Our species taking spot #93 in our #YorkshireIn100Species series is the Brown China-mark moth, brought to us by Dick Shillaker. This moth has an intriguing life history, being one of only a small number of species with aquatic larvae! www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 💧

Last week we said goodbye to our LWS Officer Seebra, who is heading for pastures new (after an exciting set of travel plans) 🌎 We'd like to thank Seebra for all her hard work over the last 2 and a half years and for all the fun she's brought to the team - we'll miss you!

NEYEDC is always keen to provide opportunities for people wishing to pursue a career in ecology and this summer was no exception. Grace has been our youngest volunteer to date, and you can read about her experience with NEYEDC on our website. www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...

The fantastic (and unusual!) Sea Hare, present all around Yorkshire's coastline, is our featured species for our next instalment of #YorkshireIn100Species, brought to us by Caroline Pindar, marine biologist & biological recorder: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 🌊

We caught some fantastic footage from a camera trap set up the night before our wildlife recording day in Hayton - a trio of otters! 🤩 We're recording wildlife in Hayton as part of the Live Labs 2 project, which you can read more about here: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...

Recently we've been involved in the Live Labs 2 project alongside East Riding of Yorkshire Council, assisting with the wildlife recording & engagement aspects of the project which aims to decarbonise our roads, including via changes to street lighting. Read more: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...

Join NEYEDC & East Riding of Yorkshire Council in Hayton on Tuesday 2nd Sept for a wildlife recording day, part of the Live Labs 2 project! Alongside recording, we'll be hosting a moth trap opening, sharing what the project has found so far & showing how you can get involved: www.neyedc.org.uk/c2n 🔍

We have the lovely Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage as our featured species for today's new #YorkshireIn100Species instalment (#91!), brought to us by one of our very own Trustees, Andy Barker: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 🌱

NEYEDC will be supporting 'Bempton Goes Wild!' this weekend, a family-friendly bioblitz event at @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs, starting at 05:00 tomorrow and running until 16:00 on Sunday. Join the iNat project here and get involved at this fantastic site! uk.inaturalist.org/projects/bem... 🌊

Our 'Local Groups' page is now live on our website. Find out about how you can become an affiliated group and how NEYEDC can support you with data, mapping, resources, and more: www.neyedc.org.uk/local-groups 🤝

Today we're launching a new monthly series on our website: Monad of the Month! ⏹️ Each month we'll be featuring a 1km grid square in the North & East Yorkshire area where we're lacking records. Our first monad is SE5759, close to Haxby, York: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...

We've partnered with ArtBomb festival in Doncaster again this year, an arts festival which blends art, ecology, social experiment & more. The event runs from 15th - 17th August - the full programme can be viewed here, with more information on their website: www.artbombuk.com/artbomb2025 💥

Despite the rain, we trapped 76 moths of 25 species at Jubilee Pasture in the Yorkshire Wolds at the end of July. After five trapping sessions the species total for the site is 46, Six-striped Rustic being only the second record for the 10km square, the previous record being from 1973!

Calling all entomologists, recorders & hobbyists interested in #pollinators! PollAGen, a @nhm-london.bsky.social NERC-funded project, is looking to measure insect genomes to understand pollinator decline & needs donated specimens. Find out more here: www.benhs.org.uk/wp-content/u...

We're almost at the final countdown! For instalment #90 of the #YorkshireIn100Species project we have Leah Young, Project Officer at @humbernature.bsky.social showcasing one of our most impressive marine visitors to the Yorkshire coast, the Humpback Whale! www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/...

