2/5 Wales Plynlimon Catchments- Jade Hatton @ukceh.bsky.social ‬ bit.ly/Plynlimon Llyn Brianne- @steveormerod.bsky.social at Cardiff University bit.ly/LlynBrianne Cors Fochno- Ben Keane @york.ac.uk bit.ly/CorsFochno #WorldWetlandsDay2026 #LTEs 🌏

Just as I thought I’d only get one woodpecker sp in our #BigGardenBirdwatch… 29 birds of 17 spp

Delighted to see OnE's @steveormerod.bsky.social has been made a Fellow of the British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/anno...

A dusting of snow for Christmas here in southern Brittany. #NadoligLlawen #HappyChristmas

Remains of By-the-wind-sailors - Velella velella - washed up in millions on La Baule’s Atlantic beach. Like small Portuguese men o’ war, these hydroid colonies float on the world’s temperate oceans feeding on plankton Who even knew they could be so abundant?

Cygnosaurus #ModernDinosaurs

Final-year projects already underway with our School of Biosciences: i) using a bioreactor to investigate how global change processes affect algal lipids ii) effects of misconnected sewers and micro pollutants on a small urban stream

And this is just the start as #plastic loadings into the world’s oceans will at least double in the next 1-3 decades www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Beaver dams and pollinators. This Scottish study found greater hoverfly richness, hoverfly abundance and butterfly abundance in beaver wetlands than artificial ponds, but bees and moths were no different. Hoverflies were the major flower visitor in beaver wetlands doi.org/10.1111/1365...

V accommodating Little Egret today on #RoathPark Lake - allowing this iPhone pic. One of at least six on the Lake just now

November Moths: Epirrita sp./spp. ‘Epirrita’ refers to the wavy markings resembling flow patterns on the surface of a river - according to Jacob Hübner who first named this moth (and many others).

Here’s the on from @oceancare.bsky.social: www.oceancare.org/en/stories_a...

Oak Hook-tip the only moth in the trap last night. The best year of the last 13 for this species: more caught than all other years combined

Currently ~6 Little Egrets around Cardiff’s #RoathPark Lake - looking incongruously urban

Angle Shades from last night’s trap Phlogophora meticulosa Phlogophora: light bearing, and a throwback to when this moth and Small Angle Shades (with bright yellow spots) were in the same genus meticulosa: fearful, timorous. From the posture or quivering pre-flight wings? #teammoth #mothsmatter

Moths need darkness to thrive 🖤 But globally, light pollution is increasing by 10% a year, and these vital nocturnal pollinators need our help. Find out how you can provide a haven for moths where you live by creating Moon Meadows 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/moon-meadows... 📷: Marian Coburn

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct "If everyone in the UK switched to a vegetarian diet overnight, we could halve our biodiversity impact." phys.org/news/2025-10...

Box Tree Moths first turned up here in Cyncoed (Cardiff) in 2021 but numbers in the garden trap have dropped since peaking in 2023. Caught here from June to late October - peaking in early September - with a hint of two generations? Cydalima perspectalis #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

Green-brindled Crescent in two colour morphs: typical on the left, melanic (ab. capucina) on the right. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

After 25 years an office move… From old to new:

Green-brindled Crescent - so fresh I’m guessing it’s probably from on of our garden Hawthorns Allophyes oxyacanthae Allophyes: changing in character (there are two colour morphs) oxyacanthae: from Hawthorn or ‘sharp thorn’ #mothsmatter #teammoth

Top Dog! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The view from my home office window this morning as our most striking corvids go about their autumn arboricultural business #Jay

#LlynBrianne, #Wales is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek. @steveormerod.bsky.social at Cardiff University is looking at how global change affects freshwater species & #EcosystemServices bit.ly/3CGasD2 See the following for more: Key paper bit.ly/48psJs6 Webinar bit.ly/3H9h9R8 Podcast bit.ly/3P3llG6 🌏

Hanna's (Zihan Yang) first paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... paired data on 317 sewage works and 232 control reaches for 22 years to find out what impact of sewage has. What was getting worse or what was getting better with time and why? @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @jlaknapp.bsky.social

