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ecoleg sazer

@ecologycymru.bsky.social
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Ecologist on Gower, southwest Wales. Butterflies, bees, dragonflies, birds, mammals, lots of plants…just about everything. Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg. #YNWA

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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 6h
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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Happening on Thursday!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
More than 2,500 people have already emailed Apple and Google to demand that Reform UK's app be removed. Let's flood their inboxes so they can't ignore us ⬇️
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Reform UK’s ‘Small Boat Watch’ app is in flagrant violation of both Google Play and the Apple Store’s rules. Send an email to the Apple’s Head of the UK App Store and the General Manager of Games on Google Play to demand that this app is removed immediately.
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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The Wildlife Trust SW Wales Swansea Group @wtswwswanseagroup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our next event! Join us for a *fascinating* evening!
Poster advertising a talk called Chemical Weaponry in Animals by Kevin Arbuckle from Swansea University at St Hilary's Church Community Hall, Killay, Swansea on Tuesday October 20 at 7.30pm. There's a silhouette of a scorpion on there too.
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Liam Olds @liamolds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Join us tomorrow for talks and informal chats about wildlife in the Cynon Valley and help shape the next phase of the 'Our Cwm Cynon' project. ⬇️
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Of the UK’s 24 bumblebee species, these four remain active in October 💛 Bumblebee nests come to their natural end in autumn. New queens seek undisturbed spaces to hibernate alone until spring 🍂🐝 🔎 Brush up on your bumblebee identification skills: ow.ly/LRS750ZNaOf
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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hello October! Or should that be Moth-tober? 🎃🦋 With autumn well underway, keep an eye out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces.
Butterfly Conservation's Butterflies and Moths to see in October: Speckled Wood, Brimstone moth, Comma, Frosted Orange, Peacock, Angle Shades, Red Admiral, Light Emerald, and Wall.
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow ‘Butterfly wing patterns in flight create powerful illusory motion cues’ www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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All of a flutter: how butterflies avoid being a predator’s lunch
Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 30/09/2026
🌿 New online course: Urban Pond Conservation, tutored by Rachel Walker, Amphibian Specialist Explore urban pond ecology, monitoring approaches, threats, conservation management & how we can reconnect the freshwater network. 💻 Learn at your own pace courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/urba...
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Urban Pond Conservation | Ecology & Wildlife Course
Learn about urban pond conservation, ecology and management. Explore pond wildlife, survey methods, threats to urban ponds, habitat restoration and practical approaches to creating and managing ponds ...
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Defra is gathering evidence that could shape the future policy on gamebird shooting. Have your say! Have you experienced issues such as gamebird collisions, dumped dead birds, illegal traps, suspicious raptor deaths, disturbance, damage or loss of access to land? For info, visit buff.ly/TGjrkrK
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New @zooniverse.bsky.social paper out: a study of neurodiversity in online citizen science led by the amazing Alisa Apreleva and a host of volunteers. Wonderful stuff: theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10....
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Framework for Neuro-Inclusive Digital Citizen Science: Results From the Neuro(Minorities)Science Collaboration | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 22/09/2026
How do ravens navigate their complex social lives? Join us on Tuesday 29 September at 2:00 PM GMT to hear 🎙️ Dr. Thomas Bugnyar on “Testing social cognition in birds: lessons from ravens” 📍 Live on YouTube → www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQoB... ✅ Free & open to all! #AnimalBehaviour #SocialCognition
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Seminar Series 2026: 3. Dr. Thomas Bugnyar
YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live
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Janh1 @janh1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This promises to be a *brilliant* talk by a top communicator. Who can resist hearing about venomous and poisonous creatures around the world? 🐍🪼 🦂
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Liam Olds @liamolds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🌿 Help shape a new wildlife & heritage project in the Ogmore Valley! @gloinatur.bsky.social are exploring a potential project at Ogmore Washeries and Wyndham/Western Colliery, bringing wildlife, coal-mining heritage and community activities together. We’d love to hear from local people! 👇
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 26/09/2026
In this entoSHORT, discover the key features of shieldbug morphology and learn the terminology used to describe the different parts of a shieldbug’s body. youtu.be/8NOMW_PZZss
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Shieldbug Morphology
YouTube video by Biological Recording Company
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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plant #heritage: A national collection of Welsh #ferns is being created at Treborth Botanic Gardens @treborthbg.bsky.social - Da iawn! @plantheritage.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social #botany #Wales #pteridology #wildflowerhour
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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In the last 120 years, we have lost over 50 species of native moths, and suspect many others are now at risk of extinction 🔴 This autumn, we're taking on a ‘moth-umental’ task to create the first-ever Red List for Britain’s macro-moths, and we need your help 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/moths-matter
A large orange-brown moth with leaf-shaped wings and a long snout, resting on a dead plant stem
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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To discover a new species is one of the great thrills of biology. But to find a new species that does something both unique and utterly unexpected is something few biologists get to experience. It was a great pleasure to learn and write about this research: planetficus.substack.com/p/the-flower... 🧪
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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Our final field event of the year will be a Recorders' Day on 3rd October, at a private site between Llanharan and Pencoed. Booking is essential, find full details on Eventbrite: brynnau.eventbrite.co.uk.
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West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre @wwbic1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join us in September 2026 for our #westwaleswildwatch sessions across the region. #carmarthenshirenature #pembrokeshire #ceredigion
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Poor phone photo through window of tiny spider with ghost eyes pattern on abdomen. Gower, SW Wales is it possible to ID it? (It’s gone now so I can’t measure it). @britishspiders.bsky.social
Small upside down spider. Relatively long thin brownish kegs, black, shiny round abdomen with white pattern.
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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From X, Danny Tommo being the **** whose thugs harassed the RNLI 🤣🤣🤣
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My first Dock Bug Coreus marginata. (Do correct me if I’m wrong). On Ivy along hedgerow. Gower, SW Wales.
Pale brown bug with wide abdomen (darker in middle). Red antennae. On green Ivy leaf in dappled light.
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please take the time to ensure vital Lottery funding for our wildlife continues. How dare they decide that nature isn’t our heritage? action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/199433/...
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Nature could miss out from Lottery funding – have your say
Respond to the call to action to share nature IS heritage and the National Lottery needs to continue to support nature.
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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre @sewbrec.org.uk · 16/09/2026
Our event in Blaenserchan LNR this Saturday has unfortunately been cancelled.
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The Wildlife Trust SW Wales Swansea Group @wtswwswanseagroup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bookings have just opened for our 2026 Fungi Foray with Teifion Davies in Clyne Valley Country Park on Saturday October 3rd. Come and join us 🙂 🍄 Teifion's incredibly knowledgeable so you'll learn a lot - and you never know what we might find! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swansea-fu...
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Swansea Fungi Foray 2026
Join us for a fascinating fungi foray with Teifion Davies in Swansea's beautiful Clyne Valley Country Park.
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 16/09/2026
🌳 From beetles to bats – how can we create better habitat in urban woodlands? Will Dartnell (@barnescommon.bsky.social) shares on 23 Nov practical approaches to habitat creation for urban trees, including opportunities, challenges and lessons learned 🌎 🧪 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1993871843...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ooh - this looks good
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A surprising Holly Blue on a damp, drizzly autumn day. North Gower, Wales. (Old pic)
Butterfly perched head down on green leaves. Pale lavender-blue upper wing, light blue underwing with small black dots.
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Live to Your Living Room @livetoyourlr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Disability Arts Online is looking for artists, activists, allies, and audience members to share their inspirational stories about disability arts projects and events they've been involved in to help research its new 'Cripping Culture' project. disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
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Cripping Culture Community Call Out
DAO would like to hear about the most significant disability arts projects and events that you’ve been involved in or experienced.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/09/2026
A damning indictment of where hate leads. RNLI has to warn its volunteers - people who save lives - not to wear branded clothes for fear of being attacked. Absolutely shameful.
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RNLI reviews security measures after far-right threats
The charity’s chief executive said the online abuse was ‘wholly unacceptable’
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Football Supporters Europe @fanseurope.org · 09/09/2026
👇📢 Add your voice now, it takes 30 seconds. #InfantinOUT
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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Such weird caterpillars!
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And YOU can also help track monarchs! Just need a phone with Bluetooth enabled, and the Project Monarch App (google or apple). apps.apple.com/us/app/proje...
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Project Monarch Science App - App Store
Download Project Monarch Science by Cellular Tracking Technologies on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Project…
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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@macro_action @birdzandbees.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh what a difference a second makes! Showing the forward and backward flap of a Brown Argus/Aricia agestis butterfly in flight less than a second apart. Nikon Z9 and Sigma 150mm macro SS1/5000 F8 ISO3200 in 🇸🇰 #macro #butterfly #bif #photo #nature
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Learn about the UK's bee-flies with @kitenet.bsky.social. Discover all 9 mainland UK species, their identification, ecology, behaviour, mimicry, life cycles, habitats & recording techniques 🌎 🧪 Ideal for naturalists, ecologists and recorders. 🔗 courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/bee-...
