Martin Harvey
@kitenet.bsky.social
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Mostly insects and biological recording, UK-based (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/kitenet
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Ian Beavis
about 10 hours ago
Anthomyid flies of the genus Egle which breed in sallow catkins, Rusthall Common
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Biological Recording Company
about 17 hours ago
Fly Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 2026 Tue 23 Jun 2026 | Online | £30 or pay what you can Explore the latest fly ecology, conservation science & practical case studies. Live Q&A, expert talks & all resources available after the event 🌍 🧪 Book here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981718540...
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Will Langdon
about 9 hours ago
One of the first things that struck me starting in Epping Forest last spring was all the lovely old Crab Apples. With these, come rare Crab Apple feeding micros: the much-declined Argyresthia ivella tapped from a tree on a warm July morning, and Eudemis porphyrana, reared from larva in May
#TeamMoth
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Denise Wawman
about 16 hours ago
I’m one of the “experts” if anyone wants to hear me talk about flat flies/louse flies.
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution
about 20 hours ago
🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In his blog post,
@robboyd.bsky.social
talks about his paper 'Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data' 🌍 🧪 Read the blog and find the full article 👇
buff.ly/a7UROJJ
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Robin Boyd: Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data
Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in E…
https://methodsblog.com/2026/03/24/robin-boyd-using-causal-diagrams-and-superpopulation-models-to-correct-geographic-biases-in-biodiversity-monitoring-data/
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Tim Blackburn
about 18 hours ago
If you've not seen this talk by Professor Marc Holderied (Bristol Uni) from the last Devon moth group meeting, it really is fantastic. All about how moths defend themselves from bats. Thank you to
@richardfoxbc.bsky.social
for the heads up.
#TeamMoth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM-d...
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Devon Moth Group online meeting Feb 2026 Marc Holderied
YouTube video by Devon Moth Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM-dIasjhYU
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Mike Hetherington
1 day ago
Spring is an ideal time to start meeting moths. Here are the common ones. Blog at
vitrealis.blogspot.com/2026/03/intr...
@dorsetmoths.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
#teammoth
#moths
#naturewriting
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Introducing Common Spring Moths
Oak Beauty Biston strataria - Dorset 23.3.26 If you are new to moth recording then Spring is a great time to start. Moth numbers are manag...
https://vitrealis.blogspot.com/2026/03/introducing-common-spring-moths.html
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Keith Balmer
1 day ago
I've added a first-day and last-day phenology graph to each Bedfordshire butterfly species account on
www.bedsbutterflies.org.uk
with a trend line showing change since 1990. This is Comma's. Global warming effect at the local level...
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A really good event, enjoyed learning more about the amazing range of work carried out by YNU members - thanks for the invite
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NFBR
2 days ago
Sarah Whild – Biological recording: who, what, where and when did it all start? 🌱 Join us at the NFBR Conference on 7 May for a sideways look at how biological recording began, exploded in recent decades, and the big question: what can, and should, we do with all this data? 🔗 Booking:
bit.ly/4sZO4iz
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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme
4 days ago
If you are seeing bee-flies please remember to add details of your sightings to iRecord (or iNaturalist) so they can help us study these species
dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch
🙏
#BeeFlyWatch
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Bee-fly Watch | Dipterists forum
https://dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch
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JNCC
4 days ago
🌍 This
#WorldWaterDay
, we’re highlighting how women and girls are disproportionately affected by water‑related challenges. In many communities, they carry the responsibility of collecting household water, making water quality and access deeply tied to
#GenderEquality
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Ian Beavis
6 days ago
Male of the cuckoo bee Melecta albifrons (Common Mourning Bee) in Woodbury Park Cemetery today. It was lekking (mate-searching patrol flight) over sunlit foliage with males of four other species of solitary bees
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NFBR
7 days ago
Do you know someone who has been recording wildlife in the UK for many years? Have they made a real difference to our understanding of nature? If so, please nominate them for the NBN Lifetime Achievement Award 2026.
bit.ly/NBNawards26n...
