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🐝🦟 The Importance of Ivy for Pollinators 🌙🦋 #Hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae #InsectLife #Autumn #Conservation #Biodiversity

Hoverflies Myathropa florea (Batman Hoverfly - see the logo on the thorax!) & Helophilus pendulus on that ivy patch on TW Common today

Love a water bear

✨ Hoverfly Art 🎨 Hoverfly make great mimics..... How many hoverflies can you spot in the painting below.? Let me know you answer. #Hoverflies #flies #Insects #syrphidae #knowledge #Art #HistoricalArt #Artappreciation #NatureIllustration hoverflyspotter.substack.com/p/hoverfly-a...

7-spot ladybirds and signs of the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae - aka Zombie ladybirds. The 3mm long wasp lays both an egg and virus into a ladybird and this results later in the cocoon underneath. The ladybird then often twitches when a predator appears. #cambridgewildlife #ukladybirds

🦟 Incredible Insect Journeys 🛩️ Its not just birds and butterflies that migrate each Autumn, other insects do too.To find out more click the link below #Hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #biology #wildlife #Entomology #NaturalHistory #Autumn #NatureNotes #Scicomm #Naturewriting.

🍄 Fungi Haiku 🍄 Death-minded fungi wait I leave them to spread their spores Beauty from afar 🍄 #Fungi #Haiku #Poetry #Autumn #FlyAgaric #NaturalHistory #NatureWalk #ForestFinds #HiddenWonders #haikupoem #haikupoetry

On Weds with the wildlife group at Oaks Wood some Ivy flowers attracted various insects, some of them togged basking on leaves and an old stump nearby. Here are the large and striking Sericomyia silentis and Mesembrina meridiana. #wildflowerhour #diptera #hoverfly

🎃The Tiny Monster hiding on an Autumn Leaf 🐛� #Insects #Lacewing #Autumn #Monster #Bug #Junk #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #ForestFinds #BugSpotting #Halloween #MicroSafari

“The Entomologist“ by George Spratt 1830. Seen yesterday at the opening ceremony of the new London headquarters of the Royal Entomological Society

🦟Autumn Hoverflies on the Wing –Oct Edition 🦟 What have you spotted recently? Comment below how many you have spotted or what you haven't see yet. Or any other ones you have seen? #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinators #Nature #Syrphidae #Entomology #Entomologist #Naturalhistory #Autumn

Totally agree George it’s great for later season pollinators especially hoverflies

🌍🌊 EarthSea 🧙 ⛵ 🐉 Just finished the 1st four books. Epic adventure by Ursula.K.Le.Guin. These books have a Taoist philosophy, anybody else read them? What was you fav? There are three more to discover – worth seeking out? #Fantasy #BookSky #Bookreview #Book #BookSky #Bluebrewbooks #Taoist

Ectophasia crassipennis, a parasitoid of bugs, having a fine old time on the garden Michaelmas Daisies this afternoon. #KentNature #Diptera #Flies

🦟 Hoverfly Spotted 🦟 Female Marmalade (Episyrphus balteatus) wearing her silver bracelets - whilst visiting Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea), this lovely pink five petalled flower. Spotted yesterday. #NaturalHistory #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinators #Nature #Syrphidae #NatureNotes

Thought of the Week 💡 🌱 🌎 Our habitats are like a jigsaw we just have to know which piece goes where to paint the right picture. #Nature #NatureNotes #Healing #Thoughtoftheweek #NaturePonder #Jigsaw #Ecosystem #Wildlife #Haitat #Birds #Mammals #Insects

☠️🦇 The Death’s Head Hoverfly 🦇💀 Behind its #comicbook nickname lies a far older and darker story. #Batman #Bat #Hoverfly #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #NaturalHistory #Autumn #NatureNotes #Superheroes #Insectlife #Comic hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

By piling leaves up in a corner of your little green space, you'll create a place for hedgehogs and insects to hide and hibernate. More tips to help garden wildlife this autumn: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/Aut... 🍂 #gardening #nature #biodiversity

🐞 Instars & Adults of Dock Bug 🐛 Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) #DockBug #ShieldBug #Autumn #Wildlife #NaturalHistory #NatureWalk #ForestFinds #HiddenWonders #StayCurious

🌳 🍄 🌿 Epiphytic community 🍃 🌱 🌲 What community do you belong to?? Consider joining mine to learn all about Nature’s joy. #Fungi #Lichen #Mosses #Bryophytes #Community #Nature #NaturalHistory #NatureWalk #ForestFinds #HiddenWonders #StayCurious

My garden too

Rat-tailed maggots live in water and breathe through a long, tail-like breathing tube that reaches the surface. As they grow, they transform into beautiful hoverflies, which fly from flower to flower and help pollinate plants.

