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Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Applications now open for this fully funded forestry youth camp for 18-21 year olds from diverse backgrounds this Summer in Wales. For people with racialised identities, economically disadvantaged backgrounds, queer & trans folk & young women. 1/

@injournal.bsky.social did this a while back, worth a follow

Great to see that Bristol Naturalists’ Society has joined us here on Bluesky. @bristolnats.bsky.social

We are hosting this talk.

Event organised by The Avon Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project in Bristol - facebook.com/events/s/pro...

A lovely interruption from writing about orchids - pre-publication copies of my new book for children have arrived. Writing this meant a lot to me. As a kid I was desperate for books full of interesting facts and cool stuff about butterflies. If this book finds a kid like me, I hope they love it.

Marsh fritillary larvae out and busy in the morning sun. North Dorset. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Viola, invert dependants:  there are at least 24 species – and 20 of them are Lepidoptera   The little violets' heads bowed on their stems, The pre-dawn gossamers, all dew and scrim And star-lace Seamus Heaney, 'Mycenae Lookout', The Spirit Level, Faber & Faber, 1996.

Fragaria vesca, Wild Strawberry, Invert Associates Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera. 📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 🌱

🦗 This #WorldWildlifeDay, discover Britain's grasshoppers, crickets & allied species in a brilliant new field guide! It's co-written by our former colleague Björn Beckmann with recording scheme coordinator Peter Sutton. Allied species are earwigs, stick insects, mantids and cockroaches 🪳 🧪 1/

One of Alex Morss's hats: Trustee for the Bristol Nats Recent news - they've dumped the place run by Mr What's-his-face who turned it into something rotten Sold his soul. Now forgotten by the learned nature folk happier in woods of oak, fields of flowers, shores of sand: everywhere a wonderland

📚🦉You can also find us in our wonderful old library, (members only) hidden away downstairs under Bristol Museum. It is open on the 1st Saturday of each month, 10.30am - noon, and at other times by appointment.

👋 Hello Bluesky Bristol Naturalists’ Society has stopped using our “X” account. This decision was made by our council members because of safeguarding concerns. From now on you can find us here on this new Bluesky account, and on Facebook or Instagram, or via our website: bristolnats.org.uk