Some #Speyside finds for this week’s #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

My first Snow Flea (Boreus hyemalis) of the winter at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today. Nice of her to pose out in the open on a fallen leaf, so didn't need to spend hours waiting for one to emerge from the Polytrichum moss! @ynuorg.bsky.social #Mecoptera #Boreidae #ukwildlife

A few #Speyside finds for this week’s #Wildflowerhour from a hike up Ben Rinnes near Aberlour. Bonus Ptarmigans too! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95 @rspbscotland.bsky.social

Our #NPMS10 online celebration event is this Saturday! Good news - you can still book & join for all or part of the programme ow.ly/xqqf50X4fEE talks from @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social as well as volunteers & stakeholders.

A few #Speyside finds for this week’s #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

A few #Speyside finds for #UKFungusDay @britmycolsoc.org.uk @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #Moray #VC95 #mushrooms #fungi 🍄🍂🍄‍🟫🪵

🍄 ⭐ It's #UKFungusDay today! ⭐🍄 Join in with events, online activities, competitions. Share your favourite fungus facts, photos & creations. Learn about these amazing organisms & celebrate our fungal world. www.ukfungusday.co.uk #fungi #nature #mushrooms #fungus

The Big BRISC #Bioblitz starts today to celebrate 50yrs promoting biological recording in Scotland! Runs 22nd to 28th September.Record all animals🐦‍⬛🐸🐞, plants🌲🌿🌼, fungi🍄🍄‍🟫 etc that you find. You can take part using iNaturalist or iRecord app projects. nbn.org.uk/news/big-bri... @nbntrust.bsky.social

Some #Speyside finds for this week’s #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Do you want to make your neighbourhood better for wildlife? Join us in Glasgow for a friendly, informal workshop, open to anyone who wants to organise action for nature in their community. The workshop will run on 16 September at 10am and 2 October at 7pm. Sign up - bit.ly/3UGTQqp

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour Including a few for the #seedhead challenge. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Oops a few days late! But here are a few #Speyside finds for the #Wildflowerhour #fruit challenge🍒. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95 #berries #autumn

Not ready to stop counting butterflies yet? Good news! You can help butterflies and moths all year round by recording your sightings through the iRecord Butterflies app 👉 https://butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/recording-and-monitoring/irecord-butterflies 📷: Green-veined White - Iain H Leach

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour Including a few🌼 for the #DaisyFamily challenge. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

The theme for yesterday's #WildFlowerHour was #PollinatorPals - check the tag for some great examples of pollinators in action, from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social, and if you've enjoyed watching pollinators have a go at counting them with a PoMS FIT Count ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour Including a few blooms with wee beasties for the #PollinatorPals challenge. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Happy #BogDay! Celebrating brilliant bogs and their importance for carbon sequestration, water capture & purification, gorgeous habitats, specialist biodiversity, history & culture. Find out more at bogday.org

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour Including a few for the #DeadNettleFamily challenge. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

It’s #BogDay and this time last year, the Flow Country became the first peat bog in the world awarded World Heritage Site status 🎉 Healthy peatlands can: 🔒 Act as carbon sinks, locking away CO2 💧 Improve water quality 💪 Support flood management 🏠 Provide a home for wildlife 📷 Paul Turner, Andy Hay

Happy National Moth Week. I've been mothing for many years now and I love them so much.

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour Including a few Harebells💙 for the #HarebellChallenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Some #Deeside finds for #Wildflowerhour from within the Cairngorms National Park @cairngormsnews.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Final post for #insectweek! We have 23 species of resident #dragonflies & #damselflies (Odonata) in Scotland. Azure Hawker, Northern Damselfly & Northern Emerald only breed in Scotland within the UK. Find out more at british-dragonflies.org.uk @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

It’s #insectweek! In the UK we have ~47 species of #Shieldbugs in the Hemiptera superfamily Pentatomoidea, (which generally have a shield-like shape). Many feed on trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers & berries, but others are predatory on beetle larvae or caterpillars.

It’s #insectweek! We have 4 #Snakefly species (Raphidoptera) in the UK, but these long-necked tree-top predators are rarely encountered. A 5th species, Raphidia ophiopsis is predicted to be found in Scotland. I spotted this male Snakefly beneath a ScotsPine🌲 in Moray, Speyside last week. 🐍🪰

It’s #insectweek! 🐝 Bees are among our most important & best-loved #pollinators. We have ~280 species in the UK including the honeybee & bumblebees which generally have a queen & workers, but the vast majority are solitary bees where females collect pollen & nectar to provision their own nests 🌸🐝

It’s #Insectweek 2025! Ladybirds🐞 are beetles of the family Coccinellidae. There are 47 species of Ladybirds in the UK, with 30 species recorded in Scotland. Many are brightly coloured, but not all of them have spots🐞

Working together can make a real difference for Pine Hoverfly - and benefit other wildlife and habitats too! The FIRST EVER Pine Hoverfly Conservation Strategy is here – an important step forward to protect this rare species and restore the habitat it calls home 🪰 👉 www.rzss.org.uk/news/new-pin...

Nice to see some positive action :)

📢 Calling all peatland protectors, fen fanatics and the bog-curious – we're hosting a Bog Film Festival! Join us on 10th July to watch a collection of short films about these vital habitats 🌱💧 Register now 👇 https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2025-07-10-bog-film-festival

Hoverflies🪰 are some of our most frequent & important pollinators. We have approx 280 species in the UK. Different species utilise a wide variety of habitat niches with wildly different larval strategies from aphid predators to rot-hole filter feeders. 🌸🪰🌼🪰 #insectweek @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

It’s #insectweek! Raising awareness about these amazing wee beasties! 🥳🦋🐞🐜🐝🪰🦗 In the UK, Scotch Burnets are only found within the #CairngormsNationalPark. The caterpillars feed on Crowberry- which is more widespread. @royentsoc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @cairngormsnews.bsky.social

As @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek begins, we’re excited to share the latest @pomscheme.bsky.social annual report 🐝🪰🪲 Explore this year’s findings and help us welcome The RHS as a new PoMS partner! 👏🏼 Planting a variety of flowers and creating diverse habitats is key for pollinators 🌼 🧵🧪 1/

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

📣PondWatch is back - and this year, we’re doing things a little differently! This July, we’re inviting you to spend 30 minutes by a pond - watching, listening, feeling, and of course, looking out for dragonflies! 🐉 📆 Stay tuned! Our recording form will go live on 1st July.

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour including a few for the #PeaFamily challenge. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour including a few Caryophyllaceae for the #PinkFamily 🌸 challenge. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

The "Targeting revisits" map for soldierflies has had a refresh for 2025: you can now highlight "rediscovery targets" - 1 km squares with multiple species in the past but no records for 10+ years. Would be great to know if the species are still there! Go to: connect-apps.ceh.ac.uk/targeting_re...

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour including a few #speedwells for the speedwell challenge 🩵💙 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray

A few #speyside wee beasties spotted this week ☀️🌲🌳🪲🦋🕷️

Great turn-out for the @bchighland.bsky.social Kentish Glory🦋 training event near Boat of Garten on Saturday. Fantastic range of moths & wee beasties seen on the day- and we managed to find a good number of KG egg batches too!

A few #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour 🌸🌷🌸 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray

A few #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour including some wild brassicas #CabbageFamily 🥦🔍 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray

What if every garden looked like this? #NoMowMay is fast approaching and this year you can give #PowerToTheFlowers!🌸 Whether you’re in a city, town or the countryside, pack away your lawnmower and allow wildflowers to bloom freely, starting this May🌱 Join the No Mow Movement 👉 t.co/yPZrFcC9qy

The Dutch Grassland Butterfly indicator (www.clo.nl/indicatoren/...) shows a decline of more than 70%. It will be hard to achieve an increasing trend in 2030, as required in art 11 in the Nature Restoration Regulation (eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...).