Last week we provided three camera traps to Sheriff Hutton Nature Group, a local group we are supporting located north of York. SHNG will be using the traps as part of a Hedgehog monitoring project around the parish and surrounding areas, with the records provided to NEYEDC 🦔

We were delighted to welcome a new trustee to NEYEDC last week - Ray Kirtley, a retired Hull & East Yorkshire educator, founder and Chairman of globallearningassociation.org and volunteer for the Riverfly Partnership @riverflies.bsky.social. Welcome Ray! 🤝

How much excitement can biological recorders cope with? Save the date! It’s @nfbr.bsky.social 40th anniversary conference next year - woohoo! Get it in your diaries… @nbntrust.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social @elaineeepoos.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social

It seems to have been a good year for Hawk-moths, with the NEYEDC team and moth recording volunteers trapping a variety of stunning specimens over the past few weeks including Privet, Eyed, and Pine Hawk-moths, alongside the more familiar Poplar and Elephant species 🤩

Our surveyor Claire visited Pickering Castle recently as part of our programme of local wildlife site surveys for 2025, where the motte and adjacent ditches are designated for their grassland interest. Claire found 48 different wildflowers and a total of 80 species of plants! 🌼

We have a well known (but much maligned!) plant as the star of #89 in our #YorkshireIn100Species series - Common Ragwort! Becky Austin, Assistant RSPB Warden, sings the praises of this common native plant: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 🏵️

We are very excited to be publishing our 2024 - 2025 Annual Report today 🎉 The report showcases the breadth of work that we've completed or been involved in over the last year. If you'd like to read more, the report can be downloaded via our website: www.neyedc.org.uk/about

Our EDOs Josie and Hannah, who are completing our update of the Ancient Woodland Inventory, have been at local archives this week, inspecting historical material with the hope of extending the chronology of woods identified in the update back further than 19th century Epoch 1 maps. Fascinating! 🗺️🔎

Female Bog Bush-cricket, Metrioptera brachyptera, moulting, Strensall Common nr York 13 July. Spotted by sharp-eyed John K on Hull Nats field trip. @bladetail.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social

Today marks the start of the @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount, running until 10th August! The event is easy to get involved in and one way you can help to protect these vital pollinators, especially after a very poor 2024. Find out more: bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org 🦋

Our final #MapOfTheMonth is now online! This time we're featuring a map created by bryophyte recorder Steven Heathcote, showing sphagnum species richness at Askham Bog, York: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... Steve was accompanied on the survey by one of our Ecological Data Officers, Hannah! 🔎

We're closing in on #100! For instalment #88 in our #100Species series, VC Recorder Kay McDowell has chosen to feature the lovely Melancholy Thistle, a jewel in our Northern Hay Meadow plant assemblage: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 🌼

💦 #PondWatch 2025 is here! 🎉 We're asking you to spend 30 minutes by a pond between 1st-31st July. Watch, listen, feel... and keep an eye out for dragonflies and damselflies! Anyone can take part. Slow down, look closely, and give PondWatching a go. 🔗 british-dragonflies.org.uk/get-involved...

The warm nights have allowed us to moth trap at Jubilee Pasture between Bugthorpe and Kirby Underdale on the Halifax Estate in East Yorkshire. The grassland was looking lovely and we managed to trap a nice array of moths, including the ever popular show-stopper - the Poplar hawk-moth.

It's #InsectWeek - a week organised by @royentsoc.bsky.social to celebrate all things insect! You can read more about insects, get details of the week's events, and more through the Royal Entomological Society website: www.insectweek.org/about-insect... #StandTallForTheSmall 🦋

For our instalment #87 of our #YorkshireIn100Species project, Jackson Sage of @humbernature.bsky.social shines a spotlight on one of our most overlooked, but potentially most intriguing shoreline species; Bladder Wrack! www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 🌊

June's #MapOfTheMonth features a map of records from the main recording area at our recent bioblitz at Kilnsey Park: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... This is just a small subset of the ~1,000 records of over 600 species recorded at the event 👏

Survey season is in full swing - our surveyors are working hard - ground truthing for the Ancient Woodland Inventory update as well as surveying new and existing Local Wildlife Sites (and SINCs) across North and East Yorkshire!

