📣New regional checklist released!
A provisional checklist of Barkflies (Psocoptera) for Cheshire & Lancashire by Keith Fowler is now available. This is the first checklist for this under-recorded group in the region.
👉 Download it here: www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/a-p...
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Every UK Crayfish Species I.D.
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What a gorgeous male (the females are rather different) - Eristalis intricaria - the fluffiest of the genus. Saw this hover on Gat the Le Grand Pré Nature Reserve, Guernsey, on monday whilst bumbling along with @thegsyscientist.bsky.social & Andy Smith
I,ve seen this beetle (Gonioctena Decemnotata ) which is apparently quite scarce in another wood a couple of miles away in the past, so pleased to find it at a new site this afternoon. Also my first dragonfly of the season a Hairy Dragonfly. @marcheath.bsky.social @ianbeavis.bsky.social
Egg laying Grizzled Skipper .
Although this aberrant female Grizzled Skipper was very close to two favoured foodplants (wild Strawberry and Cinquefoil sp;) she was ovipositing on Bramble , not unheard of but fairly unusual #UKbutterflies #insects#butterflies
Great Green Bush-cricket Tettigonia viridissima (nymph), Berry Head.
Tawny Mining Bee nests being finished and sealed. Female lining the burrow with waterproof secretion. 5-10 brood cells stocked with pollen/nectar, topped with soil.
Panzer's Nomad Bees looking for Tawny nests to lay their eggs in.
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With the dry spring the team have been able to access the Tansy trail at WWT Welney.
The results, our earliest record of the rare Tansy beetle.
Broads NP warns of impact of pet flea treatments. Powerful insecticides banned in farming due to environmental harm are contained in pet "spot-on" products posing significant risks to aquatic wildlife, thru a dog swimming or indirectly when washing hands or pet bedding
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