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Pemberley Natural History Books @pemberleybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✨ Freshly published! Discover the fascinating world of the #GlowWorm, from its remarkable light and life cycle to its #ecology, #behaviour and #conservation. A beautiful new guide to #LampyrisNoctiluca tinyurl.com/theglowworm @pelagic.bsky.social

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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 7h

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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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tomorrow is the last chance for a 2026 FIT Count - sadly the forecast isn't looking very promising where I am but will look out for a sunny interval 🤞

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super proud to have worked on this key paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social It navigates some complex modelling challenges but always a pleasure to collaborate with everyone involved 😊 @francescamancini.bsky.social @drnickisaac.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social

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British Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🐉 Odonatography – the wonders of dragonfly flight Join Steve Cham at our Annual Meeting to explore how photography can reveal the incredible aerial agility of dragonflies as they hunt, fight and mate. 📅 14 Nov | 📍 Milton Keynes 🎟️ british-dragonflies.org.uk/event/bds-an...

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Louise @lou-birds-bikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Made me smile today, brilliant shieldbug action

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A random car park stop gave an opportunity for a late-season @pomscheme.bsky.social FIT Count on Ivy, with plenty of wasps + hoverflies, other flies, butterflies and honeybees

Shrubs at the edge of a car park, including plentiful flowering Ivy. A grey duct-tape quadrat marks out the Flower-Insect Timed Count.

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

⏳ One month left to enter the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition! If you've been meaning to sort through your favourite insect photographs, now's the time. We can't wait to see the incredible images you've captured. 📸 Deadline: 31 October buff.ly/rdahCIp

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Royal Entomological Society Photography Competitions - Insect Week

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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Diary Date - 2027 Dipterist Forum spring identification workshop will be on... Dolichopodidae! This hugely popular annual event will run 12th -14th March with tutors Martin Drake (author of the new RES Dolichopodidae Handbook) and Dave Brice (DF training officer). dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 22/09/2026

⭐ Celebrating 25 years of GBIF! ⭐ To mark GBIF’s 25th anniversary, a new open access article in the Biodiversity Data Journal provides a comprehensive overview of GBIF’s history, network and infrastructure. 📖 Read the article:🔗https://gbif.link/gbif25paper-news @bdj.pensoft.net @pensoft.net

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A number of 🚨Science & Museum Jobs🚨 available at different levels right now for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK programme 🪩 #DiSSCo 🪩 fab if you're into 🌳science digitisation🌳 #ScienceJobs #MuseumJobs jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

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DiSSCo UK Digitiser:South Kensington

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Definitely feels like wasps that managed to survive the heatwave are now popping up on the Ivy! Got a spare 10 mins? Do a #FITcount for @pomscheme.bsky.social!

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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

2026 gave us more butterflies on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects than 2023 and 2024 (these years were the worst since 1990), and a little bit more than 2025, especially in August. But beware of shifting baseline, numbers in most years in the 1990s were often twice as high as nowadays.

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🪰 Did you know some flies have eyes that extend far beyond the width of their bodies? At our next Insect Hour on 14 October, discover what stalk-eyed fly evolution can teach us about sexual selection, evolution and animal behaviour. 🎟️ Register now buff.ly/WvWnrq0

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Insect Hour: The Strange Sexual Biology of Stalk-Eyed Flies

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ARG UK @argroupsuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please help Emily out with her PhD project on herp translocations supported by UKRI in partnership with the University of Reading and @froglife.bsky.social . Link is here: bit.ly/moving_herps_survey

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Biodiversity Meets Data @bmd-project.eu · 21/09/2026

Today at #TDWG2026, our BMD partner @cabbageleek.bsky.social from @meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social presented the joint policy brief "The Lag from Observation to Information" we co-wrote with @b-cubed.eu, @onestop-project.eu, @mambo-project.eu, GUARDEN, and AURORA. 📝🤝 👉 zenodo.org/records/1993...

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Immensely proud (again!) of my partner Nadine for this fine achievement! Of course, behind every great woman there is ....a man who can take absolutely no credit whatsoever for her success. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gu2...

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10 Years of Gardens of the Year: Meet Our Best of the Best Winner

YouTube video by BBC Gardeners' World Magazine

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very much looking forward to this concert in a couple of weeks

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ep. 9: What is DASSH? Chloe Figueroa Ashforth is the Data Manager for DASSH (The UK Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data). www.dassh.ac.uk #MarineBiology #OceanScience #FishyBusiness

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James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So sad to hear about the death of Joe Harkness. Joe was passionate about getting people talking about mental health, as well as the benefits of being out in nature, and was rightly proud of his work with young people, all of which will leave a positive legacy.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The September issue of Field Mycology is out now! ▶️ doi.org/10.63482/a2p... The editorial finds me pondering phoenicoid fungi - and wondering what the fungi of fire sites could tell us about nature's capacity to recover.