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Bee-flies of the UK Online Course
Learn to identify the 9 UK bee-fly species with entomologist Dr Tony Madgwick. Explore bee-fly ecology, life cycles, mimicry, key ID features, and recording through Bee-fly Watch. Includes expert guid...
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BTO Cymru @btocymru.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Live in North Wales and have an interest in seabirds? Head over to Penrhyn Bay on September 18th for a talk on these wonderful bird! #BirdingWales Ydych chi'n byw yng Ngogledd Cymru ac â diddordeb mewn adar môr? Ewch i Fae Penrhyn ar y 18fed o Fedi i wrando ar sgwrs am yr adar rhyfeddol hyn!
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Raw sewage can contain harmful bacteria + antibiotics - and when it enters our waterways without being treated enough to destroy both, you get perfect conditions for bacteria resistant to treatment with antibiotics to develop. youtu.be/zQQIrFMO5AU?...
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MrsF @ayrdelighted.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh well... that's me and @adidasalerts.bsky.social finished.
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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
2026 DF Dipterists Day will be at National Museum Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP Sat Nov 14th hosted by Dr Thom Dallimore, Senior Curator in Entomology. The Museum Diptera collections will be available to view Fri 13th, with the Dipterists Supper that eve. dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
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The Wildlife Trust SW Wales Swansea Group @wtswwswanseagroup.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our September events are now open for booking on Eventbrite - and they're all about Citizen Science! Dan Forman, a leading expert on mammals in Wales, will tell us how we can make a start helping to map and monitor wildlife. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizen-sc...
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Citizen Science - How and Why We Should All Get Involved!
If you ever wanted to do some wildlife citizen science but gave up the idea because you don't think you're qualified, this talk's for you!
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Box-tree Moth Cydalima perspectalis in house, Gower Wales. 1st record for Penclawdd on Aderyn. Nearest in Gorseinon & Upper Killay. Considered invasive but, funnily enuf, I don’t do topiary, so I don’t mind. @sewbrec.org.uk @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Distinctive white moth with broad dark band on all its edges.
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Such an encouraging story in the midst of genocide. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Seeds of hope: how a local farming project is offering a lifeline to Gaza
Family-run Al-Qarara Seed Bank is helping to counter acute food insecurity after being destroyed in the war
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Football Supporters Europe @fanseurope.org · 04/09/2026
📢 The petition by organised supporter groups representing millions worldwide, calling for Gianni Infantino’s resignation & reform of #FIFA, is close to 45k signatures. Football needs accountable leadership. #InfantinoOUT ✍️ Sign now: ow.ly/F7l250ZJiXJ
Campaign graphic featuring a picture of FIFA President Gianni Infantino covering his face over a crowd of football fans. Headline reads: "Global petition calls for Infantino's resignation & FIFA reform." Yellow caution tape banners across the top read "Infantino Out" and "Reform FIFA Now." Text below calls on football supporters to back a global petition. Includes hashtag #INFANTINOUT.
Red campaign graphic with yellow caution tape reading "Infantino Out" and "Reform FIFA Now." Text states "It was a betrayal" and highlights demand "#1: Gianni Infantino Must Go," criticizing his leadership and calling for his resignation. Includes hashtag #INFANTINOUT.
Blue campaign graphic featuring caution tape reading "Infantino Out" and "Reform FIFA Now." Highlights demand "#2: Reform FIFA Now," outlining six bullet points on transparency, stakeholder consultation, independent oversight, and protection of football revenues. Includes hashtag #INFANTINOUT.
Red campaign graphic featuring an image of Gianni Infantino pointing, a QR code linking to a Change.org petition, and text stating "The time to act is now." Calls on fans to sign the petition demanding Infantino's resignation and FIFA reform. Includes hashtag #INFANTINOUT.
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's an eye-opener that 'birding' is still like this. I'd like to think professional/academic ornithology & ecology are far better, at least on diversity, opportunity and leadership roles, and at least in much of UK/Europe.
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🦋 After more than 50 years, the endangered Large blue butterfly has returned to parts of Denmark. This milestone demonstrates how long-term evidence-led research & international collaboration can help bring threatened species back from the brink 🌿🐜 buff.ly/QtXyizk @eurosite.org
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Endangered Butterfly Returns After 50 Years
RES' Conservation Team has been working with Danish partners to reintroduce this remarkable species, applying decades of expertise gained from one of the UK's most celebrated insect conservation success stories. Large blue caterpillars have one of nature's most extraordinary life cycles, tricking red ants into adopting them before spending months living inside the nest.
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