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Another day, another (semi) successful FOIA request. This time, my local health board, who claimed to have published details of a public engagement survey on their website, but then *forgot* to actually include the report. lol 🤣

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 30/09/2026

Another shot from yesterdays walk with the 60mm macro. I take a lot of spider photos but rarely post them because I'm a slave to the themes of the day 😀 There's a sprinkling of #WebWednesday tags here and there, so I think I'll hop aboard that one. #Photography #Spiders #Webs

A mabel orchard orbweaver spider sits in the center of its web, still spinning as you can see a web coming out of its body. Behind is pure green and the web strands stand out clearly.

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Jemima's Garden - Flower Seeds for Wildlife @jemimasgarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last day of our sale today 😊 Anyway, here's a Sunflower, still supporting wildlife at the end of September🌻 In this one shot I've counted 1 Bumblebee, 4 Hoverflies, 1 unidentified bug and at least 8 flies of various species 😍 I don't know who had a good feed on the leaf 😂🐛 #MHHSBD

A big, bright Sunflower with bright yellow petals and a yellow centre.
One leaf is visible that has been munched by someone unknown, probably a caterpillar.
The flower has many different insects visiting and is against a bright blue sky, crossed by a black telephone cable.

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 30/09/2026

Reflecting on the butterfly year - I noticed far fewer peacock, skipper and comma butterflies this year. How did they fair with everyone else?

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Scrappy @scrappyaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maritime forest and bright green marsh grasses and exposed oyster beds on a river with pastel sky reflection in the water.

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Tony Beales @tonybeales.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Essence of Redstart". I revisited this as it's the best fit I have for #BirdsInAbstract, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @helenbennett.bsky.social #UKwildlife #birds

A motion blurred image of the underside of a redstart taking off. The bright orange-red tail is spread in a fan shape, the breast is whitish, and the brown wings are almost furled. The head is not visible. The effect is an impressionist, almost abstract, depiction of energy and motion.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finished my Cheiridium museorum drawings and have now made them into Bookmarks. 5 bookmarks per A4 page, just need to get them printed on to some nice thick paper at my local printers. Quite appropriate I think as these pseudoscorpions are commonly called Book Scorpions.

A sheet of approx A4 size paper divided into 5 equal strips by thin black horizontal lines. Each resulting rectangle contains 5 black and white line drawings of a pseudoscorpion in a different position. The pseudoscorpions appear to be wandering off across the page in different directions with their claws held out at different angles, variously facing up, down, left and right.

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Scrappy @scrappyaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2am cute dog post. Sweet dreams.

Closeup of a black and tan dog face. She has a little licorice nose and big brown eyes. She has a Mona Lisa smile with her mouth closed. Her fur is a little scruffy.

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The Garden Hermit @gardenhermit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Mountain is out for my first crossing of the season. 😄 ##MountTahoma #MountRainier #Volcano #Commute #PNW #WSF #PugetSound

View across Puget Sound toward Mount Tahoma, its snow-covered slopes sharply visible beneath layered gray-blue clouds. A smooth cap of cloud rests over the summit, while patches of sunlight illuminate the upper snowfields. Dark forested shoreline stretches across the foreground beyond the rippled gray water.

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swandiveswim.bsky.social @swandiveswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Insect #MacroMonday #ColourADay #PinkMon A Hover Fly feeding on Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense).

A gold coloured fly with brown bands on the abdomen and large chestnut brown compound eyes, feed on a pink coloured thistle blossom against a blurred olive green background.

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John @birdingjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds (any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background), I'm posting another photo of this black-and-white warbler! 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #backyardbirds #BlueskyMonday

Side view of a black-and-white warbler perched on a bare branch in front of blurred green foliage.

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2018 we were in Centennial Park in Sydney when the Corellas came home to roost (and the bats were leaving). The Corellas were very boistrous, clumsily knocking each other off perches as they fought for somewhere to kip. I hope they're valid for #AwkwardAvian #BirdoftheDay considerations!

Three birds and a branch sticking out of a pond. The background is all very dark, almost black, which constrasts with the white plumage of the birds. They are being viewed frm head on, and the bird in the middle has just taken off, with its wings outstretched and slightly ahead of it. The bird on the left is leaning away from it with its wings held slightly away from its body in alarm, its beak partly open as it screeches. The bird on the right is recoiling backwards, again with its beak open as it screeches. Each bird is all white, with a pale pink section around its eye that stretches above its beak , in which its nostrils are placed.

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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Helen Bennett 🌿's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #AwkwardAvian Not sure there's competitors to Oz's parrots & cockatoos. Exhibits: Rainbow Lorikeet Little Corellas Cockatoo #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) almost upside down in a bottlebrush tree at Toowong, Brisbane.

Little Corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) wrestling, University of Queensland, St Lucia

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) being goofy by hanging upside down from the neighbour's TV antenna, St Lucia, Brisbane.

