Urban Butterfly Alliance

They roost in clusters like this 😀
(Sadly I’ve got none in my garden yet this year)

Highland Cattle grazing at Pegwell Country Park on Sunday

Andrena pilipes, Black Mining Bee #SolitaryBees

Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (I think?) spotted at Pegwell bay yesterday #SolitaryBees

Pantaloon Bee, Dasypoda hirtipes #SolitaryBees

Always like to check Bristly Oxtongue, when i'm along the coast, just in case there's Pantaloon Bees about. Dasypoda hirtipes spotted at Pegwell nature reserve yesterday #SolitaryBees #WildFlowers

These are the cut leaf sections from a rose in my garden recently

Think it would be quite hard for an insect to get a whole leaf into a cavity like that? Or roll it up first…

Leafcutter bee?

Nice clouded yellow!

Also a huge (tree?) Wasp on this umbellifer by the pond

visit from a jersey Tiger Moth at work just now!

👀 The wings not with eating then!?

Record count of 60 Peacocks in Purbeck Bunkers ydy, but c30 were dead, eaten by bats! So they went into hibernation early and got munched! Grills have recently been put over entrances to protect the bats and this has clearly encouraged them! @malcolmhull.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

New garden visitor this year Yellow-clubbed Glasswing, Scaeva selenitica I think? Laying eggs on a Hazel plant

A pink Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) on pink flowers.

#ColourADay, #PinkMon: An Elephant Hawk-moth on red valerian.

#coloraday #moths #ukwildlife #mothmonday #nature #bugsky

These have disappeared from my area, as have the box plants…

That’s ragwort they’re on 🧐 (with echium growing very close)

Or can it change its colour as a warning?

Is the pink colour reflected in the light then!? 🤯

Yes absolutely, when you zoom in on the photos and see the detail’s especially! I was wondering if the pink jacket on the first picture indicated anything, but may even be 2 different species…

I had something similar last month, is that male and female you’ve got there?

A member of the Hedychrum family or cuckoo wasp. Possibly Hedychrum nobile or Hedychrum niemelai.

Een soort goudwesp, net vliegende juweeltjes.

Those limb spikes look lethal

I guess it does blend in, as I only noticed it when it started flying!

Male common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus - quite a rare sight in my garden, but I’ve spotted a few this year. He was hanging by the Small Scabious and Birds-foot trefoil #Butterflies #Lepidoptera #WildSpaces #NaturGarten #Gardening

Lunar Hornet Clearwing moths to pheromone lure at Abbeyleix Bog this morning at around 9:30 am #teammoth

Fabulous peacock, and the most special news is that he's in MY garden. All butterflies are welcome but favourite peacock especially ❤️❤️❤️

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Phwoar! Phone chilled and back to working order just in time to find THIS beauty on my buddleia, a #PeacockButterfly in MY garden. Happy dance! 💃 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy #butterflies

This lovely female pantaloon #bee came to greet me this morning (Dasypoda hirtipes)