200 dead White-lipped #Snails on 150m of verge @ Loirsbank Road. Did ACC spray something #toxic? What else died? #Biodiversity?? I hope none were eaten by the Song Thrushes or Hedgehogs. This seems mindless. @aberdeencc.bsky.social

@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social George Greiff in the BBC News headlines on Sunday morning. A fantastic discovery, and hopefully a way to moderate invasive (INNS) Campylopus introflexus (Heath Star Moss). Well deserved recognition for some very interesting bryological work. 🎉🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No doubt there wil be better photos but the "Dad, what's that weird Heron" from the back of the car y'day evening led to a staggering, to my tiny mind, find (assume re-find of birds from Blacktoft?) of White Stork just outside Cottingham yesterday #YorkshireBirding @rarebirder.bsky.social #UKBirding

An obliging Empis tessellata, East Yorkshire today. A predator and nectar feeder. Note the long proboscis.

Bog Beacon (Mitrula paludosa) still fruiting in the ponds down at Saltoun Wood in East Lothian. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon

Plenty of insects to see the other day in the Walled Garden at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, including this striking Heteropteran, Miris striatus

I believe these are Orange-marked Craneflies, Ptychoptera contaminata, at Holkham Hall lake, Norfolk, 21st May.

3 Red-veined Darters so far today (1 at south end of Chalk Bank, 1 at Point dunes, 1 at Kilnsea Wetlands) and locally rare Large Red Damselfly at Sykes Field. #Spurndragonflies #Spurndamselflies @rarebirder.bsky.social

The first Red-veined Darter of the year just south of the Warren amongst the buckthorn, closely followed by 4 presumed individuals over Kilnsea Wetlands #spurnbirds @rarebirder.bsky.social

Our Monad of the Month for May 2026 is SE8647, located at Londesborough, near Market Weighton: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... 📍 Click through to read more about a grid square where we're lacking records!

Did you know that UK gardens collectively form more green space than all our national nature reserves combined? They are vital mini-ecosystems for supporting biodiversity, wellbeing & climate resilience. Even small greenspaces help. 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/udwwyaukou #RHSChelsea #CitizenScience

If you are interested in learning to identify the UKs ground beetles there are free guides to download on my website johnwalters.co.uk/publications...

What's on this month? 🗓️ Sat 9th May - Bryological Section Field Meeting @ Leyburn Sun 10th May - Yorkshire Dragonflies Group @ Terrington Mon 18th May - Entomological Section Field Meeting @ Castle Howard Sat 30th May - VC61 Excursion @ Heslington, York Full details: www.ynu.org.uk/news-events/...

Sadly this one has pretty much gone from the Tunbridge Wells area, for the reason mentioned, along with its later-flying relatives L glaucia & L laternaria

@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