Very helpful! This issue occurs when trying to upload a photo to a record using the #irecord app. Intermittent, sometimes only affects 1 image file out of several. When I try the following day it seems to be fine. Using a Pixel 9 Pro XL & the Google Photos android app

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Insect ID'd

I came across this giant hoverfly yesterday on a walk. I've never seen one before and it's maybe an inch (2.5cm) big.

I have tried to find out which it is but to no avail. We're NW Scotland if that helps

Edit: I can share higher quality images if required, they're heavily compressed to save bandwidth 😅

Edit 2 - ID'd as a Tabanus sudeticus a terrifying biting horsefly 
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These are very pretty myrid bugs. (Deraeocorus ruber). There are two different colour variants but it isn't the usual case of male and female having different colouration.

I have spotted both, a few metres from each other, a few days apart.

Previous local records date to pre-2000 and even then, only 4 have been seen. Obviously it hasn't disappeared!

Most records are close to cities, so we are back to mapping enthusiasts, not insects.

What it brings home is that (aside from 'big ticket' items like butterflies) almost nobody is doing this work.

Protection requires data. Reserves, management policies, development - all rely on factual assessments of biodiversity.

More people need to use iRecord and iNaturalist. Building a deep picture of a tiny area is more useful than random jottings from random places.

Show what is there. Then defend it.

#nature #ecology #insects #iRecord #inaturalist

another day, another butterfly! i haven't been lucky enough to see a common blue in my garden until now (although i thought i saw a flash of blue in the garden last week but it was gone before i could get a closer look, could have been this little lady!) 🦋

common blue (Polyommatus icarus)

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#introduction I'm an #entomologist and biological recorder, based in Buckinghamshire, UK. I work at the #UKCEH Biological Records Centre, providing data management support for my research colleagues, + the #iRecord online wildlife recording system, & liaison with brilliant UK national recording schemes.

As a volunteer I run the recording scheme for #soldierflies & allies (Stratiomyidae & related #fly families), + I'm county #moth recorder for Berkshire. #insectodon