hovering in front of yellow Trefoil flowers

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Reckon the might be a male Philodromus dispar, on my kitchen floor today, then let him loose in the garden. Beautiful 😍 Confirmation appreciated 👍

Spider black on top with clear white line around its whole body, and pale brown legs with black spiky hairs on.

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J Hanlon @jahanlon.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Local birding in S Cambs has been great the last couple of weeks. Here are some of my highlights. #birds #birding @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hare Orchid - Leporella fimbriata One of the first orchids of the season to flower in our Perth Hills area. Happy to see a handful of freshly opened flowers today with more buds yet to open 🌿 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #bloomscrolling #inaturalist

An orchid flower of green and dark red with two petals held upright above the flower like the ears of a hare

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm with you on the other three, but why does everyone get excited about Ivory Gull lol

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Favourite moments from this morning's walk at Castor Hanglands NNR- a chorus of Nightingales, cool pools of Bluebells under rugged oaks and the first flowers of Wood Melick, possibly the most elegant of woodland grasses... #johnclarecountryside #ukwildlife #spring @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A fleeting glimpse of the beautiful rust-coloured tail of a Nightingale

The first flowers of Wood Melick, spikes of dark chestnut against an intense yellow-green background

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Eyes like a Lynx, that man! Only ever seen this species after lots of flipping of rocks.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Thanks to Kevin McGee for sharing his find with me: - extremely rare in the Midlands, only one previous record. At least three Steatoda albomaculata, white-spotted False Widow, today at Hartlebury Common 😍😍 this one making short work of a Mootled Grasshopper nymph. Better pics to follow

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Pair of Garganey showing on Ripple south pit, right in the middle, plus two adult Little Gulls, three Willow Warbler, loads Sand Martin. Spring is here!

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Spider identification help required please 🙏 Very small, a few mm across, in garden, Worcestershire today. Phone shot not great, but it knew I was going to fetch my proper camera, so promptly disappeared 😂 @nickgalley.bsky.social ?

Squat brown spider with patterned legs sitting on a brown, nibbled leaf.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Be proud to be different! For #Wildflowerhour a Primrose that stood out from its neighbours in the Wyre Forest today. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Patch of lemon yellow Primroses with a single pink one on the left.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Spring is here and the Toads are getting, erm, a ride 😀💦🐸🍆

Small brown Toad clasping to the back of a much larger one.

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Found some already hatched Pirate Spider egg sacs in the garden. You can see the hole at the top. #Ero #mimitidae #spiders @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Another glorious morning in the Wyre Forest. Great views of this Chiffchaff down by the Dowles Brook.

Brown Chiffchaff on a branch that reaches into the stream, behind is an out-of-focus Dipper sat quietly on another branch, looking on.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A nice afternoon on the top of the Malverns, with more Wild Daffodils 😍

View along path with Malvern hills stretching away into the distance

Circular diagram showing places visible from the top of the hill.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

As well as some great bird encounters in the Wyre Forest yesterday, there was a host of golden (wild) Daffodils in the usual place below Dry Mill Lane car park. So much nicer than garden ones.

Delicately coloured lemon and bright yellow daffodil flower.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Orchid Bee, Colombia #BlueMonday Males (like this) collect volatile chemicals, from orchids and other sources, to create complex scents to impress females. They collect chemicals with their front legs, transfer them to the middle legs, then finally into storage pockets in the enlarged rear legs. 🐙🌿📷

A macro photo of a brilliant blue metallic bee clinging to a flake of brown lichen or fungus, with out of focus vegetation in the background.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Fantastic Dipper experience today in the Wyre Forest, with a lovely singing male showing well. Video taken with phone.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Vinny knows the area extremely well and is a great all-round naturalist. My visit to his other favourite place, Dorset, last year was massively improved by sharing it with him 👌👌

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just a girl and her bundle of baby clones she's wearing like an ass turban 🥹 My population of Schizomida (parthenogenic tailless whipscorpions) are so happy in their box of dirt. As always, tending a box of dirt is such a good decision and I recommend it.

Small light brown arachnid with thin legs and red spiky palps; her cylindrical abdomen is held vertical and just the tip is peeking out from a dozen or so ghostly white babies wrapped around it, facing downward

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Greenwings Wildlife Holidays @greenwingstours.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

📢 NEW tour! For 2026 we invite you to join us for a high summer butterfly tour in Slovenia. There'll be a riot of Erebia's & a rich supply of other species, on our exploration of the highlands & lowlands of this beautiful country! For full details please click here... greenwings.co/our-holidays...

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Today I've discovered an animal called "Skeleton panda sea squirt" exists. A sessile, filter feeding tunicat.

