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A few Mothing highlights of 2025
We usually take photos on our regular moth trapping nights but if we find some very interesting and/or photogenic ones we also take some videos. Here are some of this years highlights.
youtu.be/mH-yikqYFQE
A few Mothing highlights of 2025
YouTube video by Sylvia Meller
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December 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
Whilst on a recent outing, stopped for a cuppa and this little one decides to hitch a lift, on my @cleyspy.bsky.social Mule Pack. 😃👍

#fascinatingnature
#UKinsects
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKcountryside
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
#BirdingGear
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
fearguscooney.bsky.social
Big diving beetles from the murky pools of the flow country bog in northern Scotland.

YouTube video of this trip is live now:
youtu.be/WANtgaaZnTI

#microadventure
#naturephotography
#wildcamp
#wilderness
#naturephotographer
#freshsnorkeluk
#snorkelscotland
#scottishwildlife
#ukinsects
#beetles
October 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
A regular visitor to our holiday apartment, a rock pipit, and enjoying a crane fly (daddy long legs) for breakie.

#wildlifeinaction
#fascinatingnature
#UKBirds
#UKinsects
#UKinvertebrates
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#CornwallBirds
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
October 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
cookiespencer.bsky.social
My first and only painted lady I’ve seen this year. Nicely camouflaged on the wood chippings #butterfly #ukinsects
September 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
cookiespencer.bsky.social
Butterflies are being drawn to the purple flowers today, lovely to see loads of them #butterflies #ukinsects
September 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
cookiespencer.bsky.social
Do you want to see the hummingbird moth that’s flying around today? He’s a beauty! #moth #hummingbirdmoth #ukinsects
September 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
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Possible Rusty Dot Pearl Moth ❓

#UKinsects
#UKinvertebrates
#UKmoths
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
September 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
Even clearer photo, and still not everyone's favourite.....

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#fascinatingnature
#UKinsects
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
September 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
Not everyone's favourite

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#UKinsects
#UKwildlife
#UKwildlifephotography
#UKnature
#UKNaturePhotography
September 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
contactwithcreation.com
Beauty will save the world. #InsectThursday #TinyJoys
A male southern hawker dragonfly perches, hanging almost vertically, on ripe red rosehips. It has big blue eyes, a pale green/black thorax, blue/green/black abdomen. A box bug peers down at him from one of the rosehips. #odonata #UKInsects
September 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
dhelliar.bsky.social
Female Brown Hairstreak on the Dorset patch this morning. I feel very privileged to spend about 10 minutes watching & photographing this elusive butterfly! @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #UKinsects
Underside of female Brown Hairstreak Female Brown Hairstreak showing orange-gold band on forewing.
August 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
dhelliar.bsky.social
An almost white 'Helice' form Clouded Yellow along with a 'normal' type at the Dorset patch this morning. 12 other species seen, inc a very close Brown Hairstreak (see next post) & 23 Large White! @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social #UKinsects
Helice form of Clouded Yellow nectaring on Common Fleabane 'Normal' Clouded Yellow nectaring on Buddleia
August 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
bathnature.bsky.social
#StreetWeeds and #PavementPlants from Mount Road, Southdown #Bath #Somerset #UK, life persisting in one of the most extreme habitats: the human built environment
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #urbanwildlife #botany #wildflowers #flowers
Great Willowherb - two pink flowers by a road Field Madder - small plant with spiky leaves and small pale-purple flowers Yarrow - plant with small white flowers Hedge Bedstraw - plant with small white flowers
August 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Two shieldbugs:
Forest Bug - nymphs feed on trees, adults often feed on caterpillars and fruits
Birch Shieldbug - usually on birches
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #entomology #bug #shieldbug #ukinsects #bath #somerset
Forest Bug - a brown bug on a leaf Birch Shieldbug - a green and brown bug
August 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
sussextangerine.bsky.social
I think this is the rare cuckoo wasp Hedychrum rutilans. Seen on Yarrow at Camber yesterday. Wasp enthusiasts ( contacted via @thegreatskua.bsky.social) seem to agree. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@graemelyons.bsky.social
#UKwildlife
#Sussexwildlife
#wasps
#UKinsects
A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower. A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower. A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower. A ruby, blue, green and gold wasp on a white flower.
August 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Two Tachinid flies - Tachina fera and Eriothrix rufomaculata - parasitic flies on moth caterpillars.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #entomology #tachinidae #diptera #fly #ukflies #ukinsects
Tachina fera - a fly with an orange abdomen with a black stripe down the centre, on a flower Eriothrix rufomaculata - a fly, black, grey with red side markings on the abdomen, on a flower
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Clouded Yellow butterfly at Claverton, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukbutterflies #butterfly #butterflies #lepidoptera #cloudedyellow
A yellow butterfly on a flower
July 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Small Skipper on Field Scabious, at Brown's Folly nature reserve, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.

#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathsomerset #bathuk #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukbutterflies #butterfly #butterflies #lepidoptera #smallskipper
An orange butterfly on a purple flower
July 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
nickimags.bsky.social
Day 207 of A Photo A Day for 2025

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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#commongreenlacewing
#ChrysoperlaCarnea
#lacewing
#ukinsects
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up colour photo of a common green lacewing insect upside down on some green stems with a pale green bokeh background
July 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
nickimags.bsky.social
Day 206 of A Photo A Day for 2025

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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bumblebee
#ukinsects
#hardygernaium
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up photo of a bumblebee head first in an open pink hardy geranium flower
July 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
nickimags.bsky.social
Day 205 of A Photo A Day for 2025

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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bumblebee
#ukinsects
#scabious
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up photo of a bumblebee on a pale mauve scabious flower with a green bokeh background
July 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
nickimags.bsky.social
Day 204 of A Photo A Day for 2025

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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bumblebee
#ukinsects
#cosmos
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up colour photo of a bumblebee in the centre of a pink and white cosmos flower with a green bokeh background
July 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
nickimags.bsky.social
Day 203 of A Photo A Day for 2025

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#aphotoaday2025
#lumixphotography
#photography
#bee
#furrowbee
#ukinsects
#dahlia
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#summer2025
#NoMowMay2025
a close up colour photo of a furrow bee with orange pollen sacks on a white dahlia flower with an egg-yolk coloured centre
July 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens) on an Oxford Ragwort, growing out of a pavement on #Twerton High Street, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #streetweeds #urbanwildlife #urbanbotany #botany #pavementplants
A hoverfly on a yellow flower
July 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM