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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think this is Roncus lubricus, Reddish Two-eyed Chelifer, sieved from decaying woody litter on a woodland floor during today's @kentfieldclub.bsky.social meeting. @vannabartlett.bsky.social #pseudoscorpions

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seems crazy to create what would effectively be an artificial version of the butterfly, with the intent (presumably) that its genes would spread through the wild population. Tho' very similar to what's been done with planting (by conservationists) of lots of disease-resistant elm hybrids. Or not?

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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Want to conserve #birds, #mammals and other vertebrates? Then don’t forget their #insects. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper explores the many ways vertebrates depend on insects — for food, shelter, protection and much more. I’ve written about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/30/w...

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Want to conserve birds and mammals? Then conserve their insects – our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity sets out the details

It’s sometimes easy to forget quite how much of the living world depends upon insects. That might seem an odd thing for someone who has spent much of his career studying insects and their relations…

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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We invite everyone (nonscientists) to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Add your name and share widely. Endorsement helps show public concern about the future of our planet. forms.gle/vAARd7mv2yS7...

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ooo, this is fun - enter your postcode to see your local results www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "The Met Office estimates that this summer's average temperature was made about 130 times more likely by human-caused climate change."

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why have I never been to the Horniman Museum & Gardens before??? Just wonderful, & we will be back when the natural history gallery opens next year. @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social #museumlove

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Turning the garden compost today, & thought I'd have a quick sift, just in case. And (*does air punch*) got my first garden record for Lesser Earwig, in the shape of this apparently one-winged female. #KentNature #earwigs #dermaptera

A small, brown earwig with pale legs. Part of its one wing projects beyond its short, squared-off elytra. Its short, stubby forceps indicates that it is a female.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looking forward to this! Lots of us collect biodiversity data - many talks here deal with aspects of data collection, how info is presented, and how it can be used to drive conservation. A range of taxa covered. For amateurs & pros & anyone! (Full disclosure - I'm one of the organisers).

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Kathy Friend @ponddipping.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The first firebug we've seen in our garden! Not the first for the locality, but on a hollyhock seed head, which the previous sighting was also on. #kentnature

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In this video, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @marklynas.bsky.social go an adventure to watch bluefin tuna. George explains how Atlantic bluefin tuna were fished to near-extinction — but now, are in recovery Tell the UK Government: Defend bluefin tuna! Sign the petition: shorturl.at/fTY80

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Southern Green Shieldbugs (3rd & 5th instars, I think), sunning themselves on Wisteria in the garden yesterday. #KentNature #bugs #Shieldbugs

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Favorite plant of 2026 ... probably this Field Cow-wheat on the Isle of Wight this summer. Those colours! #FavouritePlants #wildflowerhour

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org

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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police.

A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Limiting Overshoot report identifies an ‘overshoot, peak, and decline’ pathway as the best way to minimise overshoot and return below 1.5°C as soon as possible. At the same time, adaptation actions are needed that reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Overshoot explained: 5 things to understand about a world beyond 1.5°C

Exceeding 1.5°C must not mean abandoning the goal. UNEP explains five things to know about climate overshoot and the choices that will shape what happens next.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Southern Green Shieldbug new to the garden today. Two adults plus a (3rd instar?) nymph tapped from a Field Maple sapling. #KentNature #bugs #Hemiptera #Shieldbugs

A large, all green shieldbug with a pale wing membrane and 3 white dots at the front of the scutellum. It is sat on the tip of my finger.

A small, dark shieldbug nymph with a regular pattern of white and yellow spots on its abdomen.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...

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Stop data centres draining our precious resources

Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Had to be on the Isle of Sheppey yesterday. So we took the UV torch, and hung around till after dark. And eventually found this scorpion on the Sheerness Dockyard wall. While we were there, 2 families were also looking - it's quite a local attraction! #KentNature

Tetratrichobothrius flavicordis (Euscorpius flavicordis), Yellow-tailed Scorpion. A single individual on a brick wall. It is lit by ultra-violet light, causing it to fluoresce.

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Kathy Friend @ponddipping.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This afternoon, we came across this Goat moth caterpillar on the North Downs Way, near Hucking, Kent. #kentnature #moths #kentmoths

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

'Antlers are what I need you to buy...' TMBG's reimagining of Walk this Way.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Well, that was fun! Yesterday at A New Day. Lindisfarne wonderful as ever, despite only 1 original member. Surprise delights: early 80s proggers Haze, & boogie-woogie rock'n'roller Mike Sanchez. Had to stay for a bit of Hawkwind, too. Oh, yeah - & a new tetrad record for Speckled Bush-cricket.

Haze on stage at A New Day, with part of the audience in the foreground.

Mike Sanchez and his band on stage at A New Day.

Hawkwind on stage at A New Day, not easily visible because of the light show!

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A nymph of the tiny leafhopper Ficocyba ficaria on the underside of a fig leaf this morning. Mainly a Mediterranean species, and a very recent arrival to the UK. #KentNature #bugs

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just arrived - a new bat detector, after my (c. 30-year-)old one died earlier this week. As ever, great service from @nhbs.bsky.social, and I can get back out Orthoptera surveying! 🦗

A photo of a Magenta Bat 4 bat detector on a table.

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New upcoming online event! Why Fly for Wildlife? Iain Green, Christof Middeke and Amy Bray will explore the importance of supporting wildlife tourism through sustainable travel. Join us on Zoom on Thursday 24th September, 7pm! Tickets are free: tickettailor.com/events/flightfreeuk/2233645

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Well a visit to the beach for some Sandwich Tern ring reading turned up the goods with seemingly Britain's fourth Verge Cricket! It was flushed off the shingle and after a quick jump on top of it before it buried itself, it was swiftly in a pot! Four Sandwich Tern rings were read also...

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Deliver on climate and nature. As Britain swelters through heatwaves, wildfires and droughts, communities need leadership, not silence. The climate and nature crisis is here and now: excess deaths, school closures, cancelled hospital appointments and rising food bills... www.zerohour.uk/andy

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Secure Our Future For Us

Andy Burnham has a chance to Secure Our Future. Will you tell him not to waste it? Sign the petition.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A Verge Cricket heard at Lydd-on-sea for a few hours on Saturday night (and into early hours of Sunday) couldn't be relocated last night. Seemingly a second for Britain? The more regular orthoptera put on a good show over the weekend with Tree Cricket, Large Conehead, Sickle-bearing all seen.

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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ever wondered why so many unmarked vans make parcel deliveries for them? I have still *never* ordered anything on Amazon. Don't think that's about to change.

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nice one! However it is unfortunately the third! We heard an individual at Lydd-on-Sea on Saturday night, but was waiting till we could see the cricket before we put news out.

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Kent Field Club @kentfieldclub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

For anyone and everyone with an interest in biodiversity in and around Kent - tinyurl.com/WildConf2026. We love our social media chums, but it's great to get together IRL. Book your place today!

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Kent Wildlife Conference 2026

THE KENT WILDLIFE CONFERENCE SATURDAY 24th October 2026 Darwin Conference Suite, Darwin College, University of Kent The Kent Wildlife Conference is an opportunity for all those interested in the...

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

More tetrad bashing for common Orthoptera today, in an under-recorded area nr Aylesham which happily includes Goodnestone Park & Gardens with its excellent café. Pics of Field and Meadow Grasshoppers, Goodnestone Park, & a stark warning in Nonington churchyard! #KentNature #orthoptera

A Field Grasshopper colour-matching the dead, brown grasshopper it sits among, making it very hard to see.

A female Meadow Grasshopper, with short wings and green sides to its head and thorax. It is sitting on a horizontal grass stem.

Scattered trees, including a very large oak in the left foreground,over short, dry grass.

A large, white memorial stone, erected to the memory of John Payn, who died in 1872. It describes in some detail the two roads that can be taken: the broad, leading to " DEATH! DAMNATION! SATAN!" and the narrow leading to "LIFE! SALVATION! GOD!". It ends with "Where will you spend eternity?"

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nice trip to #HerneBay yesterday to see the Cartoon Festival exhibition at Beach Creative - some laugh-out-loud moments (& more pieces at the Bandstand, as in pic). Also lots of Prickly Saltwort & Sea-Holly on the beach inside the harbour arm. Plus ice cream, chips - seaside doesn't get much better.

The centre panel is a white board covered in line-drawn cartoons by the cartoonist, Banx. Subjects include AI data centres, climate change, and Elon Musk.

Prickly Saltwort. Low-growing clumps of plants on a sandy beach with a wall in the far background.

Sea-holly. Blue-grey plants on a sandy beach. Behind is the sea and behind that, the wall of the harbour arm.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Last autumn, we popped a Sallow cutting into compost. Yesterday, we stood the now rooted cutting on the edge of our garden pond. Today, two pairs of Willow Emerald Damselflies are egg-laying into it. They clearly don't hang about. #KentNature #Odonata

A rooted cutting of a sallow, in a black plastic pot, stands on the edge of a garden pond.

A close-up of the sallow cutting with two pairs of Willow Emerald Damselflies hanging onto the right-hand side of the branch.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tetrad-bashing for Orthoptera at @kentfieldclub.bsky.social's meeting last weekend, as it was in an under-recorded part of the county. So even finding common species was a great result - such as this Common Green Grasshopper and Lesser Marsh Grasshopper. #KentNature #orthoptera

Common Green Grasshopper female. A mainly green grasshopper, held in a glass tube, with its head up and to the right.

Lesser Marsh Grasshopper female. A grasshopper on a blade of grass, facing to the right. Its legs and the sides of its head and body are pale straw-brown. It's forewings and the back of its head and thorax are green.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A bit of bathroom wildlife - what appears to be the large Owl Midge (or Moth Fly) Clogmia albipunctata. Large for an Owl Midge, that is. And very smart too, under the microscope. #KentNature #Diptera

A magnified image of a small fly with broad, hairy-edged, moth-like wings and a furry body.

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Simon Warry @ginowazza.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Three of the six Blue-winged Grasshoppers found at Reculver (North Kent coast) on 25th July.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Yesterday's @kentfieldclub.bsky.social meeting overlapped with a monad targeted for revisiting for Orthoptera by BRC: connect-apps.ceh.ac.uk/targeting_re.... And with a bit of effort, we were able to record a pretty good 8 species. #KentNature #orthoptera

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Further to this, I visited the location today and saw min. 4 and probably 5 Blue-winged Grasshoppers, including individuals of both sexes. Gob-smacking, so thank you @quercus632511.bsky.social ! #KentNature #orthoptera

Female Blue-winged Grasshopper. A pale brown grasshopper with darker brown bands, on shingle.

Male Blue-winged Grasshopper, with a mixed warm brown, dark brown and pale brown banding. Held in a glass tube.

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"Quercus" @quercus632511.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Earlier at #Reculver we came across an odd looking , large very mottled #Grasshopper I grabbed two quick shots, my son then found another "Dad this grasshoppers got Blue wings" which we saw displayed twice .When I got home and checking my two earlier shots..Bingo ! Blue-winged Grasshopper. #insects

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I know of just 44 records for Lesser Earwig in Kent - fewer than for any other earwig species. That's where living in compost and dung heaps gets you. These, from compost on our allotment, make it 45. Female and male. #KentNature #dermaptera #earwigs

Female Lesser Earwig Labia minor. A small earwig with short, broad-based pincers. The tip of the abdomen is slightly raised, making the pincers look a little shorter than they actually are.

Male Lesser Earwig Labia minor. A small earwig with longer, slender, fairly straight pincers. The pincers are finely toothed on their inner margins.

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Kent Field Club @kentfieldclub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Very pleased to have @graemelyons.bsky.social as a speaker at the Kent Wildlife Conference this October, talking on "Pan-species listing – how to become a super-naturalist". Open to all: go to tinyurl.com/WildConf2026 for details & booking. #pansspecies #panspecieslisting #biologicalrecording

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Kent Wildlife Conference 2026

THE KENT WILDLIFE CONFERENCE SATURDAY 24th October 2026 Darwin Conference Suite, Darwin College, University of Kent The Kent Wildlife Conference is an opportunity for all those interested in the...

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A different pseudoscorpion from a different compost heap (this time my own allotment) but also looks to be a Lamprochernes. Tried to get a shot of the fourth tarsus as close to side-on as I can, but can't decide whether or not it's central. Can @vannabartlett.bsky.social help?

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#StillFlowering this week on the Downs at Wye in East Kent - Harebell and Common Rock-rose. #wildflowerhour

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