Dark-edged Bee-fly enjoying life in the sun #ukwildlife #ukinsects

Am I right in thinking this is a Furry Drone Fly, Eristalis intricaria? Seen this morning along the Yeovil Riverside Walk. @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @britishbugs.bsky.social #droneflies #uknature #ukinsects #ukwildlife

A black and yellow striped insect on a bright yellow flower.

On a cool, breezy day almost everything of interest in the garden was on a Dandelion - of course it was 💛 - including this Gooden's Nomad Bee.
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#wildflowerhour

Brimstone

Comma

Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax

Golden Dung Fly, Scathophaga stercoraria.

The insects are loving the newly blossomed Blackthorn - Lyde Road end of the Riverside Walk this morning @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #yeovilcountrypark #ukbutterflies #ukdroneflies #ukinsects #springishere

Seven spot ladybirds making baby ladybirds today

#ladybird #sevenspotladybird #ukinsects #entomology #insects

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Whilst on a recent outing, stopped for a cuppa and this little one decides to hitch a lift, on my @cleyspy.bsky.social Mule Pack. 😃👍

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Big diving beetles from the murky pools of the flow country bog in northern Scotland.

YouTube video of this trip is live now:
youtu.be/WANtgaaZnTI

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#naturephotography
#wildcamp
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#beetles

A regular visitor to our holiday apartment, a rock pipit, and enjoying a crane fly (daddy long legs) for breakie.

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My first and only painted lady I’ve seen this year. Nicely camouflaged on the wood chippings #butterfly #ukinsects

Butterflies are being drawn to the purple flowers today, lovely to see loads of them #butterflies #ukinsects

Do you want to see the hummingbird moth that’s flying around today? He’s a beauty! #moth #hummingbirdmoth #ukinsects

ID request/confirmation
Possible Rusty Dot Pearl Moth ❓

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Even clearer photo, and still not everyone's favourite.....

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Not everyone's favourite

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Underside of female Brown Hairstreak

Female Brown Hairstreak showing orange-gold band on forewing.

Female Brown Hairstreak on the Dorset patch this morning. I feel very privileged to spend about 10 minutes watching & photographing this elusive butterfly! @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #UKinsects

Helice form of Clouded Yellow nectaring on Common Fleabane

'Normal' Clouded Yellow nectaring on Buddleia

An almost white 'Helice' form Clouded Yellow along with a 'normal' type at the Dorset patch this morning. 12 other species seen, inc a very close Brown Hairstreak (see next post) & 23 Large White! @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social #UKinsects

Great Willowherb - two pink flowers by a road

Field Madder - small plant with spiky leaves and small pale-purple flowers

Yarrow - plant with small white flowers

Hedge Bedstraw - plant with small white flowers

#StreetWeeds and #PavementPlants from Mount Road, Southdown #Bath #Somerset #UK, life persisting in one of the most extreme habitats: the human built environment
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Forest Bug - a brown bug on a leaf

Birch Shieldbug - a green and brown bug

Two shieldbugs:
Forest Bug - nymphs feed on trees, adults often feed on caterpillars and fruits
Birch Shieldbug - usually on birches
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A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.

A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.

A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.

A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.

I think this is the rare cuckoo wasp Hedychrum rutilans. Seen on Yarrow at Camber yesterday. Wasp enthusiasts ( contacted via @thegreatskua.bsky.social) seem to agree. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@graemelyons.bsky.social
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Tachina fera - a fly with an orange abdomen with a black stripe down the centre, on a flower

Eriothrix rufomaculata - a fly, black, grey with red side markings on the abdomen, on a flower

Two Tachinid flies - Tachina fera and Eriothrix rufomaculata - parasitic flies on moth caterpillars.
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A yellow butterfly on a flower

Clouded Yellow butterfly at Claverton, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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An orange butterfly on a purple flower

Small Skipper on Field Scabious, at Brown's Folly nature reserve, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.

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a close up colour photo of a common green lacewing insect upside down on some green stems with a pale green bokeh background

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#commongreenlacewing
#ChrysoperlaCarnea
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#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025

a close up photo of a bumblebee head first in an open pink hardy geranium flower

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a close up photo of a bumblebee on a pale mauve scabious flower with a green bokeh background

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#bumblebee
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a close up colour photo of a bumblebee in the centre of a pink and white cosmos flower with a green bokeh background

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a close up colour photo of a furrow bee with orange pollen sacks on a white dahlia flower with an egg-yolk coloured centre

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A hoverfly on a yellow flower

Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens) on an Oxford Ragwort, growing out of a pavement on #Twerton High Street, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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A #pupa or crysalis is hanging seemingly precariously from the stem of one of the #FieldScabious plants on my #allotment in Hove .. to turn into a moth I think but which one?

Any moth people out there with ideas please?
#moths #lepidoptera #ukinsects