One for the #fungi fans. #shroomscrolling

Israel’s war and occupation in Palestine has damaged vast amounts of cropland. In the West Bank, a social enterprise is equipping farmers with the resources they need to cultivate their lands and establish autonomy over food production. @pragathiravi.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Hear he metamorphosed from Colin the Caterpillar #moth #bugsky #badjokes

Deep-rooted fears of sharp objects and childhood injection experiences are hitting the public's perception of #insects. medium.com/insectsandth... #bugsky #psychology #psysky #scicomm

Need a little help, have written a book (How To Get Your Book Published) and am looking for any contacts in publishing xx

more absolute filth in the pollination literature

What an absolute beast this is, even by the banger-laden standards of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social #booksky #reading

Raymond Carver, Rain

"He will be required to continue attending matches at Elland Road." #lufc

And now for the top story on our bloodsucking neighbours. sciencespectrumu.com/mosquitoes-h... #nature #scicomm #bugsky #behaviour #mosquito

Give someone the gift of The Blizzard this Christmas 🎄🎅

An optimistic one to start the week, on beavers being accidental pollinator conservation experts. medium.com/insectsandth... #bugsky #hoversky #rivers #water #nature

If Red Bull GmbH are going to use my football club to advertise their brand, I’m sure as hell going to talk about what else they get up to. #lufc

A mean, wintry beauty in #Scarborough #Seasky

Non-native species: not all bad, it seems. Could a new hitchhiking hero rescue some of Europe's most treasured trees? medium.com/insectsandth... #bugsky #scicomm #nature #wasps

An astonishing clash of tone and content, bravo

Insect farming can produce a range of useful products from #protein to #biofuels, but Ben Brown, COO of @insectbiotech.bsky.social says the sector needs to be far savvier about what they're feeding their bugs on. farmingfuturefood.com/insect-farmi... #sustainablefood #feed #farming

Here, have a morning moon in a sea of blue. #timelinecleanse #skysky

All #lufc fans are this pub dog right now. #dogsinpubs

Wrote a little something on hot damselfly sex lives, if you're into that kind of thing medium.com/insectsandth... #bugsky #nature #scicomm #climatechange #insects

The cup fate of #lufc sealed nice and early.

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

"...and in the "French story of the year" category..." 77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market. france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...

The last few years haven't been too kind to the insect #protein industry. Speaking at a @royentsoc.bsky.social event, analyst Corentin Biteau said leaders have been overstating #sustainability and profitability all along, with a radical refocus needed farmingfuturefood.com/analyst-warn... #farming

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI initiative to “discover it all, protect it forever.”

Don't think I've ever seen a hairbrush lounging in a bush before, so here's the curio for your pleasure #shrubbery #ispy

“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.” — @miquai.bsky.social

Said a very grudging farewell to magnificent #Bosnia and Herzegovina last week, after a couple of months among the myriad mountains, meadows and sinkholes. Met a whole bunch of interesting #conservation people, and I'm hoping to tell their stories soon. #nature #scicomm #wildlife

Shell companies for snail farms. Just beautiful.

Bosnia's last warm days and it's a mad, colourful #pollinator sugar scramble. #bugsky #buttersky #beesky #BiH

"Well done for trying": the homeopathy of compliments when tentatively attempting a new language

Utterly incredible story. The non-human world will not be subdued, despite our best efforts. #nature #wetlands #plantsky

Same story - 2 very different takes. Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.

The game that Association Football has been waiting for #Gibraltar #internationals

I've written this banger about the early years of Greenland's very first two social wasps, if you can excuse the horrendous/ hilarious AI image that goes with it medium.com/insectsandth... #Greenland #wildlife #bugsky #invasivespecies #waspsky

Magnificent, ominous skies at FK Sarajevo v Zrinjski Mostar. Who needs fans in the ground anyway #groundhopping #Bosnia #Skysky

A friendly fungus pumps out chemicals that can stop a major crop pathogen in its tracks. The @rothamsted.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk findings could be the first step towards a new generation of #sustainable fungicides. farmingfuturefood.com/soil-fungus-... #agritech #farming #food

Free to read from Issue 2 — Make Football Shit Again Richard Finn needs to get a few things off his chest about the Premier League. Thankfully, he’s got an idea to save us all. thesquareball.net/leeds-united/make-football-shit-again/

NEWS:🌾 First rice trials in the UK! UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions? buff.ly/wYnH1DE 🧪 🧵 1/

Nature is healing

Coming to you live from the #Sarajevo derby. #Groundhopping

"Researchers have discovered a plant that attracts pollinating flies by mimicking the odour of half-eaten ants." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oilseed rape is a crop under pressure,but Swiss scientists have found that growing it along with a bean can effectively take on its complex of pest beetles🪲🌱🪲 farmingfuturefood.com/intercroppin... #farming #arable #sustainability

I just don't think these particular #ultras have put much thought into their fearsome name. #terraceculture #gangevil

Cleansing your timeline with a heron. Love a good heron. #birdsky

#Shroomscrolling the late afternoon away. These beauties all seen in #Bosnia and Herzegovina

Meet my new best mate, a real mantis of the people #Bugsky

As much as I would love these to be the real weekly numbers for my insect blog, there's evidently a bug-focused #AI scrapeathon at work. Urgh. #bugsky #scrapesky

Urgent declaration issued to halt UK insect declines Well timed call to arms to reverse major ongoing insect declines😔🐛🦋🐜🐝🪲🕷️ From @Buglife @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social And supported by @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social And many others geographical.co.uk/wildlife/urg...

“We crave certainty, especially in the face of tragedy, & are quick to weave disparate facts into a coherent, & often sinister, narrative.” —Francis Gavin #history #historians