Two beautiful Elephant hawkmoths in the light trap this morning. Fresh like this they are simply amazing. StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 West Midlands Butterfly Conservation Buglife

In the garden this afternoon Coremacera marginata . Lovely looking fly. Staffs Ecology StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇

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Spotted this cleptoparasite Coelioxys sp. in the garden the other day. Buzzing it's way around the hose on the wall which each year has solitary bees using the screw holes for nest chambers. Looking for its next host. BWARS Staffs Ecology StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇

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Egg laying on a twig around the ephemeral pond at StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 Wolseley today. I think this is Tabanus autumnalis but happy to be corrected, approx 20mm . Staffs Ecology @dipteristsforum Lisa Williams

Really nice surprise to find this false click beetle Hylis olexai at StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 Wolseley on Sunday. First for the county from what I can find. A rare beetle that is spreading. Staffs Ecology Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland

Lovely surprise in the light trap on Saturday morning, Prionychus ater. A first for me and ofcourse a garden tick too. Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland Staffs Ecology

Amazing what you can spot on the light trap sheet. Friday night I picked out this 1.6mm Horseshoe ladybird - Clitostethus arcuatus. Staffs Ecology Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland Helen Roy

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Volucella inanis on the fennel in the garden just. Such great looking flies. Staffs Ecology StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 Dipterists Forum

Spotted several Cassida, Tortoise beetle, larvae on Creeping thistle at StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 Wolseley today. So most likely C.rubiginosa I imagine. Staffs Ecology Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland

Interesting g what you spot on your hands and knees in wild areas. Hairy shielbug nymphs just emerged at StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 Wolseley today. Staffs Ecology Tristan Bantock

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New beetle for me from the light trap last night and looks to be a county first. The nationally scarce Anisoxya fuscula. Staffs Ecology Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland

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Hopefully good news for our striped mates, the badgers. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Anyone able to offer an ID for this Nomada from Staffordshire this Sunday? One quick shot and not the sharpest. I see reddish brown beneath the yellow on T1, I think there are a couple of candidates but not confident of either. Thanks. Lisa Williams Staffs Ecology Steven Falk

First time I've spotted a Hornet with its lunch. I'm thinking those are the legs of a longhorn beetle. Staffordshire yesterday. Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland Staffs Ecology

Very sad news - Tony Soper, a huge influence on generations of birders and broadcasters, who I had the huge privilege of working with and getting to know, has died aged 95. The last person who was there at the start of the BBC Natural History Unit. A lovely man.