Congratulations to Nik Knight for receiving an MBE for 58 years of volunteering in four areas, including the Hampshire Bat Group! @batconservation.bsky.social

Thank you to excellent @trisnorton.bsky.social & @hantsbic.bsky.social for an enjoyable, if meltingly hot, day bothering the wildlife of Northney Hayling Island.

The magnificently dapper Lunar Hornet Clearwing Sesia bembeciformis to lure at Northney, Hayling Island, Hampshire. A 50yr itch scratched for one of our volunteer BioBlitz recorders today! @hantsbic.bsky.social #TeamMoth

Come and join us at @havantborough.bsky.social's #Bioblitz on Sunday! It's at Northney Common, Hayling Island, and only a 10 minute walk from the nearest bus stop (Stagecoach 31). How many species will we record?

Carex strigosa in the Itchen Valley and Carex binervis in Hut Wood, Chandler's Ford. Also Carex pallescens from Itchen Valley which appears to be the first local record since 1996! #WildflowerHour 📷HBIC's Billy

The very lovely Large Venus Looking-glass Legousia speculum-veneris on a chalky Hampshire margin with @ghostofdatura.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Field Cow-wheat Melampyrum arvense in Hampshire. A beautiful and utterly mad thing #wildflowerhour

Excellent to catch up with @trisnorton.bsky.social ‘s Gamochaeta sp, an American Cudweed, in urban Southampton. Seems very happy on the city’s lovely weedy streets & found in a few new spots #wildflowerhour

Pepper-saxifrage Silaum silaus refound after 30 years in West Leigh, Havant, Hampshire today. Just one carroty benefit of not mowing part of a public greenspace for a few months. It's not difficult: leave it and they will come. Site abuzz with insects. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @hantsbic.bsky.social

Finally a moth trap to be happy with! 75/34 and some NFYs but I’m not really keeping tabs on that this year. Clouded-bordered Brindle and Bright-line Brown-eye were NFY (I think), Marbled Minor agg was also new and some Coleophora still to sort out. SE Hants #teammoth

This female Clouded Yellow today was the 33rd butterfly species I have recorded in my S.Hants garden. #butterflies #uk #gardenwildlife

Fly Orchids before the drizzle. Fire was needed. Eurovision awaits. Central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

The Lackey, Malacosoma neustria catepillar, found the other day in Alice Holt Arboretum. #teammoth

Great to see the Garganey and Lapwing and Avocet at Pennington this afternoon. Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Gadwall, Little Tern and Swift were other highlights. #UKWildlife #Birds

Lots of Cydia ulicetana on the wing at Hogsmoor, Bordon today. #teammoth (happy to be corrected if ID is not correct)

Mainly searching for clovers along the coast on foot today, but a short visit to Titchfield Haven yielded Little Gull and Roseate Tern! Both digi-binned! #PWC2026 #LowCarbonBirding

A Pea Trio for #wildflowerhour. Clustered Clover Trifolium glomeratum, Knotted Clover T. striatum, Bird's-foot Clover T. ornithopodioides. Otterbourne, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fine-leaved sandwort, Sabulina tenuifolia, a top an 8 foot wall in north Hampshire. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Mossy stonecrop, Crassula tillaea for #tinyplants. North Hampshire. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Pale Sedge Carex pallescens in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Undoubtedly one of the most attractive sedges 😍. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bastard Balm Melittis melissophyllum and Marsh Cinquefoil Comarum palustre. New Forest, Hampshire today. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sweet Flag Acorus calamus with its hundreds of tiny flowers. Holmsley, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Pink sorrel at Pennington yesterday and wood spurge and bitter vetch in the New Forest today. #WildflowerHour

Early Marsh-orchid Dactylorhiza incarnata var pulchella in white. New Forest, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Want to get started with plant recording this year? The #100PlantsChallenge website has some great resources! bsbi.org/take-part/ac... Catch up with our webinar series on Recording for Beginners, including this one on Plants by Habitat, on the BSBI YouTube channel ☘️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hK4...

Tower Mustard declined in early C20th & is now classed as Endangered on #GBRedList. It can't survive when habitat becomes overgrown, so as @trisnorton.bsky.social says 👇 it's probably surviving in Hants. thanks to disturbance which opens up the habitat. More here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

NEW BLOG, following up our recent video: how to how to submit records of rare breeding birds rbbp.org.uk/2026/05/15/s...

Protection methods include wearing insect repellent, sticking to well maintained paths and carrying out regular tick checks. Find out more via: lymedisease.com/prevention #BeTickAware #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth

Common Gromwell Lithospermum officinale. Abundant in one area of Stockbridge Down, Hampshire yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Supercharged Painted Ladies all over the place today on Hayling Island, Hampshire. Great to see 🤩

A lone Fly Orchid Ophrys insectifera in a shady lane nr Exton, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Black Bryony Dioscorea communis can easily go overlooked as part of the green tangle of a hedgerow. It's well worth stopping to look closely. Meon Valley, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Lovely fresh display of Common Twayblades Neottia ovata found today in Hampshire's Meon Valley. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Bastard Balm Melittis melissophyllum, another one of the Sean Bean plants. Two locations in South Hampshire only. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Field Fleawort Tephroseris integrifolia. Delighted to come across decent numbers of this scarce plant today at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire. Interestingly, these were in an area sprayed to control Tor-grass Brachypodium sylvaticum. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Field Mouse-ear Cerastium arvense. Not a common species at all these days. Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Early Purple Orchids Orchis mascula still looking fab on the slopes overlooking the ancient Grim's Dyke, Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @ukorchids.bsky.social

For #wildflowerhour #ButtercupChallenge here's the furriest Buttercup of all, Small-flowered Buttercup Ranunculus parviflorus. Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Tower Mustard Turritis glabra. This is probably the last refuge for this species in Hampshire, the population kept going by annual ground disturbance on a sandy roadside bank. Nr Kingsley, N Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Small-flowered Catchfly Silene gallica. There's a lovely verge in suburban Bordon, Hampshire where a pink-flowered population has persisted for years. They're even on the kerb! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Spider and Fly. Central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fly Orchids Ophrys insectifera are well underway here in Hampshire 🤩. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Marsh Fritillary, Grizzled Skipper, Dingy Skipper, and Small Copper at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire.

More Field Fleawort Tephroseris integrifolia at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire today. Spraying has drastically reduced Brachypodium sylvaticum and created bare soils for this, and other species, to germinate. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Dwarf Sedge Carex humilis at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire today. Still not really quite flowering. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fairy Flax Linum catharticum and Hoary Plantain Plantago media at Martin Down NNR today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Only Carrots for this week's #wildflowerhour. Pignut Conopodium majus and Sanicle Sanicula europaea in Hampshire's Meon Valley today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Actually, there has been some pea action this week. The sands of Slab Common, Bordon, Hampshire at the start of the week held candy-striped Bird's-foot Ornithopus perpusillus and the ruby red Mossy Stonecrop Crassula tillaea. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

White helleborine in a wood near Northington #WildflowerHour 📷Our Field Ecologist Joel

Great to see both Palmate and Smooth #Newts are hanging-on in my mum's garden pond in Hampshire. The obvious tail-end filament, very webbed back feet and smaller size are good clues for the Palmates. @hantsbic.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social