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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 12h

A rare chance to hear a live performance of this hypnotic music last night, really enjoyed it - thanks @ltmsdnfest.bsky.social and Kate Ryder 🪛🎹🔩🔧

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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 16h

Another good moth from the garden on Tues night was this Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher). It’s very small but it’s got a lot going on! #teammoth #migrantmoth

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 22h

🍄 Not long until #UKFungusDay - Saturday 10th October! 🍄 Help raise awareness and join the celebration of fungi. Take a look & take part: www.ukfungusday.co.uk

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UK Fungus Day

It's all about the Fungal Kingdom! Get involved in competitions, browse blogs, be inspired to create, and find out what's on near you.

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JNCC @jncc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

JNCC has published its new Science Impact Strategy, alongside 6 new Areas of Research Interest (ARI) 🔗 jncc.gov.uk/science-impa... These ARIs will highlight some of our evidence needs we need to overcome in the next five years to help tackle some of the biggest questions facing #nature 🧵

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🦋 You don't need professional equipment to enter the RES Insect Week Photography Competition. From smartphone snaps to specialist macro photography, we're looking for images that celebrate the beauty, diversity and wonder of insects. ⏰ Entries close 31 October buff.ly/3615G3c

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Agree it looks like a candidate for Spiny. I'm still inclined to dissect these, at least when they are new for a site (males are easy to distinguish). Plenty of Box-tree Moth still flying now! upperthamesmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On NBN you can filter for species = "Biota" and then use the list records option - will send that as well. Most are birds as BTO is biggest data provider.

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Have just emailed you a top 100 from iRecord, since I know how to extract that easily!

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haven't ever tried this, and off the top of my head I'm not sure if it's possible - am offline this evening but will have a look when I get a chance

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CEDaR @cedarrecordsni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So you've found a waxcap, now what? There are a few key features you should note in your comments when recording on CEDaR Online Recording or iRecord. These are cap colour & texture, stipe/stem colour & texture and how the gills are attached to the stipe.

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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Get along to see those nice BENHS people at their Annual Exhibition - lots to see and clever people to catch up with! @britentsoc.bsky.social dipterists.org.uk/events/benhs...

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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Last chance to book this excellent course #fliesarefantastic #fliesareimportant

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Mick Jones @mickdjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excitement in the post today - the new book on The Glow-worm by my friend and long-time volunteer at @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend Nature Reserve, John Tyler. It is a magnificent new version of the small book he self-published 30 years ago, now 168 pages with lots of new content and superb photos.

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of love for the Fens and for plants, poured into book form by my former colleague Owen Mountford and by Jon Graham.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 05/10/2026

🪰 Meet the Bee Robberfly (Laphria flava), a spectacular UK bee mimic found in Caledonian pine forests in Scotland. Its survival is tied to this rare habitat. Learn more w/ @kitenet.bsky.social on 8 Oct in our Robberflies webinar. 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976908981... @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join up, get in touch with the natural world & save your brain. You don’t have to know anything about identifying plants but can learn on the go & with support from other members. Some lovely days out being mellow with experts & nature!

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George Tordoff @gmtord.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On 21st September I found some larval spinnings of Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher) on Fleabane at Pembrey (Carmarthenshire). I collected a few for rearing and over the last few days three of the beautiful little jewel-like adults have emerged. #TeamMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher) adult reared from larvae found at Pembrey

Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher) larva in spinning at Pembrey

Tebenna micalis larval spinning on Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) at Pembrey

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Bath Nature @bathnature.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday, I went for a short potter in Carr's Wood. Found hundreds of these tiny Dacne rufifrons, one of the so-called 'pleasing fungus beetles' (Erotylidae) on the underside of an old Dryad's Saddle fungus. #Nature #Wildlife #Insect #Beetle #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

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Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tapinesthis inermis(?) from a wildlife garden in Oxfordshire - knew it was something weird in the field with its almost purplish colour and spineless legs. First for the UK if confirmed! @britishspiders.bsky.social @chalkspring.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

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Summerfield Books @summerfieldbooks.com · 02/10/2026

Our friends at UK Fungus Day are running their fab initiative 'Fungi Connect' again this year and they asked us what you need to get started... Want to get involved? Visit the #UKFungusDay website: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiconnect Have fun with your forays folks! 🍄 www.summerfieldbooks.com

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Conifer Mazegill (Gloeophyllum sepiarium) is described as "common worldwide" but this from near Coniston a few days ago is the first time I've noticed it. Love the colour scheme 😍 #FungiFriday

Several layers of bracket fungus growing out from the end of a cut conifer trunk, surrounded by heath vegetation including the brown remains of Heather flowers. The fungus brackets are a rich dark reddish-brown in the centre, gradually becoming lighter and brighter to orange and yellow at the edge.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🐝 🪰 How can we track change across the UK's insect pollinators? A new paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social outlines how we're generating robust metrics to monitor pollinator trends at a national scale. Another key milestone for PoMS! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 1/

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social our winner of the Dilys Breese Medal 🎉We’re pleased to award Brigit this medal for using her online platforms to encourage nature interaction and conservation in an accessible manner, and her enthusiasm in participation and promotion of BTO surveys!

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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 · 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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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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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And see the other bsky accounts involved here: bsky.app/profile/bmd-...

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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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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I knew about it from lead author @cabbageleek.bsky.social so the thanks are due to him 🙏

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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 · 20/09/2026

Maybe Buff Ermine? Ruby Tiger and Muslin may also be candidates, but it's somewhere around that group I think.

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Could be Vetch Moth, Aproaerema anthyllidella? Had a couple of them in my trap this week.

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

Looks like it's probably one of the Dioryctria species, but it's too worn and blurred for me to go further ☹️

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