So, what do we do with the #NewYearPlantHunt data that 1000s of #BSBImembers & supporters have collected over the past decade? 1 example: we joined forces with @metoffice.gov.uk to investigate correlations between rising temperatures & your plant records. Initial results: bsbi.org/about/news/l...

Check out this write-up on sound producing Grasshoppers in Europe, and their availability on XC www.researchgate.net/publication/... . #bioacoustics #grasshoppers #orthoptera

It's our last newsletter of 2025! Catch up with recent stories, including: 🤝New alliance of National Research Organisations 🌱Grassland toolkit for farmers 🔥Thoughts from COP30 ☀️Flash droughts forecasting and more! Read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/ppiobgrmcv 🧪

“Lichens of Britain & Ireland” by Rebecca Yahr and Frances Stoakley is finally available for purchase. This has been a much needed ID guide for beginners to intermediates and the publication is finally here!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lichens-o... #bloomsbury #lichens

Always love to find the gorgeous Zicrona caerulea (Blue Shieldbug) #Heteroptera #Shieldbug #Asopinae

A great diversity of invertebrates from the garden today, using a beating tray on ivy and a mixed hedge: bugs, beetles, a fly pretending to be a beetle, moths, springtails, spiders, woodlice and more - so much life! #ento

Another campaign to go peat free, it only takes a second, please sign (link in comment below). Such an easy step we could take to address both climate and biodiversity crises.

Only one moth in the light trap last night, but it is very lovely and has appropriately seasonal colours: Red-green Carpet #TeamMoth

Ooh! Advance copies of Buzz just arrived. Smug face for the rest of the day. Publication May 2026.

Not #spiders but #Pseudoscorpions, mini-marvels of the #arachnid world. For more information on their quirky lives, see our factsheet 8 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.

These tiny but gorgeous #fungi were a highlight of today's walk. The apps are very sure they are Steely Bonnet, Mycena pseudocorticola, no idea if their confidence is justified 🤔

Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

Collection of #insects found on gravestones in Comely Bank Cemetery, #Edinburgh, on 15 December, part 1: Tetratoma fungorum, female Mottled Umber & Cream-streaked Ladybird … #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Interested in finding out about recording plants in bloom for the #NewYearPlantHunt? Join @bsbibotany.bsky.social for a webinar this evening ⬇️🌼

Very pleased to announce that my recent paper in Oecologia "Trophic generalism in the winter moth: a model species for phenological mismatch" won the journal's 2024 Ehleringer Prize for student research! 🏆 You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇 link.springer.com/journal/442/...

When I was 17yo I did an independent project at school in Leatherhead on #insects and their mouthparts. I didn’t like sport but was left with the keys to the biology lab, prep room and a large Zeiss photomicroscope. I would spend hours working on specimens and then wet-printing the photographs.

A refreshingly positive 'good news' story by M.S. Warren, S. Rich, and N. Haywood regarding the fortunes of the Silver-studded Blue over 50 years at Studland Heath National Nature Reserve, Dorset, UK. Detailed article at www.dispar.org/reference.ph... @martinswarren.bsky.social

Interested in moth trapping? Wondering which trap to use? Or if different bulbs collect different species? Using 100k samples from @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social our new paper looks at these questions and more! With with Bill Kunin and @katatrepsis.bsky.social #mothsmatter #teammoth

Hello! 👋 Thought I'd better introduce myself as I'm new on here. I'm a Sussex-based ecologist that loves enacting change for the good of nature & people. If you like to hear positive conservation stories you might like my Wandering Ecologist Podcast. Please tune in on your usual podcast provider 🎧🐛

Not long now until our 15th #NewYearPlantHunt! From 1 - 4 January, let's head out and see how many wild or naturalised plants we can find in bloom. Resources to help us: bsbi.org/take-part/ac... The data we collect will deepen our understanding of how our plants are responding to a changing climate.

I have a few signed copies of my books available here in Bristol, and I’m happy to post them to uk addresses. They are also available online in all the usual places. This online bookshop is one of the most ethical places to buy books: uk.bookshop.org/shop/AlexMorss

The annual Presidents Award is made by @bsbibotany.bsky.social & @wildflowersociety.bsky.social Presidents to "the most useful contribution to the understanding of the flowering plants & ferns of Britain & Ireland". The 2025 Award goes to Alys Fowler for her book Peatlands: bsbi.org/about/news/p...

