Andrew McGleish
scotsguyinwales.bsky.social
Andrew McGleish
@scotsguyinwales.bsky.social
Noticer of lifeforms but trying to focus on Hoverflies and Bees. Retired, so volunteering, enjoying being a papa, recording wildlife and learning. South Wales now. Lefty.
Music, books, art, nature.
Great day out at Kenfig NNR with the Entomology team from National Museum Wales Cardiff. The highlight for me was this Sand Bear Spider, Arctosa perita. You can see how well camouflaged it is against the sand.

@britishspiders.bsky.social #spiders #arachnids #invertebrates #wales #cymru #kenfig
June 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
And we did, but not many in the cloudy windy weather. This Sericomyia silentis was the showiest of the day, and waited till back at the car park. I see I've even got a selfie in the reflection.
@sewbrec.org.uk @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

#Hoverflies #Syrphidae #Diptera #Sericomyia
May 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This, I believe, is the proper way to regard the Fan-bristled Robberfly, Dysmachus trigonus, on a sunny day at Kenfig National Nature Reserve.

#Invertebrates #Diptera #Asilidae #Robberflies #Wales #Cymru #SandsOfLife
May 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Myathropa florea, female, aka the Batman Hoverfly. First of the year for me, but expect to see many more in the months ahead
Seen on the South Wales coast today.

One of my favourite Hoverflies, just don't ask how many favourites I have.

#Syrphidae #Hoverflies #Invertebrates #Diptera #Wales #Cymru
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Good week for flying things on my fingers. My first ever Bombylius discolor, Dotted Bee-Fly. Then a male Andrena nitida, Grey Patched Mining Bee, part of a huge nesting aggregation of Mining Bees in the middle of Cardiff.

#Invertebrate #Bees #Bee-Flies #Andrena #Bombylius #Cymru #Wales #Caerdydd
April 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A lovely little Sandpit Mining Bee, Andrena barbilabris posing on my finger at Kenfig National Nature Reserve yesterday. Plenty of males like him in evidence patrolling low along the paths.

#Kenfig #Cymru #Wales #Invertebrates #Bees
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This female Kestrel was very tolerant of me creeping towards her. I'm sure she's used to people walking the coastal path.
#birdingwales #ukbirding #naturephotography #birds #bluesky #ukwildlife #birdsofprey #wildlife #photography #Cymru #ValeOfGlamorgan #WalesCoastPath #LlwybrArfordirCymru
February 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Middle of winter? Of course Wild Angelica will be flowering, eh? Seen at #Kenfig NNR last Friday #WildFlowerHour #Wales #Cymru
January 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I was very surprised to find these eggs of Orgyia antiqua, aka Rusty Tussock, Vapourer Moth or Siobyn at #Kenfig NNR today. I must have walked past them dozens of times.
#Invertebrates #Moths #Wales #Cymru
January 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Looking in the leaf litter with my granddaughter, we turned up a Birch Shieldbug, Elasmostethus interstinctus. #BryngarwPark
#hexapodecember #hemiptera
December 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Wild variations in my Spotify wrap for 2024, comes with being a papa. #Spotify #playlists
December 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM