Mastodawn

#StreetWeeds and #PavementPlants from Mount Road, Southdown #Bath #Somerset #UK, life persisting in one of the most extreme habitats: the human built environment. Great Willowherb, Field Madder, Yarrow and Hedge Bedstraw.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #urbanwildlife #botany #wildflowers #flowers

Bath Nature Aug 9

Two shieldbugs:
Forest Bug - nymphs feed on trees, adults often feed on caterpillars and fruits
Birch Shieldbug - usually on birches
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #entomology #bug #shieldbug #ukinsects #bath #somerset

Bath Nature Aug 6

Two Tachinid flies - Tachina fera and Eriothrix rufomaculata - parasitic flies on moth caterpillars.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #entomology #tachinidae #diptera #fly #ukflies #ukinsects

Bath Nature Jul 31

Clouded Yellow butterfly at Claverton, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukbutterflies #butterfly #butterflies #lepidoptera #cloudedyellow

Bath Nature Jul 29

Small Skipper on Field Scabious, at Brown's Folly nature reserve, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.

#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathsomerset #bathuk #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukbutterflies #butterfly #butterflies #lepidoptera #smallskipper

Bath Nature Jul 21

Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens) on an Oxford Ragwort, growing out of a pavement on #Twerton High Street, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #streetweeds #urbanwildlife #urbanbotany #botany #pavementplants

Bath Nature Jul 21

Hornet Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) female on a bramble flower at Bath City Farm, #Bath #Somerset #UK.

This harmless Hornet mimic has expanded its range over the past few decades, and a study has strongly linked this expansion to #climatechange.

#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #twerton #bathcityfarm #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukhoverflies #hoverfly #hoverflies #diptera #mimicry #climatechange

RMRSavage Jul 20

A jersey tiger moth found it's way into my polytunnel. I took a couple of pictures before gently picking him up and letting him out #nature #ukinsects #ukmoths

Bath Nature Jul 19

Common Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) growing out of a wall in #Twerton, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #twerton #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #streetweeds #urbanwildlife #urbanbotany

Bath Nature Jul 19

Tortoise Bug (Eurygaster cf. testudinaria) on Agrimony, in #Bath #Somerset #UK. A species now moving north, probably in response to climate change.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #bug #hemiptera #shieldbug #climatechange