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.
Tim Worfolk
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.
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Just found my 2nd a couple of days later! Same species this time in Surrey.
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.
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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
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Tim Worfolk
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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.
Tim Worfolk
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...
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...