Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) at Dungeness, Kent.🌊 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies Buglife Kent Field Club Folkestone & Hythe District Council Kent Wildlife Trust

An exquisite Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) within a relict fragment of semi-natural ancient woodland, close to the M20 on the gault clay at Thurnham, Kent.🌳Wild Orchids UK & Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife, Inc. Kent Field Club Kent Wildlife Trust Woodland Trust🌳 The British Nature Guide maidstonebc

Watching children take their last breath in agony, on the pavement with no medical support because there is none left to be found in Gaza.These horrors are ongoing - it is a moral obligation to speak up and resist this violence in every way we all can. SPEAK UP

Leaving nothing Palestinians can return to, while massacring them.
The essence of Israel's genocidal logic.

They're not 'Gazans', they are Palestinians.

Literally, most of Gaza's residents are not from Gaza. They are Palestinians who came to Gaza as refugees after Israelis ethnically cleansed them from their homes in other parts of Palestine.

How beautiful you are, people of Gaza
Despite the destruction and displacement, there is no loss of humanity
Rather, it appears in its most beautiful form to them.

A slightly rain-washed Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) soaks-up some long-awaited sunshine and warmth at the inner-urban High Level Bridge Pocket Nature Reserve, Maidstone. Butterfly Conservation 🦋
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This Common Awl Robberfly at Boxley Warren had damaged a wing & was unable to fly. She allowed me to gently manipulate it back into place with a grass stem & was then able to fly away.🦟 Dipterists Forum Kent Field Club
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Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team maidstonebc Kent Wildlife Trust

Pellucid Fly on Lime at Boxley Warren Local Nature Reserve. Lost tree & shrub species, including native Box, Lime & Juniper are being restored at Boxley with some positive early outcomes. Dipterists Forum
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The strikingly attractive Garden Chafer (Phyllopertha horticola), observed within an area of chalk grassland and scrub (a favoured habitat) at Boxley Warren Local Nature Reserve, near Maidstone. Kent Field Club Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland Buglife Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team maidstonebc Kent Wildlife Trust

Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) at Boxley Warren. Kent Field Club
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Wild Orchids UK & Ireland Plantlife, Inc. Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team maidstonebc Kent Wildlife Trust

Chalk Fragrant Orchid at Boxley Warren Local Nature Reserve, near Maidstone. This site historically suffered serious fly-tipping & car dumping. It became an LNR in 2008 & is now superb. Kent Field Club
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Green Lacewing (Chrysoperla carnea) sheltering on Hazel foliage within an inner-urban garden in Maidstone, Kent. Kent Field Club Kent Wildlife Trust
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Black Colonel (Odontomyia tigrina), on Small-leaved Lime foliage within a coastal Miyawaki woodland at Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.🌳 Kent Field Club SwaleBoroughCouncil
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A male Banded Demoiselle shelters from a heavy shower beneath the canopy of a Crack Willow by the River Len at Bearsted. These warmth-loving damselflies favour a diverse mosaic of riparian vegetation.🌳🌿British Dragonfly Society Buglife Kent Field Club Kent Wildlife Trust maidstonebc

Palmate Newt at Buckland Hill Pocket Nature Reserve, Maidstone. The shallow woodland pools within this inner-urban reserve support breeding Smooth and Palmate Newts. It is hoped that a new woodland pond will be excavated this year. ARG UK maidstonebc Kent Field Club KRAG

An unidentified Long-legged Fly (Dolichopodidae), at the new Miyawaki trial plot at Cornwallis Park, Maidstone. Long-legged Flies are a large family of true flies with more than 8,000 species described.🦟 Dipterists Forum Kent Field Club maidstonebc Kent Wildlife Trust Buglife

Rotationally grazed horse paddocks on the Kentish Greensand Ridge exhibiting a good diversity of grasses & herbs. The paddocks are stocked at low density through autumn/winter, with the area grazed reduced significantly in spring to minimise Laminitis risk & support biodiversity.

Pignut (Conopodium majus) umbel conceals a deadly surprise for unsuspecting pollinators, a Crab Spider. Observed at ancient Marshall Wood, Ulcombe on the Kentish Greensand Ridge. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife BAS Buglife Kent Field Club Kent Wildlife Trust Woodland Trust🌳

A Scarlet Tiger shelters amongst Green Alkanet (a larval food plant). As the fortunes of the Garden Tiger decline, the Scarlet & Jersey Tiger are becoming more frequent. Climate change & urbanisation? Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Buglife Kent Field Club The British Nature Guide Kent Wildlife Trust