Hannah Breach
@hannahbreach.bsky.social
Naturalist. Norfolk. Mostly wandering about looking at invertebrates with Kevin Radley (in which case all photos his) or observing the creatures in my garden.
Pinned
Progress of the Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) larva on Hemlock (Conium maculatum)- now a 5th instar.
#norfolkbutterflies
#norfolkbutterflies
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Cream-spot Ladybird (Calvia quattuordecimguttata) seen today in the Yare Valley. #UKLadybirds
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cream-spot Ladybird (Calvia quattuordecimguttata) seen today in the Yare Valley. #UKLadybirds
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Spent the afternoon inking out the details on my folding card. Slow going as I haven't done any work like this for ages.
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Spent the afternoon inking out the details on my folding card. Slow going as I haven't done any work like this for ages.
Disturbed this Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) whilst trimming Bramble back in the garden today. It settled back further in and we'll be careful to avoid that area from now on so that it can over-winter in peace. (photo taken as it was getting dark) #brimstone #hibernation
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Disturbed this Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) whilst trimming Bramble back in the garden today. It settled back further in and we'll be careful to avoid that area from now on so that it can over-winter in peace. (photo taken as it was getting dark) #brimstone #hibernation
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Scarlet Caterpillarclub, Cordyceps militaris.
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Scarlet Caterpillarclub, Cordyceps militaris.
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
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And that has just rejected #SwiftBricks - a modest amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that would have ensured a future for beautiful birds for whom a place to nest is a matter of life and death
Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
And that has just rejected #SwiftBricks - a modest amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that would have ensured a future for beautiful birds for whom a place to nest is a matter of life and death
This has surely been a 'Clouded Yellow year' but very pleased to have one in our Breckland garden today. A first for here and the best views I've ever had of one!
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This has surely been a 'Clouded Yellow year' but very pleased to have one in our Breckland garden today. A first for here and the best views I've ever had of one!
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
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Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
4 commonly seen invertebrates in & around fens. Amber Snail (Succinea putris),
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
4 commonly seen invertebrates in & around fens. Amber Snail (Succinea putris),
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
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'Lost Nature' report from @wildjustice.bsky.social focusing on how housing developers fail to deliver their LEGAL ecological commitments - wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
Lost Nature - housing developers fail to deliver their ecological commitments. - Wild Justice
Below you will find two versions of the Lost Nature report; a summary version (20 pages) and a full report […]
wildjustice.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
'Lost Nature' report from @wildjustice.bsky.social focusing on how housing developers fail to deliver their LEGAL ecological commitments - wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
This is a slight cheat as it's not a recent photograph! I found this photo I'd taken a couple of years ago in Surlingham of a
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is a slight cheat as it's not a recent photograph! I found this photo I'd taken a couple of years ago in Surlingham of a
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
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I rarely find Neobisium carcinoides so it was a good job that the Norfolk beetle recorder was on hand at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes yesterday to find this one for me. Martin is far better at finding these critters than me! #Arachtober #arachnids #pseudoscorpions
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I rarely find Neobisium carcinoides so it was a good job that the Norfolk beetle recorder was on hand at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes yesterday to find this one for me. Martin is far better at finding these critters than me! #Arachtober #arachnids #pseudoscorpions
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A large stretch of white foam which has appeared on the river Thet is being investigated by the Environment Agency....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Environment Agency investigating foam on Thetford river
People are being warned not to let their pets swim in or drink from the river.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A large stretch of white foam which has appeared on the river Thet is being investigated by the Environment Agency....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blending in beautifully these Walls (Lasiommata megera) have been seen regularly in a Yare Valley garden. Photo Kevin Radley
#butterfly #wallbrown
#butterfly #wallbrown
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Blending in beautifully these Walls (Lasiommata megera) have been seen regularly in a Yare Valley garden. Photo Kevin Radley
#butterfly #wallbrown
#butterfly #wallbrown
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Mosaic scrub land at Cringleford, Norwich is ear-marked for housing development. It is vibrant with life: goldfinches, bushes & berries, ivy bees humming round nest holes.
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
October 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mosaic scrub land at Cringleford, Norwich is ear-marked for housing development. It is vibrant with life: goldfinches, bushes & berries, ivy bees humming round nest holes.
