Just got back from the bakery with an additional item.
Saw this frog (Rana temporaria) on my way into town against a house in a small crevice trying to hide off the pavement next to a busy road.
Decided that I’d rescue it from certain death on my way back so asked for a spare paper bag with my loaf.
Collected it up and deposited in our garden by the pond where it is currently resting.
Just found this bee in my garden on the paving, looking very forlorn. Was walking a little bit, but a long way from any food source or shelter.
Moved it to a largish clump of red dead nettle (Lamium purpureum) which is in flower.
I think the bee is a hairy-footed flower bee (Anthophora plumipes) which the iRecord app seemed to agree - though need it to be positively identified by an expert.
Quite the floofy cutie! Hope it appreciated the move and survives.
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Say hi to my new garage friend 🕷️
Looks like it is one of the steatoda family, possibly S. nobilis, but can’t confirm as I’m not an expert and the species isn’t officially recorded where I live. They are spreading across the country tho, so I live in hope.
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New moth for me today. Assuming I have identified it correctly, it’s a “Setaceous Hebrew Character” which sounds like a what3words location, tbh.
Apparently common throughout the UK, so nothing unusual, but always nice to come across something you’ve not seen or heard of before.
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Spotted yesterday: woodlouse spider (dysdera sp.) also known as baked bean spider, which I rather like.
I submitted to iRecord as d. crocata but this got an “awaiting review” response as the similarity to d. erythrina makes it difficult to identify except by expert under magnification. Also, neither recorded in my area (but close by).
They have formidable “fangs” which can be painful if they bite you, but not a big problem. It was on my glove 😬
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Our little pond is doing exactly what we wanted it to do, be a home for nature.
Only went in the ground last October so the fact that a pair of large red damselflies (pyrrhosoma nymphula) decided to call it home for their young is massively pleasing.
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Any spider experts able to help me out with this please? Found in the frame of my back door. I live in Wymondham, Norfolk, UK.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
This is the most magnificent horse chestnut tree that I have seen in a long time. Absolute beauty.
Sitting in the middle of a wet woodland, it completely dominates its location. Wonderful. And massive!
If you zoom in you can see people under the canopy for some scale.
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