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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social
@bogtrotter2024.bsky.social
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Passionate about environmental conservation & wildlife. Peatland campaigner & field naturalist.🦋 Yorkshire & Humberhead Levels area.
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Yeah, look what's just landed, thanks @markavery.bsky.social If it's as good as the likes of your "Message from Martha" then the only down side is it'll not take me long to read🙂👍😉 Also like the excellent artwork by Ian Rees which breaks up the monthly entries👍
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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One of the world's smallest moths found on Hatfield Moors SSSI Doncaster Naturalists' Society fungus foray delivers Enteucha acetosae for a delighted @yorkshireeden.bsky.social Thought to be Yorkshire's first record of this species @andydnunn.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social #TeamMoth
A well deserved find by Samantha Batty who diligently searched amongst the grassland sorrel plants. Just two leaves found with mines of Enteuch acetosae present. If you look closely you can pick out the spiral galleries of the tiny moth Enteucha acetosae. If you look closely you can pick out the spiral galleries of the tiny moth Enteucha acetosae. Amanita rubescens aka The Blusher Always worth a close look at the smaller stuff lurking out of obvious sight. Members of the DNS on a foray to Hatfield Moors SSSI.
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Anyone help with ID of these pupae would be appreciated, quite a few on various spp hedgerow plants #HumberheadLevels today #Lepidoptera #Butterflies

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September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Wonder what 'predator' removed the end of this chrysalis to feed (?) on its contents? Hymenoptera spp perhaps? #HumberheadLevels #Parasitica @ianbeavis.bsky.social @suillia.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Suggestions for the ID of the little critter on this Alder leaf would be appreciated (zoom in to see), looks like might be a beetle larva? There are intriguing patterns created as well as just round holes in other nearby leaves. #Entomology #Coleoptera #HumberheadLevels @brianecambs.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Signs of Autumn, after the agricultural harvest there comes nature's offering in the #HumberheadLevels
Narrow rural roads with dykes either side with vast expanses of industrialised monocultures
Should it be farmed for #Food or #Energy? #Sustainability #Peat #Soils #Solar
Prunes spinosa aka Blackthorn or Sloe. Fruits used to make Sloe gin, the wood used for walking sticks & also the Irish Shillelagh!
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Great to meet up with staff from @mydoncaster.bsky.social Neighbourhood Team & introduce them to the volunteer led "Mire Emergency" project at Gomde, Lindholme where sphagnum is being propagated from local material, harvested & then when grown on sufficiently 'planted' out in damaged areas.
City of Doncaster Council Neighbourhood staff enjoying the benefits of the outdoor classroom at Lindholme to learn of the community conservation initiative delivering sphagnum propogation to help regenerate the local Moor. City of Doncaster Council Neighbourhood team visit the "Mire Emergency" project at Gomde, Lindholme to see grassroots conservation delivering action. Sphagnum doing well in the Mossery polytunnels at Lindolme. Local community initiative to help deliver recovery of damaged peatland. Key message to all was not to perpetuate destruction of peatlands by buying peat, but to go PEAT FREE.
September 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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An interesting #HumberheadLevels find, a female Southern Oak Bush-cricket found by a friend on her car earlier today. #Thorne #Doncaster #Yorkshire #Orthoptera
First recorded in UK in 2001 so a recent ish addition, a predator of Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner according to the literature!
Southern Oak Bush-cricket found in Thorne 09/09/2025
September 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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These little critters can inflict a quite painful 'bite', I can still feel it an hour after it pierced my finger 😒

Himacerus apterus aka Tree Damsel Bug in my #HumberheadLevels garden this afternoon🪳 #Nabidae
Himacerus apterus aka Tree Damsel Bug. Humbergead Levels garden.
August 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Are there any #Sawfly #Symphyta experts able to confirm my thoughts that these are Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly in my #HumberheadLevels garden (mixed species hedge) this afternoon #Hymenoptera
Believe these to be Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly. Humberhead Levels garden hedge.
August 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Anyone good with identifying fish from their underside🤔 Three quite large specimens dead this morning #Hatfield Waste Drain despite EA aerating the drain #HumberheadLevels #Fish

