September blue sky by the statue of the North Wind, Edward Carter Preston, 1933, @theul.bsky.social. 📷 #photography #BlueskyMonday

Autumn hawkbit enjoyed by a female Dasysyrphus albostriatus hoverfly. #WildflowerHour

Close-up of the pretty Vervain flowers at @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Lots of Thyme-leaved speedwell in the gravel round the North side of @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Herb Robert flowering under the Cherry trees at @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Flowering at the back of @theul.bsky.social, possibly Catsear rather than Autumn hawkbit, but didn’t take a good enough photo to be sure. 😆 #WildflowerHour

Pink-sorrel flowering at the back of @theul.bsky.social by Grange Road. #WildflowerHour

Lovely to see an unmown patch of Vervain flowering at the back of @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Seven-spot ladybird on flowering Ivy. #WildflowerHour

Epic Ivy flowering in Cambridge, covered in insects. #WildflowerHour

Bittersweet in Ely yesterday. #WildflowerHour

Blue fleabane flowering in Ely yesterday. #WildflowerHour

Blackthorn lines. #WeekLforLines #AlphabetChallenge 📷 #photography

Rooftop Wagtail at @theul.bsky.social. #Angles #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography

Autumn flora and fauna. 📷 #photography

Lovely to see this female Eupeodes luniger hoverfly on the Ivy yesterday, and a calming presence amongst all the very busy bees. #Diptera #hoverflies

Seascape. #scape 📷 #photography

10 Sept 1901. Francis Jenkinson, Librarian at @theul.bsky.social, collects a dead fly from the Library and gets an “incandescent table lamp” so he can sit up pinning and mounting flies until the small hours “in complete comfort”. #Diptera #enthist @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

More Cambridge conker loveliness, this time from Burrell’s Walk. 💚

September garden. 📷 #photography

Beelines. Supercute Ivy bee on Ivy in Cambridge yesterday. #WildWebsWednesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines 📷 #photography

Conkers gathered from the Sidgwick Site, Cambridge. There were so many! Why is nobody else taking them? 💚

White through blue. From a box of ‘Binders’ Papers’ at @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines 📷 #photography #BlueskyMonday #MacroMonday

Sand lucerne near the A10/A142 roundabout in Ely, with thanks to @rogerhorton.bsky.social and @naturelark.bsky.social last week for advice on checking the seed pods. #WildflowerHour

Tiny Field forget-me-not flowering by the kerb in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Ivy flowers and an Ivy bee. 💚 #WildflowerHour

Very hard to choose a #FavouritePlant. There were my first Eyebrights, and the lovely Bee orchids in the No Mow grass at @theul.bsky.social. Then I remembered the super glamorous darkly beautiful Bugle at Bradfield Woods, @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social and fell in love all over again. #WildflowerHour

Greater celandine growing as a pavement plant in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Common field speedwell in flower again in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Home for a snooze. #BlueskyArtShow #home 📷 #photography

Mating pair of Wall brown butterflies in Ely a week ago. 💚 📷 #photography

Last week we welcomed visitors to our Historical Print Room as part of an English Faculty conference on letter forms. Examples from across our @theulspeccoll.bsky.social collections, were also on show as part of a special display to celebrate the study of lettering.

Suburban rainbow. #scape 📷 #photography

Autumn comes to @theul.bsky.social. 📷 #photography

The third of three lovely female Volucella zonaria hoverflies seen on Ivy last Saturday in Ely. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies 📷 #photography

Willow emerald damselfly resting on a branch. #WildWebsWednesday

Wonderful afternoon talking about herbaria, nature printing, pigments and ‘the natural history of the book’ with colleagues at @theul.bsky.social. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

One of three spectacular female Volucella zonaria hoverflies seen on Ivy last Saturday in Ely, all with slightly different markings on the thorax and abdomen, and with/without wing wear. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies 📷 #photography

Pretty Cyclamen flowering in Summerfield, Cambridge. 📷 #photography

Pink Pony Club. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke 📷 #photography #MacroMonday

Wild carrot, Lucerne, Autumn hawkbit and Hogweed. #Seedheads #WildflowerHour

Dock #seedheads. #WildflowerHour

Just a couple of Hedgerow cranesbill flowers spotted in Summerfield, Cambridge this week. #WildflowerHour

Knotgrass. #WildflowerHour

Chicory flowering by the roadside in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Shaggy soldier growing as a pavement plant in the middle of Ely, with a cute little seedhead. #Seedheads #WildflowerHour

Many shades of Lucerne, popped up by the A10/A142 roundabout in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Meakin Midnight Rose. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJetBlack 📷 #photography

Went to see the Ivy bees, but there were *three* Volucella zonaria, so I was like 😍😍😍. #Diptera #Hoverflies 📷 #photography

Seaside blues with a hint of red. #Summer #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography