Fascinated by everything to do with the natural world, though insects are my main focus. Paint a little.
Deep in rural South Norfolk, UK
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Sorry - looks like Wicken autocorrected to Wickes 🤔
I don't think this moth frequents builder's merchants
This delightful little moth was the highlight of a trip to Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire today
A Silver barred
#teammoth
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On the edge of our meadow in south Norfolk
Turned out that it is only found at Wickes and nearby Chippenham Fens and a couple of other sites in Britain, with migrants turning up most years
So we were really lucky to see a few of them
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Always nice to find some Orange-tip caterpillars on Jack-by-the-hedge seed pods
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#caterpillar
For #worldbeeday, here is part of a watercolour plate I did for my laminated ID sheets
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First Scarce Chasers are emerging from our pond in south Norfolk
#dragonfly
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I was really pleased to find this Soldierfly (the Black Colonel) Odontomyia tigrina on an alder tree by our pond
It is apparently rare and localised
South Norfolk
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#flies
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I wonder if any dipterists could help
I believe that this is Stratiomys longicornis, but this species is supposedly from brackish waters
This is in inland south Norfolk near a pond
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