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The final harvest 💔

First garden hedgehog klaxon 📢📢📢

It thinks this angle is a woodlouse so I'm definitely not convinced now 😂

@cofnod.org.uk ObsId reckons this is Spitting Spider but it's in my greenhouse so I'm not convinced 🤔

Snout remains

House Spider spp feasting on an Angle Shades

A murder scene in the trap this morning 😱😱

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Was admiring the Ivy Bees in the garden, then discovered the source a few doors down! (video below)

I use it for bats too, though I don't go looking for those as much as Orthoptera 😁

male Large Marsh Grasshopper

female Large Marsh Grasshopper, the wonderful pink/purple morph.

More Large Marsh Grasshoppers (Stethophyma grossum) from our return visit to Westhay Moor NNR on Sunday. The afternoon sunshine after the morning deluges brought them out & we heard much singing from the males. @rockwolf74.bsky.social spotted this fabulous female, liveried in pink & green.

I use a Magenta 4 for Orthoptera. The smart phone one (Echometer) is really expensive and unfortunately doesn't identify Orthoptera. The iRecord grasshopper app is great for comparing calls in the field. Here's a video of me using Magenta www.facebook.com/watch?v=3396... (detector at about 50 secs)

SEWBReC #SpeciesOfTheMonth for September is Opilio canestrinii! Can you spot this leggy species on a wall near you?

See if you can fill in gaps in our distribution map: aderyn.lercwales.org.uk/density/dens...

More info including identification tips here: www.sewbrec.org.uk/sewbrec-cms-...

Another garden addition hiding in the trap this morning, Andromeda Lacebug 💞

Canary-shouldered Thorn (Ennomos alniaria) resting on a white container, showing its bright yellow thorax, orange-brown patterned wings, and feathery antennae.

Canary Shouldered Thorn (Ennomos alniaria), Bucks 2025.
Welsh name Carpiog Gwar Melyn - meaning yellow nape ragged.

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

Slow-worm on a door mat

My first garden herptile 😍🥳😍🥳🎉

(technically in the house rather than garden but now safely relocated to a flower bed 😁)

A lovely bedroom visitor, Tipula fulvipennis

#TeamCranefly

#harvest

Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner

Green Carpet

Centre-barred Sallow

Frosted Orange

The migrants didn't arrive, but autumn did
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I assume no one was hurt in the caravan explosion, firefighters were on site putting it out 🙏
#Lavernock

Lavernock Point today - Clouded Yellow 😁, an exploding caravan 😬, no Jersey Tiger 😔

Both traps out tonight, I am manifesting a Jersey Tiger 😁
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Female Scaly Cricket on a stone.

Side on view of a female Scaly Cricket on a stone.

Side on view of a male Scaly Cricket on a stone.

Male Scaly Cricket on my fingers.

It was pure joy to see the Scaly Crickets (Pseudomogoplistes vicentae) with @vc40orthops.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago at Marloes Sands! #Orthoptera #ScalyCrickets

Female Southern Oak Bush-cricket

Male Southern Oak Bush-cricket

A trip to the south of England brings home just how common Southern Oak Bush-cricket, Meconema meridionale is there. We found them in numbers at RSPB Pulborough Brooks (where these were photographed) and also at Dungeness, both times in 'natural' habitat, well away from the usual urban settings.

Final work event of the year yesterday 🥳

Delighted to win a category in RCT PhotoMarathon this year 😁

Went up to Porth to see the exhibition today, lots of great images. Looking forward to 2027 event already!

#RecordOfTheWeek is Death's-head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos), with 2 caterpillars seen in Tongwynlais by H. Peel.

This is the largest moth found in UK, usually only seen in Wales as a rare migrant, so this breeding record is very unexpected!

Many thanks for the record submitted via iRecord.

Walk timetable for Parc Cwm Darran #BioBlitz on Saturday! All are welcome to join this free event: www.sewbrec.org.uk/diaryevents/...

Coincidentally next to you in my timeline 😁 bsky.app/profile/llyn...

Our recommended event this week is Parc Cwm Darran #BioBlitz on Saturday. Join SEWBReC & Buglife to discover the wildlife on this former colliery spoil site.

All are welcome at this free event!

Find other local and online nature events on our website: www.sewbrec.org.uk/diaryevents

Moth trapping with Pontyclun Environment Group last night
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