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WILDLIFE - FOOD - FARMING. Visitor, Research & Nature Recovery Centre. Wildlife reserve, tropical bug zoo & farm. Founded by Dr Sarah Beynon. Also the home of Grub Kitchen (the UK's first edible insect restaurant) & Bug Farm Foods.

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The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Sep 6

🦋 Exciting new species record for our land at Penweathers recorded by our Year in Research student Freya...a striped hawk moth. This is a scarce immigrant species from southern Europe and northern Africa. #thebugfarm #moths #mothing #mothtrap

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Sep 1

The 'travelling toadlet' season is ramping up! 121 toadlets helped across the road last night, plus 49 newts (a mix of youngsters and adults) and 2 frogs. #naturenetworks #travellingtoadlets #toadpatrol #toadcrossing

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Aug 6

🦋 What a beauty! Clouded yellow butterfly on the Farm Trail today - the first we have seen for years ❤️. These butterflies migrate here from North Africa and southern Europe. Look at those lime green eyes and pink legs! #butterfly #butterflycount #bling #thebugfarm

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Aug 6

🤩🏵 Flower Field selfie of the day 🤩🌺

#welovebugs #thebugfarm #flowerfield

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Aug 1

Common blue in one of our meadows. Just spectacular.

📷 Andy Holcroft

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jul 27

🦋 We're seeing hummingbird hawk moths most days on the buddleia here at the moment.

🎥 Beth Wright

#moths #butterflycount #naturenetworks #pollinators #thebugfarm

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Bug Farm students and seasonal staff team had quite a catch in the moth trap this week!

On that note - a belated welcome to Beth, Niamh, Freya and Alex and a big welcome back to Tabitha 🥰.

Thanks to our lovely neighbour for alerting us to the very strange light in the field!

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jul 24

Another cracking lot of comments on our nature action board in the Nature Recovery Centre! One in particular made us laugh!

#naturerecoverycentre #naturenetworks #NatureRecovery #thebugfarm

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The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jul 13

Caribbean green bean stick insect (Diapherodes gigantea).

📷 Leo Carroll

#thebugfarm #walesnatureweek #macro #macrophotography

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jul 9

Male jungle nymph and, as you can see, he looks a whole lot different from his greener gal pals.

(Heteropteryx dilatata)

📷 Leo Carroll @my.friendly.neighbourhood.bug on Insta

#macrophotography #insectphotography #entomology #wales #pembrokeshire #walesphotography #thebugfarm #walesnatureweek

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jul 8

Female jungle nymph - one of the heaviest insect species in the world.

(Heteropteryx dilatata)

📷 Leo Carroll - @friendly.neighbourhood.bug on Insta.

#nature #tropicalbugzoo #bugs #bugzoo #macrophotography #thebugfarm #walesnatureweek

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Alice Vernon @alicevernon10.bsky.social · Jul 3

I had the time of my life at @thebugfarm.bsky.social today, making friends with a green bean stick insect and Madagascar hissing cockroach AND I saw a hummingbird hawk-moth for the first time among the wildflowers. So many wonderful bugs both inside and out. Living my best Animal Crossing life.

A very long Green Bean stick insect on my hand and wrist.

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The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jun 27

Day...week...year made! We have a nest of barn owl chicks! We are over the moon. These three chicks have been weighed (they're really heavy for their age) and ringed by ecologist Paddy Jenks.

What a glorious picture of the whole family together.

#barnowls #naturenetworks #thebugfarm

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Sea Trust @seatrustwales.bsky.social · Jun 27

Have you ever heard of a tree lobster? Also know as Dryococelus australis.

As it's National insect week, its worth remembering there are lots of marine insects too (kind of).

Our friends over at @thebugfarm.bsky.social have lots of other cool stick insects you can see and more.

#InsectWeek

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The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jun 26

Small red damselfly, The Bug Farm, St Davids. Pure summer perfection.

#photography

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wasp 🐝 or beetle 🪲? Mimicry at its finest at The Bug Farm!

#mimicry #insectweek #standtallforthesmall @royentsoc.bsky.social

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jun 24

Tune into @purewestradio.bsky.social now - I'll be live at 12:15pm for Insect Week.

#insectweek #thebugfarm @royentsoc.bsky.social

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jun 23

Spot the interloper 🧐

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jun 23

A taste of things to come for Insect Week here at The Bug Farm 🐞🪲🪰🦋🐛🦟🐝. All pics taken by Amdy Holcroft here at The Bug Farm in the last month or so.

@royentsoc.bsky.social #insectweek #thebugfarm #macro #macrophotography #insects

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The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · Jun 22

Our first ever swift screaming party ❤️🥹🎉

#swifts #bird #wildlifelover #naturevibes #nature #naturenetworks #thebugfarm

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · May 24

The comical lackey moth caterpillars have left their communal larval webs and are busy ambling across The Bug Farm at the moment. With their dishevelled appearance, they all look like they had a big night out on the tiles! #badhairday #caterpillar #thebugfarm

📸 Andy Holcroft

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · May 23

May Half Term at The Bug Farm. This is one of the best times of year to visit us.

All additional activities can be booked on our website at: www.thebugfarm.co.uk/visit-us/eve...

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · May 22

Azure damselfly at The Bug Farm for #internationaldayofbiodiversity

📸 Andy Holcroft

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · May 18

A lovely, poignant day showing Myfanwy and Ifor Lloyd, from the Derwen Stud, Myfanwy's Farm History Museum (or part of it) in its new home here in our new Nature Recovery Centre. #NatureNetworks #NatureReserve #NatureRecovery #farming #Museum #FarmingMuseum #history #TheBugFarm

The Bug Farm @thebugfarm.bsky.social · May 17

I last spotted a green hairstreak butterfly on the road through the centre of Dowrog Common on a hot, sunny day in May in 2009. Yesterday, I spotted this beauty in exactly the same spot as my 2009 spot.

📸 Armando Rosario Lebron