Adrian Dutton
@nottscoleoptera
Paid to hunt Beetles, what more could a man want from a working life?
It’s a very good year for Vanessa cardui. Nottinghamshire garden earlier today, and a new bug for me, Aphanus rolandri, in my new Derbyshire garden. #Lygaeidae #Nymphalidae #Hemiptera #Lepidoptera #Butterfly #Bug
Feathers. Give yourself a massive pat on the back if you can name the bird species these are from. Interested to know what you think, I’ll give answer later if no one identifies correctly. #birds #Nottinghamshire #Ornithology #Birdwatching
Stictoleptura rubra, female. Bedfordshire. #Cerambycidae @colsocbi.bsky.social
Dasypoda hurtipes, the Pantaloon Bee, Bedfordshire. #hymenoptera #bee
Roesel’s Bush Cricket, flew in the door. North-east Derbyshire. #Orthoptera #Bush-Cricket
Things to do on a hot day, Granddaughters catching Bullheads in the shade.
One in Dorset, Eype and a couple on the coast North Wales both in last three weeks.
Very rare in East Midlands, Muston in Leicestershire best example
First walk from my new Derbyshire home to my new local pub and first Cerambycidae on the way. Rutpela maculata, North-east Derbyshire. #Cerambycidae #Coleoptera #Beetle
A live Whelk, Buccinum undatum. First one I’ve ever found alive. #Mollusca Morfa Nefin, Wales.
Final part of my house move and the most important - moving my reference collection. @colsocbi.bsky.social #Beetles #Coleoptera
Granddaughter looking at a couple female Sinodendron cylindricum we found in the garden this evening after walking home from school. #Lucanidae #Coleoptera #Saproxylic
A common beetle if you’re by the coast, Broscus cephalotes, quite excited to find it today 80 miles from the nearest beach in sunny Nottinghamshire on the pan of where an old colliery used to be, present with Amara fulva another lover of sandy soils. @carabidaeuk.bsky.social #Carabidae #Coleoptera
Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina, Dorset meadow, also present Common Blue and a nice surprise of a Clouded Yellow. #Nymphalidae #Butterfly #Lepidoptera
Always a favourite, Marsh Helleborine, Epipactis palustris, Charmouth undercliffs, Dorset. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Claytonia perfoliata, miner’s lettuce, named as eaten by gold rushers. An introduction from the Americas. Found on old colliery spoil heap, Nottinghamshire. Not rare but first time I’ve found it in Nottinghamshire and something I usually associate with coastal sites @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Orange-tip caterpillar, north-east Derbyshire garden #Lepidoptera #Pieridae
Chrysolina oricalcia, arable field margin, Nottinghamshire. #Chrysomelidae #Coleoptera #Beetle
If you sweep arable margins with Mayweed you’ve a very good chance of encountering Microplontus melanostigma. It always amazes me that such small beetles can live in such transient and ephemeral habitats. #Curculionidae #weevil #Coleoptera
Coastal weevils on an old colliery spoil heap in the English Midlands currently being restored back to heathland. Philopedon plagiatum and Charagmus griseus both found in good numbers on bare sandy habitats. #Curculionidae #Weevils
Haematopota fluvialis in the garden. It saw me before I felt her! #Diptera #Tabanidae
Garden beetle, north-Derbyshire this morning. Carabus nemoralis #Carabidae #Coleoptera