Lots of #orangetip #butterfly activity at the moment - not a #cuckooflower or #garlicmustard without at least one egg on it! 😎
They’re only 1mm long but bright orange so easy enough to spot if your eyes are up to it 🤓

#nature #wildlife #invertebrates #insects #lepidoptera #butterflies #macro #macrophotography

A beautiful lady and her beautiful children! This was a female argiope argentata (pictured here eating a mealworm I offered to her) that lived in my grandma's garden. She survived the loss of a leg and then a violent storm so I was thrilled to see that no only she was thriving but her babies were born as well 💚

From 2023

#NewSpecies!
New robber fly from #india just landed:

Loewinella kalasamalaensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7D5B87FD-BB7A-F77E-FF76-76E1FD7DFC24
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5741.3.9
#Zootaxa #LoewinellaKalasamalaensis

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#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #diptera #fly #robber #robberfly

#NewSpecies!
New springtail from #china just sprang in:

Anurida huangxiei

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD747B-FFFE-FFEC-FF6A-9FF9FCF0175C
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.1.8
#Zootaxa #AnuridaHuangxiei

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#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #collembola #springtails

#NewSpecies!
New beetle from #india just came in:

Psammoecus rahu

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F44F87FB-FFB8-942D-621F-8BA8FAC2FAF4
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1052.3272
#ejtaxonomy #PsammoecusRahu

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#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs

Holly Blue butterfly at #WWTCastleEspie.

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