Deadline - 18 May
#NBNawards26
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Nominations for the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2026 - National Biodiversity Network
Nominations for the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2026 Through these Awards, the NBN Trust: National Biodiversity Network Trust, recognises … Continued
https://bit.ly/NBNawards26nominations
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Darren Dahly
8 days ago
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Slightly x-rated 🫦 video 🤭 of the ground bugs Rhyparochromus vulgaris, which seem to have colonised the small area of decking in my garden (first time I've seen them here) - also saw my first Dark-edged Bee-fly of the year today, but it didn't hang around to be photographed
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Lisa Nicvert
8 days ago
Happy to share my very first article dragonflies ! We investigate how dragonflies traits are linked with their vulnerability in Europe. Our main conclusions: habitat, life cycle length and temperature preferences are the main traits linked with vulnerability.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mnPQ1R%7E...
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David W. Williams
8 days ago
Delighted to come home from a day out today & find my gratis copy of the superb new Bloomsbury Orthopteroids book has been delivered. The book we've been wanting for a long time. Get a copy & get out there recording these fabulous creatures!
#orthoptera
#ukorthoptera
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Rob Edmunds
8 days ago
New leafmine site update. Parornix atripalpella early stages seen for first time. Dicladispa testacea newly arrived in UK. Col prunifoliae - elusive species! Stigmella spinosissimae seen. Such an interesting update!
leafmines.co.uk/html/updates...
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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme
8 days ago
#BeeFlyArt
#BeeFlyWatch
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Tanyptera Project
9 days ago
Free online event hosted by Kindling Farm tomorrow evening - Reading the Wild - In Conversation with Vicki Hird
kindling.org.uk/event/readin...
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rwhooster
10 days ago
The
#scalywings
of a Pale Brindled Beauty from a few weeks ago.
#macromonday
#teammoth
#moths
#mothsmatter
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UKBMS
9 days ago
The UKBMS Spring Newsltter is out now! Bringing you seasonal updates about the UKBMS. In this edition we have reminders to get you ready for the start of the season, a dayflying moth ID resource and opportunities to help monitor priority species.
ukbms.org/sites/defaul...
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https://ukbms.org/sites/default/files/downloads/Spring%202026%20eNewsletter.pdf
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A male Hairy-footed Flower-bee fuelling up from Mahonia flowers just outside Sadler's Wells in 🌞 London today
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Clare Blencowe
12 days ago
Enjoying a moment communing with the woods after a long day editing Field Mycology. If you think you might want to read it in magazine format, now's the time to subscribe because issue 27(1) should be landing at the end of the month. 🤞 ▶️
www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/fm-journal
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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme
12 days ago
We now have two species of bee-fly on the wing, check the wing markings next time you see one 👍 ID guide at
dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watc...
#BeeFlyWatch
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Erica McAlister
12 days ago
Although out of date before it even published, the uK provisional assessment of Calypterate flies is worrying Almost half the Muscids are of concern. As
@entmikeashworth.bsky.social
highlights that’s why the
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
courses are essential to provide training for correct id’s
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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme
12 days ago
The world needs more bee-fly art 👌
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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme
12 days ago
Love this 😍 Bee-flies are known as woolly-flies or woolly-hoverers on the continent
#BeeFlyWatch
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Nick Isaac
13 days ago
It was a real privilege to work on this paper - some important messages for the world here. Thanks
@pnas.org
@billsutherland.bsky.social
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Joe Hanly
13 days ago
Nipam Patel exploring the common myth that caterpillars 'turn to goo" inside the chrysalis, with some beautiful visuals!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCka...
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Science Says So: How Do Caterpillars Get Their Wings?
YouTube video by Marine Biological Laboratory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCka2xnrCfw
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Mark Brown
16 days ago
Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
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Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-university-museum-of-zoology-and-the-university-of-cambridge/
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What's even better than moths? Slow-motion moths!
#TeamMoth
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13 days ago
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Martha Henson
14 days ago
Aw, Encounter is now being recommended as part of local social prescribing
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
we hoped this would happen!
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We're EXTREMELY proud to have been featured in the RSPB's Nature Prescription for the Vale of Glamorgan, led by Dr David Llewellyn. Social prescribing has been part of Encounter's goal fro...
