🪵🌊 Just published! Our study on #LeakyBarriers in #NaturalFloodManagement, exploring on in-channel #Hydrology, #Sediment and #Ecology w Matthew Taylor, Anne Harrison, @laurabees01.bsky.social, Estefania Golob, @hjrobson2.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social 📖 Access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....

Small copper butterfly on yarrow, #butterfly #ukwildlife #invetebrate

Common blue butterfly, Trellech wet meadows #ukwildlife #butterfly #invertebrates

Common darter, #ukwildlife #dragonfly #invertebrates

Silk-button spangle gall wasp eggs, (fabulous name!) thousands of them along this hedge.Trellech wet meadows #invertebrate #ukwildlife

Small copper butterfly on red clover, Trellech meadows in the Wye valley #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife

We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Lost wing of an underwing #moth #Ukwildlife #invertebrate

Wall butterfly (living up to its name), endangered on the GB red list (2022) #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife

Calling all conservation orgs in the UK (SouthWest), come and improve your eDNA skills at the beautiful @healrewilding.org.uk, hope to see you there.

Not a Harebell but a Nettle-leaved Bellflower (Campanula trachelium) growing in a shady spot in our garden with one of our smallest bees - a Small Scissor Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) which is strongly associated with Harebells and other bellflowers. #WildflowerHour

Cinnabar moth caterpillars resting on heavily grazed ragwort. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife

Common carder bee on bird vetch #bees #ukwildlife

Clouded magpie moth. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife

How do we continue to promote join up between researchers and end users? How do we broaden scope of work? How do we work internationally? Share your thoughts before the end of the conference! #UKDNAWG25

Laura Weldon @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social tells us about impact of water chemistry on European #eel. Seasonal #eDNA sampling used to assess barriers to #eel movement. Higher phosphate levels associated with lower #eel detection #UKDNAWG25 2/4

Buffy Smith @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social compared #iDNA and airborne #eDNA for #biodiversity in fragmented forest landscape. #iDNA more spatially sensitive. More domestic species detected with #iDNA than #eDNA tended to capture larger native mammals - differential shedding rates? #UKDNAWG25

Leaf beetle (Timarcha app) but not bloody nose beetle #invertebrates #ukwildlife #beetle

Speckled wood #butterfly #ukwildlife #invertebrates

Black oil beetle (male) uk south coast #ukwildlife #buglife #invertebrates

Common alderfly, canal-side walk today.

After a hectic time working on the campaign to stop the export of elvers to Russia, and trying to get a book ready, Countryside Insider is back up and running with a new post about farming's missed opportunity to respond to the biodiversity crisis. richardfleming.substack.com/p/get-off-my...

With spider activity increasing, we're looking at spider ID resources, starting today at the beginner's end of the spectrum with our 17 Factsheets on common and conspicuous species - freely available to read online or print from www.britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets. #spiders #arachnids #arachnology

Based on the science, diversity matters www.nature.com/articles/s43... "...science has established the importance of diversity time and time again."

Eight paid internships for the summer at UKCEH, at Wallingford, Bangor, Edinburgh or Lancaster. For current students or recent graduates of Masters/PhD. #environment #ecology

Pop! Signs of spring, scarlet elf cap #fungi

Xavier Pochon - Citizens of the Sea Program Enabling ocean biodiversity monitoring at SCALE "Acquisition by the people - Analysis by the scientists" #SeDNA2025

Curlew calling, River Severn at Splatt Bridge opp Frampton Church.#Glosbirding

www.change.org/p/stop-expor... 55,000 signatures. Please help the impressive growth of this petition and persuade Defra we need our elvers (baby eels) in the UK to restock our depleted rivers. Don't let the Russians eat our future.

Please consider submitting to this special issue for #eDNA work conducted in Southeast Asia OR led by Southeast Asian researchers!

Swans and lead fishing weights: a systematic review of deposition, impacts, and regulations in Europe. Our new open-access paper: wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wi... 🌍 🧪 🦤 #ornithology

Out this week! We review recent developments in landscape ecology computational methods! topics=spatial patterns, connectivity, landscape genetics, sampling, simulations and modeling, and spatial planning: doi.org/10.1007/s408...

Why does investing in women entrepreneurs matter? Barclays and Aviva see it is a matter of importance for the wider economy matter as they feed into new fund occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Publication day! This was a long time coming. From an idea during a Sunday conversation on a mountain top to this today means a lot to me. Most of the work was done by others but I have been involved throughout. #eDNA #fish #BCfreshwaterfish mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1250...

The River Wye is dying—& the River Severn is going the same way. Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed. The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river. 👇💪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Agree 💯

A new space to spread the love for the Severn estuary. Hopefully making some new friends and finding some old ones by simply waffling on about the estuary’s heritage fisheries.

Having a lot of convos with moms of young white sons about how to keep them out of the right-wing pipeline. I’m going to share what I’m doing (what’s worked so far), and please feel free to add anything you’re doing. 🧵

'Renowned for their intelligence(...) They also tenaciously hold grudges. When a murder of crows singles out a person as dangerous, its wrath can be alarming, and can be passed along beyond an individual crow’s life span of up to a dozen or so years, creating multigenerational grudges.'

Yellow fieldcap #fungi #fungifriends 🍄

Glorious autumn sunshine, #gloucestershire.

I've just finished a fascinating and complex report into the "bonkers" export of critically-endangered eels to Russia, published here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... (There is a petition against the trade here: www.change.org/p/stop-expor...)

This is a great demonstration of something “everyone knows”…especially in wildlife departments like mine. I mean this as a compliment: this is a cool study, with important implications. The academy tends to value one type of Important Research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Oh how I love salmon. Vital for our ecosystems and cultures all across the global North. I feel comfort knowing they still swim in rivers where I now call home in Wales. But they might not be here for much longer unless we make a stand for salmon and our rivers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kingfisher and otters on Stroud canal this morning 💕 #ukwildlife #wildlife #otter #mammal

An odd assemblage by a #Cambridge down-pipe: Hart's-tongue and Black Spleenwort plus an Oak tree, and a Tomato in the pavement! #FernFriday

In preparation for WorldMigratoryBirdDay tomorrow (12 October 2024), I've updated the list of WaderTales migration blogs. Fascinating new information about the migration of waders/shorebirds, from scientists around the world: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/m... #ornithology

It’s the last challenge this week until #thewinter10 starts & we are asking you to share the plant you’ve been most pleased to see this year! Post your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #FavouriteFind!

Parliamentary Briefing: Planning for Invertebrates - Brownfields document just published by Buglife, available at www.buglife.org.uk/resources/ha....

European hornet quietly getting on with life #ukwildlife #hornet