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
Across the road, the flail mower has thrashed all this life to the ground. What value do we put on urban fringe biodiversity?
Carabus granulatus preying on a Succinea putris (Amber Snail) about 50 cm above ground level showing that not all 'ground beetles' follow the rules!
Also seen yesterday in the Yare Valley numerous Phragmatobia fuliginosa (Ruby Tiger) cats & Picromerus bidens.
#beetle
Also seen yesterday in the Yare Valley numerous Phragmatobia fuliginosa (Ruby Tiger) cats & Picromerus bidens.
#beetle
October 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Carabus granulatus preying on a Succinea putris (Amber Snail) about 50 cm above ground level showing that not all 'ground beetles' follow the rules!
Also seen yesterday in the Yare Valley numerous Phragmatobia fuliginosa (Ruby Tiger) cats & Picromerus bidens.
#beetle
Also seen yesterday in the Yare Valley numerous Phragmatobia fuliginosa (Ruby Tiger) cats & Picromerus bidens.
#beetle
The Grey Dagger (Acronicta psi) larva is now fully grown and looking rather magnificent.
#norfolkmoths
#norfolkmoths
October 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Grey Dagger (Acronicta psi) larva is now fully grown and looking rather magnificent.
#norfolkmoths
#norfolkmoths
Another day another charming moth larva! Saw good numbers of Ruby Tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) cats today in the Ant Valley, most apparently 'basking' in the sunshine.
#norfolkmoths
#norfolkmoths
October 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Another day another charming moth larva! Saw good numbers of Ruby Tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) cats today in the Ant Valley, most apparently 'basking' in the sunshine.
#norfolkmoths
#norfolkmoths
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Yesterday's 54 mile cycle ride was a hard slog into the wind in the morning but the reward was being mostly blown home in the afternoon. The icing on the cake was finding a Chthonius tetrachelatus in the churchyard at New Buckenham, the first pseud record for TM09, that's another square ticked off.
October 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yesterday's 54 mile cycle ride was a hard slog into the wind in the morning but the reward was being mostly blown home in the afternoon. The icing on the cake was finding a Chthonius tetrachelatus in the churchyard at New Buckenham, the first pseud record for TM09, that's another square ticked off.
Very tatty but still a beauty, this Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli) was attracted into our garden polytunnel by the Nicotiana sylvestris that's growing in there.
#norfolkmoths
#norfolkmoths
October 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Very tatty but still a beauty, this Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli) was attracted into our garden polytunnel by the Nicotiana sylvestris that's growing in there.
#norfolkmoths
#norfolkmoths
I've seen more Earwigs in the last 3 weeks than in the last 3 years put together. The species had a dramatic collapse in numbers around here so it's fantastic to see them again.
There's a v interesting paper 'Recent drop in numbers of the Common Earwig' by J. Murray in the Ent. Rec Vol. 137 Part 4
There's a v interesting paper 'Recent drop in numbers of the Common Earwig' by J. Murray in the Ent. Rec Vol. 137 Part 4
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I've seen more Earwigs in the last 3 weeks than in the last 3 years put together. The species had a dramatic collapse in numbers around here so it's fantastic to see them again.
There's a v interesting paper 'Recent drop in numbers of the Common Earwig' by J. Murray in the Ent. Rec Vol. 137 Part 4
There's a v interesting paper 'Recent drop in numbers of the Common Earwig' by J. Murray in the Ent. Rec Vol. 137 Part 4
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I always find Anguillospora species difficult to name so only named Anguillospora crassa. I need my microscope with a x60 objective for those. X40 does give a better depth of field for photography though. I found two spores from my favourite species: Flabellospora accuminata. Absolutely gorgeous.
September 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I always find Anguillospora species difficult to name so only named Anguillospora crassa. I need my microscope with a x60 objective for those. X40 does give a better depth of field for photography though. I found two spores from my favourite species: Flabellospora accuminata. Absolutely gorgeous.
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Not sure how old this plastic bag is but Gateway supermarkets have been around since the 1960s. In 1990 they began to be rebranded as Somerfield. Exposed by shifting sands and found during one of our recent beach cleans. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Not sure how old this plastic bag is but Gateway supermarkets have been around since the 1960s. In 1990 they began to be rebranded as Somerfield. Exposed by shifting sands and found during one of our recent beach cleans. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene