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ID Spot

If you have a photo you can't identify just upload it using the form on the right and one of our experts will try to identify it for you. If they can assist then you will be emailed with a response and your picture may appear on this page.

If you click on any of the pictures below the ID will appear

We ask for the location of the spot so it can be passed on to the relevant recorder 

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Spotted by: Wentworth St John Identified by:

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Spotted by: Thomas Acquinas Identified by:

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Spotted by: Archibald Henry Windlass Identified by:

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Spotted by: Thomas Acquinas Identified by: Ia Insektt

Its a grasshopper butterfly

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Spotted by: Bertie B orkid Identified by: Dr Parmesan

Unfortunately named after an extinct species of bee which is why it doesn't look like any bee you will find in Norfolk

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Spotted by: Ronald Biggs Identified by: Spiderman

It's a spider - get over it

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Spotted by: Fillian Guesser Identified by: Brian B Till

Looks like a purple ground beetle to me

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Spotted by: Blind Willie McTell Identified by: Billy (the Bird) O'Flappery

Marsh harrier - note black wing tips

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Spotted by: Archibald Henry Windlass Identified by: Ian Sector

This is the migratory Hummingbird hawkmoth - Macroglossum stellatarum

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