@tanyptera.bsky.social
Promoting Invertebrate Recording & Conservation in North West England - Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside & Greater Manchester 🐝🐞🕷 https://linktr.ee/TanypteraProject
🦟Update to the Lancashire & Cheshire Diptera (True Flies) Checklist 🦟
121 additions since the last update (22 for VC58, 23 for VC59 and 76 for VC60). 32 species new to the region!
www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/lan...
Image by Janet Graham - CC BY 2.0
A pair of Spiked Shieldbugs (Picromerus bidens) I disturbed at Bagmere NR (a private site) in Cheshire last Friday. One of the predatory shieldbug species, the female has impaled a sawfly. @tanyptera.bsky.social
28.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0🗓 Upcoming Events
🔎 7th Aug - Leeches in the Field
🔬 8th Aug - Leech ID at World Museum
🌳 8th Aug - Macclesfield Forest Recording Day
🧽 18th Aug - Freshwater Sponges Webinar
🐝 30th Aug - Kindling Farm Recording Day
More info/booking: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/events/
Red-patched Ladybird, Nephus redtenbacheri, a sub-2mm Micro Ladybird. One of three vacuumed sampled from damp grasssland at Prenton Dell Claypit NR, Wirral. @tanyptera.bsky.social
21.07.2025 20:21 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Short-winged Conehead, Conocephalus dorsalis f. burri (the flying form of a typically flightless species). A slender, green cricket, with unusually long, brown wings. This is a female, with a pointed, curving ovipositor.
The unusual macropterous form (f. burri) of the usually flightless Short-winged Conehead. Males are v. difficult to tell from Long-winged C-H but females like this are easier as they have shorter, curving ovipositors. A 1st for me, seen yesterday at Prenton Dell Claypit. @tanyptera.bsky.social
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Join us for an Invertebrate Recording Day at Bagmere and Brereton Heath, Cheshire next week 🐝🐞🦋
Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
Learn how to survey for and identify Leeches in our upcoming workshops
Leeches in the Field 7th Aug - Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve, Wirral www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/leeche...
Leech Identification Workshop 8th Aug - World Museum, www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/leeches/
Our next workshop will be the Dragonflies & Damselflies Weekend with Tony Parker at Rixton Clay Pits, Warrington on 5th & 6th July.
Book your place here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/dragon...
On Friday we'll be at Starr Hills Dunes, Lytham St Annes for our next Invertebrate Recording Day, book your free place to join us: app.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
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Join us at Kindling Farm, Merseyside for an Invertebrate Recording Day this Sunday.
Kindling Farm is an organic, community-led 78-acre farm. The land includes species-rich native hedgerows, wildlife-friendly margins & several ponds
Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
Next Friday ourselves and @tanyptera.bsky.social are hosting a spotlight session covering Soldierflies and Allies. Join us as we practice ID in a friendly setting.
FREE event, find out more and book 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1734115
Join us at Trowbarrow Local Nature Reserve & Hawes Water for our next Invertebrate Recording Day 🐜🐝🦋
Book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
🙋♀️ Help us search for an elusive species of hoverfly.
🧐 Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a 'Nationally Scarce' species. We want to see if this unusual species is living in the Nature Reserve at Chester Zoo and for this we need your help!
👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...
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🐛Some of you aren't receiving our newsletter/emails, this is due to an IT issue that we hope will be resolved soon. If you haven't received it you can read the May update here 🐞: mailchi.mp/39917e5318a0...
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Just been watching @tanyptera.bsky.social's latest video of Erica McAlister talking about fly pupae - mind-blowing diversity! Reminded me that I found a hoverfly pupa recently that looks like Episyrphus balteatus but I've no idea about the second one. @geoffwilkinson.bsky.social do you know please?
21.05.2025 18:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Join us on 21 May, 2:30pm for a Spotlight Session on Ladybirds 🐞
We'll be having a go at some ladybird identification along with
@tanyptera.bsky.social. No experience is neccessary and there will be free tea and biscuits ☕🍪
Register here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...
Our next webinar is Fly Pupae with the fantastic Erica McAlister 🦟 @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Book your free place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
Join us at Cross Hill Quarry, Clitheroe on the 16th May.
Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
Join us for our upcoming Invertebrate Recording Day at Beacon Country Park on 9th May 🐛🦋🐝
The site consists of wildflower meadows, ponds, ditches, an orchard and areas of semi-natural woodland.
Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
One of the nice points that I often raise is that mosquitoes are not always problematic - although research is limited, many species now are highlighted as #pollinators
@tanyptera.bsky.social #ThomDallimore #mosquitoes
Malaria or Ague as it was known was once common(ish) in the British Isles. Although we still have the vectors we don’t have the plasmodium.
Draining wetlands, Little Ice Age, improved housing, reduced exposure - all may have helped then…
@tanyptera.bsky.social #ThomDallimore
In the @tanyptera.bsky.social Mosquito webinar tonight by Thom Dallimore, we were introduced to the common names of our UK species…..
#Mosquitoes #commonnames
Just listened to a brilliant talk by Dr Thom Dallimore on Mosquitoes - one of the fab webinars organised the @tanyptera.bsky.social
www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/event/mosqui...
Straight away Thom thanks @anderslindstrom.bsky.social for his amazing photography & ace knowledge
What is the Tanyptera Project?
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Join us for our next webinar - Mosquitoes with Thom Dallimore on Monday 28th April 🦟
Book your FREE place here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...
