Taking a break from conservation-grazing to have a snooze in the summer sunshine ☀️. #cows #WelshBlacks #NatureRecovery #ConservationGrazing #family #Summer #trees #shade #sunbathing #animal #animals #snoozing #sleep #sleepy #TheBugFarm

🐕🐱ATTENTION DOG & CAT OWNERS🐕🐱 Recent research has shown that pet parasiticides, such as spot-ons, are exceeding safe limits for wildlife in our rivers. Please complete this Imperial College London survey to help drive the science forwards. #pets #vets #pesticides

Why do we ask visitors not to feed the animals? Here's why. #ragwort #corncockle #apples #poison #poisonous #poisonousplants #animals #goats #farmanimals #TheBugFarm

🌼 Ragwort: love it or hate it? We're starting to dream of it this year 🌼

How lovely is this?! 'Up-Close Meet the Bugs' token accidentally taken home and posted back with a fun message 🤩🪰

☀️🤞☀️🤞☀️🤞☀️ Final ragwort check of the hay meadows, as we may have a full week of sun next week to make our hay. #NatureRecovery #WildflowerMeadows #HayMeadows #TheBugFarm

🪲Say hi to our very own Baxter from the AWESOME Beetle Boy series (and The Beetle Collector's Handbook series companion) by M. G. Leonard. #BeetleBoy #KidsLit #bookshelf #bookstagram #RhinocerosBeetle #beetle #bugs #bigbeetle #bigbugs #beetlejuice #thebeatles

🦋ATLAS MOTHS🦋 Who's going to hatch first? Pop your guess in the comments and tag a friend. We'll pick one random correct answer to win a free ticket to The Bug Farm. #competition #moths #cocoons #newborn #TheBugFarm

The Coal Shed swallows 🥰. It won't be long until these three swallow chicks fledge. We are securing the long-term stability of their nesting habitat here with a The National Lottery Heritage Fund Cronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol Nature Networks Fund grant. #swallows #migration #TheBugFarm

Elephant hawk-moth caterpillar meets Blue-dog 🥰. #dog #rescuedog #caterpillar #meetandgreet #animals #TheBugFarm

We were soooooo close to making hay today at Penweathers. Unfortunately, the crop was still a bit green and needed another half-day or day to dry. The 80% chance of rain tonight meant it was just too risky to not bale and wrap it. #compromise #haylage #haymaking #ClimateChange

A sad casualty of a haylage harvest, but how wonderful that we have harvest mice living at Penweathers? The nest (pic 2) was from a different field than the mouse. These carder bumblebees also made their nest in the grass that was cut. #NatureNetworks #harvest #TheBugFarm

Never too old to find a big elephant hawk-moth caterpillar VERY exciting! #entomologist #TheBugFarm

🎥📺🐞 Catch us live on ITV Wales News at 6pm talking about our nature recovery projects. #NatureRecovery #NatureReserve #NatureNetworks The National Lottery Heritage Fund Welsh Government Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales

A report, exclusive to ITV Cymru Wales, shows a significant increase in the amount of funding needed to preserve and protect biodiversity in Wales.

An impecably-timed technical issue may have interrupted the live broadcast on ITV Wales News last night (right as the camera moved to me 😆) but we still had a mention and spent a lovely afternoon preparing for filming with the nicest crew. #NatureNetworks #TheBugFarm #LiveTV

The female atlas moths are starting to emerge! #HereComeTheGirls #moths #bugs #BigBugs #TheBugFarm

Old Marie's hoof block fell off last week. The block takes the weight off the damaged half of her foot, so losing it made her very sore as she had to walk directly on her (slowly) healing sole ulcer. Hopefully she'll feel better now a new one is back on.

Andy mowed another 20 acres today and was followed by 8 red kites and 2 buzzards. Simply incredible. I guess we have a lot of small mammals living in the meadows! I wonder if the weather will hold for us to make it into hay? 🤞🤞🤞☀️🤞🤞🤞 #farming #haymaking #birds #TheBugFarm

We all had a great morning recording for @bbcradio4 with the fabulous Mariclare Carey-Jones. We chatted dung beetles, wildflower meadows, nature recovery and food of the future and explained all about our The National Lottery Heritage Fund Nature Networks Fund and Local Places for Nature projects.