With the enormous diversity of the #OrchidsOfRhodes, it's no wonder I regularly see all manner of interesting insects interacting with them, pollinating or roosting upon them. It's one of the joys of orchid-hunting - the sense of wonder and surprise at each find never diminishes.

December rose, Olivia Rose Austin. 📷 #photography

A nibbled Sweet violet. #WildflowerHour

Feverfew. #WildflowerHour

Red dead nettle. #WildflowerHour

A Cambridge-Ely #TheWinter10. Feverfew, Petty spurge, White dead nettle, Groundsel, Shepherd’s purse, Sweet violet, Common chickweed, Dandelion, Yarrow, Winter heliotrope and Daisy. #WildflowerHour

Winter berries. 📷 #photography

St Michael the Archangel, St Mary’s Church, Wreay. 📷 #photography

Aldeburgh lifeboat launch. #scape 📷 #photography

A dozen Seven-spot ladybirds overwintering under a Bramble leaf in Cambridge. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photograpy

Snape Maltings. 📷 #photography

Ragwort flowering in an old boat, Aldeburgh. #WildfliwerHour

A Cambridge #TheWinter10. Feverfew, Red dead nettle, Yellow corydalis, Smooth sowthistle, Green alkanet, Daisy, Petty spurge, Feverfew, White dead nettle, Thyme-leaved speedwell and Yarrow. #WildflowerHour

More holiday cottage library books.

‘‘Tis the year's midnight …’ St Lucy’s Day, Aldeburgh. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 📷 #photography

Hoverflies on flowers. #BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings 📷 #photography #Diptera #FavouriteThings

Gorgeous 1930s butterfly book in an Aldeburgh holiday cottage. 😍

Winter Cam #scape. 📷 #photography

December @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social.

Christmas Snowman. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 📷 #photography

“I think it is something very special when different collections can work together.” Great keynote lecture by Pam Soltis yesterday evening for @camglamresearch.bsky.social on ‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’.

Day 10 of #InsectAdvent & we are wrapping the presents What about this bling covering - The genus Formosia (Tachinidae) have some of the most striking bodies. Its not for showing off but to hide in the mottled forest light (hiding as we do under a tree) their 'presence' @royentsoc.bsky.social

Fly on Mahonia. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography #Diptera

Marmalade hoverfly, July 2025. 📷 #photography #Diptera #hoverflies

Driveway Harebell. #BlueskyMonday 📷 #photography

Driving home for Christmas. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 📷 #photography

A pretty pink Yarrow flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour

A little pink flower on Red dead nettle. #WildflowerHour

Common storksbill still flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour

An Ely #TheWinter10. Winter heliotrope, Shepherd’s purse, Scarlet pimpernel, Bristly oxtongue, Common storksbill, Ragwort, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Daisy, Blue fleabane and Red valerian. #WildflowerHour

Nibbled Sweet violet in the garden yesterday. 📷 #photography

Cheshire clouds. #sky #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography

For #FlyFriday or #Flyday why not a new podcast with me talking flies with Paul McGuinness on #WildLives (ignore the one of the worlds experts - many better than me!!) #bbcwildlife podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

🌿 We’re delighted to announce the first Agnes Arber Prize in Comparative Plant Biology! 🌸 This year’s award goes to Farahnoz Khojayori for research on how Gorteria diffusa mimics its pollinator - a remarkable example of evolutionary creativity. Read more through the link in our bio #CUBG

Castle windows, Carlisle. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows 📷 #photography

Female Scaeva pyrastri hoverfly on Verbascum in the garden in July. 📷 #photography @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social

White-clubbed Glasswing (Scaeva pryastri) Fascinating #Hoverflies. Hope you will visit the site and enjoy the read. Thanks for the artwork suggestion @jillwhitelock.bsky.social. #Flies #Insects #Pollinator #Nature #Syrphidae #Knowledge #Biology #Diptera #Art #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration

Honeybee on Mahonia in Ely last Friday. #WildWebsWednesday

North Wing reflections @theul.bsky.social, Late Duty Librarian. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows 📷 #photography

More flowers now on the Winter heliotrope in Ely. #WildflowerHour

A good year for the Ely Shaggy soldiers. #WildflowerHour #PavementPlants

A Cambridge #TheWinter10. Smooth sowthistle, Daisy, Periwinkle, Red dead nettle, Spotted dead nettle, Yellow corydalis, Hemp agrimony, Pellitory of the wall, Yarrow and a Hawksbeard. #WildflowerHour

Eupeodes latifasciatus (probably), female. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography #Diptera #hoverflies

Ailsa Craig from Arran. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography

Episyrphus balteatus. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels 📷 #photography #Diptera #hoverflies #ClassicMono

We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!! This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

Black British Voices: Black British Collections. Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme. 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025 🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY

Light #scape in the darknesss. Some Winter joy and sparkle at the opening of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Cambridge Botanic Lights yesterday evening. 📷 #photography

Cambridge, 17:17. #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography

Autumn Blowfly on a leaf. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography #Diptera