Did u know? Warm weather enabled me to study the small souls in my wildlife garden at length. This was a 1st for me - a Wolf Spider(I think) carrying its fab blue golf ball shaped egg sac across our rewilded patio. Wolfies are great Mums & will even carry their spiderlings when they've hatched. 🌍🕷️🐙

Disgusting

Did u know? Over 300,000 miles of hedgerow have been destroyed in the UK in the last 80 years. Hedges sequester carbon;they create habitat/food/highways for small souls; they absorb pollution/noise/wind & they look gorgeous -a must for everyone. Why not try planting your own this summer? 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐦‍⬛🐸🦔🕷️🦊

NEWS: study shows grouse moor heather burning important source of harmful particulate pollution affecting large numbers of people. @universityofleeds.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social Blog: markavery.info/2026/05/19/m... 📷Mark Avery, Bob Berzins

If you are interested in learning to identify the UKs ground beetles there are free guides to download on my website johnwalters.co.uk/publications...

C'mon @rbgkew.bsky.social ....You guys should know better. An easy fix - just take the stuff out. #plasticgrass

Did u know?If you have nibble marks on plants in yr garden,give yourself a pat on the back,because it means you don't use pesticides.Such chemicals are indiscriminate poisons that kill many small souls who come into contact with them.The only winners are the chemical Co.s who make them 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🦊🕷️🦔🐸🐦‍⬛

The climate crisis is now a public health emergency, according to WHO-backed experts. The science is clear. The consequences are impossible to ignore. Action cannot wait any longer.

Did u know? It's easy to forget that pollination still goes on in your wild spaces at night, so don't forget to plant for nocturnal pollinators, like moths. This is a type of Phlox. It's not a showy plant,but moths love it. Also add to your garden Honeysuckle, Evening Primrose, & Nightstock. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🦋🪲

#RSPO member #Agropalma provides #palmoil to global supermarket brands – also RSPO members. Yet #landgrabbing and #humanrights abuse is rife for “sustainable” palm oil. Fight greenwashing when u #Boycottpalmoil 🌴💀⛔️#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/30/a...

Congratulations on a new publication day to our good friend, Dave Goulson, from @sussex.ac.uk 📕 🌿 🍎 We're very excited that Dave will be coming to Knepp on Thursday 4 June for an author supper. Book: knepp.co.uk/view/events/...

Did u know? It's great if you learn about relationships between living things in your outside space, so you can accurately accommodate their needs. Like the Holly Blue b'fly - its larvae feed on holly early in the summer & on ivy late summer/early autumn. So, grow them both in your garden. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🦋🐛

Did u know? I don't think foxes are known to regularly eat snails, but my resident fox seems to be feasting on their abundance, whilst using an old piece of cardboard by our compost heap, as a picnic table. Note the large amount of chewed shells & pungent "calling card" to warn others off. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌿🌍🦊🐌

Possibly the same Cuckoo I watched with my grandson earlier this week... but such an amazing photograph from @steve-sando1.bsky.social that you can actually see which species of caterpillar he's eating! The Cuckoo that is, not Steve. Follow @steve-sando1.bsky.social for more wonders like this...

Did u know?You have ecosystems inside your house,as well as outside.This black dot,covered in web silk,dropped from my conservatory rafters is the carcass of a Vine Weevil. Without their spider predators VW's would do damage to my plants, but their No.s are controlled by my 8-legged mates. 🌍🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🪲🕷️🕸️

Now I want some on my land... lovely story: How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How we should all eat.... 🌍Go buy..

Did u know? Don't use masses of chemicals/double-dig/buy expensive equipment to grow veg. My no-dig/no spray/grown with recycled materials veg are coming on well. I'm happy with the net curtain polytunnel, for my lettuces that're growing in my green house. Hopeful for a bountiful summer. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍 🥒♻️

Successive Irish governments have refused to adequately protect our marine ecosystems, feigning concern while in reality acting in the interests of those getting rich from ecocide. Now the EU has had enough, and begun legal proceedings against the state. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Did u know? Flowers have different coloured pollen, so you can often tell where bees have been foraging from the colour of their pollen balls.This Greater Celandine has orangey/yellow pollen, so this Tree Bumblebees' pollen balls are too. If she'd been on Oriental Poppy, they'd be blue/black.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝🪲

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Always a pleasure to see my all time favourite moth, the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk Hemaris tityus. An amazing day flying carder bee mimic. Dartmoor, Devon this afternoon.

Did u know? If you stop mowing your lawn & let it return to meadow, you might find hidden treasures. This is the first annual peek of one of my Common Spotted Orchids. I never even knew they existed when I mowed -now their presence graces my no-mows every year. Can't wait for the flower... 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍 💚🪷

Please don’t put out hair for bird nests. Chicks get entangled in hair balls. Just had to cut hair strands that were tying 3 blue tit chicks together, and wrapped round the throat of one skinny chick that couldn’t swallow food. Hopefully saved in time 🤞

SUCH an interesting thread, but so unsettling too. Amazing scientific work..

Did u know?To increase biodiversity in yr outside space,rewild yr patio: don't weed it,spray it,wash it & it'll become one of THE most ecologically rich habitats in yr garden.My Cinnabar moths choose it as the perfect overwintering site & emerge as fully developed adults in clouds every year🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🦋🐛🪲

Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday

‘We’re at the beginning of a new chapter for the Green Party - we are a serious force in British politics’ @RachelMillward discusses Green Party wins on BBC Politics South East. 💚Get involved in this journey by joining the Green Party now ⤵️

⏳ 1 week to go! Join @davegoulson.bsky.social for the first talk in our #InsectHour series on “Pesticides, dogs and #InsectDeclines - Discover how pesticides impact insects, wildlife and wider ecosystems. 🌍 Free online event 🎟️ Register now 🔽

Did u know? Not all moths are nocturnal, like we're led to believe. Some delight us by being diurnal, like this gorgeous little Mint Moth. If you grow Catmint, Marjoram, or any of the mint family in your outside space, you'll attract these wonderful little purple & gold winged pollinators. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🦋

Did u know? We're conditioned to thinking that birds need our shop bought bird seeds.In the summer months there should be enough natural food in our gardens for forage.Provide fruit bearing plants such as Mahonia, Cotoneaster & Crab Apples & don't dig up yr weeds -their seed heads are a feast 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦‍⬛

In December, the Govt will decide if it will renew the glyphosate licence until 2041… • That’s 15 more years of impacts on worms, bees, soils and run-off into ponds and rivers, and glyphosate in your food. Sign Garden Organic’s petition NOW to ban this dangerous herbicide #GrowersAgainstGlyphosate.

"We're up and up" 📈 @rachelmillward.bsky.social on the Green's "massive breakthrough" and what these election results are really about 💚 📺 Tune into BBC Question Time from 19:30 on BBC One and iPlayer to hear more from Rachel on our record results.

1.Did u know?Patios hold a huge amount of potential to harbour additional biodiversity in outside spaces.We've stopped weeding the cracks in our patio & wildlife-friendly flowers have self-seeded in between the slabs. It's great to see what plants turn up because they're naturally happy there. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍

"Sustainable" palm oil = #greenwashing. Instead #Boycottpalmoil every time you shop. Ingredient names: STEAR GLYC PALM LAUR are generally #palmoil. Avoid these and use your wallet as a weapon! #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🩸🚜🔥☠️🧐🙊 @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/11/p...

Did u know? Don't grow plants in your garden just because you think they look pretty. Grow plants that are indigenous, fit into the ecosystems, like your soil & feed & shelter small souls. Ragwort is native to 🇬🇧, provides pollen/nectar for 55'ish insects & feeds Cinnabar moth caterpillars. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐦‍⬛

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

When the Forget-me-not centre is orange it’s open for business. When it’s white there’s no food left and the buffet is closed. So the pollinators know where to go. Clever.

Did u know? Making your own compost ensures you recycle organic green & brown waste into yr garden,which is fab,but you can also add stuff from external sources,like from your local cafe. Lots are now bagging up ground coffee or chocolate beans for folks' heaps. A perfect addition & free too 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪱🦠

Many sadly concluded we had to go through Brexit before people saw what a horrendous act of self-harm they had committed. I'm terrified the same thing will happen with #Reform - that people will vote for them without realising they've just screwed over their country, loved ones and themselves.

Did u know? Slugs might not be everyone's fave animals, but they provide essential roles in ecosystems by eating rotting vegetation,thereby recycling organic waste & even eating small dead invertebrates,which also recycles stuff.This Great Black slug, Arion ater, is eating another dead slug 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🪲🌍🐌🐙

Did u know? To add another food & habitat opportunity for small souls in your outside space, plant *up*, as well as along. It's easy to focus on borders, rockeries & pots, but if you plant things that climb, you're creating fresh spaces for your wild family. My mountainous Montana. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🐝🪲🐞🪰🦟🐜🐦‍⬛🦇

Did u know? 71% of the earth is covered in water,but 97% of that is seawater & can't be used to sustain land-based ecosystems. Only 3% of water on earth is fresh water & of that, less than 1% can be used for terrestrial life. So,water collecting in sustainable gardening is essential.Get butts 🌍🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱💧

Gruesome discovery yesterday. Found this bird talon in my bird bath (I'm in The Cotswolds, UK.) It was being dunked by one of my resident crows to make it easier to swallow. Can anyone i.d what sort of bird it came from? Not much to go on, but some sort of bird of prey? 🐦‍⬛🐦🪶🦅🦆🪿🦜🦉🐧🦃🦆

Fab pic...Batman hoverfly with a canny hitchhiker....

Did u know? Allowing*weeds*to grow in yr borders will help protect soil from the sun as summers get ever hotter & drier. Gardening that weeds wildflowers out,exposes earth to dehydration & over-digging destroys its structure. Leave plants to grow, cheek-by-jowl, to create a protective shield. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🌞

Can you guess what this tiny solitary bee is doing, and why? I'll be explaining this and much more besides, next Friday - at The du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival. Do please come along if you can! Tickets here 👉 www.foweyfestival.com/event/brigit... #Fowey #Cornwall

Did u know? There's no such thing as "goodies" or "baddies" in nature - it just *is*. I was sad to see that the badgers in my resident sett had discovered the honey held within the bumblebee nest in my ceramic skep & had destroyed it getting the contents out, but a badger's gotta eat... 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🦡🐝🪲

Did u know? Often,b'fly & moth adults are generalised feeders,imbibing nectar from a wide range of flowers. It's their caterpillars who have a more specific diet. So,if you want to support the adults,find out what the teenagers eat & plant what they need.Brimstone larvae eat Alder Buckthorn. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐛🦋