Ladybird under a Rose leaf. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography

Very happy to see my first hoverfly of the year, a male Meliscaeva auricollis in the garden. 8 Feb 2026. 📷 #photography #Diptera #hoverflies

A Cambridge #TheWinter10. Green alkanet, Petty spurge, Common chickweed, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Daisy, Greater periwinkle, Red dead nettle again, White dead nettle, Green hellebore and Common field speedwell. #WildflowerHour

Snowdrops in Cambridge. 📷 #photography

It's hard to believe good things can still be happening, but if you are in the Boston area between now and May 1st, there is an free-to-the-public exhibition on women's type labor in literature and the arts (co-curated by me and the great Dale Stinchcomb). library.harvard.edu/exhibits/tha...

Can’t wait for it to be like this. Spring scene with insects, from ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Leipzig, 1892). Waddleton.b.1.146 @theul.bsky.social

Crocuses after the rain 📷 #photography

Ray Dolby Centre, West Cambridge. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography

New blogpost: ‘Journeying with Mai: Activating Pacific arts and heritage at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’, by Dr Eve Haddow, Senior Curator in Anthropology. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/journey...

Ladybirds on a leaf. #WildWebsWednesday

Batman hoverfly (with the bat symbol on its thorax). #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous 📷 #photography #Diptera #Hoverflies

Pretty Shepherd’s purse. #WildflowerHour

Groundsel. #WildflowerHour

A nice Sun spurge. #WildflowerHour

Greater periwinkle, Common chickweed, Annual mercury, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Sweet violet f. lilacina, Common field speedwell, Yarrow, Daisy, Shepherd’s purse and Sweet violet. #TheWinter10 #WildflowerHour

Daisy portrait. #WildflowerHour

Viola odorata f. lilacina back in flower under the Ash tree, about a week earlier than last year. #WildflowerHour

Sweet violet. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic 📷 #photography

Snowdrops in the garden. 📷 #photography

West Cambridge #clouds. #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography

Volucella bombylans, a bumblebee mimic hoverfly, by Joris Hoefnagel, ca 1575/1590s: www.nga.gov/artworks/697.... Miscatalogued by the Gallery as a bee, so it’s doing a great job. #Diptera #hoverflies @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social

✨ Vintage Hoverfly Paintings 🎨 The search for the oldest hoverfly painting on canvas what century does it belong to? Take a peek! 👇 #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Diptera #knowledge #Art #HistoricalArt #Artappreciation #NatureIllustration #HiddenWonders @jillwhitelock.bsky.social

Shimmering wings. #FlyDay 📷 #photography

#otd 1607 Napier's diary: 'Jan 29 I pared my cornes' #earlymodern

Lichen on a branch. #WildWebsWednesday

My £1.34 first edition of Ted Hughes, ‘Flowers and Insects’ has sloughed off its ex-library Protectasleeve cover and is reborn.

Red dead nettle flowering on the wall of St Mary’s Church in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Winter aconite flowering in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Winter aconite, Winter heliotrope, Petty spurge, Daisy, Red dead nettle, Greater periwinkle, Red dead nettle again, Dandelion, Green alkanet, Cow parsley and Groundsel. #TheWinter10 #WildflowerHour

Blackthorn buds swelling. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp 📷 #photography

First Daffodil in the garden. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp 📷 #photography

Small face with lichen, Church of St Peter and St Mary Magdalene, Fordham. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp 📷 #photography

Snowdrop #scape, Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. 📷 #photography

Today marks 125 years since the death of Queen Victoria. Victoria died at Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, on 22 January 1901. This fascinating selection of press clippings shows the reaction across Europe. British Colonial & Foreign Press Cutting Agency (Syn.2.90.7-8).

Ladybird on Winter jasmine. #WildWebsWednesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp 📷 #photography

Blow fly keeping warm on a sunny fence last Friday. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp 📷 #photography

Daisy, Annual mercury, Red dead nettle, Primrose, Nipplewort, Sweet violet, Feverfew, Groundsel, Red dead nettle, White dead nettle and Dandelion. #TheWinter10, mostly from a Cambridge Grange Road-Queen’s Road circular walk. #WildflowerHour

A wet and dishevelled Winter aconite in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Cow parsley in Ely. #WildflowerHour

One or two Green alkanet flowers round the back of @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Sweet violet in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography

‘Voyage in the Dark’ (1934), Jean Rhys. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography

Pretty blooms in the carpark at Ely Leisure Village this week. 📷 #photography

1950s dust jackets. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography @theul.bsky.social

1777: Grey sun, sweet day. Bees, & flies moving: air full of insects: spiders shoot their webs: butterfly out.

The way to the books. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography @theul.bsky.social

Blossom and streetlight. Looking up, Grange Road, Cambridge. #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography

First Snowdrops. 📷 #photography

1777: Flies & gnats out, & moving.