Spring Small Dung Beetle (Aphodius prodromus)

🐞New Beetle Spotted 🐞

Spring Small Dung Beetle (Aphodius prodromus) visited my garden last week

What beetles do you get?

#Beetles #Insects #NaturalHistory #DungBeetle #NatureWalk #ForestFinds #HiddenWonders

For more sightings click here 👇
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Bug down the river

🐛 New Bugs for the week 🐛
I found these critters down by the river
Cinnamon Bug (Corizus hyoscyami), Pied (Tritomegas bicolor) & Gorse Shieldbug (Piezodorus lituratus)
#Bugsky #Bugs #Insects #Gorse #Shieldbug #NatureWalk #ForestFinds #HiddenWonders
What’s your best bug find so far this year?

Hoverflies in Historical Books part 1 Exploration of hoverflies within historical books & manuscripts, examining the scientific understanding each portrayed or intended.

📚 Hoverflies in Historical Books P1 🔍

Join me to discover more as I leaf through dusty shelves in search of hidden wonders.👇
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Booksky #ArtHistory #NatureIllustration #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #HistSci #Scicomm #Naturewriting
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social

Leaf miner of holly leaves - Phytommyza ilicis

🔍 Holly Leaf-miner 🌲🦟

I often search for hoverflies warming themselves on shiny holly leaves - when I came across this leaf miner art - a turtle in a bowler hat!

#NatureIllustration #Art #HiddenWonders #Insects #Plants

Anyone else had any interesting art created by their holly leaf-miners?

HoverflySpotter Mar 26 Sightings – part 1 Welcome to the spring everyone part 1 – this week sightings include Bagworms, Didymodons, Bees, Ladybirds, Hoverflies and I built a BugSnug.

🔍Bagworms on local gravestones ≽༏≼

Curious?? 👇 I was.....

#Bagworms #Moths #Insects #Graveyards #Cemetery #Curious #BugSpotting #HiddenWonders #Lichen

Picture highlighting the differences between Cherry Plum and Blackthorn

🌸 Cherry Plum vs Blackthorn 🌲

Quick sketch to highlight the differences and help me remember….

#NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders #Trees #Pollinators #Blackthorn #CherryPlum #Prunus #Sketching

🌿💧 See how plants drink water from the air
- mosses in space!… 🚀

Following on from the wall mosses post check this video out -

Could this moss one day terraform the planet Mars?

#Moss #Bryophytes #HiddenWonders #Space #Terraforming #EarlyPlants #Evolution

Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria)

🦷 Corpse Flower 🌼 - The Secret Life of Toothwort
#Plants #HiddenWonders #Spring #ParasiticPlants #ToothWort #Science #Nature
More information to be found 👇
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The flowers are arranged such that they resemble rows of discoloured teeth hence its common name.

HoverflySpotter Sightings W/C 28th Feb 26 Birds, Vampires and ‘Catkins – Servicing the Bees’ along the Trans Pennine Trail and Old Moor Reserve south Yorkshire February 2026

🧛 The Plant That Lives Like a Vampire 🧛
I found some Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria) a parasitic plant that lives a secretive, almost vampire like life underground. quietly sucking nutrients from its host.
#Plants #HiddenWonders #Spring #Vampires #Ghosts #Birds
More information to be found 👇

Spotted Thintail (Meliscaeva auricollis)

🎨 Spotted Thintail Art Work 🖌️
Drawing/painting of this migratory distinctive hoverfly Meliscaeva auricollis.
Anyone spotted one this year yet?
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinator #Nature #Syrphidae #Diptera #Entomology #Art #Nature #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders

Leafhopper (Acericerus vittifrons)

Acericerus vittifrons

Cosmopolitan springtail (Entomobyra nivalis)

Weevil (Sitona sp)

⚰️ Critters on Gravestones 📄

Found these on top of some gravestones couple of days ago.

Cosmopolitan springtail (Entomobrya nivalis) and leafhopper (Acericerus vittifrons).

#Insects #Entomology #NatureWalk #HiddenWonders #StayCurious #BugSpotting #Springtail #Weevil #Leafhopper #Gravestones

Hoverflies in Paintings An exploration of hoverfly depictions in fine art, tracing the earliest known representation of a hoverfly on canvas.

✨ Vintage Hoverfly Paintings 🎨

The search for the oldest hoverfly painting on canvas what century does it belong to?

Take a peek! 👇

#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Diptera #knowledge #Art #HistoricalArt #Artappreciation #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social

Primrose (Primula vulgaris)

Snowdrops (Galanthus rivalis) & Daffodil (Narcissus sp).

Snowdrops (Galanthus rivalis)

Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)

🌼 A Search for Spring 🌱☀️
Saw these flowers Tuesday at a churchyard in York - Monks of Micklegate. Signs of Spring or just indicating it’s on its way?
#Plants #York #HiddenWonders #Nature #Flowers

Standing in front of Micklegate Bar

A rare beetle only found at 2 sites within the UK one being the centre of York

View from the Hotel the wall and the Tansy beetle

🏰 View from a hotel room 🏨
In York today – the view for those that like history 📜 – the wall, and for those that like natural history 🌿, the Jewel of York – the rare Tansy Beetle(Chrysolina graminis).
#Art #Nature #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders #Insects #StreetArt #York #Cityscape #UrbanNature.