Today's #YorkshireIn100Species features the beautiful Duke of Burgundy butterfly, a rare species in Yorkshire that has been the focus of hard work by our contributor Robert Parks, @savebutterflies.bsky.social & volunteers with an aim to preserve its presence here: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 🦋

Following a successful bioblitz at Kilnsey Park, our latest blog summarises the event and its jam-packed programme of recording and activities. Click through to read more about what we all got up to on our 24-hour blitz in the Dales: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... 🦋🌻🦆

It's #VolunteersWeek! So many volunteers give their time to biological recording; making records & identifications, managing schemes, societies & recording sections 👏 We'd also like to thank our regular volunteers at NEYEDC, Becci & Graham, who assist us with the YNU library, data input & more ⭐

Amongst all the wonderful wildlife recorded during our bioblitz at Kilnsey Park Estate over the weekend, we were lucky enough to see the stunning Lady's Slipper Orchid in flower on Kilnsey Flushes. What a beauty! #wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge

We're nearing the end of the recording period for the Kilnsey Park Bioblitz and we've collected some brilliant records so far: uk.inaturalist.org/projects/kil...! We've joined experts on bat walks and insect walks, opened moth traps, inspected mosses and lichens, sampled rivers, and more 🦗

We have the beautiful alpine plant Purple Saxifrage featured as today's instalment (#85!) of #YorkshireIn100Species, brought to us by Ann Cripps, an amateur botanist and member of Wharfedale Naturalists. Click through to read more about this lovely species: www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... ⛰️🌸

We took a trip up to Kilnsey Park this past weekend in preparation for the Kilnsey Park Bioblitz, which starts this Friday at 16:00 and runs until Saturday at 16:00! 🔎 All are welcome to join us to record wildlife at this beautiful site and its surrounds! For more info: www.neyedc.org.uk/c2n

Our Map of the Month for May shows the coverage of research-grade records that we collected this year as part of the Hull City Nature Challenge, with comparison maps for previous years of the event 📍 www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...

It's #WorldBeeDay! We hold over 25,000 records of 230+ species of bee in our database. #DidYouKnow that most of our bee species in the UK are solitary bees? The honey bee and bumblebees only make up a very small number of species compared to overall number found in the UK 🐝

As a LERC, we get lots of valuable records sent to us - but it's not often a species we've never heard of! We were delighted to be contacted by the @lincchalkstream.bsky.social Project recently regarding their work, and an exciting new record for our area! www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...

Brilliant morning attending this year's @nfbr.bsky.social conference: Biological Recording: Local to National. Four very inspiring & informative talks featuring case studies of recording at different scales & how these interact. Thanks to all speakers & organisers for a great event 👏 www.nfbr.org.uk

Today's #YorkshireIn100Species blog features one of our most iconic & best-loved mammals, the Badger! Kerry Metcalfe, a forestry consultant, recorder, and survey volunteer shares her insights into this lovely species - complete with some must-see videos! www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/... 🦡

Last week, NEYEDC organised a UK Hab training session for our Local Wildlife Site surveyors, led by Laurie Wildwood, getting them up to speed with using the habitat mapping methodology ahead of the 2025 survey season. We visited Allerthorpe Common (in the sunshine!) to put skills into practice 🗺️

On 30th - 31st May Kilnsey Park Estate in Wharfedale are holding a bioblitz, seeking to record the flora and fauna across the estate to help inform nature recovery! 🔎 All are welcome; whether beginner or expert! Specific events/activities still to be announced: www.neyedc.org.uk/c2n

We're looking forward to attending this event next week!

We had a fantastic record submitted to us this week by David and Sarah Goddard of a Green Hairstreak butterfly, recorded on Fylingdales Moor. What a beauty! 🦋

The Hull City Nature Challenge 2025 is now over, and we've had a truly fantastic year, with more species, more observations, and more recorders joining us for this exciting global bioblitz event 👏 Click through to read all about our 2025 results: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...