Bird illustration, insect photography, getting more local (Topsham, Devon) every year.
My photos are here https://www.flickr.com/photos/141833872@N05/albums
Tim Worfolk
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Moth ID help please. I suspect this may be Aethes deaurana, rare immigrant but may be becoming established? any thoughts?
5/6/2026 Topsham, Devon.
#TeamMoth
More a wasp bank than a bee bank: a 3m section of exposed Devon hedge bank with a marvellous diversity of hymenopteran life. Just a small selection here, names in ALT texts.
Topsham, Devon. @melcoate.bsky.social
#hymenoptera
Just found my 2nd a couple of days later! Same species this time in Surrey.
Yesterday morning I found this tiny beauty on a gate while walking through Topsham. It looked smart and I didn't recognise it. Turned out to be a new one for me and apparently rare in Devon: Chrysoclista linneella - Lime Flame.
#Lepidoptera
#teammoth
A few days visiting friends in Surrey, a few hours pottering around lanes, heaths and garden, a few really nice finds.
Names etc. in Alt Texts.
A new species for me and appears to be another county first: Agrilus biguttatus (Buprestidae). No records for south west on NBN and no Devon records in Martin Luff's 2021 list.
Topsham, Devon.
#Coleoptera
I am giving an online talk this evening(Tuesday 12 May 2026) 7 pm on the wildlife of Dartmoors' temperate rainforests including the slug munching Blue Ground Beetle, the weird Hazel Gloves fungus and Redstarts www.dartmoor.gov.uk/enjoy-dartmo...
If you are interested in learning to identify the UKs ground beetles there are free guides to download on my website johnwalters.co.uk/publications...
Tim Worfolk
Tim Worfolk
Tim Worfolk
Tim Worfolk
Tim Worfolk
Tim Worfolk
Guess who just found their first Snakefly?
I been wanting to find one of these beasts for years and when I saw this sat on a leaf I knew immediately what it was. Luckily it's a species that can be identified on forewing venation: Atlantoraphidia maculicollis, Pine Snakefly.
