Cleopatra. #leptember Portugal

A Garden Tiger, from my moth trap. Such a beautiful moth. Only been trapping for a month. Amazing that so many stunning moths, that I had never seen before, visit my garden. Had 3 Light Emeralds last night. I'm recording using National Moth Recording Scheme. Butterfly Conservation 🦋

My guided walk around Broadwater Warren & Eridge Rocks sets off from the RSPB Broadwater Warren carpark at 10am on Sat 7 Sept. Visit the High Weald Walking Festival website for further details.

Remains of a Churchill tank at RSPB Broadwater Warren. The area was used for military exercises during the Napoleonic wars and the 1st & 2nd World Wars.

Lots of the once rare metallic blue Alder Leaf Beetle (Agelastica alni) feeding at Broadwater Warren yesterday.

Median Wasp (Dolichovespula media) at Broadwater Warren yesterday, showing the characteristic 'number 7' marks at the corners of the thorax. Relatively new to the UK, first appearing in 1980.

Locust Blowfly appearing everywhere now - here at Broadwater Warren on Common Fleabane

Also on fleabane at Broadwater Warren yesterday, a rather late Green-eyed Flower Bee (Anthophora bimaculata)

From my #tunbridgewells postcard collection

Grass Eggar f.obsoleta from Dungeness light trap last weekend.....this lovely form lacking the postmedian line and dark surround to the discal mark is unique to the Dungeness race of the species.

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I've seen this on the one small patch of Tansy on Tunbridge Wells Common

An impressive plant which I've seen abundantly on the wetlands of St Mary's, Scilly. Surprisingly it has an enclave here in the High Weald and grows on some of the sandstone outcrops on Rusthall Common

And following that last RT with a plate depicting brimstones & related butterflies from Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World - The Palaearctic Butterflies (1906)

The chorus of the Skinners' School song! I remember that well.

A great day out with Graeme Lyons this week. Saw loads of cool stuff but the highlight has got to be this Large Conehead.

Another good site for it is Eridge Rocks just over the Sussex border from Tunbridge Wells

The Tunbridge Filmy Fern growing at Eridge Rocks

The moss-like gametophyte form of Killarney Fern occurs in the Tunbridge Wells area in similar sandrock habitats to Tunbridge Filmy Fern, but Killarney Fern fronds (the sporophyte form) have never been found

Ian Beavis Yes the gametophyte is actually not all that rare I these parts. Wherever I find Tunbridge filmy-fern, the killarney fern gametophyte is usually nearby. Killarney fern sporophyte, on the other hand, requires very specific habitat conditions and is much rarer