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July 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Definitely not the best of photographs but a record shot of actinic #moth trap bycatch🦋 A nice mahogany coloured Arhopalus rusticus aka Dusky #Longhorn #Beetle 🪲 Indentations on thorax quite noticeable, helping ID #HumberheadLevels garden #Cerambycidae
July 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Always nice to catch Lymantria monacha aka Black Arches, a stunning #moth in my opinion & a good #HumberheadLevels garden record #Lepidoptera 🦋
July 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Another of this mornings reasonably obliging & fresh looking #odonata, Aeshna cyanea aka Southern Hawker with ♂️ & ♀️ hawking my #HumberheasLevels garden #Yorkshire #Dragonflies
July 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Morning sunshine is bringing out the #odonata Chalcolestes viridis aka Willow Emerald in my #HumberheasLevels garden, had one last week but not as obliging as this one (despite wind & bit skitish) #Dragonflies #Yorkshire
Willow Emerald Damselfly. Key ID features include the amber pterostigma & prominent spur on the thorax. Willow Emerald Damselfly. Presence of a prominent dark green spur on the side of the thorax is characteristic, as are light brown pterostigma.
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Reckon this is a Chromatomyia spp. Leaf mine found on Sonchus oleraceus earlier today in a semi rural garden (outskirts of a village) #HumberheadLevels
#Diptera #Agromyzidae

See also www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Diptera...
July 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Begs the question what Buckleria paludum aka #Sundew Plume have in their make up that ensures they do not fall victim #HumberheadLevels #Lepidoptera #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
July 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Another early morning #HumberheadLevels garden visitor, flew from the hedge across my path & settled briefly on the white garage door Amphipyna pyramidae/berbera (Copper / Svenson's Copper Underwing) but too quick to check necessary for definitive species ID 😒 #Lepidoptera ##MothsMatter #TeamMoth
Will have to log as Amphipyna spp. / Copper Underwing as too quick to check the necessary for a definitive ID. Underside of the hindwing in Copper is limited to the outer third & ends abruptly at dark cross-band, on Svenson's this extends towards base in trailing half. For more information recommend : Waring, Townend & Lewington, 2017.
July 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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You can see why they get their vernacular names of 'Tiger Crane Flies" from🤔🙂 This, Nephrotoma flavescens is the 'Primrose Tiger' (Stubbs, 2021). Very mobile around willow tree in the garden, not cooperating for a decent photo but not a problem in terms of species ID🙃 #HumberheadLevels #Tipulids
July 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Found this wee critter climbing the brickwork to eventually settle under eaves of a bay window🙃 Speckled Bush Cricket nymph, 🦗 an unexpected visitor yesterday in sweltering 30 deg. C 😵‍💫 🦗 #HumberheadLevels #Orthoptera
Leptophyes punctatissima (Speckled Bush Cricket) nymph found 30/06/2025 climbing brickwork of house, settled under eaves of a bay window.
July 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Picking blackcurrants on a balmy summer evening, not a good idea 🦟🦟🦟🦟 midges & mozzies were ravenous 🦟🦟🦟🦟 🥴😖😬 #Nature #Fruit
June 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Looks like someone pulled the plug on parts of #Hatfield Moors SSSI for the Yorkshire Naturalists Union visit to the sphagnum growing project "Mire Emergency" on Lindholme on a humid 28 deg. C day #HumberheadLevels
June 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Forget the plastic packaged supermarket version & OK maybe a shorter season but give me local grown #Strawberries any day Shame Blue-sky isn't sniff enabled, & not to mention the flavour, oh so yummy 😋 #HumberheadLevels
June 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Ho hum, I'd been good lately but restraint has buckled 🙄 with another addition to my natural history/ento library 🐞 Ordered Wednesday, arrived today - excellent service from @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social & no plastic in the packaging👍 Now to improve my micro spp. 🐞list🤞
June 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Glorious weather for @fossilbeetle.bsky.social students to undertake field work, taking core samples in River Went #floodplain meadows near Sykehouse #HumberheadLevels Nice to be serenaded by Cuckoo's🙂
River Went at Topham, Sykehouse. Burnet Heritage Trust's Fleet Ings. University of Glasgow students taking core samples in the River Went floodplain meadows.
June 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM