For #nationalinsectweek took some action shots of this Bee Wolf Philanthus triangulum in flight & digging out its hole in Oxon's amazing Corallian sands that are so like the Brecks. Came back later with paralysed honey bee worker & straight down the hole. @royentsoc.bsky.social
#NationalInsectWeek
A few macro shots from the garden:
Tephritis vespertina Fruit Fly
Crane fly with a mite attached
Common Red Soldier Beetle
Day 29 #30DaysWild
#NationalInsectWeek
I have recently built a pond and I am creating a new wildlife area. It was great watching this red admiral basking on the rocks around the pond this morning.
#Butterfly #Nature
Beetle banks are used in farmland to boost insect diversity and provide natural pest control, but you can also build one in your own garden! 🪲
The ground might be a bit hard with recent weather, but beetles and other invertebrates will really appreciate this, especially as it's #NationalInsectWeek!
To celebrate #NationalInsectWeek here is a selection of some of the fab insects that call my allotment home.
Spotted all life stages of shieldbug this year, and watched this Spider Wasp(?) diligently carrying and dragging grit and debris into a pile....presumably covering her egg. Very exciting.
Check out the most badass of larva - this is an immature lacewing
How cool is nature - from the cloud forests of Honduras @opwall.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social
#NationalInsectWeek @royentsoc.bsky.social
For #Flyfriday & #NationalInsectWeek, Check out this golden boy
Eliozeta helluo (Fabrioius, 1805) is found across Europe, scattered parts of Russia, China, the Middle east, Korea, Japan & Mongolia!
This one was found in Romania, collected on an @opwall.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social trip
We're celebrating #NationalInsectWeek by sharing some of our favourite insect photos from our previous Photography Competitions! 📸 🦋🐞
Which one is your favourite?
The 2025 Photography Competition is still open! 🙌 Enter your most dazzling insect photos here 👉 bit.ly/431Ie4R ~ Jack
It’s #NationalInsectWeek & here are some of the Fly (Diptera, Syrphidae) pollinators around at the moment
Hoverflies are some of the most important pollinators & rather beautiful too. They have hardworking larvae on top!
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social
This week is #NationalInsectWeek! 🐜🐝🦋 Insects play a vital role in keeping ecosystems healthy. But insects are dying out at an alarming rate.
It's not too late, insect populations can recover! Browse our guides and take action for insects! 👉 bit.ly/3URLw69 ~ Jack
📸 Terry Whittaker2020VISION
🐜 Stand Tall for the Small
Happy #nationalinsectweek! 🐛
Did you know one in three mouthfuls of our food depends on insect pollination?🐝
Here's some photos from our Meadow Walk, where we discovered some colourful moths trapped overnight, as well as some impressive species spotted on the day!
🐝🌷BTO is a proud partner of @pomscheme.bsky.social - and to kick off #NationalInsectWeek, we're thrilled to share the 2024 PoMS Annual Report!
🪻 4200+ FIT Counts
🦋 37,922 insect visits
📆 301 survey days
Huge thanks to all volunteers!
👉 Read + join in for 2025: ukpoms.org.uk/reports
#CitSci
An image of a Banded Demoiselle, by Moss Taylor/BTO
It’s National Insect Week! Did you know that you can make extra visits to your BBS square to survey butterflies and Odonata, like this stunning Banded Demoiselle?! More details here: www.bto.org/get-involved... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #NationalInsectWeek
Dark Bordered Beauty Moth
Small Scabious Mining Bee feeding on purple flower
Pine Hoverfly feeding on white flower
Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms staff and volunteers
It’s #NationalInsectWeek! 🐝🐛🪰
They may be tiny, but they have a HUGE impact. From improving habitat to groundbreaking breeding programmes, Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms is making a difference for some of the UK's rarest insects 💪
Discover more: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/sc...
This golden-ringed dragonfly is 'ovipositing' – laying her eggs in the sediment at the bottom of a stream. Have you ever seen this in person?
The female golden-ringed dragonfly is the biggest of all UK dragonfly species at a whopping 8.5cm long!
#SummerSpeciesSpotter #NationalInsectWeek
Examples of some of the items made during the workshop - a butterfly engraved on copper foil, because Maria was a skilled engraver to print her work, and a colourful dragonfly.
A stack of books published about Marian Sibylla Meriam, including a facsimile of one of her own works published in 1705. This workshop's content is well researched.
Poster for the workshop - one of Maria's illustrations of the lifecycle of the silk moth sits alongside a portrait of her. Text encourages you to book now for Insect Week in June.
3rd week of June is #NationalInsectWeek, so you've just got time to order a Virtual workshop about the remarkable work of #MariaSibyllaMeriam
C17th artist who discovered the facts of #LifeCycles & #Metamorphosis. Truly cross-curricular learning!
🦋🎨👩🔬
www.historyoffthepage.co.uk/virtual-lear...
🐞 Join Suzanne Burgess on 26 Jun 2025 for a virtual symposium on Buglife’s Beetle Conservation in the UK. Discover how rare beetles like pot & Blue Ground Beetles are protected. Live Q&A!
Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222872738...
#BeetleSymposium #NationalInsectWeek #Conservation
🐞 Beetle Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 🐞
💻 Virtual | 💷 £25 / Pay What You Can
Join our specialist on 26 June for talks on beetle ecology, taxonomy & conservation + live Q&A! 🌍 🧪
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222872738...
#BeetleSymposium #NationalInsectWeek #nature #Conservation
🐞 Beetle Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 🐞
💻 Virtual | 💷 £25 / Pay What You Can
Join top experts 26 June for talks on beetle ecology, taxonomy & conservation + live Q&A! 🌍 🧪
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222872738...
#BeetleSymposium #NationalInsectWeek #Biodiversity #Conservation
Never seen so many larvae of genus Ecdyonurus Stream Mayflies as scurrying over the flinty bed of River Gadder. Love the ones with the striking white dots. Also masses Blackfly (Simulid) larvae, coating the beds of Fool's Watercress like silt. #Riverflies #NationalInsectWeek 4/9
Plenty river mussels (Anodonta) for the Bitterlings to spawn in. & masses of Red-eyed Damselflies. V excited to nearly get mown down by not 1, but 2 separate Tench! (Only once met 1 before-in Burwell Lode). 1 heavily infested with leeches? @Stadsgrachten #NationalInsectWeek 8/16
A rather uncooperative Cardinal butterfly (Argynnis pandora) from #Extremadura, SW Spain. Every time I got anywhere near it, it flew to another thistle. ☹️
#NationalInsectWeek
And here they are side by side, sharing a thistle: Megascolia bidens on the left, and Megascolia maculata on the right. 😀
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The second species of mammoth wasp is this one, which I think is Megascolia bidens. Thankfully they showed no interest in me, instead busying themselves getting nectar from these thistle flowers. Similar size to Megascolia maculata in previous tweet.
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Mammoth wasps anyone?
Saw a couple of species in #Extremadura, SW Spain last month, I think this one is Megascolia maculata, though correction welcome. Males are around 4cm, while females can reach about 6cm. They parasitise rhinoceros beetles...
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One of the Spoonwings (Nemoptera bipennis).
Lucky enough to find good numbers of these when we were in Spain a few weeks ago. Such ethereal looking insects, and definitely one of my favourites!
#Extremadura, #NationalInsectWeek
It's butterfly/moth day today in #NationalInsectWeek and my poem about the Slender Scotch Burnet Moth is up on @PaulDragonwolf1 Wombwell Rainbow. It's part of my triptych Rarities/Commonplaces/Wonders. Commonplaces was published in Northwords Now....
📸Photo of the day: a stunning Robber fly captured by @MattDoogue during his annual macro photo tour in Greece 🇬🇷
greenwings.co/our-holidays/photography...
#NationalInsectWeek
For #NIW2020 #NationalInsectWeek a Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) that graced our garden pond this week, managing to avoid the depredations of a newly hatched brood of 8 mallard ducklings, unlike many flies....
#WestSuffolk #30DaysWild @Britnatureguide #EntoAtHome