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Dave Emley @demley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don’t often recommend books but at £7.50 each you can’t go wrong. At A6 and 50 pages these two really are pocket guides but they are filled with ID information. Partic. like the comparisons between similar species like Birch and Hawthorn Shieldbug or white-spotted ladybirds. Congrats to Rob Zloch

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mullin et al. use WGS from 101 museum specimens of British/Irish moss carder bumblebees from 1894-2019 to reveal a dramatic drop in genetic diversity: ∼24.6% decrease in heterozygosity and a 2.86-fold increase in ROH 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 📷 Gavin Broad #societyjournal #naturalhistory

MBE | Museum specimens reveal the genomic consequences of long-term population decline in an insect pollinator

Photo: Gavin Broad

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Congratulations on a fantastic award for PoMS team member Nadine! Her garden looks superb and is a paradise for #pollinators - do watch the video to find out more #WildlifeGardening

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Opened the front door yesterday morning to find a Convolvulus Hawk on the path 😲 Sadly it was dead, but still an impressive sight. No sign of live ones around the Nicotiana flowers in the garden but I live in hope 🫰 #TeamMoth

The dead hawk-moth posed on a Nicotiana leaf. This is a side-on view showing the undamaged wing, while the wing on the far side is mostly broken off. There are pretty pink and black spots along the abdomen.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 17/09/2026

🔎 How do we find the wildlife that’s hardest to spot? Join us on 24 Feb 2027 for the Biological Recording Virtual Symposium 2027: Recording the Rarities: Discover how recording helps reveal, verify & conserve rare wildlife. 🎟️ Tickets from just £1! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1999946461...

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Overjoyed for my fabulous colleague Nadine Mitschunas. Not only an expert field ecologist at UKCEH, but one of the UK's top gardeners, winning the BBC Gardeners World Magazine's 'best of the best' of the decade. And on a shoestring budget. Look what she created: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gu2...

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10 Years of Gardens of the Year: Meet Our Best of the Best Winner

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James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New species now out in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social! soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v... The latest addition to the UK's springtail fauna: Entomobrya terraeincognitae sp. nov. I found this species on fieldwork for my PhD @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at the Cambridge botanics. 🧵

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thrips are tiny creatures that lay very tiny eggs, into which these astonishingly tiny wasps lay their own minuscule eggs. What an amazing form of life 🔬

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ivy flowers can attract a wide range of insect visitors, and are one of the target species for our #pollinator FIT Count surveys - plenty of opportunity to carry out a ten-minute count before the end of September! ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts and see the PDF quick guide at ukpoms.org.uk/sites/defaul...

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FIT Counts: help us monitor pollinators | PoMS

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The results from this years’ #BigButterflyCount @savebutterflies.bsky.social are out! 👏 With interesting reflections from @richardfoxbc.bsky.social “a good summer for adult butterflies is not the same as a good summer for butterfly populations”

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NBN Trust: National Biodiversity Network Trust @nbntrust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're recruiting for two roles: • Head of Data & Digital • Trustee to the Board – Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee. nbn.org.uk/tag/job-vaca... The Head of Data & Digital role is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund and thanks to National Lottery players.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A word in your …

A carefully sectioned mollusc shell reveals its internal structure.

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From last night's light trap: leafhopper Synophropsis lauri (arrived in UK in 2007, spreading out from London, new to me); an attractive form of Common Groundling (Teleiopsis diffinis); + 2 views of the lovely Oak Longhorn (Carcina quercana). Trap also had lots of Large Yellow Underwings! #TeamMoth

Side view of leafhopper Synophropsis lauri, sitting on a bay leaf, one of its foodplants

Top-down view of Common Groundling micro-moth, in a glass tube. This individual has a rusty brown colour to it, more typically they are mottled grey.

Photo 1 of Oak Longhorn, from above, sat on a leaf, with its long antennae held back over the wings.

Photo 2 of Oak Longhorn, from above, sat on a leaf, this time with its antennae hidden from view under the wings.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🍄‍🟫💻 Explore UKCEH’s new Fungi Explorer, an interactive tool revealing the hidden world of soil fungi across Great Britain using DNA data from 1,000+ Countryside Survey soil samples. Search species, map distributions, or match your own DNA sequences. connect-apps.ceh.ac.uk/fungal-explo…

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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This will be an interesting day! Tickets on sale now.

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BENHS @britentsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BENHS – Dinton Pastures October 17 @ 10:30 am - 4:00 pm Tachinid fly identification workshop – Chris Raper and Matt Smith benhs.org.uk/events/ To book a place please mail, supplying a contact phone: indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk Image: Marc Taylor

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One week to submit talks/posters for the National Environmental Monitoring Conference (NEMC) 2026. We're keen to hear about monitoring programmes, datasets, methods, tools, case studies, partnerships and emerging research. Deadline 18 Sep 2026 🧪 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nemc...