We're EXTREMELY proud to have been featured in the RSPB's Nature Prescription for the Vale of Glamorgan, led by Dr David Llewellyn. Social prescribing has been part of Encounter's goal from the start,...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437781957045850112/
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Biological Recording Company
22 days ago
How do we know biodiversity is declining? Data 📊 from surveys & citizen science to satellites and global databases, monitoring wildlife shows what’s changing — and if sustainability action is working 🌍 🧪 Join
@jeffollerton.bsky.social
, on 31 March 2026! 🔗
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980197493...
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Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre
15 days ago
🦋Join
@upperthames.bsky.social
for upcoming events on identifying, surveying and recording
#Butterflies
in Berks and Oxon! Next event: Sat 14 March, Coleshill:
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/event_calendar
Learn new skills and help support butterfly conservation! 📷Brian Walker
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Yorkshire Naturalists' Union
15 days ago
Can you help us with a recording questionnaire ahead of our annual conference on 21st March? If so, follow the link below:
djcnjl-zcmp.maillist-manage.eu/click/12c1b6...
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Glo i Natur CIC
15 days ago
🦋 Thanks to Llantrisant Community Council for a generous £600 contribution to our 'Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips' crowdfund! Just £150 to go with 2 days left — help us reach the target:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-s...
🌼 Let’s get Cwm Tips back to looking like this! (as shown in the photo).
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Jon Holt 🟢💸⚖️
15 days ago
I've published my book Britain's Dandelions, A Photographic Guide. It's currently available on Blurb
blurb.co.uk/b/12805510-bri…
Next week I will be adding additional outlets
#Taraxacum
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#Botany
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#Dandelions
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#BritainsDandelions
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Bernoid
16 days ago
Dung Cannon - Pilobolus crystallinus. I love these fungi. So tiny.
#FungiFriends
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Not much good news in this report 😥, but glad to see recognition that "The UK is fortunate in having a large amount of information about its biodiversity, collected across a broad spread of species and habitats both by professionals and by expert volunteers"
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Biological Recording Company
17 days ago
London has its own rare snail 🐌 Join Elliot Newton (
@citizenzoo.bsky.social
) for a FREE entoLIVE exploring the Great German Hairy Snail Survey. Find out what we’ve learned about this remarkable species and how you can get involved 🌎 🧪 📅 Thu 10th Sep 2026 🔗
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977367798...
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Steve
17 days ago
Scathophaga stercoraria or Yellow Dungfly. ‘Yellow’ just doesn’t do it justice. It’s a glorious, fabulous gold and if it was a small mammal everyone would want one as a pet. They’re so fluffy! iPhone photo, so not the sharpest but still a little beauty!
#diptera
#entomology
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From the housefly family, a handsome male Helina evecta (or "Sinuous-veined Helina" according to the fabulous new fly book), one of several hanging out in the garden today
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
@ukmuscidae.bsky.social
16 days ago
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Lovely to see my first Red-tailed Bumblebee queen of the year, a gorgeous velvety black and red
#pollinators
@pomscheme.bsky.social
16 days ago
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Several Oedemera femoralis beetles in the garden tonight, including this one tucking in to a sallow catkin
@colsocbi.bsky.social
16 days ago
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Only found one moth during tonight's dog walk, but it was a species I haven't seen for a few years: Dotted Chestnut
#TeamMoth
16 days ago
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BSBI Botany
17 days ago
Congratulations to our dear friend
@commonbynature.bsky.social
on the publication today of his Urban Flora of Newcastle and North Tyneside. James is a
#BSBICountyRecorder
for the area so knows whereof he speaks! More about the book here:
bsbi.org/blog/2026/03...
Full interview coming very soon!
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NatureBureau
17 days ago
Tachina lurida (Dingy Tachina), one of our earliest Parasite Flies to emerge in March & found in woodland features in our new
#FliesofBritainandIreland
bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
this one spotted in Bernwood Forest on the Bucks/Oxon border
@bbowt.bsky.social
@tverc1.bsky.social
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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Erica McAlister
17 days ago
Look who is giving a Royal Institute Lecture 😉...on flies..can you believe it.... Very excited to be giving a talk about the Life Cycles of Flies - the vast and splendid adaptations undertaken by these little marvels..
www.rigb.org/whats-on/met...
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