Still a few caddis on the wing: Limnephilus lunatus (with the 🌙 mark) and the anglers’ Grey Sedge: Hydropsyche sp. #InsectsMatter

Still some colour among the moths of autumn… Merveille du Jour and Brimstone #mothsmatter #teammoth

As catches typically fall away in October, this v flighty Silver Y was one of v few moths in last night’s trap @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #mothsmatter #reammoth

Quantitative insights into the spatio-temporal variation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) biomass in a river catchment using eDNA metabarcoding. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–16. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

What an incredible contribution to the world and the way we understand our place within it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

La semaine dernière, l'IPBES a fini une série de réunions d'information préalables au lancement de l'évaluation des entreprises et de la biodiversité avec diverses parties prenantes au Royaume-Uni et à Paris. @steveormerod.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social @frbiodiv.bsky.social

Nous remercions chaleureusement Arup, @steveormerod.bsky.social , @thebotanics.bsky.social et @frbiodiv.bsky.social d'avoir organisé ces sessions très enrichissantes. 🏡🧪 💡 Pour en savoir plus, consultez le document préparatoire de l'Évaluation (en français) : ipbes.canto.de/b/OLTM7

Brindled Green: Dryobotodes eremita Dryobotodes refers to feeding on oak and ‘eremita’ to the hermit-like behaviour of the larvae which isolate themselves inside developing oak buds #mothsmatter #teammoth

How #climatechange is reshaping fish communities in the United States as temperatures rise and non-native fishes proliferate: @ian-vaughan.bsky.social overviews recent extensive work by @rumschsl.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Indus River Dolphins the latest freshwater species shown to be loaded with microplastics journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Merveille du Jour: the first of the autumn. Griposia aprilina - referring to the ‘April green’ colour even though this is an autumn moth #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

#WorldRiversDay - protect the life beneath www.cardiff.ac.uk/llyn-brianne...

Black Rustic: Aporophyla nigra The most gothic of autumn moths. #mothsmatter #teammoth

Last week we visited the #freshwater #LongTermExperiment #LTE site Llyn Brianne in #Wales & met with @steveormerod.bsky.social from Cardiff University & @maplebay.bsky.social so it could be filmed for a #VirtualReality #VR experience! Learn about Llyn Brianne: bit.ly/LlynBrianne 🌏

Pink-barred Sallow - the first of the autumn Xanthia (= yellow) togata (= reference to a purple-striped toga worn by senators of ancient Rome) #mothsmatter #teammoth

The 2nd Clifden Nonpareil for the Cardiff garden - last caught 8/9/23. The expansion in range and numbers looks rapid: not even indexed in Glam Moths (2014). Bluesky had 33 UK mentions in the last 7 days alone on walls, attics and traps including Bridgend and Whitby #mothsmatter #teammoth

UK is well on course for losing Willow Tit, Spotted Flycatcher & Wood Warbler as breeding species in our lifetime. Wood Warbler already virtually gone from England. I think Willow Tit would be first extinction of a resident bird since Capercaillie in 1700s or White-tailed Eagle in 1918. #ornithology

Opportunist… #mothsmatter #teammoth

Large Ranunculus, Cardiff, 21/09/25 #Polymixisflavicincta #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

The Vestal - from last night here in Cardiff. The 5th for the garden in 13 years and last trapped in September 2023 #mothsmatter #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

🌊 One-quarter of freshwater species are at risk of extinction, warns the IUCN Red List. From crabs to fish, these creatures are vital for ecosystems and human livelihoods. Pollution, habitat loss, and invasive species drive this crisis.🐟🦐 📷 IUCN 🗞️ iucn.org/press-releas...

A special day at @cardiffuni.bsky.social as we and #WelshGovernment hosted the UN @ipbes.net team in a Q & A session with representatives of Wales’ environmental community on the forthcoming #BusinessAndBiodiversity assessment due 09/02/26 #IPBES12 #BizBiodiversity #ForNature #AllJobsNeedNature

Box Tree Moth less abundant so far this year. This one was the first this month in what should be peak flight period that runs here in Cardiff through September and October. #MothsMatter

Palpita vitrealis in last night’s trap here in Cardiff: the only one this year so far #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #JasmineMoth #OliveTreePearl @migrantmothuk.bsky.social