My artistic impression of a marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)

🎨 Marmalade Hoverfly Art Work 🖌️

1st Attempt at drawing and painting this migratory, distinctive and common hoverfly. Anyone spotted one this year yet?

#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinator #Nature #Syrphidae #Diptera #Entomology #Art #Nature #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders

New Year in Bloom: Sightings 2026 Flowers and Birds sightings for week commencing 1st January 2026, Barnsley town centre and RSPB Old Moor

🌸✨ New Year in Bloom! 🌲
👉 Click to see what I spotted🌼
#NewYearPlantHunt #wildflowerhour #FlowersInBloom #NatureLovers #NatureWalk #HiddenWonders #Nature #Insects #Plants #Birds #Flowers #Mushrooms #FungiFriends #Wildlife #Winter
📄 Love to know what you have seen locally? 📄
@bsbibotany.bsky.social

The mural was painted in July 2023 and is located opposite the bus station on Pond Street

The piece celebrates community and the beauty of human connection, brightening up a busy interchange area.

Let’s invite real pollinators into our streets.

It was commissioned by Sheffield Hallam University and features vibrant imagery including bees, peace symbols, and the Yorkshire white rose, alongside Sheffield’s city flower, the wood crane’s-bill.

Happy New Year Everyone!
🎨 Mural on Pond Street by artist Peachzz 🖼️
Let’s invite real pollinators into our streets.
#Art #Nature #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders #Pollinator #Insects #Plants #StreetArt #Sheffield #Cityscape #Streetphotography #UrbanNature
@streetartsheffield.com

Christmas in Bloom: Sightings 2025 Flowers and Birds sightings for week commencing 22nd December 2025, Garden and Beyond the Garden Gate.

🌸 Spotted any local wildlife this Christmas! 🌲
🎄 Curious?
👉 Click to see what I have seen 🌼
#ChristmasVibes #FlowersInBloom #NatureLovers #NatureWalk #HiddenWonders #StayCurious #Nature #Insects #Plants #Birds #Fungi #Mushrooms #FungiFriends #Wildlife
📄 Love to know what you have seen locally? 📄

Hoverfly Spotter M.D. logo - can you spot the 10 hidden hoverflies in the logo?

🎅 Christmas Hoverfly Challenge 🎁
Spot the 10 hoverfly species hidden in logo.

Can you find them all?

👉 Link for answers!
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#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Nature #Syrphidae #Diptera #Entomology #Art #HiddenWonders #NatureIllustration

Sheffield Street Art Clun Rd - beautiful landscape of fields with flowers against a cityscape.

Sheffield Street Art Clun Rd - highlighting the bee and pollinator important to our urban environment.

🎨 Celebrating Sheffield Street Art 🖌️
The city’s industrial past—factories, cutlery works, & architecture—offering a unique canvas to artist. #Art #UrbanNature #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders #Pollinator #Insects #Plants #StreetArt #Sheffield #Cityscape #Streetphotography #Nature

🔬 My moss safari magic 🦠
🌿🔬 #Moss squeeze surprise! Found ‘Hairy Racers’ Oxytricha? & maybe a Tardigrade in tun! 🦠✨
#Microscopy #MossMagic #HiddenWonders #Science
#StayCurious #Biology #mosssafari
@mosssafari.bsky.social

Tonight on #Hiddenwonders we go to Essex join a mission to recover the remains of 2nd Lt Lester Lowry a project run by @cotswoldarch.bsky.social on behalf of the DPAA

9pm More 4 or catch-up up on @channel4tv.bsky.social 4OD #Archaeology #WWII #History #Aviation #Militaryhistory

Bright Night festivals light up the UK! Barnsley’s ‘The Collectors’ by Bethan Maddocks blends art & nature beautifully. Such an Inspiration 🌙✨
#Nature #Light #Illuminations #Art #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders #Autumn #EcoEducation #Birds #Insects #Moths #Butterflies #Ladybirds

Did you see the beautiful Roman Venus figure featured on Sandi Toksvig’s Hidden Wonders at Magna? ✨ We couldn’t agree more — she’s timeless, powerful, and made to be held.
Now you can bring her home.
💛 Shop the replica:
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#RomanVenus #HiddenWonders

The Myth of Bugonia Exploring an unexpected link between a biblical riddle (Judges 14:14), a tin of treacle, and the fascinating hoverfly known as the Common Dronefly

Weird link alert! 📖 🐝 🍯
What connects the Bible, a hoverfly and a tin of treacle —curious? Click below!
#NatureMystery #FunFacts #CuriosityUnlocked #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Nature #Myth #Art #Curiosity #HiddenWonders

When you go to Magna Fort @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and reveal all your bad archaeological habits #wheelbarrowseats #trowelbottleopener 😬 #Hiddenwonders @channel4tv.bsky.social

When Sandi Toksvig doesn’t get the memo…. #Hiddenwonders #Archaeology

Tonight on #Hiddenwonders we visit the @uniofreading.bsky.social excavation at the site of Cookham Abbey.

More stories of powerful women, early Christianity and a place of healing for the sick. Oh and a lot of bone combs 🪮 9pm tonight More4 #Archaeology 🏺#newshow #cookham

You know you want it again….. #FLANGE #Hiddenwonders #Archaeology

IYKYK #Hiddenwonders #FLANGE