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Philip Chambers
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Wildlife, walking, wandering about with binoculars. Quite a lot of butterflies
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Fluted Birds-nest #Fungi from Pullabrook Woods on Dartmoor. Amazingly beautiful, and tiny.

#fungus #fungifanatic
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Woke up to a great skua outside my tent!

Camping tip: if a bonxie parks itself outside your tent, just accept you’re the guest!! 🤣

#BirdingScotland #UKBirding #Birds
August 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I think this is a Waved Umber #moth in the trap this morning, confirmation or otherwise welcome. Seems a bit late in the season
#teammoth #mothsmatter #moths

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August 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A Comma #caterpillar is a smart thing.
#caterpillar #caterpillars #comma #butterfly #butterflies
July 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Sainfoin from Winterborne Downs in Wiltshire for #wildflowerhour not sure I have seen this before
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July 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Went to try and see Purple Emperor, came away with Dark Crimson Underwing, Dusky Sallow & a Sulphur Pearl. All new for me...no Emperor mind, but no need to mention that.

#moth #mothsmatter #teammoth #mothsofinstagram #lepidoptera
July 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A Yellow-legged Clearwing sitting on a roadside hedge this afternoon. Delighted 🙂

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#moth #moths
#teammoth
#mothsmatter
July 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Early Thorn and Buff Arches #moths from the last couple of nights

#mothsmatter #teammoth
#moth #lepidoptera
July 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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More from the @greenwingstours.bsky.social tour to the Italian Alps where, today, we had an extreme form of female Spotted Fritillary that had a steely-blue sheen to its wings; a hybrid between Adonis and Chalk Hill Blues, known as polonus; and a cleodoxa form of High Brown Fritillary. What a place!
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Peacock caterpillars going to work on some nettles.
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#peacockbutterfly
#butterfly #butterflies
#caterpillars
June 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Cool enough today to get excellent views of these Dartmoor High Brown Fritillary.
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#butterflies #butterfly
High Brown Fritillary underside High Brown Fritillary, upperside. The 3rd dot from the top is tiny compared to the others. A useful ID feature
June 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A trip to Somerset before the rain produced brief views of Grizzled Skipper and my first couple of Marbled White of the year
#butterflies #butterfly
Grizzled Skipper Marbled White
June 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Another in an occasional series of videos, where wildlife doesn't do much. This time featuring a slightly annoyed Lesser-stag Beetle, who objected to me trying to move him from the road
#lesserstagbeetle
#beetle
#coleoptera
#inserts
#invertebrates
May 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Comma caterpillar. One to keep an eye on as it will become, hopefully, even better. 3rd instar? @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
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#caterpillar #caterpillars
#commabutterfly
#butterflies #butterfly
May 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Ooofff. Chequered Skipper from Allt Mhuic reserve, near Fort William. Pleased with the photo because the sun was so bright I couldn't see anything on my phone screen 🙂
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#butterflies #butterfly
May 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A Blue (and red) afternoon at Pullabrook Woods, Dartmoor
#songthrushegg
#commonbluebutterfly
#peacock
May 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A Crab Spider under UV light on Hawthorn blossom 🙂
#Spider
May 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Poplar Hawk-moth and Buff-tip, two of the more impressive finds from the nights trapping
#teammoth #moth #moths
May 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Pearl-Bordered Fritillary from Ramshorn Down, Devon. I think there were 7, but not a single other species seen there.
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April 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Pin sharp Lesser-spotted Woodpecker from Dartmoor on Saturday afternoon 😀 @lesserspotnet.bsky.social
Kept returning to the same tree, despite being moved on a couple of times by possibility a second bird
April 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Early Thorn moth. First out of the trap this morning
April 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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An Early Grey #moth from last nights trap. I think new for me, but I don't often try this early in the year
April 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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A Peacock #butterfly putting a gatepost to good use
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April 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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insects reduced to disappeared on car windshields from 1990 to 2050
April 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Yesterday, in Somerset, I saw more Small Tortoiseshell (4) #butterflies than I did in the entire summer of 2024 (3). Anywhere.
Fingers crossed for 2025
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#butterfly
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM