A nice female-type Red-veined Darter at East Lane, Bawdsey, Suffolk this morning
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One Small Mottled Willow made it as fas as Horsey Corner, Norfolk, last night @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Spuleria flavicaput, new for me from Horsey Corner last night - one of many moths with a common food plant (Hawthorn for this one) yet a strangely local distribution...
Is this a new location for Norfolk @jameslowenwild.bsky.social ? Can't quite tell from norfolkmoths...
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I love stumbling upon a new gall - Sunday's surprise from my garden was my first Lasioptera rubi (Raspberry Gall Midge) gall, on a raspberry cane.
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Is this possibly Epinotia tetraquetana (facing left) and E. immundana (facing right)? I'm trapping new Suffolk sites and not familiar with the species yet!
This highlights the hidden mental burdens conservationists carry. The weight of loss every day - when the best I can often aim for is to slow the rate of loss - is heavy. To be honest, it is not the small wins that sustain me, but the moral duty to do what is right: news.mongabay.com/2026/03/the-...
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This smart fly, Orellia falcata, appears to be uncommon in Suffolk (I'm unsure as iRecord is down), amd was new for me. Its larvae feed on Goat's-beard (Tragopon pratensis) which it can be seen hanging onto in the photo...
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A Pyracantha in my East Suffolk garden is pumping out nectar, attracting many hoverflies and this new species for me - Long-horned General (Stratiomys longicornis), an uncommon species of upper saltmarsh and grazing marshes in the South East
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