Adrian Dutton
@nottscoleoptera.bsky.social
Paid to hunt Beetles, what more could a man want from a working life?
Jurassic coast all to myself! Apart from person who tok the pic.
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Jurassic coast all to myself! Apart from person who tok the pic.
Microscope packed away for first time in about 30 years. Feel at a loss but house move imminent. #Entomology #Coleoptera
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Microscope packed away for first time in about 30 years. Feel at a loss but house move imminent. #Entomology #Coleoptera
A flooded River Trent and a caterpillar trying to get away from it all.
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A flooded River Trent and a caterpillar trying to get away from it all.
Not too sure what this fungi is. Growing in a plant pot in which a Silver Birch sapling is growing. Approximately 15cm across. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Not too sure what this fungi is. Growing in a plant pot in which a Silver Birch sapling is growing. Approximately 15cm across. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
A big Roach! A rare fish at this size.
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A big Roach! A rare fish at this size.
Acrotrichis intermedia spermatheca. #coleoptera #Ptiliidae
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Acrotrichis intermedia spermatheca. #coleoptera #Ptiliidae
Tabanus autumnalis, the Large Marsh TV Horsefly, a rather impressive beast. #Diptera #Tabanidae
October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tabanus autumnalis, the Large Marsh TV Horsefly, a rather impressive beast. #Diptera #Tabanidae
Beetles, the natural world, I love but the greatest pleasure in life, collecting my granddaughters from school and letting them loose down the green lane that takes them home.
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Beetles, the natural world, I love but the greatest pleasure in life, collecting my granddaughters from school and letting them loose down the green lane that takes them home.
Clematis vitalba still going strong mid October growing out of a Nottingham city wall. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Clematis vitalba still going strong mid October growing out of a Nottingham city wall. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
It’s always the same three Elmids found on any survey here in the East Midlands, Oulimnius tuberculatus, Elmis aenea and Limnius volckmari. Also present Orectochilus villosus and Nebrioporus elegans. #Elmidae #Coleoptera #Gyrinidae #Dytiscidae
October 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s always the same three Elmids found on any survey here in the East Midlands, Oulimnius tuberculatus, Elmis aenea and Limnius volckmari. Also present Orectochilus villosus and Nebrioporus elegans. #Elmidae #Coleoptera #Gyrinidae #Dytiscidae
Woolly Bear on the kitchen wall #Dermestidae #Coleoptera
October 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Woolly Bear on the kitchen wall #Dermestidae #Coleoptera
Like little trilobites, larva of the common Riffle Beetle, Elmis aenea. #Coleoptera #Elmidae
October 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Like little trilobites, larva of the common Riffle Beetle, Elmis aenea. #Coleoptera #Elmidae
It’s a no aquatic invert’ determination day today. Little snails contributing to the case of Ceraclea fulva. River Mease. #Trichoptera
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It’s a no aquatic invert’ determination day today. Little snails contributing to the case of Ceraclea fulva. River Mease. #Trichoptera
@britmycolsoc.org.uk What’s this beautiful fungi growing from dead Salic caprea in my Nottinghamshire garden.
October 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@britmycolsoc.org.uk What’s this beautiful fungi growing from dead Salic caprea in my Nottinghamshire garden.
Wasps enjoying themselves before the first frosts feeding on a dead vole in the garden. #Hymenoptera #wasps
September 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Wasps enjoying themselves before the first frosts feeding on a dead vole in the garden. #Hymenoptera #wasps
Not my usual fayre of carded beetle but a pinned fly and a rather scarce one of ancient woodland, Pandivirilia melaleuca. Stumbled across it whilst have a rummage, 2015, Worcestershire. #Diptera #Saproxylic #Therevidae
September 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Not my usual fayre of carded beetle but a pinned fly and a rather scarce one of ancient woodland, Pandivirilia melaleuca. Stumbled across it whilst have a rummage, 2015, Worcestershire. #Diptera #Saproxylic #Therevidae
Male Bledius spectabilis,fantastic horned pronotum. A cracking Staphylinid beetle, Dorset. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Male Bledius spectabilis,fantastic horned pronotum. A cracking Staphylinid beetle, Dorset. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera
Timarcha tenebricosa a near certainty on any south-west coast path. #Chrysomelidae #Coleoptera
September 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Timarcha tenebricosa a near certainty on any south-west coast path. #Chrysomelidae #Coleoptera
Little grains of sand on the move, Georissus crenulatus. This tiny beetle covers itself in sand. Decent bit of camouflage. #Coleoptera #Georissidae
September 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Little grains of sand on the move, Georissus crenulatus. This tiny beetle covers itself in sand. Decent bit of camouflage. #Coleoptera #Georissidae
Final wetland invertebrate survey of the year. Lost in a Midlands river.
September 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Final wetland invertebrate survey of the year. Lost in a Midlands river.
British “wildlife” whilst out on an invert survey yesterday. Tame birds bred and released ready to be shot. Don’t know about shooting getting run over was more likely.
September 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
British “wildlife” whilst out on an invert survey yesterday. Tame birds bred and released ready to be shot. Don’t know about shooting getting run over was more likely.
Gyrophaena, they all look pretty much the same until you dissect out the median lobes. I don’t much bother with a key, just find a male and whip its bits out. Here’s one from Gyrophaena fasciata. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera #Beetle
August 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Gyrophaena, they all look pretty much the same until you dissect out the median lobes. I don’t much bother with a key, just find a male and whip its bits out. Here’s one from Gyrophaena fasciata. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera #Beetle
What I really love about my hobby/job is I find beetles that I’m really not expecting, they come as a nice surprise amongst the more familiar. A good example is this tiny saproxylic Cyphea curtula (2 mm) pretty rare here in the UK. Lincolnshire woodland. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
What I really love about my hobby/job is I find beetles that I’m really not expecting, they come as a nice surprise amongst the more familiar. A good example is this tiny saproxylic Cyphea curtula (2 mm) pretty rare here in the UK. Lincolnshire woodland. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera
Getting near to the end of the season, today’s little invertebrate escapade onto baked hard coal washings. Very little life at all.
August 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Getting near to the end of the season, today’s little invertebrate escapade onto baked hard coal washings. Very little life at all.
Collected and pinned when I was a teenager, several decades ago. My Dad bought me a cabinet with some back pay, he worked for Rolls-Royce. Still have the cabinet and still have fond memories of youth. The site where the Clouded Yellows were taken is now a huge retail park on Crown Estate land.
August 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Collected and pinned when I was a teenager, several decades ago. My Dad bought me a cabinet with some back pay, he worked for Rolls-Royce. Still have the cabinet and still have fond memories of youth. The site where the Clouded Yellows were taken is now a huge retail park on Crown Estate land.