Ivysuckle💚🍃
@ivysuckle.bsky.social
Savouring nature's details. Worcs, UK.
Suspending activity here, for reasons I'd rather not explain. Hope the Bluesky nature community goes from strength to strength. Best wishes to all. 🦋💚🍃
November 14, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Suspending activity here, for reasons I'd rather not explain. Hope the Bluesky nature community goes from strength to strength. Best wishes to all. 🦋💚🍃
Obsessed with the sequin-like glittering scales of Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae) 🦋💚🍃
October 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Obsessed with the sequin-like glittering scales of Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae) 🦋💚🍃
Deciduous/evergreen 💚🍃
October 18, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Deciduous/evergreen 💚🍃
Scytodes thoracica, the Spitting Spider, rescued from our bath this morning. A first encounter, rather a rare spider in Worcestershire I think🕷💚🍃
October 17, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Scytodes thoracica, the Spitting Spider, rescued from our bath this morning. A first encounter, rather a rare spider in Worcestershire I think🕷💚🍃
In her mesh web on a forsythia leaf in the garden, a female Nigma walckenaeri recently 🕷💚🍃
October 12, 2024 at 9:50 AM
In her mesh web on a forsythia leaf in the garden, a female Nigma walckenaeri recently 🕷💚🍃
Introduced to a new ichneumon subfamily today by this lovely Xorides sp (Xoridinae) investigating oak bark for signs of beetle larvae. Monkwood, Worcs. 💚🍃
October 11, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Introduced to a new ichneumon subfamily today by this lovely Xorides sp (Xoridinae) investigating oak bark for signs of beetle larvae. Monkwood, Worcs. 💚🍃
A beautiful wingless wasp, female Gelis sp, found in the garden this afternoon 💚🍃
September 30, 2024 at 5:00 PM
A beautiful wingless wasp, female Gelis sp, found in the garden this afternoon 💚🍃
Armchair orthopterology - a lovely female Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) on our patio door between the rains 🦗💚🍃
September 28, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Armchair orthopterology - a lovely female Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) on our patio door between the rains 🦗💚🍃
Best thing from last night's moth trap is not a moth. Spectacular nocturnal ichneumon Opheltes glaucopterus 🧡🍃
September 23, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Best thing from last night's moth trap is not a moth. Spectacular nocturnal ichneumon Opheltes glaucopterus 🧡🍃
A pleasure to see the first Black Rustics of autumn 🦋🖤🍃
September 22, 2024 at 8:55 AM
A pleasure to see the first Black Rustics of autumn 🦋🖤🍃
Linyphia triangularis: queen of the money spiders 🕷💚🍃
September 18, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Linyphia triangularis: queen of the money spiders 🕷💚🍃
Rhopalus subrufus 👾💚🍃
September 16, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Rhopalus subrufus 👾💚🍃
Beautiful carabid beetle Chlaenius vestitus found in the garden a few days ago, presumably attracted in by the light of a recent moth trap. 💚🍃
September 11, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Beautiful carabid beetle Chlaenius vestitus found in the garden a few days ago, presumably attracted in by the light of a recent moth trap. 💚🍃
New for the garden & very welcome, crabronid wasp Trypoxylon. Or as I think of it, Trypoxylong. 💚🍃
September 1, 2024 at 6:59 PM
New for the garden & very welcome, crabronid wasp Trypoxylon. Or as I think of it, Trypoxylong. 💚🍃
It's Ivy Bee time! 🐝💚🍃
August 30, 2024 at 6:11 PM
It's Ivy Bee time! 🐝💚🍃
Maternal care in the Flower Crab Spider (Misumena vatia). This famished-looking female has secured her brood inside a folded honeysuckle leaf. Now she guards the eggs from ichneumons & other would-be attackers. Her life will end within days of their hatching.🕷💚🍃
August 26, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Maternal care in the Flower Crab Spider (Misumena vatia). This famished-looking female has secured her brood inside a folded honeysuckle leaf. Now she guards the eggs from ichneumons & other would-be attackers. Her life will end within days of their hatching.🕷💚🍃
On an ivy hedge outside the city, not yet in flower but sheltered from the wind, *lots* of small blue wasps - male Ormyrus, in the UK from a monogeneric family of oak gall wasp parasitoids 💚🍃
August 23, 2024 at 6:40 PM
On an ivy hedge outside the city, not yet in flower but sheltered from the wind, *lots* of small blue wasps - male Ormyrus, in the UK from a monogeneric family of oak gall wasp parasitoids 💚🍃
A first for me, a wasp in braconid tribe Chelonini, on wild angelica at Monkwood, Worcs yesterday. Unusual & distinctive abdomen shape, parasitises tortricid & pyralid moth larvae. 💚🍃
August 21, 2024 at 5:24 PM
A first for me, a wasp in braconid tribe Chelonini, on wild angelica at Monkwood, Worcs yesterday. Unusual & distinctive abdomen shape, parasitises tortricid & pyralid moth larvae. 💚🍃
Showstopper hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum s.l. glowing bright in the garden in overcast weather today 😎💚🍃
August 21, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Showstopper hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum s.l. glowing bright in the garden in overcast weather today 😎💚🍃
Missed the adult moth this year, so delighted to bump into this Lime Hawk-moth caterpillar trundling down a gatepost looking for a place to pupate at WorcsWT Knapp & Papermill on Sunday 🐛💚🍃
August 20, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Missed the adult moth this year, so delighted to bump into this Lime Hawk-moth caterpillar trundling down a gatepost looking for a place to pupate at WorcsWT Knapp & Papermill on Sunday 🐛💚🍃
Ant-mimic par excellence, tiny wingless female ichneumon Gelis sp feeding on honeydew from strawberry leaves in the garden today 💚🍃
August 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Ant-mimic par excellence, tiny wingless female ichneumon Gelis sp feeding on honeydew from strawberry leaves in the garden today 💚🍃
A charming male Drinker moth, Euthrix potatoria, attracted to actinic light in the garden at the weekend 🦋💚🍃
July 16, 2024 at 7:17 PM
A charming male Drinker moth, Euthrix potatoria, attracted to actinic light in the garden at the weekend 🦋💚🍃