@dst-conservation.bsky.social I wonder if adults of this species, the largest British water beetle, will fly northwards to your ponds eventually

International City Nature Challenge 24-27 April. Latest issue of the Naturalist has article on results & notable finds of York CNC 2025, incl Crucifix Ground Beetle, reported to be one of Europe's rarest ground beetles @inaturalist.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social

Almost half of European freshwater fishes 🐟 at risk of extinction, new IUCN Red List reveals 🧪 iucn.org/press-releas...

Hybrids On The Horizon - bioGraphic www.biographic.com/hybrids-on-t...

A beautiful Copper Peacock Elaphrus cupreus ground beetle on the muddy margin of a pond. Challacombe, Dartmoor, Devon

Great Silver Water Beetles are an almost regular occurrence in the moth trap in spring here. Assume they are increasing in range nationally.

If you needed any other reason to support a ban on Pheasant breeding, release and shooting here's another @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social

The final zoom talk rounds up 2025 Butterfly season and what a season it was! An Annus Mirablis some would say. We look at the effects of the heat and drought on the fortunes of our species on different habitats as well as exploring a record breaking early start www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yorkshire-...

A small northern chalk stream, Ings Beck in North Newbald, looking fine on 30 March.

Just over three weeks to go until the City Nature Challenge begins! Find out more and get involved in Hull City Nature Challenge on our website: www.neyedc.org.uk/hull-cnc-2026 and on iNaturalist: uk.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...

Milk Parsley planting at Hornsea Mere, East Yorkshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What is a turlough? These seasonal lakes fill and drain through underground channels, creating a unique and ever-changing freshwater habitat. Join Dr @hmbarber-james.bsky.social on 28 May for a FREE entoLIVE exploring their hidden insect diversity 🌎 🧪 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1914939919...

Botany training www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/new-cambridg...

It was wonderful to welcome 80 people to the YNU's annual conference in York last Saturday to discuss means and methods of increasing the recording effort of some of Yorkshire's under-recorded taxon, and improve the quality of records sent in to our volunteer county recorders.

This is so crazy! Invasive mallards in NZ have been observed preying on the chicks of our "bird of the century", pūteketeke. "This duck behaviour was unknown to DoC experts, and there was a concern that it would spread, as ducks learned from each other". www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/doc-fears...

How much have our coastlines changed in the last century? 🌊 Our georeferenced map viewer allows you to directly compare maps from history with the present day. In this example, you can see Great Cowden on the Yorkshire coast, where the shoreline has receded around 200 metres over the last century.

Bristly millipedes out and about at Garvestone church today.

After the devastating wildfire on Fylingdales, it's interesting to see the appearance of some fungi specialising in fire sites, and a liverwort growing on bare damp soil. @fylingdalesed.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk

I would have thought this was a bit premature? They turn up in small numbers but we cannot rule out releases for many sightings. I would have thought Clouded Yellow was a better candidate as we have larvae confirmed breeding on cliffs of Bournemouth most winters @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

Our team had an uplifting afternoon this past Friday at the Hull and East Yorkshire Nature Recovery Conference, celebrating the launch of the region's LNRS. We particularly loved the video produced to introduce the strategy - you can find it (+ lots of other resources) here: heylnp.co.uk/lnrs/ 🌿

“If this biological pump didn’t exist, atmospheric CO₂ levels would be roughly twice those as they are at the moment. So the oceans are doing a pretty good job” #ClimateEmergency #Biodiversity www.bbc.com/news/article...

“When all this is over I mean / to travel north...” ~ ‘Lochan’, a beautiful #poem by Kathleen Jamie 🍃 Our #Scotland issue, co-edited by Kathleen, is available here: irishpages.org/product/vol-...

"There's five times as many butterflies on cattle grazing sites compared with sheep grazed sites," @bcyorkshire.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The full programme for the YNU Conference on 21st March has now been released! For full details (and to get your tickets!) see the YNU website: www.ynu.org.uk/news-events/...

The first credible sighting of a yellow-legged Asian hornet has been reported by the National Bee Unit/Defra on 26.2.26 in the Doncaster area of South Yorkshire. Please stay vigilant. NB the Wrexham, Wales nest found in January has been officially listed in 2025 data

Join us for this year's YNU Conference on Saturday 21st March at The Priory Street Centre, York: 'Recording Yorkshire's natural history - beyond ‘The State of Yorkshire's Nature’ report'. Purchase your tickets here: www.ynu.org.uk/join-the-ynu... or contact [email protected].

When there are limpet shells in your thatch, you know something's not quite right with the weather. Today's @theguardian.com country diary by @tomallanwriter.bsky.social considers storm damage in a beleaguered Devon village. #countrydiary #naturewriting

New paper published today in @peerj.bsky.social Based on simple observation and citizen science, we show that cats and dogs can contribute to the spread of invasive land flatworms—no molecular data needed.🧪 Open access: peerj.com/articles/207...

Three-lobed Crowfoot is at peak flowering just now in the Mediterranean temporary ponds on the Lizard Heaths. #WildflowerHour

Andricus sieboldi. The Barnacle Gall. Wasp gall on oak sapling. Bayfordbury, Herts today. Always near the base of the plant. #galls #galling.

@scarpermac.bsky.social for info following your recent post about this book

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...

Tuesday #morningread

For #WorldWetlandsDay, we're shining a light on four of the 25% of Britain's threatened spider species that are wetland specialists. They're entirely dependent on aquatic habitats remaining wet, unpolluted and growing, not shrinking, in size and connectivity @naturalengland.bsky.social

On #WorldWetlandsDay here is a spring-fed woodland pond In Elloughton Dale on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social @carlsayer.bsky.social @chrismcgregor.bsky.social

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Traditional knowledge has long guided the sustainable use of wetlands. As the Convention on Wetlands marks 55 years, #WorldWetlandsDay2026 calls on us to protect wetlands and honour cultural heritage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Mc...

We're now just a few months away from this year's City Nature Challenge, which will be running for the 4th year in Hull. Find out all the details for how to get involved on our website: www.neyedc.org.uk/hull-cnc-2026 and visit our iNaturalist project here: uk.inaturalist.org/projects/cit... 🔎

@norfolkponds.bsky.social @carlsayer.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social Have you come across Tufted Ducks being called Arps?

Tufted ducks, according to Google AI, are called "Arps" (or "Harps") on Norfolk & Suffolk Broads as a local dialect contraction of their scientific genus name, Aythya. Is this 'origin' of Arps name correct?

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bee-hunting beetles are the first animals known to fake the smell of flowers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

We have no idea what it does down there yet. Predator? Menace? Vibes-only organism? Classic deep sea: shows up, breaks the rules, refuses to explain itself. Watch video at www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

After five years in the making! All proceeds going directly back into supporting more conservation. To secure yourself a copy, please send an email to [email protected] £25 for an amazing hardback with full colour photos and illustrations is an absolute bargain!

Tunbridge Wells' very own Rev Thomas Stebbing monographed the crustaceans from the Challenger expeditions. He never went to sea himself, but studied the specimens at his home, Ephraim Lodge on Tunbridge Wells Common

If people are starting to browse through seed catalogs I can recommend fennel. It germinates easily and grows well even up here at 650 feet and look at all those visitors it had 🌱 #YellowThurs

Great Silver Water-beetle found in moth trap at Kilnsea, East Yorkshire, Sept 2025 @ynuorg.bsky.social @tc271.bsky.social @chrismcgregor.bsky.social

Rare plants often turn up in restored Norfolk farm #ponds: Translucent Stonewort (Nitella translucens), Tassel Stonewort (Tolypella intricata), Bladder Sedge (Carex vesicaria) & Marsh Speedwell (Veronica scutellata). Very special species usually confined to nature reserves

The Reptile Who Plays Possum - bioGraphic www.biographic.com/the-reptile-...