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@duleyp.bsky.social
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Opportunistic snap of a Fleecy Jumping #spider (Pseudeuophrys lanigera) which has taken up residence on our front door (least I think it is, corrections welcome!). It's tiny, about 2mm head to tail! Will try to get better 📸 on a day when I've more 🪫. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #arachnids
A close up photo of a spider on a white PVC door. Most of the frame is taken up with the white PVC which has a woodgrain effect embossed in to it. The spider is looking down from the top right corner of the frame. It is mainly dark brown with a light splodge down the middle of its abdomen, like a badly painted racing stripe. It's legs alternate in dark and light brown stripes. It has two large eyes at the front of its head.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
Happened across a Noble False Widow #Spider in the garden, Steatoda nobilis. She'd set up home in the rotted out center of an old ivy trunk. Only had my #fairphone6 on me, but a good enough 📷 to share for #arachtober. #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife
A portrait photo of a large black spider. The majority of the frame is covered by light brown wood, in and out of focus. The spider is crouched on the left hand side of the frame with its legs stretched out across the frame to the right hand side. Its legs are a reddish brown, and are obscuring its head. Its large abodomen is predominantly black with some light white hairs around the edge, and white pattern, like an inverted Y, which is made up of small splodges, almost like mosaic tiles.
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
The plants are all a bit confused, aren't they? We've some unseasonable Blackberry flowers! #wildflowerhour
A cluster of five white flowers at the end of a blackberry stalk. The background is out of focus dark green leaves. The flowers have a multitude of thin stamens in the center, with yellow pollen visible on the end of some of them.
October 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
No camera action for me for a while, so here's a Wolf #Spider from a month ago for #aractober. #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife
#gardenwildlife #invertebrates
A photo of a light brown spider, with banded legs, and two dark splodges on its abdomen, looking off to the bottom left of the frame. It's resting on a green leaf that is mottled with brown and white blotches.
October 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
A Redstem Stork's-bill (?) for #wildflowerhour. Nestled beneath a street name sign just down the road from home. It's a little patch of colour. 😊
A cluster of four flowers, each with five pink petals, with a background of luch green foliage. One flower is isolated in the foreground and is next two developing seed pods, which have long pointed 'bills' that eminating from them. The stem immediately below the flowers is a deep red.
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A pseudoscorpion for #arachtober. A Compost Chernes [pselaphochernes scorpioides] from the garden compost heap.
#wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife #macro
A plan view of a eight legged invertebrate that has two long arms reaching out from its head with crab like claws on the end. The body looks like one large reddy brown oval, with the main portion bisected by a lighter line, with each side split into 10 regular sections. The body, arms, and legs, are covered in tiny short hairs, with occaisional longer ones which act as sensory organs.
October 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
My luck was back this PM. Managed to find 2, with the same characteristics. Side light and flash showed up the hairs. I think you're right (unsurprisingly!), clubbed setae, and trichobothria on the abdomen and 4th tarsus, so pselaphochernes scorpioides. Do you concur? I have other 📷 if needed.
A view from above of a tiny arachnid. It has long arms at the front ending in crab like claws. The abdomen is segmented with the red-brown plates separated by lighter lines. The lighting is set to highlight the tiny hairs that cover its body, which allow it to sense what is happening around it.
October 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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My word, the news is unrelentedly shit at the moment... so I'm switching to my Nature list only on BSky for a bit!

This female Ivy #bee was going her thing last weekend. The ivy was alive with bees, flies, and wasps, which was delightful. 😊 #solitarybees #wildlifefrommywindow #insects #inverts
A profile shot of a fluffy bee. She has yellow and black stripes on her abdomen, a fluffy orange downy thorax, and a fluffy head, apart from her dark eyes and antennae. Her hind leg is covered in pollen collected from the Ivy flowers she's resting on. The ivy flowers are like tiny globes with a stalk out the top with the pollen held on the end.
October 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
Found one in the garden today, after some pointers from @vannabartlett.bsky.social. Not sure I've ever noticed them before. Does your post mean that we can expect a casting of one in the future?
A photo of a brown bodied 8 Legged creature with scorpion like pincers held out ahead of its body. It is tiny, ~2mm long, and is on a pale green underside of a leaf.
