On 25th July 2025, a vacuum sample taken by Richard Gallon from deep within the sedge beds at Bagmere (SJ79656437) (a Cheshire Wildlife Trust reserve) produced no fewer than seven females of Entelecara omissa. This… Read more »

The Clifton Nonpareil Catocala fraxini is one of the UK’s largest and most striking moths, famous for the violet-blue bands on its hindwings. Once widespread in southern Britain, the species became extinct nationally during the… Read more »

  Declaration Issued to Halt UK Insect Declines as Evidence Mounts of National Crisis The declaration, proposed by Buglife, Butterfly Conservation and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and supported by over 50 signatories, urges governments, land managers,… Read more »

On the evening of the 19/05/2025, about an hour before dark, I visited St Andrews Church, Tarvin SJ491669. I beat the yews and other evergreen trees along with a few shrubs and hedges until it… Read more »

This species can often be found in churchyards, cemeteries, parks and around the edges of council estates, being collected from its webs located on gravestones, in the corners of structures, metal railings and beaten from… Read more »

I walk my bichon frise three times a day around the adjacent Mount Pleasant Estate on the west side of Winsford, which is a 1980’s council estate and Liverpool overspill. On the night walks I… Read more »

A selection of notable records reported to Tanyptera. Includes older, but newly recognized regional vice county records (dates blue). ‘The region’ = VC58, 59, 60 + Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester. All photos are copyright… Read more »

Having collected Erigone aletris by beating shrubs around a fairly open cemetery, I thought that Winsford’s Mount Pleasant council estate with its recreation areas and tree planted screening (planted in the 1970’s) between the estate… Read more »

On another trip (04/07/25) to record Philodromus collinus and Philodromus albidus in a further hectad I chose to visit Witton Cemetery, Northwich (SJ665737) and beat for these arboreal species. Two female P. albidus were found… Read more »

Cheshire is full of oak trees and on the 02/07/25 I finally beat the right one. It was at Swanlow Park Cemetery SJ651640, when a female Araneus triguttatus was beaten from the lower branches of… Read more »

On the 09/06/25 I visited Middlewich Cemetery SJ698665 to beat trees and bushes for Philodromus collinus and Philodromus albidus, with both proving to be relatively frequent on the evergreen shrubs and trees. Whilst beating the bottom… Read more »