Home after 19 days at my parents' house ❤️ 8 planned, 11 unexpected. Lungwort has flowered in the meantime, hoping for a Bee-fly soon 🤞
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Home after 19 days at my parents' house ❤️ 8 planned, 11 unexpected. Lungwort has flowered in the meantime, hoping for a Bee-fly soon 🤞
Stuck in Coventry (at my parents' house) due to some health issues, so no Garden Moth Scheme for me tonight 😔
This could be my new pan-listing obsession. A great site to keep track of your species lists, and compare with others.
panspecieslisting.com
Cochylis hybridella in gel pens on brown paper.
#mothsMatter #mothartwork #pendrawing #welshartist
#wildlifeartwork
A black ink line drawing of a psyllid facing left. It has a dark eye and dark patches on the wings.
Black ink drawing of a rather plain, unmarked psyllid facing right.
Black ink drawing of a psyllid facing left. This one has a dark and light striped abdomen which ends in a conical point.
First attempts at drawing psyllids. These are odd looking bugs. Working from reference photos is OK if you have a good knowledge of the anatomy of what you are drawing. Psyllids are new to me so I really need a specimen as well to work out how they go together.
A mainly green shieldbug, head uppermost, partly obscured by the spiky green plant in which it is sitting. Large areas of its wing-cases have a reddish hue, with a bluish strip on their outside edges. The yellow abdomen is mostly hidden by the wings but it edge is just visible outside the blue areas.
A basking Gorse Shieldbug, my first shieldbug of the year, seen during Wednesday's one day sunny spell. Back to relentless gloom again since!
Ditto is living the dream!
Missing the forum for the first time in 18 years 😢
This is Cobalt Crust, a fungus ☺️
One year on from creating my pond. Perhaps frogs this year? 🐸🐸🐸🐸
Join us on 28th February for the annual #GardenMothScheme conference! All are welcome at this free online event.
Book your free space here: tinyurl.com/Moth26
Dark attic room with stone walls, cardboard on floor with single mattress & antique coffee table (random)
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
We'll be running #RecordEveryDayJanuary again in 2026!
Send us a wildlife sighting for each day during Jan and be entered into a prize draw.
Records can be submitted via www.sewbrecord.org.uk, LERC Wales App: www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app or email to info@sewbrec.org.uk.
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Merv new to garden last week. Hoping there is something in the trap in the morning, would be my first #GardenMothScheme run with no empty traps 🤞🤞🤞
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter
If you are not ready to hang up your moth trap for the year just yet, please do consider our winter scheme which runs through until March.
Contact your regional coordinator for more information on the winter scheme: gardenmothscheme.org.uk/info
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme
It's the final week of our 2025 summer scheme 💔
Please send your results to your local organiser after emptying your moth trap. Thanks to everyone who took part this year, your records are making a real impact on moth research.
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme
The final harvest 💔
First garden hedgehog klaxon 📢📢📢
It thinks this angle is a woodlouse so I'm definitely not convinced now 😂
@cofnod.org.uk ObsId reckons this is Spitting Spider but it's in my greenhouse so I'm not convinced 🤔
Snout remains
House Spider spp feasting on an Angle Shades
A murder scene in the trap this morning 😱😱
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter
Was admiring the Ivy Bees in the garden, then discovered the source a few doors down! (video below)
I use it for bats too, though I don't go looking for those as much as Orthoptera 😁
male Large Marsh Grasshopper
female Large Marsh Grasshopper, the wonderful pink/purple morph.
More Large Marsh Grasshoppers (Stethophyma grossum) from our return visit to Westhay Moor NNR on Sunday. The afternoon sunshine after the morning deluges brought them out & we heard much singing from the males. @rockwolf74.bsky.social spotted this fabulous female, liveried in pink & green.
I use a Magenta 4 for Orthoptera. The smart phone one (Echometer) is really expensive and unfortunately doesn't identify Orthoptera. The iRecord grasshopper app is great for comparing calls in the field. Here's a video of me using Magenta www.facebook.com/watch?v=3396... (detector at about 50 secs)
SEWBReC #SpeciesOfTheMonth for September is Opilio canestrinii! Can you spot this leggy species on a wall near you?
See if you can fill in gaps in our distribution map: aderyn.lercwales.org.uk/density/dens...
More info including identification tips here: www.sewbrec.org.uk/sewbrec-cms-...
Another garden addition hiding in the trap this morning, Andromeda Lacebug 💞
