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lostboyy35 @blueleafnature
Joined May 2013
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Courtship display of Leptarthrus brevirostrus at Ballachuan SWT reserve, Isle of Seil, last May. Smaller dark male dances provocatively around the resting female #WorldRobberflyDay @ScotWildlife
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Royal Entomological Society@RoyEntSoc
23 Oct 2023
Want to know more about an #insect you’ve found? 🦋 #Identify an insect with our #experts: ow.ly/xeig50OUXN5 📸Autumnal feathered thorn #moth (#Colotois pennaria) - #InsectWeek Commended 2016 O18 © David Fotheringham #WhatsThisBug
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Harlequin Ladybird surge at the White Cart, Renfrew, with about 40 individuals counted. Appears to be the first records of Harmonia axyridis for NS46 @UKLadybirds @GlasgowNatHist @ColSocBI
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Thanks @RoyEntSoc for the credit. And good luck with #WhatsThisBug
Royal Entomological Society@RoyEntSoc
28 Aug 2023
Want to know more about an #insect you’ve found? 🦋 #Identify an insect with our #experts: ow.ly/xeig50OUXN5 📸Autumnal feathered thorn #moth (#Colotois pennaria) - #InsectWeek Commended 2016 O18 © David Fotheringham #WhatsThisBug
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It’s getting harder to find new species after 14 years’ fieldwork at Cruachan, Argyll (VC98) but Dictenidia bimaculata and Xanthandrus comtus were notable additions from last week’s survey @DipteristsForum @CRStipula
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Aromia moschata remains a rare longhorn beetle in Scotland so it was fantastic to find three on Angelica in fen woodland at Glenlee (VC73) this week - a very large and impressive creature @NLonghornRS @swseic
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Absolute scenes at Loch Awe, Argyll (VC98) when a moth trap session turned into a beetle drive. These are some of the 71 Necrodes littoralis recovered from three traps at Cruachan PS @AshWhiffin @SilphidaeUk About 5% were red forms. What a carri-on!
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English Stonecrop Sedum anglicum growing in an abandoned slate quarry. Ballachuan Hazelwood SWT reserve, Isle of Seil (VC98) @ScotWildlife @BSBIbotany
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Fantastic second day of fieldwork at Ballachuan with c70 Marsh Fritillary on the transects plus Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Six-spot Burnet on the wing @ScotWildlife @BC_SWScotland @robdaw67
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Some remarkable Dipterans too including Beris clavipes (1st Scottish record north of the Central Belt), Hybomitra distinguenda and a courting pair of the robberfly Leptarthrus brevirostris.All Ballachuan SWT reserve, Isle of Seil (VC98) @kitenet @DipteristsForum @SoldierfliesRS
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And finally, the longhorn beetle Rhagium bifasciatum - look at its wee face! @NLonghornRS What a wonderful reserve! @ScotWildlife @nature_scot
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Back on my local patch today. Not much about in the heat, but, deep in the shade, appears my favourite hoverfly Brachypalpoides lentus, a nice local rarity. Big Wood, Renfrewshire @DipteristsForum @NHM_Diptera @GlasgowNatHist
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Wow! Wasn't expecting a Wasp Beetle Clytus arietis today while surveying at Stonebyres, nr Lanark (NS84/VC77). It's moments like this that reward us for doing the hard miles and early starts @NLonghornRS @TamVC77 @ColSocBI
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So excited to start fieldwork at @ScotWildlife Ballachuan Hazelwood Reserve. An amazing scenic site with Forester and Silver Hook moths found on my first walkover last week - plus my main target, Marsh Fritillary. Can't wait to start formal surveys!
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Hi @StevenFalk1 - could you please offer your impression of this tri-coloured Nomad from Lanark (VC77). Its very unlike my usual panzeri. Thanks
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Hi @CRStipula - here are a couple of craneflies from Lanark (VC77) today. Am I correct with Nephrotoma appendiculata and Limonia flavipes?
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Graham Lindsay@GrahamLindsay1
29 Apr 2023
Great night at the Pars player of the year do. Two pics with @FifeProvost Jim Leishman and @blueleafnature David Fotheringham celebrating league wins. 37 years and one MBE later....
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Well done Afton!
Afton Fotheringham@missfothering
25 Oct 2022
So excited to be the Education, Liason and Outreach Officer for @CWDW_research - a new citizen science project aiming to ID the dolphins of the River Clyde 🤩💙 Please give us a follow 🐬🐬🐬
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Five Cerambycidae longhorn beetle species this year is a record for me in Central Scotland with Alosterna tabacicolor, Grammoptera ruficornis, Rhagium mordax, (Pachytodes cerambyciformis) (VC77) and Rhagium bifasciatum (VC76) @NLonghornRS @GlasgowNatHist
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Pleased to find Small Skipper at two sites near Lanark NS84 @TamVC77 What's the species' status in the VC? Thanks
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