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The home of wildlife data for North Wales / Cartref data bywyd gwyllt ar gyfer Gogledd Cymru

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · Aug 8

How to enter your North Wales species records on the LERC Wales App or Cofnod ORS using your Smartphone. @northwaleswt.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social
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Entering Records on LERC Wales App or Cofnod ORS

YouTube video by Cofnod

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 14h

Phew - the abdomen pattern is good for flavipes too. Although the epigyne isn't the most typical for flavipes as these usually have dimples on the scape (a head scratcher specimen for sure), but flavipes it is.

Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 5d

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is this amazing Death's-head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos) recorded in Llangollen by JanS. Anybody else seen one of these beehive squeakers in North Wales? @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre @wwbic1.bsky.social · 6d

#recordoftheweek is Neuroterus quercusbaccarum f.
agamic, the Common Spangle Causer, found and
recorded in Aberaeron by Laura Moss 📸
Thank you for your records.

You can send us your records using one of the ways
listed on our website here
www.wwbic.org.uk/wildlife-rec...
#gallwasps #recordoftheweek

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Mike Pollard @mikepnature.bsky.social · 8d

Fungi season in the garden, including Parrot Waxcap. ID by Seek App. @cofnod.org.uk

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 12d

#RecordOfTheWeek today is a Portuguese Man'O War (Physalia physalis) spotted in Llangennith by Phillippa Davies, washed by after last week's storms.
This species is not actually a jellyfish, but a colony of small creatures called zooids.
Many thanks for record & pic, submitted via LERC Wales App.

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 12d

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is this adult Marble Gall Wasp (Andricus kollari) recorded by KevinH on Mynydd Mawr. More used to seeing the actual galls on Oak, than adult. @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 12d

Lucky you had a freshly moulted (teneral) specimen. Sometimes they're very dark and difficult to see. Often easier to look at the paracymbium dorsally to see whether it has 2 or 1 spikes as they stick out a bit.

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 14d

Newyddion da am adfer mawndir Ystâd Barnston; cors hynafol sy'n ymestyn dros y ffin rhwng Cymru a Lloegr, ger Wrecsam.
Mae'r bartneriaeth adfer yn cynnwys y Rhaglen Weithredu Genedlaethol ar Fawndiroedd @natreswales.bsky.social, a @naturalengland.bsky.social.
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Estate Signs a Strategic Partnership to Restore an Ancient Peatland

A strategic partnership has been signed to restore one of Britain’s biggest raised bogs. Fenn’s Wood is an ancient bog straddling the English and Welsh

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 14d

Excellent news re Barnston Estate peatland restoration at an ancient bog straddling Welsh and English border near Wrexham. The restoration partnership includes @natreswales.bsky.social & its National Peatland Action Programme, and @naturalengland.bsky.social.

businessnewswales.com/estate-signs...

Estate Signs a Strategic Partnership to Restore an Ancient Peatland

A strategic partnership has been signed to restore one of Britain’s biggest raised bogs. Fenn’s Wood is an ancient bog straddling the English and Welsh

businessnewswales.com

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks for strimming a way in Richard 😆
At least we had some reward for our wading efforts

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 13d

Yesterday's Recorders' Day started out like Sleeping Beauty (1st time taking a hedge trimmer to go recording) - ended up like Waterworld, slopping about a flooded fen all day. Attulus caricis and Baryphyma gowerense (new site record) @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social

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West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre @wwbic1.bsky.social · 15d

#recordoftheweek is Chorthippus brunneus, Field Grasshopper in Pembrokeshire, recorded by Gemma Ribakovs on the #LERCWalesApp
Thank you for your records

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 15d

Just add water... (and a load of warden know-how). An hour at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Cors Ddyga: the first Pintails arriving, flocks of Golden Plover wheeling through the sky and Snipe exploring the new pools.

Cattle Egrets forage among the cows. Unseen, Skylarks calls above. Magic!

#BirdingWales

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 16d

Yesterday's Freshwater species ID course went well. Full turn out and we covered some really interesting Microbiota and Leeches. Thanks to Wyn and Rachel for leading this course. @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social @treborthbg.bsky.social @tanyptera.bsky.social

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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 16d

Dermatocarpon miniatum (Leather lichen) on a hard Carboniferous limestone outcrop at Denbigh Castle #ValeOfClwyd

Pale grey two lobed roughly circular lichen on a vertical limestone wall

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 16d

Really nice - can just about make out the blue femur shine too.

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Tanyptera Project @tanyptera.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Book your free place: www.tickettailor.com/events/tanyp...

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 21d

That keys out as an insect Ty - it's only got 6 legs 😆

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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · 23d

Last call for any images of multiple moths on egg cartons before the season is over! Can you help us reach our target? Please repost!

Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · Aug 7

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡

At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.

More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 23d

Hi Elaine. It's a Labulla thoracica - one of our larger Money Spiders.

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 26d

#RecordOfTheWeek today is Trapania pallida, a beautiful Sea Slug, spotted in Mumbles by Martin Bell. This is the first record we have for the SEWBReC area, and seems to be the 5th record for Wales!

Many thanks for the record and photos, submitted via LERC Wales App www.sewbrec.org.uk/recording/app

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Liam Olds @liamolds.bsky.social · 27d

Thousands of Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) at Freshwater East, Pembrokeshire, yesterday. Amazing to watch them, especially the mating balls.

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 26d

700 year old Conwy Honey Fair tomorrow. Lots of local honey and crafts for sale. Wildlife Organisation stands too.
www.conwybeekeepers.org.uk/fairs-festiv...

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Natur Cymru @naturcymru.bsky.social · 27d

#SwyddiGwylltCymru #WalesWildlifeJobs

Ecolegydd / Ecologist, Cyngor Bro Morgannwg / Vale of Glamorgan Council
Diwrnod cau / closing date 23/09/2025

www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_counc...

Job Details

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · Sep 6

Advanced identification skills at Cofnod office today @sewbrec.org.uk DaveS helping Moth-ers dissect preserved material to aid critical identification. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @tanyptera.bsky.social

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