So I have the worry sensation that this might be a Braconid of the Rogadinae, I think maybe in the genus Aleiodes @gavinbroad.bsky.social @jasboparai.bsky.social?

A rather optimistic attempt with the trap last night, but two striking Mottled Umbers (plus a surprising variety of flies) as reward. Tonight looks more suitable so will doubtless try again. VC 11, SW Hants #teammoth

I am aware of how strange it is to be excited to find a dead hornet, take it home and stick a pin through it. It's doesn't mean I'll stop doing it though. It dwarfs all the other hymenopterans I have specimens of. A giant predator of the insects. @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social

I fear for all of us there comes a time, when in the dead of night unable to find the damned precise part, we must accept our lives have reached a point when we must label our nuts. #raaco

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

First & last flies featured in #FliesofBritainandIreland – Wasp-banded Comb-horn Ctenophora flaveolata & Deer Warble Fly Hypoderma diana. Nearing completion due late Jan/early Feb 2026. Pre-order now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Rare Earth will be back on air soon & in preparation for a programme on Darwin, Wallace & evolution, I found this ace example of evolutionary adaptation. The plant C. argenteum makes seeds that look & smell like dung, so dung beetles roll them away, bury them, then lose interest. Free seed planting!

The voices of trans people must be heard in Parliament.️‍‍ I’ve urged full scrutiny of EHRC’s guidance, which risks undermining their rights. Lib Dems call on the Government to protect everyone fairly and ensure people aren’t excluded from safe facilities or public life.

The British Mycological Society are surveying all fungi recorders as part of a review on how they share their data. It would be great if anyone who records fungi could complete it (you don't have to be a prolific fungi recorder or BMS member to take part). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to £350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here: www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning... #BiologicalRecording #Ecology

The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE. As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social hantsplants.uk/floranews.php

This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.

Its WORLD WASP DAY!

WTF @royentsoc.bsky.social, the new Dolichopodidae handbook is £125!!! So much for Entomology being accessible. Will any of our societies @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social be stepping up and challenging the RES over this? #diptera #entomology

Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.

That’s what they call a landslide!

‼️Zack Polanski elected leader of The Greens

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It’s here! Starfinder 2E in the wild! Cannot wait to play this… #RPG #Starfinder

The next game for the Portsmouth Pathfinder Society is up, for Sunday 27th July at Dice Portsmouth. New players always very welcome and no previous experience of a RPG or Pathfinder is needed. warhorn.net/events/pompe... #Pathfinder #PathfinderSociety #RPG

You need to take a look at this bug I saw in the park last night. Look at it! What a weirdo! I’m obsessed! It’s called a Long-Necked Ground Beetle and I can’t believe we’re neighbors.

New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1093/aesa...

I think this deserves to be the nature photo of the year!

Have you recorded wildlife? An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg

Due to some technical issues, the plug broke, this is a bit delayed, but our first Light Trap at Portsmouth Natural History Musuem is away! #Entomology #Lepidoptera #Moths

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

So I'm doing a thing, and GM'ing my first game of @paizo.com's Pathfinder Society at the excellent Dice in Portsmouth. And even better, it involves Wasps! What else could you possibly want! Come play Pathfinder with us, newbies very welcome. #Pathfinder #Wasps warhorn.net/events/pompe...

Wooop! Finally, several years after planting, the Rose has lured in the absolutely awesome looking larvae of an Arge sp. sawfly. Will be collecting to rear through and see if we can get any Ctenopelmatinae wasps out of them! #Entomology #Wasps #Hymenoptera

Still a bit of work to do but my Pseudoscorpion guide is coming along. Maps are just about done (these show pre (yellow) and post (red) 2000 records) but I will need to revisit museum specimens to re-photograph or make detailed drawings.

We are expanding our online presence and have set up a LinkedIn page: uk.linkedin.com/company/appl... Please come give us a follow there for videos and updates on our research activities related to applied entomology, especially integrated pest and pollinator management!

Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲 For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website: ➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783 #Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs

So this is a delightful little moment of disobedience……..

🌟 Exciting Discovery Alert! 🌟 Back in January we teased some big news…and here it is! 🐌 Semilimax pyrenaicus (Pyrenean Semi-slug) has been recorded in Britain for the first time, found at a colliery spoil site in Cwmaman, S. Wales. Read more: doi.org/10.61733/jco... #SemiSlug #WildlifeDiscovery

While @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field meeting is in theory to collect flies, it’s proved to be a great trip for @carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social! Along with Phosphuga atrata and Oiceoptoma thoracicum managed to find our first, hopefully, Nicrophorus vespilloides #entomology #diptera #coleoptera

The journey to the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Summer Field Meeting continues, a beautiful, if wet morning in Glasgow before heading to Inverness and then onwards to Tomich!

And we’re off! On the Caledonia sleeper heading off to the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Summer Field Meeting! To the, hopefully for a least sometimes, dryish highlands!

Here you go: an absolute beast of a starter pack, with many of the UK's most prominent humanists on it. Includes scientists, historians, philosophers, public figures, the New Humanist editorial team and Humanists UK staff. A network for reason and decency. go.bsky.app/PTC4j2d

It's National Biscuit Day, which means you're obliged to eat biscuits - and nothing but biscuits - for 24 hours. Anyone caught breaking the rules will be immediately arrested by a police officer dressed as a giant Hobnob. #NationalBiscuitDay

Leucospis chalcid wasp, a parasitoid of the egg cases of another favorite of mine, resin bees. Weird chonky thing. 🖤

Todays find, several sawfly larvae, I think possibility of Ash Sawfly, Tomostethus nigritus, on Narrow Leaved Ash, Tomostethus nigritus, feeding merrily along despite the pouring rain. #Entomology #Hymenoptera #Sawflies

Another highlight from today, these beautiful little pearl like eggs, no idea what might emerge, but possible Lepidopteran or Hemipteran, can just wait and see what hatches! #Entomolgy #Lepidoptera #Hemiptera

Gruesome, fascinating and charming all at once. No idea what these might be, can the cocoon suggest anything @gavinbroad.bsky.social @jasboparai.bsky.social? Found several of these possible wasp cocoons wearing their aphid victims as hats today on roses. #Entomology #Wasps #Hymenoptera

Two Meadowsweet-associated sawflies on Hogweed on banks of the R. Derwent in E. Yorkshire last week...Phylloecus xanthostoma (Meadowsweet Stem-sawfly) and Arge ciliaris (Meadowsweet Fusehorn). A good time to get out and find these beauties! #symphyta #yorkshiresawflies @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

So @britentsoc.bsky.social wheres the members survey on the website? Cannot find it as promised in the Members Area.

OF ALL THE PHOTOS TO GET MOTION BLUR! 😭 Cleaned it up best I could - because this is a Genus Pamphilius Sawfly bitches! (Zero Oregon sightings on BugGuide & iNat - "whopping" 66 US sightings on iNat) LOOK AT THIS TRANSFORMER! Right up there with Conura Chalcids! #inverts #becurious

Closer:

This is so cool to see this in such fine detail!

Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉 My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read. ➡️ fieldmycology.org Please read and share!

Diphyus latebricola www.researchgate.net/publication/... #Ichneumonidae #parasitoid #newtobritain