Terry & Judy Wood
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Terry & Judy Wood
@tandjwood.bsky.social
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Recorders & photographers all types of wildlife but especially Dragons & Damsels, Bees, Butterflies, Hovers, Bugs, Wasps, Flies, Moths, Birds, Mammals, etc, etc. Have a wildlife friendly (very!) garden in Northants. Also love travel, music, art & lots more
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The car roof is popular! Also found 3 lovely Hawthorn Shieldbugs (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) just standing about - probably dropped off the Ash tree above the car.🪲
Found this male Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) on its back with its wings stuck to the damp on the roof of the car. Rescued and placed on Ivy flowers and it started feeding straight away🐝
Appears to be a good fungi year altogether but probably need a drop of rain to make it even better🍄
Good morning @lizlouise.bsky.social , @botanybeck.bsky.social, @jeremybartlett.bsky.social Wondered if you could help us id this fungi which we think could be an Armillaria species? Thanks.
Heard our 1st a couple of days ago. Just typing this and a Buzzard flew 20 feet above the garden pursued by a gang of Jackdaws! Looked enormous!
A well marked Nursery-web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) found in the utility room and placed outside. Think the inverts have been watching the Harlequin ladybirds and following suit!
A final instar Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) found pootling around the bathroom and liberated. @rockwolf74.bsky.social
Haven't seen a Bronze Shieldbug (Troilus luridus) for a while but found this one today in the garden feeding on an unfortunate Scarlet Tiger caterpillar. Incidentally, we have literally hundreds of the latter in the garden this year! @rockwolf74.bsky.social @bugmanjones.bsky.social
Thanks Will. Our 1st Nysius and unfortunately the hind claw is at 90 degrees which doesn't help.... If it appears again we'll try to get some better shots.
Spotted a female Dark Bush Cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) just outside the landing window above the climbing rose "Blush Noisette". They are a great favourite of ours with their almost prehistoric amour plated appearance. 🦗 @vc40orthops.bsky.social
We spotted a Groundbug on a Rudbeckia flower (Compositae) and think it may be a Nysius senecionis? The 1st segment of the hind tarsus appears to be less than combined length of the 2nd, 3rd segment and claw. Help appreciated @britishbugs.bsky.social @willgeorge.bsky.social @bugmanjones.bsky.social
A male Locust Blowfly (Stomorhina lunata) blowing a bubble. After some research it appears flies do this to thermoregulate (cooling liquid and then ingest) and/or to aid digestion. Locust blowflies seen daily here on sunny days since 17th August. (3 males today) @suillia.bsky.social
You could imagine the Mottled Shieldbug thinking: blimey, what's that! - oh, it's ok, it's a very nice Eristalis intricaria hoverfly! Seen in the garden on Friday.🙂
It's that time of year with lots of handsome Garden Spiders (Araneus diadematus) around. This female is hanging in space just outside the back door.
Stunning! Seem to be doing very well these days and spreading.
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**Attention fly enthusiasts!** We're looking for presenters for the Dipterists Society General Meeting at ESA @entsocamerica.bsky.social in Portland, OR (November 11th)

If you're interested in giving a talk, please DM me for a link to submit a title/abstract. Deadline to submit is October 10th.
The Small Purple and Gold Mint Moths have had a good year here with many adults around. Spotted one of their colourful caterpillars on a mint on Monday.
Good to see a couple of Cinnamon Bugs (Corizus hyoscyami) in the garden on Monday. Like most bugs they seem to sit around a lot taking in the vitamin D when available!. This one was on the seedheads of a marjoram. @rockwolf74.bsky.social
First of the day: a pair of Pied Wagtails flying over followed by "our" House Martins which are about early today - they will probably being heading south very soon with the change of weather imminent. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Thanks Maria, didn't realise they could be so late - do you think they would make adulthood before winter or spend it as a nymph (like Forest Shieldbug)?