Researcher wearing waders and life jacket stands in a stream with a monitoring device. Plus the headline Deadline approaching and text Submit presentation and poster abstracts for the National Environment Monitoring Conference by 18 September 2026

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NNNS and @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social are hosting a joint conference on 10th October 2026 with the title "Recording for Nature Recovery". It is taking place at Diss Corn Hall and tickets are on general sale now at £20 (£15 for NNNS or SNS members). To book a place see sns.org.uk/sns-meetings...

A poster advertising a joint NNNS and SNS conference

The NNNS and SNS are pleased to announce a joint conference

Recording for Nature Recovery
- How biological recording will benefit wildlife in crisis -

What will recording look like in 20 years’ time, and how can it support delivery of local nature recovery? We shall need to use all the means at our disposal to combat the biodiversity crisis.
The Conference will host an engaging variety of speakers who are working with new recording techniques, expanding the range of what it is possible to record and in doing so discovering new aspects of biodiversity. It will showcase what is currently possible, and hopefully inspire members to use new techniques in their exploration of nature.
Keynote Speaker Prof. Bill Sutherland (Emeritus, Cambridge) –
a full programme will follow nearer the time.

Saturday 10th October 2026 – 09:30 to 16:00
at Diss Corn Hall
All welcome, but advance booking is essential.
Tickets: General admission £20; NNNS/SNS members £15; Students £5
Booking will open later in the summer, but to help assess numbers please express an interest in tickets via https://sns.beaconforms.com/form/4eab5a62.
Light refreshments will be provided, but please bring a packed lunch.
Directions: Diss Corn Hall, 10 St Nicholas Street, Diss, IP22 4LB. W3W: ///shuffles.scaffold.back

The Corn Hall is about a 20-minute walk from Diss Station. There are several pay & display car parks nearby. If you can offer a lift, please email sarahbutler4@gmail.com

Agenda for the NNNS/SNS conference

Recording for Nature Recovery
- How biological recording will benefit wildlife in crisis –
Saturday 10th October 2026 – 09:30 to 16:00
Diss Corn Hall, 10 St Nicholas Street, Diss, IP22 4LB.

TIME SUBJECT SPEAKER
09:30 DOORS OPEN
10:00 Welcome, context and programme synopsis Sam Neil
Introducing conference chair, Rowena Langston Sam Neil

MORNING SESSION
10:15 Keynote speech “Exciting opportunities and scary elements” Professor Bill Sutherland
10:45 The Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) ambition and monitoring in it. Jen Burlingham (LNRS team)
11:05 Comfort break
11:15 Tracking the impact - developing surveying capacity Nick Marriner - Chilterns Nat Landscape
11:35 TBC TBC
11:55 Citizen Science - using structured surveys for local understanding James Heywood
12:15 Darwin Tree of Life TBC

12:45 LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION
13:30 Advances in thermal imaging Philip Farndon
13:50 Bioacoustics - listen and learn Carlos Abrahams
14:10 iRecord Robin Hutchinson
14:30 Pan-species Listing Graeme Lyons
15:00 Comfort break
15:10 Discussions, panel questions and answers Rowena Langston (Chair)
15:30 END

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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have you been recording wildlife in your garden this year with iRecord? Sign up to the Big British Garden Survey to contribute to understanding how gardens support biodiversity across the UK. Registration closes soon, so hurry to get your garden on the map! tinyurl.com/25hme4b7 @ukceh.bsky.social

A pair of Five-spot Burnet Moths (Zygaena trifolii) resting on common knapweed.

A meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) displaying excellent camouflage against green leaves.

Image of a person taking a photo of a moth with their mobile phone.

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have worked with @marthasadie.bsky.social and can confirm she is indeed awesome. Recommended.

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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Great work by @speciesrecovery.bsky.social to monitor and conserve the Barred Green Colonel #soldierfly (Odontomyia hydroleon), one of the rarest #flies in the UK - thanks to @suillia.bsky.social and @judywebb.bsky.social for their expert advice

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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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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We're excited for #Ento26! UKCEH is involved in talks on invasive species, honeybee gut microbiomes, insect sensing, & the Symposia marking 200 years of the Entomological Club - here Grace Slade will present on new approaches to understanding insect change, incl @glitrs.bsky.social research 🐛🧪 1/

Image of Ashy mining bee on banner image promoting Ento26 8-10 September, Cardiff University, Wales. Image by Rory Lewis.

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Clare Boyes @pickeletto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's 5 years since Douglas died. Some lovely friends organised a fundraiser for their birthdays with the proceeds going to the Diarsia fund run by @savebutterflies.bsky.social to fund research into UK lepidoptera declines. Feel free to contribute here. Thank you. www.justgiving.com/page/tom-ter...

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Tom & Tereza's fundraiser for Butterfly Conservation (The Diarsia Awards)

Help Tom Hayek raise money to support Butterfly Conservation

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