Richie Howard
@albion-angler.bsky.social
A journal of wildlife identification, landscape, angling and travel.
Curator of fossil arthropods at the Natural History Museum in my professional life @arthropoda-curator.bsky.social
Curator of fossil arthropods at the Natural History Museum in my professional life @arthropoda-curator.bsky.social
Lots more Xishuangbanna arthropods still to come. Here’s some tephritid fruit flies in the genus Bactrocera, seemingly nectaring from an arum.
#diptera
#diptera
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Lots more Xishuangbanna arthropods still to come. Here’s some tephritid fruit flies in the genus Bactrocera, seemingly nectaring from an arum.
#diptera
#diptera
Fierce looking orb weaver from Xishuangbanna, I think possibly in the genus Argiope?
#arachnids #china
#arachnids #china
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Fierce looking orb weaver from Xishuangbanna, I think possibly in the genus Argiope?
#arachnids #china
#arachnids #china
Stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae) spotted (a first for me) capering around in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan Province, China.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae) spotted (a first for me) capering around in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan Province, China.
Mortonagrion aborense (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) from Xishuangbanna.
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Mortonagrion aborense (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) from Xishuangbanna.
July 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Yellow Featherlegs (Copera marginipes) was the most frequent of the many zygopterans I saw in Xishuangbanna - widespread Asian member of the Platycnemididae.
#zygoptera #odonata #bugsky #entomology
#zygoptera #odonata #bugsky #entomology
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Yellow Featherlegs (Copera marginipes) was the most frequent of the many zygopterans I saw in Xishuangbanna - widespread Asian member of the Platycnemididae.
#zygoptera #odonata #bugsky #entomology
#zygoptera #odonata #bugsky #entomology
July 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A few more critters from around the accomodation. An amazing evening chorus from Sylvirana nigrovittata, a small pond outside the hotel was full of these noisy little frogs.
June 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A few more critters from around the accomodation. An amazing evening chorus from Sylvirana nigrovittata, a small pond outside the hotel was full of these noisy little frogs.
A beautiful tiger moth Nyctemera adversata on my first evening stroll during my stay in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden.
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology
June 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A beautiful tiger moth Nyctemera adversata on my first evening stroll during my stay in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden.
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology
Alongside the geckos, I saw a dazzling array of Lepidoptera and Odonata in Xishuangbanna as soon as I arrived at the hotel too.
June 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Alongside the geckos, I saw a dazzling array of Lepidoptera and Odonata in Xishuangbanna as soon as I arrived at the hotel too.
Oriental House Gecko (Hemidactylus bowringii spotted in the hotel of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden. May 2019.
#reptiles #china #herpetology
#reptiles #china #herpetology
June 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Oriental House Gecko (Hemidactylus bowringii spotted in the hotel of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden. May 2019.
#reptiles #china #herpetology
#reptiles #china #herpetology
Spotted this Lemon Pansy (Junonia lemonias) in a small village almost right on the Tropic of Cancer to the south of Pu’er en route to Xishuangbanna. May 2019.
#china #yunnan #lepidoptera #bugsky
#china #yunnan #lepidoptera #bugsky
June 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Spotted this Lemon Pansy (Junonia lemonias) in a small village almost right on the Tropic of Cancer to the south of Pu’er en route to Xishuangbanna. May 2019.
#china #yunnan #lepidoptera #bugsky
#china #yunnan #lepidoptera #bugsky
Scenes from the City of Eternal Spring in May 2019. Kunming is pleasant all year round as it sits just north of the Tropic of Cancer but is 1,900 metres above sea level on the karst topography of the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau - so it has an effectively temperate climate.
June 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Scenes from the City of Eternal Spring in May 2019. Kunming is pleasant all year round as it sits just north of the Tropic of Cancer but is 1,900 metres above sea level on the karst topography of the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau - so it has an effectively temperate climate.
