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🌱Gardening for 🦋 and 🐝 mainly pictures from my own garden, and the occasional road trip🐛 #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #OMSYSTEM #TG-7
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First ever Brimstone Butterfly Caterpillar on Purging Buckthorn in my garden today! Gonepteryx rhamni Rhamnus carthartica #Lepidoptera #NaturGarten @joelashton.bsky.social
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Good morning. Painted Lady #Butterfly on Sea Aster yesterday. Sea Aster, has gained popularity as a gourmet food, with its young, edible leaves and stems being collected. The Painted Lady is known for its flight speed, reaching speeds up to 20 miles per hour. #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin
August 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Good morning. Painted Lady #Butterfly on Sea Aster yesterday. Sea Aster, has gained popularity as a gourmet food, with its young, edible leaves and stems being collected. The Painted Lady is known for its flight speed, reaching speeds up to 20 miles per hour. #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin
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No idea of ID or what exactly is occurring.
August 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
No idea of ID or what exactly is occurring.
Caterpillar of the Large White Butterfly, Pieris brassicae on Honesty leaves. I’ve been wondering what plants to add for them too! #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten
August 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Caterpillar of the Large White Butterfly, Pieris brassicae on Honesty leaves. I’ve been wondering what plants to add for them too! #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten
Caught this lovely Common Blue Butterfly egg laying on Birds-foot trefoil in my front garden a little while ago! Polyommatus icarus #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten
August 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Caught this lovely Common Blue Butterfly egg laying on Birds-foot trefoil in my front garden a little while ago! Polyommatus icarus #Butterflies #WildSpaces #Gardening #NaturGarten
Highland Cattle grazing at Pegwell Country Park on Sunday
August 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Highland Cattle grazing at Pegwell Country Park on Sunday
Andrena pilipes, Black Mining Bee #SolitaryBees
August 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Andrena pilipes, Black Mining Bee #SolitaryBees
Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (I think?) spotted at Pegwell bay yesterday #SolitaryBees
August 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (I think?) spotted at Pegwell bay yesterday #SolitaryBees
Always like to check Bristly Oxtongue, when i'm along the coast, just in case there's Pantaloon Bees about. Dasypoda hirtipes spotted at Pegwell nature reserve yesterday #SolitaryBees #WildFlowers
August 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Always like to check Bristly Oxtongue, when i'm along the coast, just in case there's Pantaloon Bees about. Dasypoda hirtipes spotted at Pegwell nature reserve yesterday #SolitaryBees #WildFlowers
Also a huge (tree?) Wasp on this umbellifer by the pond
July 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Also a huge (tree?) Wasp on this umbellifer by the pond
visit from a jersey Tiger Moth at work just now!
July 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
visit from a jersey Tiger Moth at work just now!
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Record count of 60 Peacocks in Purbeck Bunkers ydy, but c30 were dead, eaten by bats! So they went into hibernation early and got munched! Grills have recently been put over entrances to protect the bats and this has clearly encouraged them! @malcolmhull.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Record count of 60 Peacocks in Purbeck Bunkers ydy, but c30 were dead, eaten by bats! So they went into hibernation early and got munched! Grills have recently been put over entrances to protect the bats and this has clearly encouraged them! @malcolmhull.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
New garden visitor this year Yellow-clubbed Glasswing, Scaeva selenitica I think? Laying eggs on a Hazel plant
July 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New garden visitor this year Yellow-clubbed Glasswing, Scaeva selenitica I think? Laying eggs on a Hazel plant
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#ColourADay, #PinkMon: An Elephant Hawk-moth on red valerian.
#coloraday #moths #ukwildlife #mothmonday #nature #bugsky
#coloraday #moths #ukwildlife #mothmonday #nature #bugsky
July 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#ColourADay, #PinkMon: An Elephant Hawk-moth on red valerian.
#coloraday #moths #ukwildlife #mothmonday #nature #bugsky
#coloraday #moths #ukwildlife #mothmonday #nature #bugsky
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A member of the Hedychrum family or cuckoo wasp. Possibly Hedychrum nobile or Hedychrum niemelai.
Een soort goudwesp, net vliegende juweeltjes.
Een soort goudwesp, net vliegende juweeltjes.
July 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A member of the Hedychrum family or cuckoo wasp. Possibly Hedychrum nobile or Hedychrum niemelai.
Een soort goudwesp, net vliegende juweeltjes.
Een soort goudwesp, net vliegende juweeltjes.
Male common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus - quite a rare sight in my garden, but I’ve spotted a few this year. He was hanging by the Small Scabious and Birds-foot trefoil #Butterflies #Lepidoptera #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #Gardening
July 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Male common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus - quite a rare sight in my garden, but I’ve spotted a few this year. He was hanging by the Small Scabious and Birds-foot trefoil #Butterflies #Lepidoptera #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #Gardening
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It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Phwoar! Phone chilled and back to working order just in time to find THIS beauty on my buddleia, a #PeacockButterfly in MY garden. Happy dance! 💃 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy #butterflies
July 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Phwoar! Phone chilled and back to working order just in time to find THIS beauty on my buddleia, a #PeacockButterfly in MY garden. Happy dance! 💃 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy #butterflies
Ruderal Bumblebee,Bombus ruderatus absolutley loving the pots of Agapanthus in our sunny front Garden #NaturGarten #Gardening
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ruderal Bumblebee,Bombus ruderatus absolutley loving the pots of Agapanthus in our sunny front Garden #NaturGarten #Gardening
Blood Bee, Sphecodes sp. on Geranium 'Rozanne' - this plant is a real magnet for #SolitaryBees #NaturGarten #WildSpaces #Gardening
July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Blood Bee, Sphecodes sp. on Geranium 'Rozanne' - this plant is a real magnet for #SolitaryBees #NaturGarten #WildSpaces #Gardening
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July 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
annual visit from a Red-belted Clearwing Moth, Synanthedon myopaeformis. I guess they live in my apple trees (1/2) #MothSquad #NaturGarten #WildSpaces #Gardening
July 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
annual visit from a Red-belted Clearwing Moth, Synanthedon myopaeformis. I guess they live in my apple trees (1/2) #MothSquad #NaturGarten #WildSpaces #Gardening
Hi @ianbeavis.bsky.social I think this is Nomada zonata, Variable Nomad Bee visiting Hemp Agrimony in my garden last night? (1/2) #SolitaryBees #NaturGarten #Gardening #WildSpaces
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hi @ianbeavis.bsky.social I think this is Nomada zonata, Variable Nomad Bee visiting Hemp Agrimony in my garden last night? (1/2) #SolitaryBees #NaturGarten #Gardening #WildSpaces
Pollen laden Heriades Truncorum visiting Ragwort last night (1/2) #SolitaryBees #NaturGarten #WildSpaces #Gardening
July 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Pollen laden Heriades Truncorum visiting Ragwort last night (1/2) #SolitaryBees #NaturGarten #WildSpaces #Gardening
(excuse the Badly exposed photo) but I'm happy to see this Melanic Bumblebee visiting Agapanthus pots in the front garden last night, (we didnt see any last year!) Bombus ruderatus #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #Gardening
July 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
(excuse the Badly exposed photo) but I'm happy to see this Melanic Bumblebee visiting Agapanthus pots in the front garden last night, (we didnt see any last year!) Bombus ruderatus #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #Gardening