Graham Moates

Mammal & general nature enthusiast, volunteer - @NorfolkNats, Norwich Bat Group, @LOHProject & Greening Wymondham. Prefer to be outdoors

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@AdeysAlthorp @MeganShersby I am sure the @Mammal_Society would be interested in some of these for their Searching for Shrews project looking for possible non-native shrew species. There is even a FREEPOST address.

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Further evidence of the spread of Chinese Water Deer in Norfolk outside their traditional Broads stronghold. Roadkill casualty A140 Long Stratton TM193907 (07/01/2024). @RDMECOLOGY @TheRoadLab

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@applewildlife Thanks for the heads-up - now booked. #mothtrapintruders

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@StephenRoughle3 @vc30moths @leafminerman Just hold the camera and leaf up with daylight behind and it should be possible to get images such as these taken with a bridge camera.

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Hoping to tie down this hawk-moth(?) caterpillar to species. Is it an instar? Found near fuschias. @MOTHIDUK @rlewington2 @norfolkmoths

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@MJG3271 @leafminerman @AndyDNunn @LincsNaturalist @BC_Lincolnshire Thanks for the verification on @iRecordWildlife. For anyone else interested, the grid reference was TF34448487. Presumably the most northerly record in the U.K. so far?

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The leafmines of Stigmella aceris (Louth) and Stigmella catharticella (Sutton-on-Sea) observed this week in Lincolnshire @LincsNaturalist @BC_Lincolnshire @leafminerman

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@AndyDNunn @LincsNaturalist @BC_Lincolnshire @leafminerman There is a record on iRecord at Freiston Shore (VC54) from earlier this month but this seems to be the most northerly for S.aceris to date.

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Another new Agromyzid record for the garden: Nemorimyza posticata (not common apparently) on Solidago - thanks to @AgromyzidaeRS for the confirmation.

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Privileged to get to have an early look & review of the new @AgromyzidaeRS website. This will be a fantastic additional resource when available @NHM_Diptera @flygirlNHM @iRecordWildlife

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@lynda_lambert @Britnatureguide @DorsetWildlife @Natures_Voice @NatureUK @_joelashton @leafminers @BSBIbotany The leafminer is likely to be an Agromyzidae fly - probably Phytomyza ranunculi. @AgromyzidaeRS will be able to confirm?

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Two more agromyzid species: No.75 Ophiomyia melandryi on red campion and No.76 Ophiomyia aquilegiana on garden aquilegia @AgromyzidaeRS @agromyzidman

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A new moth from the garden last night (on kitchen window) - Streak (Chesias legatella) but nowhere near its preferred habitat (heath/open woodland) or food plant (broom).

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@leafminerman The emerged larva of Grapholita janthinana from St Andrew Ilketshall, Suffolk last weekend.

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A selection of micro-moth leafmines from today at @suffolkwildlife Redgrave & Lopham Fen (all new hectad records on the Norfolk side) - Stigmella assimilella (I think) on aspen, Bucculatrix frangutella, Stigmella catharticella and Coleophora lineolea on woundwort. @norfolkmoths

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Just back from a #GBSeptemberClean litterpick with Greening Wymondham. Six bags of mainly plastic drinks bottles, cans and crisp packets from Browick Road / Ayton Road area. @KeepBritainTidy

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Something new from the weekend - the larvae of the sawfly Pristiphora testacae on birch at Frenze Beck Nature Reserve, Diss. Looks like only the third record for Norfolk.

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@UKrubbishwalks Love the insect hotel - just shows what can be done with a little imagination (and not an inch of artificial grass anywhere in sight!)🦔🐛🐝🦋🦗🐜

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The gift that just keeps giving - Leopard Moth (Zeuzera pyrina) and White-foot Bell (Epiblema foenella) were new for the garden last night in my third season with modified @CleySpy actinic trap.

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@LizLund12 @Spinkybird @NorfolkWT Liz, it is likely they are Social Pear Sawfly (Neurotoma saltuum) larvae. The County Sawfly recorder (@andymus1) will be interested in the record.