December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A bit of Sitticus floricola video. Enigmatic little beasts. Love the white arrowhead on the cephalothorax. @tanyptera @World_Museum
November 16, 2024 at 9:08 PM
A bit of Sitticus floricola video. Enigmatic little beasts. Love the white arrowhead on the cephalothorax. @tanyptera @World_Museum
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April 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The King of Spades - Tanyptera atrata, or the Giant Sabre Comb-horn. Dramatic common name! This was a lot of fun to draw. #entomology #illustration #diptera #fly #nature #carddesign #gamedesign
March 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The King of Spades - Tanyptera atrata, or the Giant Sabre Comb-horn. Dramatic common name! This was a lot of fun to draw. #entomology #illustration #diptera #fly #nature #carddesign #gamedesign
Tanyptera nigricornis it is, then.
July 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Tanyptera nigricornis it is, then.
No sign of my target species in Cheshire today but a good supporting cast of rares. Jumping spider Sitticus floricola, Cheshire horsefly Atylotus plebeius and cranefly Idioptera linnei. @tanyptera @World_Museum
November 16, 2024 at 9:08 PM
No sign of my target species in Cheshire today but a good supporting cast of rares. Jumping spider Sitticus floricola, Cheshire horsefly Atylotus plebeius and cranefly Idioptera linnei. @tanyptera @World_Museum
Dag 52 van #ElkeDagEenInsect
🪲🪰🐞🪳🦗🐝🦋🐛🐜
is voor de #ZwarteHoutlangpoot (Tanyptera atrata) ♀️♂️♂️
Op verzoek van @aglaia.bsky.social
#natuur
🪲🪰🐞🪳🦗🐝🦋🐛🐜
is voor de #ZwarteHoutlangpoot (Tanyptera atrata) ♀️♂️♂️
Op verzoek van @aglaia.bsky.social
#natuur
May 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Dag 52 van #ElkeDagEenInsect
🪲🪰🐞🪳🦗🐝🦋🐛🐜
is voor de #ZwarteHoutlangpoot (Tanyptera atrata) ♀️♂️♂️
Op verzoek van @aglaia.bsky.social
#natuur
🪲🪰🐞🪳🦗🐝🦋🐛🐜
is voor de #ZwarteHoutlangpoot (Tanyptera atrata) ♀️♂️♂️
Op verzoek van @aglaia.bsky.social
#natuur
Wow now there's an identification course I never thought I would see! The Tanyptera Project is a gem.
Join us for an Introduction to Water Mites workshop next month!
The workshop will include an introduction to their complex life cycle, identification and collection techniques.
Book your place here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/waterm...
The workshop will include an introduction to their complex life cycle, identification and collection techniques.
Book your place here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/waterm...
August 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Wow now there's an identification course I never thought I would see! The Tanyptera Project is a gem.
Out yesterday with the #Tanyptera team yesterday, installing vane traps on a site in N Lancs. Excited to see what saproxylic insects we find over the year.
May 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Out yesterday with the #Tanyptera team yesterday, installing vane traps on a site in N Lancs. Excited to see what saproxylic insects we find over the year.
Great talk from Jim Flanagan hosted by the Tanyptera Trust on Damselbugs and Assassin Bugs
I’ve yet to see an Assassin Bug but have seen 2 species of Damselbug, that I can remember
#tanyptera #damselbug #assassinbugs #worldchagasdiseaseday #bugs
I’ve yet to see an Assassin Bug but have seen 2 species of Damselbug, that I can remember
#tanyptera #damselbug #assassinbugs #worldchagasdiseaseday #bugs
April 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Great talk from Jim Flanagan hosted by the Tanyptera Trust on Damselbugs and Assassin Bugs
I’ve yet to see an Assassin Bug but have seen 2 species of Damselbug, that I can remember
#tanyptera #damselbug #assassinbugs #worldchagasdiseaseday #bugs
I’ve yet to see an Assassin Bug but have seen 2 species of Damselbug, that I can remember
#tanyptera #damselbug #assassinbugs #worldchagasdiseaseday #bugs
Female Tanyptera nigricornis at famous saproxylic site Shotover Woods today. Quite an impressive ovipositor. @DipteristsForum
December 3, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Female Tanyptera nigricornis at famous saproxylic site Shotover Woods today. Quite an impressive ovipositor. @DipteristsForum
The Tanyptera Trust has a webinar on 7 December covering braconid wasps, presented by Gavin Broad, so it will probably be quite good 😉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/braconid-w...
Braconid Wasps Webinar
Eventbrite - Tanyptera Trust presents Braconid Wasps Webinar - Thursday, 7 December 2023 - Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 30, 2023 at 8:39 PM
The Tanyptera Trust has a webinar on 7 December covering braconid wasps, presented by Gavin Broad, so it will probably be quite good 😉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/braconid-w...
