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Happy #nationalvolunteeringweek a massive thank you to our SE England volunteers for all their help in monitoring bumblebees across our field sites. Without their help we would not be able to do as much, gather the data we do & have the presence we have Bumblebee Conservation Trust #thankyou

On the Nomura green roof today and counted around 60 Bee Wolf nest burrows in the Sandy nesting mounds. Lots of bumblebees battling the wind to forage on Echium and kidney vetch. #worldgreenroofday

Flaming June ! Beautiful colours in the rain this evening 😍

Firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus, under a local Lime (Tilia) tree (Leybourne, Kent). Historically very rare (known from a single colony in Devon) but now widespread in the south-east and gaining further ground across the UK. Kent Field Club Buglife #nature BBC Springwatch

Male and female Dainty Damselfly from Oare Marshes, Kent. NEW photos @ marcheath.blogspot.com. British Dragonfly Society The British Nature Guide NatureUK BBC Springwatch Dave Smallshire British Wildlife Mag #Teamdragonfly #UKwildlife

Wall Brown on coastal path near Scarborough, N Yorkshire, yesterday. They often accompany you on a walk by flying up as you approach & settling again further ahead

The day-flying Chimney-sweeper moth also spotted on the coast path near Scarborough yesterday

Some more finds from Scarborough yesterday - soldier beetle Catharis cryptica, cardinal beetle Pyrochroa serraticornis, and the mining bees Andrena nigroaenea & Halictus tumulorum

Happy World Swallowtail Day! 🦋 The spectacular Swallowtail (Papilio machaon Britannicus) is our largest native butterfly, but also one of our rarest, confined solely to the fens and marshes of the Norfolk Broads. butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/… 📷: Sophie Hall, Sarah Punter

Some swallowtails from Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the Palaearctic Region (1906) #WorldSwallowtailDay

Portrait of the Scarce Swallowtail from John Curtis's British Entomology, 1836 #WorldSwallowtailDay

Common Spotted Orchid on coastal path near Scarborough #wildflowerhour

Good to find continued presence of Kentish milkwort following new introduction of seedling plants by speciesrecoverytrust on newly created wildflower grassland. Lace border and black veined moth putting on a show too, as first time records on new sites. Farmers leading nature recov'

First Meadow Brown of the season on TW Common yesterday

Male of Large Shaggy Bee (Panurgus banksianus) at Cat's-ear on TW Common yesterday

Males of Gold-tailed Melitta (Melitta haemorrhoidalis) patrolling mallow on TW Common yesterday

The small black digger wasps Lindenius panzeri and (on buttercup) L albilabris with their nest burrows in bare ground on TW Common

Good news from West Exmoor. After an annus horribilis in 2024 (bad weather), High Brown Fritillary numbers have picked up well - just need the sun to come out properly so I can get proper counts... DevonExmoorNT

Starting very soon, probably tomorrow afternoon somewhere in E Hants, W Sussex or Surrey, possibly Oxon or Kent, the 2025 Purple Emperor season - and they could be extremely good this year, & the males even more violent than usual. Don't miss out!

Males of Gold-tailed Melitta (Melitta haemorrhoidalis) patrolling cultivated Campanula in Calverley Grounds today. Like many male bees, they persistently fly around plants that females are likely to visit.