September 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
@vannabartlett.bsky.social Success! Very happy to have "discovered" something new. Thank you! I think this might keep me occupied with the 📸 for a big. 😊

I've ordered a copy of the FSC guide, can you give me any pointers ahead of its arrival?
#wildlifefrommywindow #arachnids #invertebrates
A photo of a brown bodied 8 Legged creature with scorpion like pincers held out ahead of its body. It is tiny, ~2mm long, and is on a pale green underside of a leaf.
September 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
One from a week or so ago. The Evening Primrose is lasting well, and is providing some late season nourishment. The low evening sun showed that sometimes there's a risk associated with a free meal though! (Another Flower Crab #spider) #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife
A close up photo of a bright yellow flower. One section of the petals is backlit, and has the unmistakeable silhouette of a spider cast upon it.
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
duleyp.bsky.social
Had a rest, during Fenris' morning constitutional, by a sun-drenched patch of ivy and just watched the Ivy #bees do their thing. Sound up for humming of insects, Jackdaw, and Blue Tits.
#Insects #invertebrates #ukwildlife
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
It's been a quiet time for me with the camera, for various reasons. Couldn't resist this Ladder Backer Hover #fly though. It was a cool, wet, morning and it was waiting on the Musk Mallow for some sun to warm it up. #wildlifefrommywindow #diptera #invertebrates #insects #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife
A portrait, side view, of a thin hoverfly. It's perched verticallly on a pink petal which is dotted with rain drops. The petal stretches into the foreground, becoming out of focus. The back ground is the out of focus pink petals on the other side of the flower. The fly has large black eyes and two stubby antennae. The torso has light brown hairs on its brown shiny body. The tail has white and black markings which, although not visible from this angle, give it its ladder backed name,
September 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
I'm confined to the sofa today, so another photo of the female Common Blue #butterfly from last weekend to end #invertefest for me. #wildlifefrommywindow #insects #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife
A portrait photo of a butterfly perched on a flower seed head. The seed head has five prongs reaching up, light brown dried out fingers, and the butterfly is perched on one of these and is angled down and to the right. It's white and black striped antennae stretch out at the front, and it's right eye is just visible from behind the nearest wing which is edge on. The furthest wing is angled to show off the irridescent blue sheen that emerges from the mainly brown colouring. Around the hind edge of the wing are white panels with black dots in them, with orange splodges on the edge.
August 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
duleyp.bsky.social
I found a hind wing from a Red Admiral #butterfly (?). Possibly from a bird attack, maybe it escaped. 🤷 With every magnifying device fitted to the 📷 I managed this photo, which shows the scales nicely. #invertefest #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #insects #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife
A landscape macro photo of a butterfly wing. It is close enough to show the individual scales that make up the wing surface, and so looks like a pixellated image. The wing section is predominantly red, with some black splodges that contrast highly. There is one section of light blue scales, and the wing edge has a white lining. The wing is quite tattered.
August 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
duleyp.bsky.social
Lack of variation for todays #invertefest 📷, again. However it is a different Flower Crab #Spider. This one much smaller, ~5mm body length, & on a buddliea. It's not in a traditional pose as it is shovelling a tiny fly into its mouth. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife
A pale yellow spider, with some tonal variation in stripes on its body, resting on some small purple flowers (which collectively make up one flower head on a buddliea plant). Its front legs are curved into its mouth as it manipulates a small fly it has caught.
August 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
I couldn't find something different in the garden for todays #invertefest photo, so went for a different composition instead. Someone's playing peek-a-boo!

#wildlifefrommywindow #BugSky #invertebrates #insects #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

[it's ANOTHER Sloe Bug]
A portrait photo which has old, slightly dishelvelled, red petals fanning out from the middle of the left hand side. From behind the middle petal, on either side, the legs of a bug hiding on the reverse can be seen. Just below the petal, about halfway across the frame, enough of the insects body is visible for one eye to be seen, and the black and white striped antennae are also protruding.
