Just popping back briefly as I seem to still have 2000 followers here. Your occasional reminder, should you need it, that UK wildlife chat is alive and bustling over on Bluesky. (Signing off again)

Ah, it's Hydrotaea meteorica I think.

Struggling with a black muscid fly but this front femur looks very distinctive - do you recognise it @StevenFalk1? Keyed to perhaps Spilogona but then running into the buffers... Ta.

Highly recommended, one of the most useful biological recording apps there is. And now improved, should now work on all phones

I've joined the exodus to bluesky. New handle there is @lancefly . I'm only retaining my x account so that I can follow mighty Worcester City FC games live.

I'm now actively winding down my Twitter life, in favour of Bluesky. It's where a lot of the wildlife folk seem to have migrated + its ownership is also less questionable. A big change after 13 yrs and 20K tweets but seems the best thing to do. Will still check in here now & then

Oh, if I were a younger man....

Opinions sought on this plant please. On acid heath, Trinity Hill, Devon (SY307959). Solidago? If so, the gall may be very interesting - perhaps the picture-winged fly Campiglossa grandinata which hasn't been recorded for yonks @BrambleBotanist @joshual951 @Jo_the_botanist

I've only just discovered that there's a set of superb Danish books on bugs (Miridae, Lygaeidae and shieldbugs) and lacewings freely downloadable from https://t.co/UNywuL3IEH. Very generous! In Danish, but amazing pics

I think these twists on bracken are galls caused by the fly Dasineura pteridis, but other suggestions welcome. At Walberswick today with @pilning

Species 7,759: Musotima nitidalis (Marbled Fern). Although a new colonist, I'm a bit overdue with this as everyone else in Norfolk seems to have it in bucketloads. Still missing from my fern-free part of the claylands though. Nice to see a load at Walberswick today with @pilning

New notification set up on https://t.co/hTl3yMh5Xk. Whenever you add a new species to the website, you get a notification in Listing Milestones. Gamification works. #panspecieslisitng

Species 7,758: Sus scrofa (Wild Boar), about a dozen in the Forest of Dean yesterday in New Beechenhurst Inclosure. All in a single loose group near the busy car park, then no more deeper in the woods during miles more walking.

Species 7,757: Frankenia laevis (Sea-heath), a huge mat on the lower slopes just west of West Bay, Dorset, today. I should have seen this before on an eastern saltmarsh somewhere.

Species 7,755: Small Fleabane (Pulicaria vulgaris) in the New Forest today

Tried my garden sieve on a few reed piles at Sutton fen the other day, it’s quite an effective method for Staphs etc. Any recommendations for a proper entomological sieve with collection tray? Are 5mm gaps best or smaller?

Comet showing now from Shotesham. Just a bit left of due west. My photography ain't up to it I think

I similarly find ID of all sorts of other groups easier in alcohol - sawflies, craneflies, many calyptrate flies, etc.

@themarshtit @Theoldgoat5 It's in the west

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