Announcing another chance to learn #lichens online! My next 'Lichens for Beginners' course starts in January. Perfect for anyone just discovering these unique and beautiful life-forms. All you need to know to understand lichens and identify common species. Join me! aspenecology.com/lichens-for-...

We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy. But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country." Let's make that description Labour votes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Arachtober is a good month to remind folk my book #SpidersAndHarvestmenOfYorkshire by @naturebureau.bsky.social ought to be available to purchase by the end of the month. It’s not too late to get a pre-publication offer here: www.naturebureau.co.uk/spiders-harv... @britishspiders.bsky.social

A Crowdfunder to save Beer Mill farm - 112 acres of rare, species rich land in Devon. There's matched funding, so your donation would be doubled. Please chip in if you can. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk

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Very humbled today to receive the Peter Scott Memorial Award from the #BritishNaturalistsAssociation for having made an ‘outstanding contribution to our understanding of natural history and conservation’ I don’t feel worthy but do feel very honoured #TeamFlies @nhm-london.bsky.social

Earthed’s #EarthedSummit – happening Thursday 18 September at EartHackney, #London #Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #brightonwildlife

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Nearing the end of a challenging job from Tenerife, just 90 Sarcophagidae to go! 😥 At least this one doesn't look like all of the others; Miltogramma aurifrons. Still available for ID and imaging projects, UK and Europe dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... Please share if possible

Nearing the end of a challenging job from Tenerife, just 90 Sarcophagidae to go! 😥 At least this one doesn't look like all of the others; Miltogramma aurifrons. Still available for ID and imaging projects, UK and Europe dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... Please share if possible

Hello @bsky.app. we are Norfolk Ponds Project - a science-led partnership NGO focused on pond restoration & #ghostpond ressurection. We aim to educate, lobby & inspire others on ponds. We used to Tweet & had 5000+ followers. ***Please follow & help us achieve the same here***!!!

I think, well I'm pretty sure, I've picked up Zodarion rubidum in Oxon from a survey. Only info I can find is it was found in Essex in 1997, and in Kent. Any other info assuming my ID is correct @britishspiders.bsky.social?

📣🍄🦇🍄🦇🍄📣 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher for my lab in Ceske Budejovice, Czechia. We study biodiversity monitoring, ecology, conservation, and microbiology. Some of our work deals with bats, most with fungi! Email at danny dot haelewaters at gmail dot com if interested. #TeamLaboul #newPI

Beautifully camouflaged male Golden Horsefly Atylotus fulva in its sphagnum bog habitat, Dartmoor, Devon

Took the afternoon off to hang out at on the Wiston Estate with Penny and Kat - girls day out looking for hornet robberflies Was not disappointed - a beast of a fly feasting on a dung beetle 😎👊 @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

ICYMI: What looks like a very interesting book on spiders. If you’re keen to know how many spiders have been found in @yorkshiredales.org.uk, Leeds, Sheffield or the many Nature Reserves then this is the book for you.

Love #Dartmoor? Now’s your chance to influence its future. People who care passionately about the National Park are invited to share their views on the priorities that will guide this unique landscape for years to come. Complete the Public Opinion Survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

RFI: does anyone out there use one of those large angle-poised magnifying glasses for sorting through pitfall trap samples? Was thinking of getting one, and as ever there's a vast range available, so wondered if anyone had recommendations. What magnification do you use? Thanks.

More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible

More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible

A goose honks, a water vole jumps — and then relaxes for a casual scratch. Captured on one of our trail cameras. We’re working protect water voles like this across Cornwall. 💚 🎥 Watch with sound!

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Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Rhipidia maculata; Dioctra linearis and Ravinia pernix. www.dipteraid.co.uk #flies #entomology #dipteraimaging

A large Tolmerus species from Tenerife, haven't worked out which one yet! @flygirlnhm.bsky.social It's a biggy, c.18mm, research here we come. www.dipteraid.co.uk #dipteraid #dipteraimaging #tenerife #canaryislands Still available for any imaging or diptera identification work, Please share

A large Tolmerus species from Tenerife, haven't worked out which one yet! @flygirlnhm.bsky.social It's a biggy, c.18mm, research here we come. www.dipteraid.co.uk #dipteraid #dipteraimaging #tenerife #canaryislands Still available for any imaging or diptera identification work, Please share

Came across a magnificent Sweet Chestnut tree on our walk this morning, small Border Terrier for scale 😊

Garden buzzing, Red-tailed Bumblebee, hoverflies including Scaeva pyrastri, Eristalis tenax, Syritta pipiens and Melanostoma .spp; other Diptera, mostly Neomyia .sp on flowering herbs + 2 Gatekeeper butterflies @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #smallgarden. 4 x 4.5m, 3 years ago was bare walls and gravel

Last full day @kneppwilding.bsky.social teaching done, so a little time to get some determinations done; not had to do this with wasps trying to eat the flies before! @dipteracourse.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social #outdoorlab www.dipteraid.co.uk

Oh after the badger excitement of this morning I didn’t think today could get more ecologically exciting I. Was. Wrong I have a Lampyris noctiluca in my garden. A glow worm. A GLOW WORM

@kneppwilding.bsky.social Day 2 week 2, it's raining so pinning flies caught in preparation y'day evening. Silence as the concentration levels build 😊 Out this afternoon, bug pots, ID and catch and release, to learn Orders. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk

@kneppwilding.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social no invertebrate teaching this morning so out looking at plants and habitats; grasses are interesting (difficult to ID)! Good fun but back to flies this afternoon, Malaise traps to move, samples to sort & determine @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

@kneppwilding.bsky.social teaching day four, Lesson 1 - check apples before eating when camping. Volunteers did brilliantly today in scorching heat, collecting sorting and identifying to a good mix of Orders. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk #teaching

@kneppwilding.bsky.social Day 3 teaching; but not teaching this morning, so out helping another staff member survey a pond (ID'ing plants, carrying stuff and writing down what I'm told to)! 😅 Worse ways to spend a sunny morning. Now back to sample processing. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Day 2 @kneppwilding.bsky.social Lesson 1, how to put your head in a net 🙂 Sweep netting, sorting and pinning followed by Malaise trap sample ID . @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social outdoor classrooms with loads of practical learning! www.dipteraid.co.uk #learning #invertebrates

Day 1 teaching invert collection and sample processing @kneppwilding.bsky.social Mini kits prepped for the volunteers, keys printed, sample route planned but please stop the rain. Thanks 😊 @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social

First day at @kneppwilding.bsky.social ready for two weeks of teaching collection techniques and specimen processing. Been out exploring and introducing myself to the locals, White Stork, Purple Emperor, Purple Hairstreak a few of the early bonuses. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social

The sap-run dwelling larva of Brachyopa insensilis is one of the more distinctive in the genus and can be identified in the field, especially with a 10x hand lens. Other hoverfly species also inhabit sap runs, so if your larva doesn't match this one, the references provided may assist. #hoverflies

Available on the web. Buy a copy and get stuck in. Obviously with a @yorkshiretea.bsky.social ☕️🫖 @cieem.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @britishspiders.bsky.social @britishbugs.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

and the third, the first detection of Avipoxvirus in two species of louse flies in the UK with additional phenological data that would support their role as vectors: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 4/5

Learn to use Pantheon to analyse invertebrate data & inform conservation! Join us at the Natural History Museum, London on 20 Aug. With specialist tutor @kitenet.bsky.social . £80. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1372660337... @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social #conservation #ecology

Nancy watching Springwatch. @linbrice.bsky.social fascinated by the Badgers #Springwatch

I've been sent some images of green spheres from a dyke in the River Ant section of the Norfolk Broads in case I recognised the species - presumably either algae or cyanobacteria. Unfortunately I don't know the answer, does anyone recognise them? @brianecambs.bsky.social @freshwaterbio.bsky.social?

Have just ID'd my first Ephydrid from our survey trip to S'Albufera Nature Reserve in Mallorca. Thanks to @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social and David Gibbs for the recent @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Ephydrid workshop, the key is great! Thanks to @davebriceflies.bsky.social for his patient tutorage too.

Scarce Muscid, Nr Buxton, R. Wye, low veg, buttercups. Phaonia villana @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Field Trip 2025 @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks

Scarce Muscid, Nr Buxton, R. Wye, low veg, buttercups. Phaonia villana @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Field Trip 2025 @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks