Improve your bumblebee ID and recording skills. This online course includes 3 recorded webinars covering the UK’s 24 bumblebee species, from common to rare and cuckoo species, + ecology and survey guidance. Start here: courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/bumb... @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

Moths are being celebrated as pollinators with a new proposed installation in Oxford North's Canalside Park. Three bronze sculptures will emerge from a wildflower meadow. Each sculpture represents the invisible movements of a moth’s search for a flower to feed from & pollinate. (one for #teammoth)

Meet Phalangium opilio, one of the UK’s most common harvestmen! 🕷️ Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo. Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859... @britishspiders.bsky.social

Tickets are now on sale for our conference, 'Networks for Nature', which will be held on Sunday 7th December at York Hospitium 🎉 We'd love for you to join us - purchase your tickets here: neyedc.org.uk/c2n!

@linbrice.bsky.social just updated the Website, it's been a busy 18 months dipteraid.co.uk/projects/ looking ahead to next year already. Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help. Please share, ta!

Povolnya leucapennella last Friday in Bengeo, associated with evergreen oaks such as Holm Oak (Quercus ilex). Very scarce species in Herts. @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social #teammoth

A shameless plug for my brother, who has created this book! Ideal for children, or if you just enjoy a bit of mindful colouring, etc 🙂 Thanks. #TeamMoth amzn.eu/d/amK2hXu

Long-term monitoring tells a story of change. For 80 years scientists have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes in Cumbria, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping our freshwater ecosystems. It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎 🧪 1/

1776: Flies abound. They stay long after the hirundines are withdrawn. Tipulae sport in the air.

The latest BDS Journal is available online, where you can also access previous issues 👉 british-dragonflies.org.uk/bds-journal/

Such a fantastic piece of work! Well done @bsbibotany.bsky.social and team!!

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social

Wild Roses of Great Britain & Ireland (latest title in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plants) is due out this month! Final proofs now with authors Gareth & Roger. Interview with them about the new Handbook here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/inte... £16 for #BSBImembers until 24 Nov.

Webinar for MATs, local authorities & councils: Explore the National Education Nature Park Map, see how schools are improving biodiversity & learn how to support them 🌱 📅 3 Dec | 🕐 13:00–13:45. Sign up! #EducationNaturePark #Biodiversity www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/webinar-mats...

@idrisadams.bsky.social's 1st wasp paper! Although written for & reviewed by kids, it's good for wasp-wary adults too! And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... @uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

My first wasp publication is out! @waspwoman.bsky.social and I have written a piece highlighting why wasps are so cool in Frontiers for Young Minds... perfect for children but equally as fascinating for all ages!

Film featuring live performance and interview footage from the performances of @elliewilsonuk.bsky.social's Moth x Human at @prsfoundation.bsky.social & @southbankcentre.bsky.social 's New Music Biennial. Watch: youtu.be/mDv6a_nPVPk #NMB25 @ukceh.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

It's that time of year again, Dipterists Forum 'Dipterists Day & AGM' 🪰 Nov 14th 2025- a day in the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Diptera collections Nov 15th 2025 - Dipterists Day and AGM For more details please go to dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...

🚨 Only 30 places left for #NBNconf25 ! With 2 weeks to go, we’re nearly full — book now to join us in Bristol! 🐝🌿 🎤 Programme & speakers: bit.ly/NBNconf25 #Biodiversity #Data #Networking

📢 We are hiring a Director (Central Team) to develop and oversee programmes across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. 🗓️ Closing date: 21/11/2025 | £50,000 | Permanent | Full-time, hybrid - two days based in Oxford. Find out more and apply here: freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/about-us/jobs/

Exciting news: we have a new British flea weevil. Less exciting news: it is a Rhamphus. I still don't understand how to tell them all apart. Even so, this is a very useful paper: www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16... Six new Palaearctic species and a review of diagnostic characters. #coleoptera

2025 has been a record year for BBS coverage! 4,054 visits to BBS squares have been made this year. This beats the 2018 record of 4,048. Thanks so much to all of the BBS volunteers across the UK who have contributed to this! @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social

If anyone takes Watsonalla binaria/uncinula (Oak/Spiny Hook-tip) from now, please check with your County Recorder if they wish specimens to be retained for microscopic examination (at the discretion of the recorder) and confirmation. Image: Oak Hook-tip (above), Spiny Hook-tip (below). #MothsMatter

🎉 Celebrating 10 Years of the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative 🎉 This December marks 10 years since the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative began its mission to change how people see South Wales’ colliery spoil sites — from barren relics of industry to thriving havens for wildlife. 1/3

Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show: - ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%. - The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social

Looking forward to my first visit to @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day in Cambridge. Great group of people and non members welcome: dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...

