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Southern oak bush cricket
(Meconema meridionale)
on a dirty car

Beats a polecat any day.

#UKWildlife
Southern oak bush cricket (Meconema meridionale) on a dirty car
August 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Canary-shouldered thorn (Ennomos alniaria) hiding in the ivy.

#UKWildlife #TeamMoth #Moths #Insects

iPhone 13, cropped & rotated, no filters.
Colour image of a canary-shouldered thorn, which is a yellow-coloured moth, about an inch and a bit long. The moth is hanging from the underside of an ivy leaf, with its wings folded.
August 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Very friendly comma, in Suffolk, yesterday.

#UKWildlife
Colour photo of a European comma butterfly resting on a man’s right hand. There is lavender in the background. The comma is a rusty orange butterfly, about 4-5 cm across, with dark brown patches on its wings.
July 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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This very much reminds me of the polar bear warning signs as you leave the built up area of Longyearbyen in Svalbard.

The text underneath translates as “Applies to the whole of Svalbard”, with a subtext of “… including behind you. BEHIND YOU!”
July 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hawthorn shield bug on the compost bin.

We can’t all snap a white-tailed sea eagle.

#UKWildlife #bugs #etymology #oops #entomology
Colour image of a hawthorn shield bug on a compost bin. The bug is bright green and shield shaped, with a copper coloured cross on its back. It’s about the size of your fingernail, but there’s no scale in the photo.
July 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I wish ICE was called something else so that I could mute the word without risking missing important posts about gin and tonic.
NUMBER TWO: Don’t you want to interrogate the prisoners, sir? CAPTAIN: Dear oh dear, why on Earth should I want to do that? NUMBER TWO: Well to get information out of them sir. They are my prisoners, can’t I just interrogate them - a little bit? CAPTAIN: Oh, all right, if you must. Ask them what they want to drink. NUMBER TWO: Oh thank you sir. [Shouts] All right! You scum! You vermin! CAPTAIN: I say, steady on Number Two. NUMBER TWO: Oh very good sir. Whaddya you want to drink?! FORD: Well, uh, the gin-and-tonic sounds very nice to me. Arthur? ARTHUR: What? Oh yes.. NUMBER TWO: With ice or without? FORD: Oh, with please. NUMBER TWO: Lemon? FORD: Er, yes please. And do you have any of those little biscuits? You know the cheesy ones? NUMBER TWO: I’m asking the questions! CAPTAIN: Ye-ah… Number Two… Number Two. NUMBER TWO: Sir? CAPTAIN: Push off would you, there’s a good chap. I’m trying to have a relaxing bath.
June 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Just introduced a family of several dozen adult and baby British two-spot ladybirds 🐞 to the garden to keep the aphids company.
These ladybirds were feisty little critters, and preferred crawling on me than the shrubs. They came from GreenGardener at www.greengardener.co.uk/shop/ladybir...
Colour image showing a hand (mine) holding a small open plastic box containing a few remaining ladybirds after some had been released, and a white square of blotting paper soaked in ladybird food. Blurred in the background are some shrubs, and probably lots of aphids.
June 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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New one for me: a beautiful demoiselle. That’s not my description - it’s what it’s called, apparently. But it is aptly named!

#ukwildlife #nature #wildlife #insects #entomology
Colour photo of a beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) at rest on a lilac leaf. It’s a damselfly, with a long shiny blue body and diaphanous copper-coloured wings.
June 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I did as you asked. Now what?
Screen cap of Google search result for “london has a fox problem”.
June 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Oooh, that's going to smart!

@zslofficial.bsky.social #InstantWild
instantwild.zsl.org/task/136348
Camera trap image showing a waterbuck with a zebra's head apparently protruding from its bottom.
April 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Snake’s Head Fritillary at @nationaltrust.org.uk Stowe.
#ukwildlife
Close-up of a snake’s head fritillary in a wildflower meadow, showing the pink and ourple chequerboard pattern on the flower.
April 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Swan and greylag goose at Wicksteed Park, Keytering, Northants today. #UkWildlifePhotos
Swan and goose on a concrete “beach” at Wicksteed Park, Kettering.
April 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I’ve muted most words to do with US politics, dogs and cats, and now BlueSky keeps running out of posts. 🤔
BlueSky’s empty page. It states “This feed is empty! You may need to follow more users or tune your language settings.”
March 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I said… go away… ALL of you!

@comiccontext.bsky.social

#MarvelComics #FantasticFour #StanLee #Submariner
Three panels from Fantastic Four #4 (Marvel Comics). Each panel shows a different man, in a state of having been hit with some force, accompanied by large letters spelling POW / WHAM! / BAM, across the three panels, along with speech bubbles from out of each panel (from the hitter - who is off-panel): “I SAID…” / “GO AWAY…” / “…ALL OF YOU!!”. (Just so you know, the unseen hitter is the Submariner.)
March 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Genius. Google Maps take note.
#GulfOfMexico #GulfOfUnderstanding
Map showing the Gulf of Understanding.
February 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Not found #ZSL or their brilliant #InstantWild app here yet, so let me introduce you to the joy of identifying animals on camera traps around the world. Here's a mouse thing, soon to be dinner for an owl, in Lolldaiga Hills, #Kenya.

Identify these & more here: instantwild.zsl.org/task/145297
Night time camera trap black and white image, showing a dark scene in long grass and brush. In the foreground, a small mouse. Swooping in from the background, in a deadly blur of wings, there is what seems to be an owl.
August 10, 2024 at 8:24 PM