🦋🐞🐜Critters from the Garden 🐝🐛🦗 Pests or Benefical to gardens? Twin-spot Centurion (Sargus bipunctatus) Vine Weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) Box Tree Moth (Cydalina perspectalis) #Pest #Gardens #Weevil #Moth #Flies #BugSpotting #Insects

Footballer hoverfly on Buddleia. #WildWebsWednesday

Batman hoverfly on Ivy flowers in Cambridge this week. #InsectThursday #Hoverflies #Diptera

🌎 Nature Relatedness 📊 Time spent in nature or with nature? Which one are you? #NaturalHistory #Nature #Knowledge #NatureNotes #Scicomm #Conservation #Biodiversity #EcoEducation

🚀 The Star Trek Book: Lost to Eternity 🛸 Good read – nice tie into the film: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home So had to watch it again whilst reading this book. What did you think to the book? #ScifiBooks #BookTok #SciFiReads #Scifi #BookSky #Startrek @startrekbookclub.com

Very interesting

Time to be galled

My favourite nature activity at present stand by some Ivy and watch what pollinators come in.

Super spots in our urban green spaces

🐝 Ivy Bee – It’s New!🐝 The Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) on the wing. New: Science in 1992 (previously considered to the be the Sea Aster Bee (C.halophius). New: UK in 2001 Dorset. New: My garden S.Yorkshire 2026. #Bees #Insects #Pollinator #NaturalHistory #GardenWildlife #WildlifeWatching

Eristalinus aeneus seen today about 3 miles in from the coast on a walk around our village. This one a male, 2st male seen this year and the 3rd of this species all year @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social #hoverfly #irecord

Ghosts, locked in dark rocks. Coal-age creatures - stay stone, or You’ll see what we did. #haikuSaturday

Fading Asters are still a magnet for Drone Flies. Eristalis arbustorum. #Diptera #VC55 #flies

🌻Seeing this made me smile 🌻 Happy Autumn Equinox also know as Mabon What’s put a smile on your face today? #Smile #Sunflower #Flower #Yellow #Mabon #Autumn #Equinox

🦇 In case you missed it 🦇 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na,na,na,na,na na,na,na,na,na Batmaaaaaan!. #Batman #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinator #Nature #Biology #Wildlife #Diptera #Entomology #NaturalHistory #StayCurious #Autumn #NatureNotes hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/09/batm...

🐝 Hoverflies on the Buddleia 🐝 Probably the last one, as the #Buddleia has turend now, which is a shame. But the Ivy will be flowering next in the garden, there is already a #buzz. Let’s see what comes to visit. #Insects #Pollinators #NaturalHistory #GardenWatch #Hoverflies

Well spotted yes Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly

wonderful it was this time last year i spotted one in a garden in Sheffield not seen one since, good spot.

🍃 Happy Hobbit Day Everyone 🍺🥧🌿 #Tolkien #Books #Hobbit #HobbitDay #LOTR

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

👀 Anyone seen Batman? 🔎 🦇 My Ivy is just coming into blossom so as well as looking for Ivy Bees, which would be a first in my garden, I on the lookout for Batman. Which ones are on your Ivy? #Ivy #Insects #pollinators #NaturalHistory #GardenWatch #Hoverflies #IvyBees

🦋🐞🐜Critters from the Essex coast 🐝🐛🦗 A Wall #Butterfly A #Firebug Cherry Slug #Sawfly. What critters have you seen recently? #Insects #NaturalHistory #InsectLife #BugSpotting #Bugsky #NaturalHistory #WildlifeWatching

I hope Andrew helped this caterpillar cross the road not just point the way…

This species shares a connection with the Batman hoverfly, any ideas what that might be?

Ivy has the juice. Batman hoverfly, buff- tailed bumblebee and one of several ivy bees. No hornets on this visit sadly. #Ivy

Garden Ivy is flowering and attracting Ivy bees. It was noisy there this morning :-). #pollinators