An amazing piece of evolution 😲

Delighted my YouTube channel has >1/4 million views and >5k subscribers. Keen to find new audiences especially students and practitioners. Also keen for new subjects either in UK or online interviewing someone in the field. Ideas welcome! youtube.com/@bill_suther...

Eponymous lepidopterist moths #teamMoth www.sciencebase.com/science-blog... Please let me know if I've missed any or there are mistakes...ta

A great resource made more accessible by @britentsoc.bsky.social - thanks

More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Save the date! 🌿 Want to learn how to record wildlife like a pro? Join our iRecord 101 webinar — an intro to logging sightings, expert verification & sharing data for conservation. 🌎 🧪 📅 02 Apr 2026 | 💷 £12.50 🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1734876575... #Ecology #WildlifeRecording

What do beetles do at this time of year? These 7-Spot Ladybirds have taken shelter under a leaf, whereas this pair of Rosemary Beetles have other thoughts. #beetles #ento #UKwildlife

Thanks @britentsoc.bsky.social for a great exhibition today, and congrats to @marshawards.bsky.social winners: @markgurn.bsky.social (weevils!), David Brown (moths!) and Laurence Clemons (tephritid flies!)

The new leafmine site update is now out. Has many excellent photos including some rarely seen eg Dialectica imperialella, Scrobipalpula tusdilaginis and Stigmella spinosissimae. Others more common. The amazing spiracles of Cerodontha iraeaos - like cow horns! www.leafmines.co.uk/html/updates...

Congrats to @graemelyons.bsky.social and Mark Telfer for an amazing discovery 👏👏🕷️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Agree with @vannabartlett.bsky.social - Slender-footed Robberfly, Leptarthrus brevirostris (a male)

I took a close look at Ground-ivy - Glechoma hederaceae in my Leeds garden and found 3 pathogens: A leaf gall caused by Rondaniola bursaria, a gall midge larva (family Cecidomyiidae); hairy gall ~3mm high @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social 1/3

Timely reminder for everyone to continue to report all dead birds that you find to the links below for possible testing. It's also really valuable to submit to @birdtrack.bsky.social for monitoring purposes too.

We're thrilled to share this film featuring some of the dedicated volunteers who monitor butterflies for the UKBMS A huge thank you to them, and everyone who's supported the scheme over the last 50 years. #UKBMS50 youtu.be/OrF5AgseX1U?...

📢New paper: Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals @universityofleeds.bsky.social with Rothamsted Insect Survey🦋🐝🪰🦟 Full story 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/trillio...

Field Mycology issue 26(3) is up on the internets 😎 ▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr... I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free! cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk

Are you joining us at our Exhibition this Saturday? A chance to meet other members and browse interesting displays! To find out more including contributing to the Exhibition visit our website

🔮 How can monitoring data help predict the future of our environment? Watch our #UKTEPoP Autumn Festival session with experts from JNCC, @ukceh.bsky.social and @btobirds.bsky.social on the power of prediction. 📺 youtu.be/KXY2-hdZ49M?... #Conservation #Data #Prediction #TogetherForNature

🥳 We’ve now passed £200,000 in our Hamgreen Wood appeal! This milestone is thanks to the incredible generosity of our members and supporters 🙌 Will you help us to raise the remaining £100,000 to protect this special site for generations to come? 👉 Please support our appeal: bbowt.org.uk/hamgreen

Hedgehog Harvestman Nemastomella bacilliferum, Plymouth, Devon, this very distinctive but tiny harvestman is found at several sites around the city. It has not been found anywhere else in the UK but may be overlooked? It is usually found sat on the underside of rocks lying on the ground.

Calling all @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social members, there is a great indoor workshop on soliderflies coming up soon. I'll be there, and hope to see you too! www.ywt.org.uk/events/2025-... Or DM me for details @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social

I always appreciate late Common Darters. One of the joys of October here in Norfolk.

A huge thank you to all our wonderful contributors @kitenet.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @earthwormuk.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social and all to the latest NFBR newsletter www.nfbr.org.uk?q=newsletters ! Thank you also to the amazing @aquatilis.bsky.social for bringing it all together :)! Enjoy!

My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...