Stephen Roughley

I've seen several records recently in Cambridgeshire too. Maybe spreading West, maybe just being blown about?

And seven in the trap this nothing. Not sure I've ever had more than 1 previously

Saw a couple in the headlights in Handling field just now picking one of the teenagers up

I think I dimly recall seeing this on the news

A Comedy of Errors: How a Small Leak Became the Great Loop Flood of 1992 On the morning of April 13, 1992 as commuters were heading to their offices in Chicago’s Loop, fish were swimming in the basement of the Merchandise Mart. A strange flood was rising. But at street lev...

Good story! Reminds me of the time workers drove a piling into the bottom of the Chicago River, breaching the deep tunnel and flooding the basements of buildings in the Loop.

www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!   Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where oncestock car and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

I keep a jam jar and lid next to my trap for exactly the moments, although this year's I seem to be frighteningly good at botching the potting of all sorts of things

Loss in a landscape
Swift (3)

Roofing slate with gold.

Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.

I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…

Just like the uk government is doing to nature

Damage done needs facing.

Lovely set!

Foxglove Pug - Toadflax Pug comparison #VC67moths #Teammoth #Moths

Only ever seen one once over @sebnature.bsky.social's shoulder on a joint trapping trip to a local nature reserve

Ha, yep, I did that too when I realised... Here the competition... www.norfolkmoths.co.uk/index_mobile...

I reckon you're right although I now check those carefully after discovering a East Anglia is the heartland of shutter very similar much rarer species

But that'll ruin my photos 😆

Those are stunning! 3 is a bit greedy though - could you send any of them in the general direction of Cambridge please?!

And another one in the trap this morning. First >100 moths trap of the year (108 - and that doesn't include the numerous escapees while I was working through it!)

I was happy enough to see this one return after a complete absence last year...

Argyresthia cupressella perched on a leaf on the Crab Apple tree next to my office door late morning. Thought it was NFG - nope! recorded one on 2nd June last year - consistent I guess... (Unlike Obsidentify which came up for 3 different Argyresthia sp. + Green-veined white from 4 photos!)

Grapholita lobarzewskii to the FOR lure late yesterday afternoon

Facebook isn't much better this morning

Thank you

I also have it on CD

We’re in the “Don’t Look Up” era.

Climate change is accelerating, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation while the planet burns.

Heat records are tumbling all over the planet on an almost daily basis

It is indeed superb, but sadly difficult to get hold of a copy now as far as I can tell

I was also going to point it out to you!

Whereabouts is "the Geoff hedge"?

Definitely a night owl, but moth trapping has shown me that early mornings aren't quite as bad an idea as I thought they were, even if somewhere deep inside of still rather approach them from the other end (ie still being awake when they arrive and *then* crashing out!)

Did you find that mute button? There's this guy who's heading fast up the list of people needing muted... 😆🥹🙈

@ChuckWendig honestly do you blame it New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth [pic of jupiter]

Given that we’re a nation of nature lovers, whose conservation charities are among the world's biggest membership organisations, Keir Starmer’s repeated attacks on voters who want to protect the living planet, calling us “time-wasting nimbys”, “blockers” and “zealots”, is frankly idiotic.