Latest posts tagged with #UKInsects on Bluesky
Brimstone
Comma
Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax
Golden Dung Fly, Scathophaga stercoraria.
The insects are loving the newly blossomed Blackthorn - Lyde Road end of the Riverside Walk this morning @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #yeovilcountrypark #ukbutterflies #ukdroneflies #ukinsects #springishere
Seven spot ladybirds making baby ladybirds today
#ladybird #sevenspotladybird #ukinsects #entomology #insects
Whilst on a recent outing, stopped for a cuppa and this little one decides to hitch a lift, on my @cleyspy.bsky.social Mule Pack. 😃👍
#fascinatingnature
#UKinsects
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKcountryside
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
#BirdingGear
Big diving beetles from the murky pools of the flow country bog in northern Scotland.
YouTube video of this trip is live now:
youtu.be/WANtgaaZnTI
#microadventure
#naturephotography
#wildcamp
#wilderness
#naturephotographer
#freshsnorkeluk
#snorkelscotland
#scottishwildlife
#ukinsects
#beetles
A regular visitor to our holiday apartment, a rock pipit, and enjoying a crane fly (daddy long legs) for breakie.
#wildlifeinaction
#fascinatingnature
#UKBirds
#UKinsects
#UKinvertebrates
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#CornwallBirds
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
My first and only painted lady I’ve seen this year. Nicely camouflaged on the wood chippings #butterfly #ukinsects
Butterflies are being drawn to the purple flowers today, lovely to see loads of them #butterflies #ukinsects
Do you want to see the hummingbird moth that’s flying around today? He’s a beauty! #moth #hummingbirdmoth #ukinsects
ID request/confirmation
Possible Rusty Dot Pearl Moth ❓
#UKinsects
#UKinvertebrates
#UKmoths
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
Even clearer photo, and still not everyone's favourite.....
#wildlifeinaction
#fascinatingnature
#UKinsects
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
Not everyone's favourite
#wildlifeinaction
#fascinatingnature
#UKinsects
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
Underside of female Brown Hairstreak
Female Brown Hairstreak showing orange-gold band on forewing.
Female Brown Hairstreak on the Dorset patch this morning. I feel very privileged to spend about 10 minutes watching & photographing this elusive butterfly! @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #UKinsects
Helice form of Clouded Yellow nectaring on Common Fleabane
'Normal' Clouded Yellow nectaring on Buddleia
An almost white 'Helice' form Clouded Yellow along with a 'normal' type at the Dorset patch this morning. 12 other species seen, inc a very close Brown Hairstreak (see next post) & 23 Large White! @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social #UKinsects
Great Willowherb - two pink flowers by a road
Field Madder - small plant with spiky leaves and small pale-purple flowers
Yarrow - plant with small white flowers
Hedge Bedstraw - plant with small white flowers
#StreetWeeds and #PavementPlants from Mount Road, Southdown #Bath #Somerset #UK, life persisting in one of the most extreme habitats: the human built environment
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #urbanwildlife #botany #wildflowers #flowers
Forest Bug - a brown bug on a leaf
Birch Shieldbug - a green and brown bug
Two shieldbugs:
Forest Bug - nymphs feed on trees, adults often feed on caterpillars and fruits
Birch Shieldbug - usually on birches
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #entomology #bug #shieldbug #ukinsects #bath #somerset
A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.
A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.
A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.
A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.
I think this is the rare cuckoo wasp Hedychrum rutilans. Seen on Yarrow at Camber yesterday. Wasp enthusiasts ( contacted via @thegreatskua.bsky.social) seem to agree. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@graemelyons.bsky.social
#UKwildlife
#Sussexwildlife
#wasps
#UKinsects
Tachina fera - a fly with an orange abdomen with a black stripe down the centre, on a flower
Eriothrix rufomaculata - a fly, black, grey with red side markings on the abdomen, on a flower
Two Tachinid flies - Tachina fera and Eriothrix rufomaculata - parasitic flies on moth caterpillars.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #entomology #tachinidae #diptera #fly #ukflies #ukinsects
A yellow butterfly on a flower
Clouded Yellow butterfly at Claverton, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukbutterflies #butterfly #butterflies #lepidoptera #cloudedyellow
An orange butterfly on a purple flower
Small Skipper on Field Scabious, at Brown's Folly nature reserve, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathsomerset #bathuk #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukbutterflies #butterfly #butterflies #lepidoptera #smallskipper
a close up colour photo of a common green lacewing insect upside down on some green stems with a pale green bokeh background
Day 207 of A Photo A Day for 2025
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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#commongreenlacewing
#ChrysoperlaCarnea
#lacewing
#ukinsects
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up photo of a bumblebee head first in an open pink hardy geranium flower
Day 206 of A Photo A Day for 2025
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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bumblebee
#ukinsects
#hardygernaium
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up photo of a bumblebee on a pale mauve scabious flower with a green bokeh background
Day 205 of A Photo A Day for 2025
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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bumblebee
#ukinsects
#scabious
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up colour photo of a bumblebee in the centre of a pink and white cosmos flower with a green bokeh background
Day 204 of A Photo A Day for 2025
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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bumblebee
#ukinsects
#cosmos
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up colour photo of a furrow bee with orange pollen sacks on a white dahlia flower with an egg-yolk coloured centre
Day 203 of A Photo A Day for 2025
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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bee
#furrowbee
#ukinsects
#dahlia
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
A hoverfly on a yellow flower
Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens) on an Oxford Ragwort, growing out of a pavement on #Twerton High Street, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #streetweeds #urbanwildlife #urbanbotany #botany #pavementplants
A #pupa or crysalis is hanging seemingly precariously from the stem of one of the #FieldScabious plants on my #allotment in Hove .. to turn into a moth I think but which one?
Any moth people out there with ideas please?
#moths #lepidoptera #ukinsects
Hornet Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) at @bathcityfarm.bsky.social, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
This species has recently expanded its range, strongly linked to #climatechange
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukhoverflies #hoverfly
A jersey tiger moth sitting on a wooden shelf with its wings closed so you only see the top ones, which are black and white stripes.
A close up of a jersey tiger moth
A beautiful jersey tiger moth found its way into my polytunnel. I took a couple of pictures before gently picking him up and letting him out #nature #ukinsects #ukmoths
a close up colour photo of a bumblebee in mid air beside coreopsis yellow and red flowers with a green bokeh background
Day 201 of A Photo A Day for 2025
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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bumblebee
#ukinsects
#coreopsis
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