Looking a bit worse for wear, but one of the coolest Lepidoptera I have ever seen! The Moon Moth Actias selene on the old city campus of Yunnan University one warm May evening in 2019.
#bugsky #lepidoptera #entomology #moths
#bugsky #lepidoptera #entomology #moths
June 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Looking a bit worse for wear, but one of the coolest Lepidoptera I have ever seen! The Moon Moth Actias selene on the old city campus of Yunnan University one warm May evening in 2019.
#bugsky #lepidoptera #entomology #moths
#bugsky #lepidoptera #entomology #moths
May 2019 saw me return to Yunnan Province for another research trip - this time the City of Eternal Spring was in full bloom! So naturally my first destination was a return to Green Lake Park to see the Chinese Pond Heron on fresh spring lotus leaves. Amazing little birds.
#china #birds #birding
#china #birds #birding
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A very impressive female St Mark’s Fly (Bibio marci). Falmouth, 2019.
#cornwall #diptera #bugsky #entomology
#cornwall #diptera #bugsky #entomology
June 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A very impressive female St Mark’s Fly (Bibio marci). Falmouth, 2019.
#cornwall #diptera #bugsky #entomology
#cornwall #diptera #bugsky #entomology
Scathophaga sp. and a male Bibio marci from my walk on the Roseland Heritage Coast, April 2019.
#diptera #entomology #bugsky #cornwall
#diptera #entomology #bugsky #cornwall
June 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Scathophaga sp. and a male Bibio marci from my walk on the Roseland Heritage Coast, April 2019.
#diptera #entomology #bugsky #cornwall
#diptera #entomology #bugsky #cornwall
St Anthony’s Church on the Roseland Peninsula of southwest Cornwall.
June 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
St Anthony’s Church on the Roseland Peninsula of southwest Cornwall.
Wall, Speckled Wood and Speckled Yellow from the SWCP at St Anthony Head, April 2019.
#cornwall #lepidoptera #butterflies #entomology
#cornwall #lepidoptera #butterflies #entomology
June 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Wall, Speckled Wood and Speckled Yellow from the SWCP at St Anthony Head, April 2019.
#cornwall #lepidoptera #butterflies #entomology
#cornwall #lepidoptera #butterflies #entomology
A few old shots of Pendennis Point and Falmouth Bay, April 2019.
June 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A few old shots of Pendennis Point and Falmouth Bay, April 2019.
June 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
An early Speckled wood at Pendennis Point, Falmouth. Always one of the first species of the year. April 2019.
#lepidoptera #bugsky
#lepidoptera #bugsky
June 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
An early Speckled wood at Pendennis Point, Falmouth. Always one of the first species of the year. April 2019.
#lepidoptera #bugsky
#lepidoptera #bugsky
Positively evil looking ichneumon - Tromatobia lineatoria. A parasitoid of spider egg sacs. College Woods, Penryn. April 2019.
#bugsky #hymenoptera #entomology
#bugsky #hymenoptera #entomology
June 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Positively evil looking ichneumon - Tromatobia lineatoria. A parasitoid of spider egg sacs. College Woods, Penryn. April 2019.
#bugsky #hymenoptera #entomology
#bugsky #hymenoptera #entomology
Excellent dance fly, Empis tessellata, looking menacing in College Woods, Penryn. April 2019.
#bugsky #entomology #diptera
#bugsky #entomology #diptera
June 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Excellent dance fly, Empis tessellata, looking menacing in College Woods, Penryn. April 2019.
#bugsky #entomology #diptera
#bugsky #entomology #diptera
Excellent oecophorid micromoth, Sulphur Tubic (Esperia sulphurella). Spotted at College Reservoir near Penryn, southwest Cornwall. March 2019.
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology #cornwall
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology #cornwall
June 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Excellent oecophorid micromoth, Sulphur Tubic (Esperia sulphurella). Spotted at College Reservoir near Penryn, southwest Cornwall. March 2019.
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology #cornwall
#moths #lepidoptera #bugsky #entomology #cornwall