Hannah Breach
@hannahbreach.bsky.social
Naturalist. Norfolk. Mostly wandering about looking at invertebrates with Kevin Radley (in which case all photos his) or observing the creatures in my garden.
Pinned
Progress of the Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) larva on Hemlock (Conium maculatum)- now a 5th instar.
#norfolkbutterflies
#norfolkbutterflies
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Accidentally brought this Diaea dorsata into the house today. It would be disingenuous of me to say I love all spiders (I am, sort of, working on it!) but I am fond of Crab Spiders and this species is particularly beautiful.
#greencrabspider #spider
#greencrabspider #spider
December 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Accidentally brought this Diaea dorsata into the house today. It would be disingenuous of me to say I love all spiders (I am, sort of, working on it!) but I am fond of Crab Spiders and this species is particularly beautiful.
#greencrabspider #spider
#greencrabspider #spider
Not the species we were looking for but for a slug Deroceras laeve (Marsh Slug) has a certain charm due to its diminutive size! This one was about 8mm long.
Also seen today a number of Deroceras agreste, Ruby Tiger
(Phragmatobia fuliginosa) & Drinker (Euthrix potatoria) larvae.
#slug #invertebrates
Also seen today a number of Deroceras agreste, Ruby Tiger
(Phragmatobia fuliginosa) & Drinker (Euthrix potatoria) larvae.
#slug #invertebrates
December 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Not the species we were looking for but for a slug Deroceras laeve (Marsh Slug) has a certain charm due to its diminutive size! This one was about 8mm long.
Also seen today a number of Deroceras agreste, Ruby Tiger
(Phragmatobia fuliginosa) & Drinker (Euthrix potatoria) larvae.
#slug #invertebrates
Also seen today a number of Deroceras agreste, Ruby Tiger
(Phragmatobia fuliginosa) & Drinker (Euthrix potatoria) larvae.
#slug #invertebrates
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People just love planting trees, and sometimes there's no alternative.
But planted trees will NEVER create anything like the sheer diversity of forms of wild, self-seeded trees.
Only *nature* can do that.
But planted trees will NEVER create anything like the sheer diversity of forms of wild, self-seeded trees.
Only *nature* can do that.
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
People just love planting trees, and sometimes there's no alternative.
But planted trees will NEVER create anything like the sheer diversity of forms of wild, self-seeded trees.
Only *nature* can do that.
But planted trees will NEVER create anything like the sheer diversity of forms of wild, self-seeded trees.
Only *nature* can do that.
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Labour seem determined to wreck what’s left of our natural world. So many broken promises.
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma....
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma....
Nightmare before Christmas: worst environmental regression in decades looms | The Wildlife Trusts
Labour’s list of broken promises mounts
www.wildlifetrusts.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Labour seem determined to wreck what’s left of our natural world. So many broken promises.
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma....
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma....
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Discussion by Morris & Welch on problems and solutions for conserving invertebrates.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Is invertebrate conservation in Great Britain best achieved by policies that increase species protection? - Journal of Insect Conservation
Abstract We discuss proposals to extend the list of protected insect species in Great Britain and question whether existing species protection measures are appropriate for insects whose ecology is sub...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Discussion by Morris & Welch on problems and solutions for conserving invertebrates.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@norfolknats.bsky.social @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social @chikichanka.bsky.social
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@norfolknats.bsky.social @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social @chikichanka.bsky.social
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New Neotropical Birding and Conservation website is up and running. If you want to help conserve the birds of the American tropics please consider joining, donating—or just spreading the word! @neobirdconserve.bsky.social neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org #ornithology
Homepage - Neotropical Birding and Conservation
neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New Neotropical Birding and Conservation website is up and running. If you want to help conserve the birds of the American tropics please consider joining, donating—or just spreading the word! @neobirdconserve.bsky.social neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org #ornithology
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Shocking footage exposes the annual Guga Hunt
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Shocking footage exposes the annual Guga Hunt
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Skylark Lane and Swift Avenue markavery.info/2025/11/22/r...
RSPB finds bird populations falling while roads named after those birds are rising. Hmm - is that progress?
📷Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)
RSPB finds bird populations falling while roads named after those birds are rising. Hmm - is that progress?
📷Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Skylark Lane and Swift Avenue markavery.info/2025/11/22/r...
RSPB finds bird populations falling while roads named after those birds are rising. Hmm - is that progress?
📷Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)
RSPB finds bird populations falling while roads named after those birds are rising. Hmm - is that progress?
📷Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)
Some attractive leaf mines seen today in the Yare Valley.
A Beech leaf with Stigmella tityrella and Phyllonorycter messaniella mines. A Hazel leaf with what I believe is a Stigmella microtheriella mine.
#leafminers #teammoth #norfolkmoths
A Beech leaf with Stigmella tityrella and Phyllonorycter messaniella mines. A Hazel leaf with what I believe is a Stigmella microtheriella mine.
#leafminers #teammoth #norfolkmoths
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Some attractive leaf mines seen today in the Yare Valley.
A Beech leaf with Stigmella tityrella and Phyllonorycter messaniella mines. A Hazel leaf with what I believe is a Stigmella microtheriella mine.
#leafminers #teammoth #norfolkmoths
A Beech leaf with Stigmella tityrella and Phyllonorycter messaniella mines. A Hazel leaf with what I believe is a Stigmella microtheriella mine.
#leafminers #teammoth #norfolkmoths
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Cream-spot Ladybird (Calvia quattuordecimguttata) seen today in the Yare Valley. #UKLadybirds
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cream-spot Ladybird (Calvia quattuordecimguttata) seen today in the Yare Valley. #UKLadybirds
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Spent the afternoon inking out the details on my folding card. Slow going as I haven't done any work like this for ages.
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Spent the afternoon inking out the details on my folding card. Slow going as I haven't done any work like this for ages.
Disturbed this Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) whilst trimming Bramble back in the garden today. It settled back further in and we'll be careful to avoid that area from now on so that it can over-winter in peace. (photo taken as it was getting dark) #brimstone #hibernation
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Disturbed this Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) whilst trimming Bramble back in the garden today. It settled back further in and we'll be careful to avoid that area from now on so that it can over-winter in peace. (photo taken as it was getting dark) #brimstone #hibernation
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Scarlet Caterpillarclub, Cordyceps militaris.
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Scarlet Caterpillarclub, Cordyceps militaris.
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
Cavenham Heath, Suffolk.
Seen on yesterday's trip outside the county for Norfolk Fungus Study Group.
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2020/10/31/s...
#Fungi #FungiFriends
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And that has just rejected #SwiftBricks - a modest amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that would have ensured a future for beautiful birds for whom a place to nest is a matter of life and death
Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
And that has just rejected #SwiftBricks - a modest amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that would have ensured a future for beautiful birds for whom a place to nest is a matter of life and death
This has surely been a 'Clouded Yellow year' but very pleased to have one in our Breckland garden today. A first for here and the best views I've ever had of one!
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This has surely been a 'Clouded Yellow year' but very pleased to have one in our Breckland garden today. A first for here and the best views I've ever had of one!
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
#norfolkbutterflies #cloudedyellow
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Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
4 commonly seen invertebrates in & around fens. Amber Snail (Succinea putris),
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
4 commonly seen invertebrates in & around fens. Amber Snail (Succinea putris),
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
Spiked Shield-bug (Picromerus bidens)
Milky Slug (Deroceras agreste) and Drinker (Euthrix potatoria).
I believe D. agreste is restricted to the Yare Valley in Norfolk. All photos taken on phone so not great!
#broads
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'Lost Nature' report from @wildjustice.bsky.social focusing on how housing developers fail to deliver their LEGAL ecological commitments - wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
Lost Nature - housing developers fail to deliver their ecological commitments. - Wild Justice
Below you will find two versions of the Lost Nature report; a summary version (20 pages) and a full report […]
wildjustice.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
'Lost Nature' report from @wildjustice.bsky.social focusing on how housing developers fail to deliver their LEGAL ecological commitments - wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
#biodiversity #housing #nature #planning #ecology
This is a slight cheat as it's not a recent photograph! I found this photo I'd taken a couple of years ago in Surlingham of a
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is a slight cheat as it's not a recent photograph! I found this photo I'd taken a couple of years ago in Surlingham of a
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
?Ormyrus nitidulus and thought it's such a smart beast I had to post it! Not something I've encountered before or since, this individual was on my car. #hymenoptera
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I rarely find Neobisium carcinoides so it was a good job that the Norfolk beetle recorder was on hand at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes yesterday to find this one for me. Martin is far better at finding these critters than me! #Arachtober #arachnids #pseudoscorpions
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I rarely find Neobisium carcinoides so it was a good job that the Norfolk beetle recorder was on hand at NWT Sweet Briar Marshes yesterday to find this one for me. Martin is far better at finding these critters than me! #Arachtober #arachnids #pseudoscorpions
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A large stretch of white foam which has appeared on the river Thet is being investigated by the Environment Agency....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Environment Agency investigating foam on Thetford river
People are being warned not to let their pets swim in or drink from the river.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A large stretch of white foam which has appeared on the river Thet is being investigated by the Environment Agency....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blending in beautifully these Walls (Lasiommata megera) have been seen regularly in a Yare Valley garden. Photo Kevin Radley
#butterfly #wallbrown
#butterfly #wallbrown
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Blending in beautifully these Walls (Lasiommata megera) have been seen regularly in a Yare Valley garden. Photo Kevin Radley
#butterfly #wallbrown
#butterfly #wallbrown