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✮ 𝒥𝒶𝓃𝑒 ✮ @janesgallery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt: #AwkwardAvian - any bird captured in a silly, clumsy or strange position! The masked crow - repost of a favourite silly bird 🤪 #BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #Birding #birdwatching #ECK @helenbennett.bsky.social

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Be rude not to take a photo of a seasonal star, the Ivy #bee. This time of year it's clear to see why Ivy's so important, it's buzzing with bees, flies, and wasps. #MacroMonday #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #UKWildlife

A squre photo that is a close up of an Ivy Bee on a cluster of Ivy flowers. Each ivy flower is like an icecream cone of green on the end of a pale green stalk, radiating from the ivy stem. Eacy flower is about the size of the little bees head. The bee is drinking from one flower with it's antennae pointed downwards. It has large black eyes, with an fuzzy orange face, and very pale hairs being its eye. The thorax is covered in short orange hairs, and the abdomen is striped with black and pale yellow.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A grand 4 pseud day yesterday with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social on our little 24 mile cycle ride south of Norwich. Cheiridium museorum was found in the 3 churches we visited while Ephippiochthonius tetrachelatus was found at 1 church. 2 other species found at roadside locations. Details in ALT.

Cheiridum museorum: a tiny reddish-brown pseudoscorpion with a roundish, flattened body and fairly slender claws. It is on a pale piece of wood.

Ephippiochthonius tetrachelatus: a brownish coloured pseudoscorpion with long slender claws that are pale reddish colour. It is sitting facing left on a piece of wood covered in bits of cobweb.

Chthonius ischnocheles: a brownish pseudoscorpion with a dark head, large chelicerae and long, slender pale reddish claws. It is sitting head down on a piece of pale grey concrete. Two of these were found under bits of concrete rubble found at the edge of a roadside woodland.

Chernes cimicoides: a dark, reddish-brown pseudoscorpion with large robust claws on a piece of wood. It has a matt/granular appearance. Its body and pedipalps are covered in short, blunt hairs (called setae). This one was found under the loose bark of a large bough that had fallen from a mature roadside Oak tree.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

An interesting thread, zoonoses seem remote and unnatural, yet we lived with that reality and many humans still do, malaria is gone from UK, but Lyme has increased, Otzi the Iceman (lived 5,300 years ago) had Lyme, I've had it. www.nature.com/articles/nco...

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New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman's origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing - Nature Communications

The Tyrolean Iceman is 5,300 years old and his mitochondrial genome has been previously sequenced. This study reports the full genome sequence of the Iceman and reveals that he probably had brown eyes...

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Scrappy @scrappyaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And not a fisherman in sight.

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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The most insane thing about this #MECFS scandal, beyond all the suffering and neglect, is that it costs hundreds of times more in economic losses every year than it would to fund the research that could eventually decrease this burden. The degree of short-sightedness involved is astounding.

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Marmalade hoverfly on a Chicory flower in the garden today. #Hoverflies #Diptera

An orange and black banded Hoverfly on a pale blue flower, against a blurred green and brown background.

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Jemima's Garden - Flower Seeds for Wildlife @jemimasgarden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The seed gathering is nearly at an end for this year and the seed cleaning has begun. Comfrey is first this year, all gathered, dried and cleaned and now back in stock 😊 Lovely big plant with tubular flowers in white, pink or purple. Use for fertiliser or keeping your Bees and Moths happy 🐝 #MHHSBD

A Bumblebee showing orange pollen baskets feeding/gathering from a purple Comfrey plant.

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David Bradley @sciencebase.com · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile, a friend spotted a massive flux of 100+ Clouded Yellow on mixed alfalfa/clover/trefoil fields in a nearby village. It would have been rude not to check them out. I counted about 50 CYs, and got an in-flight snapshot of one the males haring about #UKButterflies #MigrantSpecies

The Clouded Yellow is a migrant to the UK and doesn't, AFAIK, survive our winters (it will eventually, but needs its foodplants to be in bloom over winter to do so, not just about temperature as it doesn't hibernate). Nevertheless, it does breed here, and has done on this farm patch as there were lots of pristine specimens around. A friend saw hundreds a couple of days ago, I think I topped out counting at about 50.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share this post to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives. Thank you 😊🐝

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so tired of US politics, I propose we abolish existing states and make new ones based on the ancient Cicada brood territories.

Map “Active Periodical Cicada Broods of the United States” showing various colored splotches across the eastern central United States.