A series of photographs showing a translucent creature with faux ribcage like interior and panda style "head"

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Lovely naturalistic scene of birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket, carved by an ancient Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago! Faint traces of paint survive on this limestone wall relief from the funerary temple of king Userkaf. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a limestone wall panel carved in bas relief from the Fifth Dynasty Funerary Temple of king Userkaf at Saqqara, 2465-2458 BC. It shows birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket in the marshes of the river Nile. A pied kingfisher and butterfly hover above the papyrus thicket, whilst a hoopoe, an ibis with long curved beak, a night heron, and a gallinule,are depicted amongst the papyrus umbrels. Height 102 cm. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

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UK Butterflies @ukbutterflies.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Between 2014 & 2016, I studied the Chequered Skipper in Scotland. One memorable encounter was watching a larva spin silk between the edges of a leaf. As silk dries, it contracts, and this pulled the leaf edges together to create a protective tube. Amazing! More at www.dispar.org/reference.ph...

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A new mushroom microscopy video just came out - this goes into detail on how to prepare microscope slides and find various taxonomically significant features such as spores, cheilocystidia, pleurocystidia, pileipellis and more. youtube.com/watch?v=vMY2... #fungifriends #fungi #microscopy

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Fungal Microscopy Workshop with Alan Rockefeller- How to look at a mushroom in a microscope

YouTube video by Mushroom Wonderland

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#MushroomMonday So many stunning turkey tails around, the recent frost has brought out the blue in these stunners seen in #Preston on Saturday. #Lancashire #fungi #mushrooms #vitaminN #fungifriends

Turkey tails with their hues of blue brown and green stripes showing why they are named!

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This large Longhorn Beetle was first spotted in netting at the Zipwire centre in Antigua. Research has proven it to be Taeniotes insularis, the first record for the island!

Dark beetle with pale central stripe and really long curved antennae

Long-antennaed beetle silhouetted against blue sky

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The rarest hummingbird on Antigua gave itself up today, allowing close approach in the primary forest at Wallings. What a corker! Purple throated Carib.

Hummingbird with curved bill, iridescent green wings and purple throat

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UK Butterflies @ukbutterflies.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Bath White is one of the rarest migrants to Britain. With an influx of c. 700 records in 1945, sightings of this butterfly are now few & far between (c. 20 since 1956). Any influx is dependent on conditions at the butterfly's continental origin & those have clearly not been met for some time.

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Honey I shrunk the camera? This rather large Orthoptera is Saga rhodiensis - the Rhodes Predatory Bush-cricket (endemic). One of Europe’s largest insects. Feeds on other Orthoptera, plus mantises, other insects & possibly small lizards.

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

McKinnon's salt pond produced some nice birds today 👍 Green Heron, Greater Yellowlegs, Yellow-crowned Night Heron and Belted Kingfisher.

Small hunched Heron with yellow legs and deep red breast

Long billed spotty wading bird with yellow legs mostly submerged in shallow water

Grey squat Heron with black, white and yellow striped head and yellow legs

Blue and white kingfisher sat on a bare branch

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Four butterflies from Antigua 😍 Names on alt text.

Brown and orange patterned Northern Tropical Buckeye

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.

Figure from a paper - legend: Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right).

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Magnificent day! Star of the show was not the greedy Frigatebirds, but the incredibly rare Antiguan Racer. 8 billion humans, only 1100 of these in the world 😥 Location not too bad! 😍

Prehistoric black Frigatebird against blue sky

Beautiful grey and brown snake sunlit against black background

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Antigua was HUMMING today! Are at Aunty Cavell's Restaurant at Urlings, and the tree next to our table was full of Green-throated Caribs and Antillean Crested Hummingbirds. Divine 😍

Iridescent green hummingbird with a crest hovers in front of some white flowers

Long billed green hummingbird with a blue breast looks down from a branch, yellow pollen near the tip of its long beak

Green hummingbird with a long curved beak

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It's been a very Yellow day on Antigua! Prothonotary, Prairie and Parula Warblers as well as these beauties 😍

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Sean Cole - Wildlife account @worldofwildlife.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Birds show well in Antigua, and the light is perfect too! What a wonderful place ❤️💛🖤🤍

Yellow black and white Bananaquit, common, and very noisy, everywhere you go.

Gray Kingbird saying hi by raising a wing

The tiny Antillean Crested hummingbird, this one a female with pale breast and no crest, but an iridescent green nape.

Gray Kingbird, grey, white and black, sat on a wire, side in view.

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Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland) @migrantmothuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Thanks to the 300 or so who have followed this account so far. There's still several thousand following the Twitter account so please spread the word about the benefits of Bluesky. #adfree #muskfree #migrantmothuk #teammoth #mothsmatter

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A local Giant Orchid - Himantoglossum robertianum

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Pollinating London Together @pollinatinglt.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Oftentimes butterflies have different host and food plants. A popular host plant for several species of butterflies is the stinging nettle. Consider not weeding all the nettles for the butterflies to have somewhere to lay their eggs!

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