A great collective effort by many colleagues and external collaborators, led by the wonderful Jodey Peyton.

Losses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Evidence is vital for tracking #biodiversity progress. The new UK Biodiversity Indicators from JNCC and Defra show more of these are static or declining. UKCEH contributes analyses of trends - big thanks to all citizen scientists whose data help make it possible! www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

Red Clover in our meadow, oblivious to the foul December weather. Love getting really up-close-and-personal with this one, as the tiny flowers are almost orchid-like in their design #wildflowerhour

Booking is now open for the British #Lichen Society AGM weekend in Carlisle 30th Jan - 1st Feb 2026. britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/... Even if you're not a member, why not come along to meet us, to hear talks about lichens, and to take part in our Sunday field trip at Carlisle Cemetery.

Horseflies are impressively large insects, but even so this is the first time I've seen a mist net used to trap them! Recorded, photographed and released by L Lambert last June. I don't *think* they ringed it as well 😂

1/2 #speciesaday no. 679 is Euophrys frontalis. A very common jumper in open habitats. Identifiable throughout much of the year. Adult males have magic wands for front legs and red-ringed eyes (think Paul Daniels with hay fever). Striking white on the top of the palps too! I just love salticids!

Two amazing artists walk "The Springline Project" route through South Oxfordshire, as part of the "Mend The Gap" programme. More details of the project itself in the comments. @annadillon.bsky.social youtu.be/yolAjJfVK2o

For #FlyFriday or #Flyday why not a new podcast with me talking flies with Paul McGuinness on #WildLives (ignore the one of the worlds experts - many better than me!!) #bbcwildlife podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing

'Otter Estuary' in East Devon on the Jurassic Coast. A winterscape on a cold morning. A lovely circular walk near Budleigh Salterton. Oil on board.

Useful thread on some 🔑 components of the OEPs review of nature/wildlife laws & protected sites. Simply, Govt & its regulators are not doing anywhere enough & falling way behind in terms of actions (managing/protecting) and monitoring of protected sites - the Jewels in the crown for biodiversity 🤷‍♂️

How amazing is this? The BSBI is offering money for people to engage in plant training or research. You don't even have to be a member!!

Winter leafhoppers. Empoasca vitis Eupteryx urticae Linnavuoriana sexmaculata Ribautiana debilis #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Cicadellidae

Fantastically worthwhile cause - nearly halfway to target, now, too :)

If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!

Come and work with members of the @pomscheme.bsky.social team on this exciting NEW PhD opportunity! Full details below ⬇️🐝🪰🐞

Good to have an opportunity to discuss pollinator monitoring and conservation in this context @jncc.bsky.social

There is still time to sign up to take part in the Winter Bird Survey on a BBS square near you. More information here: bto.org/winbs

Common Carpet (Epirrhoe alternata) North Antrim - June 2025. It can be easy to underappreciate the more frequently encountered moths, when searching for the scarce and weird species. #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social

UK Biodiversity Indicators 2025 are now live jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-... With contributions from nearly 100 organisations, they are useful tools for summarising & communicating broad trends 🧵 #TogetherForNature

PhD opportunity using long-term data & experimental results to develop a model to predict ground beetle species responses under woodland management scenarios. With @uniofreading.bsky.social ding.bsky.social, @forestresearchuk.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

Our 2026 field mycology events include a workshop for beginners to build knowledge & develop skills, and practical field meetings for those more experienced in fungus recording. Find all BMS events here: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/events.html

We’ve launched a new Science, Technology & Innovation helpdesk to strengthen resource mapping, stakeholder engagement and innovation across #WestAfrica, supporting sustainable development: https://f.mtr.cool/tnftihmhpg

Help us unlock the Plants of the Past, by supporting volunteers to digitise decades of paper records & inform C21st science! @biggive.bsky.social From #GivingTuesday to 9 Dec, we have £10K in matched funds to unlock: every donation, however small, will be doubled: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Very well organised with real challenges eg: the need for plants to be included in schools, the hope for the GCSE in ntrl history,FUN and FIELDWORK are vital, training for BNG surveys, AI - what it can do for you AND vice- versa and the use of botany in land management and climate change.

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!! What a *huge* honour to be named #bookoftheyear by Mark Avery. With such awesome company I never imagined such an accolade. Absolutely chuffed to bits! Thank you 😊