August 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
It's a bit blustery here today and this Flower Crab #spider was hanging onto a Scabious in the meadow patch like grim death. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertefest #invertebrates #arachnid #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife
A portrait photo of a yellow spider, which is reaching out from the top right corner of the frame, where it is perched on a single blue petal from a Scabious flower. Other than the lightish green stem of the plant crossing the frame to the bottom left the rest of the background is dark green and blurred. This contrasts with teh bright yellow of the spiders out stretched legs as it waits for a passing insect to catch.
August 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
duleyp.bsky.social
There were a couple of ♀️ Common Blue #butterflies sunning themselves on the cone flowers at the weekend. #invertefest #invertebrates #insects #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife
A portrait photo of some dusky red cone flowers, but the focus of the photo is a female butterfly who is facing the camera with her legs spread, and wings slightly parted. The distant background is unfocussed light green. The butterfly has a furry blue body, and wings which are mostly brown, but with an irridescent blue tint.
August 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
duleyp.bsky.social
A last stage Sloe #Bug nymph posing on a cone flower petal this weekend. AKA the Hairy Shield Bug, this species seems to be by far the most common shield bug in our garden. #invertefest #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife #invertebrates #insects
A portrait view of a small disc shaped insect sat on a pale yellow petal which extends like a tongue from the top of the frame, with its tip ending just in frame at the bottom. The background is a dark green blur. The insect is facing the camera, with its eyes in focus and its antennae stretching out either side, with three cigar shaped segments in each. The bug is a dark brown, and it has hairs protruding from its body.
August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Spent a little time this afternoon knelt by the Marjoram watching the Common Furrow #bees coming and going. They're dinky little #solitarybees (the face is a little over 2mm across) and they don't ever seem to stay still! #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife #invertebrates #insects
A portrait close up of a tiny bee half facing the viewer, whilst standing on the green flowers (with the odd white petal) of a Marjoram plant. The bee has light brown fur on its face, and a patch of yellow above its jaws. Its thorax is also covered in light brown fur, its legs has yellow knees, and feet, with dark brown 'shins'.
August 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The Thistle is proving a real sanctuary for old, tired, #leafcutter #bees this week. This poor dear is missing her front right leg. Am going to make sure there's a nice large patch of Thistle in the beds next year. #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #solitarybees #invertebrates #insects
A profile photo of a bee, facing left to right, on a pink thistle. The bee is black with light brown hairs, which are slightly worn off in patches. She's dusted with yellow polle on her back and face.
August 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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My eldest spotted this Wood Carving Leafcutter #solitarybee bedraggled on a thistle. She slowly perked up after the rain, and moved into a patch of sunshine. She's 'old', with tatty wings and damage to one eye, but gorgeous all the same. #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #invertebrates #insects
A dark brown bee, with light brown fluffy highlights, climbing up the side of a blue thistle flower. A dark brown bee, with light brown fluffy highlights, viewed from her right hand side, on the top of a blue thistle flower. Under her abdomen is a yellow brown pollen brush, that becomes dark brown under her tail. A dark brown bee, with light brown fluffy highlights, viewed from her left front, on the top of a blue thistle flower. Her left eye has a crease across the middle that might be from impact damage.
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I've started to experiment with using the flash, and with a new diffuser got these of a ♂️ Early #bumblebee. It's a new dimension for composition, so a bit to get my head around. #wildlifefrommywindow #Insects #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife
A profile shot of a fluffy bumblebee standing on an orange flower that looks a bit like a hedgehogs prickles, against a black background. The bee has light orange furry face, and bands on black yellow and orange along its body. It's VERY fluffy! A shot of a fluffy bumblebee standing on an orange flower that looks a bit like a hedgehogs prickles, against a black background. The bee has light orange furry face, and bands on black yellow and orange along its body. The bee is looking off to the right of the photo, with one wing extended as it prepares to take off.
July 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Spotted a unit of a Poplar Hawk #moth #caterpillar on the Willow this afternoon. Thought I'd try the UV torch tonight to see how much it fluoresced, quite a bit was the answer. Although it was clearer through the camera. Will hunt for more at the wkend. #wildlifefrommywindow #insects #invertebrates
A portrait photo, all in purple and black. The lighter colour being the brightest reflection of the ultra violet light from the caterpillar which is climbing down one of the vertical branches and then reaching it's head out to eat a leaf, making it look like a lower case letter l.
July 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM