Had my Dad round for a geeky Father's day eating Greek food & watching the film Nocturnes, about studying moths in the eastern Himalayas #TeamMoth

Happy Midsommar Solstice everyone #SummerSolstice

Tamsin Abbott, stained glass artist #WomensArt #SummerSolstice 🌞

Essex skipper I believe? Lots on the wing locally, with meadow browns & marbled whites #UKbutterflies #Insects #30DaysWild

Today, we have published a new advice and information page that explores the different laws governing free speech in England and Wales, including what we can post on social media, and what we say and hold up signs about at protests. https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/freespeechadvice

Heard this female stag beetle crash into the shed, now relocated to the wood pile #Insects #Coleoptera

13 Farage rioters in Southampton sentenced to jail so far www.cps.gov.uk/wessex/news/...

The Maypole (Maibaum) at Schönbrun, Vienna #Folklore #Spring

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

I think this is a lesser purple emperor, perched on my hand in the Donau Auen national park in Vienna this morning. Amazing floodplain woodland, rich in birds, insects, plants etc. You can cycle out to it along the river #butterfly #Vienna #Wien #DonauAuen #Lobau

The Donaufeld cornfields just before a brief shower yesterday, love coming here in the early summer when the cornflowers and poppies adorn the corn #Wien #Vienna

Terrible photo of a purple emperor that briefly alighted on a path next to the Danube in Vienna this morning #Wien #Schmetterling #Butterfly #Vienna

On hottest May day recorded, reanimated corpse funded by fossil fuel interests recommends abandoning efforts to tackle climate crisis www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A weevil with a pseudoscorpion attached to its front leg, hitching a ride. Pseudoscorpions will often use other insects as Ubers to carry them around the forest, a commensal relationship called phoresis. It was exciting to see this in action. #invert El Septimo Paraiso Lodge, Ecuador

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Ringed Plover’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

The golden valley: Samuel Palmer, English Romantic landscape artist, died #OTD 1881; influenced by William Blake, he painted visionary pastoral scenes, inspired by the countryside of Shoreham, Kent. Sunset c. 1861, Yale Centre for British Art

Introduce yourself with 10 bands that don't exist Death Assemblage Pointless Sistas The Twink Shepherds Coprolalia Bismuth Biscuits Anhedonia Express Steampunk Hawkmoth Alpacamax Vagueus Sulphate Weekend

My first painted lady of the year today, nectaring on ox-eye daisies #ukbutterflies #insects

Bees keep our world alive. They give us food, products like honey and beeswax, and support millions of farmers and rural communities. Healthy bee populations also help ecosystems recover and adapt to climate change. This #WorldBeeDay, learn why bees matter: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Happy #WorldBeeDay🐝 To celebrate, we thought we'd share an update on the South Downs Trust's amazing Bee Lines initiative which aims to create more than 1,000 hectares of wildflower havens. Read the full story >>> www.southdowns.gov.uk/bee-lines-so... 📸: Julia Vashttpsylevska

Red-tailed bumblebee on lonicera for #WorldBeeDay

White on white translucent black capes Back on the rack Bela Lugosi's dead The bats have left the bell tower The victims have been bled Red velvet lines the black box #WyrdWednesday #WorldGothDay #Bauhaus

Name a song with girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel: Dissolved squirrel youtu.be/EIFJ2hxu-1E?...

May is a special month for UK bumblebees 💛 👑 Some of these rare and less common queens will emerge from hibernation. Already active queens will produce their first daughters – the workers. 🎱 For the Big Eight, some queens will produce their first workers while others will welcome new males.

Furzewick Down, the track connecting The Ridgeway to Court Hill Cafe.

Boglands around the world are considered wastelands and continue to be destroyed to make room for more “productive” land. With this ignorance, we lose some of the most beautiful, diverse, and innovative ecosystems-and one of our best climate allies. Please share and become a #BogChampion.

Hey UK people: ignore the shitshow, get outside & enjoy the glory of springtime. Here is Colmer's Hill near Bridport from last weekend, mantled in bluebells #Spring #Nature #Landscape

Found this sabre wasp, the largest ichneumon in the UK, as she searched for prey buried deep inside a log in Ampfield Woods, Hampshire yesterday. So big I thought it was a damselfly initially Check out this record of Rhyssa persuasoria irecord.org.uk/record-detai... #Insects #Hymenoptera

In case people haven’t spotted it this appears to be an attempt to block the annual Kinder trespass event next year. Screenshots sent to me today by a concerned local who wants to remain anonymous. @righttoroam.bsky.social @jon-moses.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Capturing Spring - half frame photograph printed onto mulberry paper. The photograph was made using my Pentax 17 and Ilford HP5 developed with DD-X #believeinfilm #printyourwork

Hart's tongue ferns unscrolling in Hell Lane holloway #ferns #holloway #Spring #Nature

The English countryside at its most sublime: #Spring #Dorset

The English countryside at its most sublime: #Spring #Dorset

Off for a #Beltane weekend, to stay in a shepherd's hut and walk the ancient holloways of Dorset Walking Hell Lane - Dorset’s Famous Holloway - Visit Dorset share.google/Egy4J1mIt0NF...

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

"You must wake & call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad new-year, Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May" Tennyson #MayDay #bookchatweekly

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

I do not want to subscribe to your emails. I do not want you to update me on the latest deals. I do not want you to integrate with my calendar or my Zoom meetings. I do not want to personalize my experience. I do not want a walkthrough of your product. I do not want to pay for a premium experience.

The #swifts are back! At least 5 in the local group 🪶

#Birdsong #DawnChorus The holy trinity of blackbird, wren & robin. Special appearance by blackcap, with goldcrest in the whistle register. Heckling by crow & magpie 🪶

The track through the Ramsons on an April evening. #Dorset #Woodlands #Landscapes #NaturePhotography @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Woken by a dream Before the birds were singing Pre dawn dark and still #haiku #morning

My 1st bat of the season just now over the copse next door 🦇

Fast forward to 2026: blackcaps have been here all winter and singing all month. Not heard a cuckoo yet. Probably too deaf to hear a grasshopper warbler now 🪶 #Spring #Birdsong

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

Good morning from the Merry Maidens

"The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end" "It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted" From the masterpiece that is Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke #BookWormSat

Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.

‘O wombat, agile, joyful, how have you grown, furry and round! Ah do not flee like a vagabond, do not vanish, burrowing through the world…’ ~ Rossetti For National Pet Day, #BookWormSat will walk the dogs and curl up with the cats of literature. And the horses, mice, rabbits, rats, birds, wombats…

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt