@thebugfarm.bsky.social
WILDLIFE - FOOD - FARMING. Visitor, Research & Nature Recovery Centre. Wildlife reserve, tropical bug zoo & farm. Founded by Dr Sarah Beynon. Also the home of Grub Kitchen (the UK's first edible insect restaurant) & Bug Farm Foods.
'Up-Close Meet the Bugs' sessions are back for 2026!
#thebugfarm
The 2026 season begins! We're re-opening from February 14th - 22nd for Half Term and are then open at weekends during March. Loads to see and do for adult visitors and families alike.
#thebugfarm #halfterm #dogfriendly
🌾🐃🚜🐖🐓📖 Something VERY exciting is happening in June...
#book #haydays #history #farming #memoirs #farminghistory @ylolfa.bsky.social
Cocky 'helping' our students and volunteers measuring trees and removing tree guards! #goats #thebugfarm
📸 Freya Botzen
Mid-moult mantis 🤞.
#bugzoo #tropicalbugzoo #thebugfarm
💩🥴 🐸 Lucky and I just did a radio interview on BBC Radio Wales and the best bit was that SHE DID HER FIRST POO (in her water bowl) when we were live! So exciting - not only is she eating, but it's going through too. Much relief all round!
#frog #getlucky #thebugfarm
A great review of Grub Kitchen in Australia's Eden Magnet news.
#bugburger #edibleinsects #entomophagy #VEXo #grubkitchen #thebugfarm
www.edenmagnet.com.au/story/913559...
Our 2025 highlights.
#bestof2025 #yearinreview #thebugfarm #highlights #naturerecovery
Best Bug Farm (native) 'bugs' of 2025. #insects #spiders #thebugfarm #macro
31.12.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🦋 Exciting new species record for our land at Penweathers recorded by our Year in Research student Freya...a striped hawk moth. This is a scarce immigrant species from southern Europe and northern Africa. #thebugfarm #moths #mothing #mothtrap
06.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 'travelling toadlet' season is ramping up! 121 toadlets helped across the road last night, plus 49 newts (a mix of youngsters and adults) and 2 frogs. #naturenetworks #travellingtoadlets #toadpatrol #toadcrossing
01.09.2025 19:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🦋 What a beauty! Clouded yellow butterfly on the Farm Trail today - the first we have seen for years ❤️. These butterflies migrate here from North Africa and southern Europe. Look at those lime green eyes and pink legs! #butterfly #butterflycount #bling #thebugfarm
06.08.2025 18:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🤩🏵 Flower Field selfie of the day 🤩🌺
#welovebugs #thebugfarm #flowerfield
Common blue in one of our meadows. Just spectacular.
📷 Andy Holcroft
🦋 We're seeing hummingbird hawk moths most days on the buddleia here at the moment.
🎥 Beth Wright
#moths #butterflycount #naturenetworks #pollinators #thebugfarm
The Bug Farm students and seasonal staff team had quite a catch in the moth trap this week!
On that note - a belated welcome to Beth, Niamh, Freya and Alex and a big welcome back to Tabitha 🥰.
Thanks to our lovely neighbour for alerting us to the very strange light in the field!
Another cracking lot of comments on our nature action board in the Nature Recovery Centre! One in particular made us laugh!
#naturerecoverycentre #naturenetworks #NatureRecovery #thebugfarm
Caribbean green bean stick insect (Diapherodes gigantea).
📷 Leo Carroll
#thebugfarm #walesnatureweek #macro #macrophotography
Male jungle nymph and, as you can see, he looks a whole lot different from his greener gal pals.
(Heteropteryx dilatata)
📷 Leo Carroll @my.friendly.neighbourhood.bug on Insta
#macrophotography #insectphotography #entomology #wales #pembrokeshire #walesphotography #thebugfarm #walesnatureweek
Female jungle nymph - one of the heaviest insect species in the world.
(Heteropteryx dilatata)
📷 Leo Carroll - @friendly.neighbourhood.bug on Insta.
#nature #tropicalbugzoo #bugs #bugzoo #macrophotography #thebugfarm #walesnatureweek
A very long Green Bean stick insect on my hand and wrist.
I had the time of my life at @thebugfarm.bsky.social today, making friends with a green bean stick insect and Madagascar hissing cockroach AND I saw a hummingbird hawk-moth for the first time among the wildflowers. So many wonderful bugs both inside and out. Living my best Animal Crossing life.
03.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Day...week...year made! We have a nest of barn owl chicks! We are over the moon. These three chicks have been weighed (they're really heavy for their age) and ringed by ecologist Paddy Jenks.
What a glorious picture of the whole family together.
#barnowls #naturenetworks #thebugfarm
Have you ever heard of a tree lobster? Also know as Dryococelus australis.
As it's National insect week, its worth remembering there are lots of marine insects too (kind of).
Our friends over at @thebugfarm.bsky.social have lots of other cool stick insects you can see and more.
#InsectWeek
Small red damselfly
Small red damselfly, The Bug Farm, St Davids. Pure summer perfection.
#photography
Wasp 🐝 or beetle 🪲? Mimicry at its finest at The Bug Farm!
#mimicry #insectweek #standtallforthesmall @royentsoc.bsky.social
Tune into @purewestradio.bsky.social now - I'll be live at 12:15pm for Insect Week.
#insectweek #thebugfarm @royentsoc.bsky.social
Spot the interloper 🧐
23.06.2025 19:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A taste of things to come for Insect Week here at The Bug Farm 🐞🪲🪰🦋🐛🦟🐝. All pics taken by Amdy Holcroft here at The Bug Farm in the last month or so.
@royentsoc.bsky.social #insectweek #thebugfarm #macro #macrophotography #insects
Our first ever swift screaming party ❤️🥹🎉
#swifts #bird #wildlifelover #naturevibes #nature #naturenetworks #thebugfarm
The comical lackey moth caterpillars have left their communal larval webs and are busy ambling across The Bug Farm at the moment. With their dishevelled appearance, they all look like they had a big night out on the tiles! #badhairday #caterpillar #thebugfarm
📸 Andy Holcroft