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can you take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike

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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September

Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September

Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two people I knew took their own lives last week - we still view mental health with too much cynicism and not enough compassion - remember @samaritans.bsky.social and @calmzone.bsky.social - it is not weak to share how you feel #mentalhealth #depression #suicideawareness

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Gray @grays.art · 21/09/2026

Female Brown-winged striped sweat bee (Agapostemon splendens) on beggar tick wildflower (Bidens alba) Emerald gleam licks gold stream. CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-15-26 #ColorADay #macroMonday #eck #macro #nature #green #art #macroPhotography #native #bees #bugsky

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning. Our Ivy in the garden has just started to flower and yesterday it was covered in beautiful Ivy bees - it's wonderful to see them back! 💛 🐝 🌿 Happy Monday everyone... wishing you all a great new week ahead 👋 #MacroMonday #Bees #Photography #Nature #UKWildlife #Invert #ECK

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Martin in the UK @izzythedog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The face of the dragon - 1 of 2 posts today for #macromonday Taken very close up in the garden at the weekend see Alt for more detail. Looks like he needs a shave 😀 #insect #photography #bugsky

A very close up macro picture of a Common Darter Dragonfly face showing the structure of it's compound eyes, which contain up to 30,000 individual lenses giving it 360 degree vision, and its mandibles which do the capturing and chewing of its prey. The face is covered in very fine, short hairs with 2 short antennae which apparently measure wind direction and speed.

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A Cross Orb Weaver #spider for #MacroMonday and #FatSpiderFortnight. This one had a nice big web across the veg garden, and I liked the backlit look. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #arachnids

A square photo of a spider on its web. The background is black and the strands of the web are white, highlighted by the sunlight shining on them frm outu of frame. The spider is backlit so, although the main body is the usual dark black and brown with white dots and lines making a cross shape down its centre, the legs and head are glowing where they should be a light colour, as the sun shines through. It brings out the dark and light bands on the legs in particular. The spider is head down int he frame with the legs pulled in close to the body, ready to scurry after anything unfortunate enough to get caught in the web.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bonus, our lil sweat bee showing off some xenomorph-like mouthparts. Sweat Bee (Augochlora sp.)

A small metallic bee standing in the middle of a flower with its mouthparts extended.The flower is yellow with bright pink stripes extending from the middle.

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Didn't think I'd find a Flower Crab Spider for #fatspiderfortnight, but there was a small female on one of the anemones. Going to have a hunt for some of the other species in the project today... #wildlifefrommywindow #arachids #invertebrates uk.inaturalist.org/projects/fat...

A square photo, with the yellow heart of a flower showing one quadrant in the top left corner. Radiating out frm it are deep pink petals that fill the rest of the frame. In the bottom right corner one of the petals is slightly curled at the end, and behind this there is a pale yellow spider. It is facing the camera, with its front legs outstretched. These are the dominant feature of the spider that is visible, other than its face, as it hides waiting to catch an insect.

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Please say no to garden poisons such as pesticides and weedkillers, to help keep them out of the food chain. Hedgehogs, for example, can eat over 100 invertebrates every night. #wildlife #gardening #nature

Hedgehog at night, in undergrowth of ivy, looking towards the camera

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A weaverbird weaving in the wind. Here's the very start of the process of a Cape weaver building its nest of knotted reeds between two stems. The final result will be an intricate protective sphere around the size of a large grapefruit. #birding #SouthAfrica #birds

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Elodryn @elodryn.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

J'ai des nouveaux voisins forts sympathiques

Photo prise depuis une de mes fenêtres. On y voit des moutons, 2 blancs et 3 bruns, qui paissent dans les vignes, derrière un grillage. Deux d'entre eux regardent vers moi. A l'arrière-plan, il y a de grands arbres. Le ciel est bleu avec des nuages blancs.

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Tom Hibbert @wildlifetom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The last few times I’ve put the moth trap out, it’s attracted the attention of several Turtle Bugs! Thrilled to have these pottering around my garden #Hemiptera #shieldbug

A turtle bug standing on a piece of bark. It’s a small, dark brown shieldbug with a knob projecting from the pronotum on each side of the head

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 14/09/2026

Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod #MacroMonday #photography #plants #seeds #Castanospermum-australe #ECK

The very large seed pod of the Moreton Bay chestnut, Castanospermum australe

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Have a good one sky-folk, even if it is Monday again already. Hibiscus 🌱 #MacroMonday #Bloomscrolling #PinkMon #ColorADay #Flowers #Macro #ECK

Close up of the staminal column (and stigma lobes) of a vibrant pink or red hibiscus flower, covered in yellow pollen grains

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Rose #aphid nymph on our Dog Rose for #MacroMonday. There's quite a collection of them feeding on fresh shoots that are being put up now the heatwaves are over. #hemiptera #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates

A close up landscape photo of a cluster of aphids on a rose stem. The rose stem can't be seen because there are so many aphids! All the aphids are a bright green, nicely contrasted against a dark out of focus background. The frame is centred so the emphasis is on a younger nymph which is looking to the right in the frame, viewed side on and from slightly above. It has tiny black eyes, a rectangular body, with some nubs of wings that will mature as it grows. At the back of its body it has two horns that stick out backwards. In the mature aphids these are black.

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The UK uses c227,000 miles of wrapping paper each year – much of this isn’t recycled. Some gift wrap can’t be recycled, and will inevitably end up in landfill. So choosing sustainable wrap, ribbon & tape – and recycling it – is one way to cut waste. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/casc...

Parcel wrapped in pink paper, with green spotty ribbon, next to parcel wrapped in green paper with pink spotty ribbon

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