Metoeca paradoxus from a site near Knutsford last week. Apologies for the awful photo, the beast decided to fly just as the shutter started. @tanyptera
November 17, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Metoeca paradoxus from a site near Knutsford last week. Apologies for the awful photo, the beast decided to fly just as the shutter started. @tanyptera
Tanyptera atrata, a scarce and spectacular cranefly of dead wood habitats.
November 17, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Tanyptera atrata, a scarce and spectacular cranefly of dead wood habitats.
Tanyptera atrata - Giant Sabre Comb Horn Cranefly, on Whixall Moss. The colouring and ovipositor meant at first glance it looked like some sort of ichneumon.
May 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Tanyptera atrata - Giant Sabre Comb Horn Cranefly, on Whixall Moss. The colouring and ovipositor meant at first glance it looked like some sort of ichneumon.
The beginning (in a suitably themed but terrifying hotel room) and end of a great beetle filled day at the World Museum in Liverpool, delving into Amara ID. With thanks to the wonderful Tanyptera project for the invitation www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk
March 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The beginning (in a suitably themed but terrifying hotel room) and end of a great beetle filled day at the World Museum in Liverpool, delving into Amara ID. With thanks to the wonderful Tanyptera project for the invitation www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk
Twitter debut for Lathrobium rufipenne. A Vulnerable rove beetle of boggy areas. Most records from the Bure Valley, Norfolk. Thanks to @tanyptera I was able to find it @ two new sites in Cheshire and relocate it at another for 1st time in 100 years.
November 16, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Twitter debut for Lathrobium rufipenne. A Vulnerable rove beetle of boggy areas. Most records from the Bure Valley, Norfolk. Thanks to @tanyptera I was able to find it @ two new sites in Cheshire and relocate it at another for 1st time in 100 years.
my first encounter with an antlered crane fly. thought she was a spider wasp at first from her size and wing beats
Tanyptera dorsalis
#invertebrates #photography
Tanyptera dorsalis
#invertebrates #photography
May 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
my first encounter with an antlered crane fly. thought she was a spider wasp at first from her size and wing beats
Tanyptera dorsalis
#invertebrates #photography
Tanyptera dorsalis
#invertebrates #photography
Tortoise bug Eurygaster testudinaria from Hatchmere yesterday. Many other Cheshire records? @RECORDLRC @tanyptera
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Tortoise bug Eurygaster testudinaria from Hatchmere yesterday. Many other Cheshire records? @RECORDLRC @tanyptera
Winter may be almost upon us in the northern hemisphere, and if you’re missing the bugs already, take a look at this webinar I made for the Tanyptera Project a couple of years ago. Lots of ID tips and advice for making our garden spaces a haven for insects! 🐞🐝
youtu.be/fQwJTMRJF1s?...
youtu.be/fQwJTMRJF1s?...
Garden Insects & their Habitats
YouTube video by The Tanyptera Project
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November 12, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Winter may be almost upon us in the northern hemisphere, and if you’re missing the bugs already, take a look at this webinar I made for the Tanyptera Project a couple of years ago. Lots of ID tips and advice for making our garden spaces a haven for insects! 🐞🐝
youtu.be/fQwJTMRJF1s?...
youtu.be/fQwJTMRJF1s?...
@TanypteraGary @tanyptera hello, is Friday’s dolichopodid workshop now fully booked? Only came across it while browsing @DipteristsForum earlier
November 17, 2024 at 12:37 PM
@TanypteraGary @tanyptera hello, is Friday’s dolichopodid workshop now fully booked? Only came across it while browsing @DipteristsForum earlier
@BritishBugs hello Tristan, this was frequent on bog myrtle at Hatchmere in Cheshire yesterday. Globiceps fulvicollis? @tanyptera If so it might be first post 1970 Cheshire record.
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM
@BritishBugs hello Tristan, this was frequent on bog myrtle at Hatchmere in Cheshire yesterday. Globiceps fulvicollis? @tanyptera If so it might be first post 1970 Cheshire record.
An excellent find by @JemmaStreet in our south Liverpool back yard this morning. My first ever box moth. @tanyptera
November 17, 2024 at 1:20 AM
An excellent find by @JemmaStreet in our south Liverpool back yard this morning. My first ever box moth. @tanyptera
The first day of warm sun in what seems like an age and the garden is alive with common carder, tree and early #bumblebees and honey bees... amazing stuff! @BumblebeeTrust @Buzz_dont_tweet @NMBiodiversity @tanyptera
December 1, 2024 at 6:43 AM
The first day of warm sun in what seems like an age and the garden is alive with common carder, tree and early #bumblebees and honey bees... amazing stuff! @BumblebeeTrust @Buzz_dont_tweet @NMBiodiversity @tanyptera
The magnificently named Platyarthrus hoffmanseggii found on my Dingle Vale allotment this afternoon. Record uploaded to @iRecordWildlife @tanyptera @NMBiodiversity
November 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM
The magnificently named Platyarthrus hoffmanseggii found on my Dingle Vale allotment this afternoon. Record uploaded to @iRecordWildlife @tanyptera @NMBiodiversity