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vannabartlett.bsky.social
Artist, naturalist, author, cyclist. Loves insects/invertebrates especially solitary bees & harvestmen. County Recorder for Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions. Hefted to Norfolk. Website https://arthropedia.co.uk/
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Purple Toothwort, Lathraea clandestina. We were cycling past yesterday, so it would have been rude not to visit. Bumblebees were visiting too. www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2019/04/25/p... #flowers #wildflowerhour #spring

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Random road verge with loads of lovely Goldilocks Buttercups. Just need them three (Norfolk accent) bears after a long ride to quench my thirst.

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Out panning for gold again on yesterday's 40 mile bike ride with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social. Visited 5 churchyards and managed to find Chthonius ischnocheles at 2 of them. Also sieved some random dung/straw at sides of road with no luck. #pseudoscorpions #invertebrates #arachnids

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Invertebrates outnumber vertebrates 100 to 1. From Wasp Spiders to Hornets, their wild dramas unfold in meadows near you, writes @vannabartlett.bsky.social #EarthDay

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Invertebrates make up 99% of animal species on Earth – yet remain overlooked, unloved and misunderstood. 🐜🕷️ It’s time we gave these tiny powerhouses the attention they deserve | Vanna Bartlett @eastangliabylines.co.uk @vannabartlett.bsky.social

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Interesting potential connection between pheasants and Lyme disease...

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New to Britain! These springtails are Dicyrtomina signata, a European species that's never previously been seen in the UK. I found these while out and about in Wanstead Park, London (with @josscarr.bsky.social, @nmaybury4.bsky.social). One to look out for!

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Seems to be Violet Rust, Puccinia violae. Any ideas? #wildflowerhour @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social

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Houdini is out... There were at least 5 male Osmia bicornis around the bee hotel today so it was no surprise to find the 'Houdini Fly' Cacoxenus indagator hanging around.

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The Rose 'Canary Bird' is grown in our Norwich garden for nostalgic reasons but it certainly draws in the #solitarybees with its open yellow flowers. Here are female Andrena cineraria (only 2nd rec in garden) and A. tibialis which nests every year. Neither were being particularly co-operative!

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Calling from the South meadow nettle bed.... corncrake... I think 2 calling males are present....

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Recently, I found these weevils in a freshwater sample that was particularly dense in duckweed (mostly Spirodela polyrhiza). They are duckweed weevils! They walk around on the floating platform of duckweed and their larvae mine within the leaves! Cool that even the tiniest of leaves have leaf miners

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My first Small Copper of the year yesterday, Norfolk Brecks.

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I spotted some clusters of Jet Ants Lasius fuliginosus on a Field Maple at Santon Downham, Norfolk Brecks yesterday. When I photographed them I noticed they were tending some rather large aphids which are likely to be Stomaphis graffii, possibly a first for Norfolk. #bugs #invertebrates #insects

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A great day out in the Norfolk Brecks yesterday, managed to find a #harvestman and a #pseudoscorpion in woodland by Lynford Water. Rilaena triangularis aka the spring harvestman and Neobisium carcinoides. More dots to add to the distribution maps. #arachnids

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When in the Keys, you must find the native Tailless Whipscorpion, and we did. Bucket list creature for both of us 🥹 Just big gentle shy lumps, no thoughts, just gently wavy antenniforms 🖤 Phrynus marginemaculatus

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“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear.” She was about to get married; a film about her life in Gaza had just been finished. 10 of her family were killed with her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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