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This lifetime I will be mostly sharing: pets, food & invertebrates 🦋🐜🐝🐞🦗🐕🐈‍⬛

Proud member of #TeamMoth #TeamCranefly #TeamHemiptera & #TeamOrthoptera
Merv new to garden last week. Hoping there is something in the trap in the morning, would be my first #GardenMothScheme run with no empty traps 🤞🤞🤞
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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If you are not ready to hang up your moth trap for the year just yet, please do consider our winter scheme which runs through until March.

Contact your regional coordinator for more information on the winter scheme: gardenmothscheme.org.uk/info

#TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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It's the final week of our 2025 summer scheme 💔

Please send your results to your local organiser after emptying your moth trap. Thanks to everyone who took part this year, your records are making a real impact on moth research.

#TeamMoth #MothsMatter #GardenMothScheme
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The final harvest 💔
October 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
First garden hedgehog klaxon 📢📢📢
September 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
@cofnod.org.uk ObsId reckons this is Spitting Spider but it's in my greenhouse so I'm not convinced 🤔
September 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A murder scene in the trap this morning 😱😱

#TeamMoth #MothsMatter
September 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Was admiring the Ivy Bees in the garden, then discovered the source a few doors down! (video below)
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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More Large Marsh Grasshoppers (Stethophyma grossum) from our return visit to Westhay Moor NNR on Sunday. The afternoon sunshine after the morning deluges brought them out & we heard much singing from the males. @rockwolf74.bsky.social spotted this fabulous female, liveried in pink & green.
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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SEWBReC #SpeciesOfTheMonth for September is Opilio canestrinii! Can you spot this leggy species on a wall near you?

See if you can fill in gaps in our distribution map: aderyn.lercwales.org.uk/density/dens...

More info including identification tips here: www.sewbrec.org.uk/sewbrec-cms-...
September 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Another garden addition hiding in the trap this morning, Andromeda Lacebug 💞
August 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Canary Shouldered Thorn (Ennomos alniaria), Bucks 2025.
Welsh name Carpiog Gwar Melyn - meaning yellow nape ragged.

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
August 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
My first garden herptile 😍🥳😍🥳🎉

(technically in the house rather than garden but now safely relocated to a flower bed 😁)
August 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A lovely bedroom visitor, Tipula fulvipennis

#TeamCranefly
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
August 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The migrants didn't arrive, but autumn did
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter
August 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Lavernock Point today - Clouded Yellow 😁, an exploding caravan 😬, no Jersey Tiger 😔
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Both traps out tonight, I am manifesting a Jersey Tiger 😁
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter
Hopefully a very good night on the way for migrants, especially areas to the east of the cold front. Good luck! #teammoth
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It was pure joy to see the Scaly Crickets (Pseudomogoplistes vicentae) with @vc40orthops.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago at Marloes Sands! #Orthoptera #ScalyCrickets
August 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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A trip to the south of England brings home just how common Southern Oak Bush-cricket, Meconema meridionale is there. We found them in numbers at RSPB Pulborough Brooks (where these were photographed) and also at Dungeness, both times in 'natural' habitat, well away from the usual urban settings.
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Final work event of the year yesterday 🥳
August 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Delighted to win a category in RCT PhotoMarathon this year 😁

Went up to Porth to see the exhibition today, lots of great images. Looking forward to 2027 event already!
August 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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#RecordOfTheWeek is Death's-head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos), with 2 caterpillars seen in Tongwynlais by H. Peel.

This is the largest moth found in UK, usually only seen in Wales as a rare migrant, so this breeding record is very unexpected!

Many thanks for the record submitted via iRecord.
August 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Walk timetable for Parc Cwm Darran #BioBlitz on Saturday! All are welcome to join this free event: www.sewbrec.org.uk/diaryevents/...
August 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Our recommended event this week is Parc Cwm Darran #BioBlitz on Saturday. Join SEWBReC & Buglife to discover the wildlife on this former colliery spoil site.

All are welcome at this free event!

Find other local and online nature events on our website: www.sewbrec.org.uk/diaryevents
August 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM