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Elaineeepoos

@elaineeepoos.bsky.social

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This lifetime I will be mostly sharing: pets, food & invertebrates 🦋🐜🐝🐞🦗🐕🐈‍⬛ Proud member of #TeamMoth #TeamCranefly #TeamHemiptera & #TeamOrthoptera

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 17h

The final harvest 💔

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 15d

First garden hedgehog klaxon 📢📢📢

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 25d

It thinks this angle is a woodlouse so I'm definitely not convinced now 😂

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · 25d

@cofnod.org.uk ObsId reckons this is Spitting Spider but it's in my greenhouse so I'm not convinced 🤔

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Sep 6

A murder scene in the trap this morning 😱😱

#TeamMoth #MothsMatter

House Spider spp feasting on an Angle Shades

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Sep 5

Was admiring the Ivy Bees in the garden, then discovered the source a few doors down! (video below)

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Sep 3

I use it for bats too, though I don't go looking for those as much as Orthoptera 😁

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · Sep 2

More Large Marsh Grasshoppers (Stethophyma grossum) from our return visit to Westhay Moor NNR on Sunday. The afternoon sunshine after the morning deluges brought them out & we heard much singing from the males. @rockwolf74.bsky.social spotted this fabulous female, liveried in pink & green.

female Large Marsh Grasshopper, the wonderful pink/purple morph.

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Sep 3

I use a Magenta 4 for Orthoptera. The smart phone one (Echometer) is really expensive and unfortunately doesn't identify Orthoptera. The iRecord grasshopper app is great for comparing calls in the field. Here's a video of me using Magenta www.facebook.com/watch?v=3396... (detector at about 50 secs)

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · Sep 3

SEWBReC #SpeciesOfTheMonth for September is Opilio canestrinii! Can you spot this leggy species on a wall near you?

See if you can fill in gaps in our distribution map: aderyn.lercwales.org.uk/density/dens...

More info including identification tips here: www.sewbrec.org.uk/sewbrec-cms-...

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 30

Another garden addition hiding in the trap this morning, Andromeda Lacebug 💞

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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · Aug 30

Canary Shouldered Thorn (Ennomos alniaria), Bucks 2025.
Welsh name Carpiog Gwar Melyn - meaning yellow nape ragged.

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

Canary-shouldered Thorn (Ennomos alniaria) resting on a white container, showing its bright yellow thorax, orange-brown patterned wings, and feathery antennae.

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 29

My first garden herptile 😍🥳😍🥳🎉

(technically in the house rather than garden but now safely relocated to a flower bed 😁)

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 29

A lovely bedroom visitor, Tipula fulvipennis

#TeamCranefly

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 27

#harvest

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 26

The migrants didn't arrive, but autumn did
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 25

I assume no one was hurt in the caravan explosion, firefighters were on site putting it out 🙏
#Lavernock

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 25

Lavernock Point today - Clouded Yellow 😁, an exploding caravan 😬, no Jersey Tiger 😔

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 25

Both traps out tonight, I am manifesting a Jersey Tiger 😁
#TeamMoth #MothsMatter

Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland) @migrantmothuk.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hopefully a very good night on the way for migrants, especially areas to the east of the cold front. Good luck! #teammoth

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Rockwolf 🇪🇺 @rockwolf74.bsky.social · Aug 18

It was pure joy to see the Scaly Crickets (Pseudomogoplistes vicentae) with @vc40orthops.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago at Marloes Sands! #Orthoptera #ScalyCrickets

Side on view of a female Scaly Cricket on a stone.

Side on view of a male Scaly Cricket on a stone.

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · Aug 18

A trip to the south of England brings home just how common Southern Oak Bush-cricket, Meconema meridionale is there. We found them in numbers at RSPB Pulborough Brooks (where these were photographed) and also at Dungeness, both times in 'natural' habitat, well away from the usual urban settings.

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Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 17

Final work event of the year yesterday 🥳

Elaineeepoos @elaineeepoos.bsky.social · Aug 15

Delighted to win a category in RCT PhotoMarathon this year 😁

Went up to Porth to see the exhibition today, lots of great images. Looking forward to 2027 event already!

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