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Had a look at an urban green space in Liverpool today for @scouseflowerhouse.bsky.social Really wasn't expecting a new species! The picture-winged fly Trupanea stellata. Something like the 5th record for South Lancashire.

Finally caught up with Rhyparochromus vulgaris down in London. #Bugs #Hemiptera #Lygaeidae

Docks (2 of 2). Take a look at brown seed capsules as Dock Bugs, Coreus marginatus, are often hidden away. Adults can be found most of the year. Eggs usually laid on docks but also Common Sorrel, Knotgrass & Redshank. Nymphs found Jul-Sep. Photos show adults & late instar nymphs

Is this a young Buff Ermine (Spilosoma lutea) larva please? Or am I completely off the mark? Tapped from ivy in Denbigh last week. Thanks! #Lepidoptera #Wales

This is the account for British Plant Gall Society - definitely worth a follow if you like plants, invertebrates, fungi or the interactions between them

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Today delivered two more bugs with seemingly few Nottinghamshire records! Bathysolen nubilus and Sphragisticus nebulosus, both from a low stone wall on my housing estate. #Hemiptera #Heteroptera

Volucella zonaria (Hornet Hoverfly) came to visit this afternoon. At one point there were three on the mint as I sat out. Not seen any hornets for a while though

Hummingbird hawk larva on the bank outside my house, Malvern. That's at least three of the past five years there's been caterpillars there!

Some Breckland Bugging from last week, an excellent selection plus a few ladybirds Lesser Streaked Shieldbug the pick

Some insects from the wildlife group's trip to Rattlinghope last week: Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Bombus rupestris, female Long-winged Conehead and newly hatched Hairy Shieldbug nymphs.

From David Bentley: "Castle Water, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, is buzzing with grasshoppers and crickets. This is Roesel's Bush-cricket, with its cream-coloured, curved edge to the pronotum ('collar')."

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A first for me... not sure if it's been seen at Rye Harbour NR before? At Castle Water... Rambur's Pied Shieldbug (differences from Pied Shieldbug annotated). Recent arrival to North Kent and inevitably spreading. #insects #shieldbugs #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

I’m not sure if this is a first for Nottinghamshire, but I can’t find any records on NBN or iRecord! Metopoplax ditomoides - it landed on my window today.

Tetrad-bashing for Orthoptera at @kentfieldclub.bsky.social's meeting last weekend, as it was in an under-recorded part of the county. So even finding common species was a great result - such as this Common Green Grasshopper and Lesser Marsh Grasshopper. #KentNature #orthoptera

Found 34 adult and one early instar nymph of Striped Shieldbug (Graphosoma italicum) on the main part of Town Mead, Waltham Abbey today 3rd August. TL378003. All on dried stems and seed heads of Hemlock. #EssexWildlife #UKBugs

Finally found a Striped Shieldbug (Graphosoma italicum) in TQ39 today, the last of the four 10km squares that intersect Waltham Abbey. I have been regularly checking this patch of Hemlock in Town Mead for the last two years. Only 200m south of an established population. #EssexWildlife #UKBugs

Mating pair of Blue-winged Grasshoppers (Oedipoda caerulescens) at Reculver in Kent. Big difference in sexual dimorphism. #Orthoptera

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A new favourite line from a paper: '[bumblebees] are well recorded because they are large, colourful and conspicuous, and active under similar conditions to field biologists' nhm.openrepository.com/handle/10141...

Thought this cow was rather lovely! Spotted in Mold, north Wales a couple of weeks ago! #WallArt #Wales

A quick check of Gorse bushes at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes today and I found my first Gorse Lacebugs (Dictyonota strichnocera) and the capsid bug Platycranus bicolor (at least I think it is!).

Nice grasshopper seen today... Still trying to get these in my garden!

Not sure what the collective noun is for true bugs but there were a fair few Nettle Ground Bug nymphs , Heterogaster urticae, on this Common Nettle

It's set to be quite a chilly night for August, away from East Anglia and southeast England📉 Prone rural spots may even see grass temperatures falling close to freezing! Much warmer conditions return for most by tomorrow night🌡️

Sometimes you've gotta go metallic to mimic your model! This common tropical hover #fly at the top is a convincing mimic of the local orchid #bees in the genus #Euglossa (bottom). #FlySchool2026 #Syrphidae: #Ornidia obesa Soltis Center, Costa Rica

Searching for the Nationally Rare Talavera thorelli jumping spider today in Folkestone. Also picked up the new(ish) Trapezium Shieldbug

Always good to find a Troilus luridus (Bronze Shieldbug) nymph! From north Shropshire yesterday #Pentatomidae #Asopinae #Shropshire

Tapped this Mottled Shieldbug (Rhaphigaster nebulosa) nymph out of ivy in Upshire on 23rd July alongside an Ivy Ladybird (Nephus quadrimaculatus) dwarfed by comparison. #EssexWildlife #UKLadybirds #UKBugs