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Malcolm Tait

@malcolmtait.bsky.social

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Researcher - planning, nature and politics. Professor of Planning, Uni of Sheffield. Very amateur lepidopterist www.planningfornature.org

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

And another example from the French Alps where the marmots gamble, but where there aren't meadows full of Monarch butterflies!

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Mine truly captures the majesty of these creatures. Let's see who wins!

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Battleship grey of the battleship of a moth - the Poplar Hawk-moth

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

A nice couple of moths yesterday: Lime Hawkmoth and Elephant Hawkmoth. Both relatively common, but nonetheless very beautiful

Triangular shaped moth with light brown and green camouflage markings resting on stone.

Triangular moth with green-brown and pink markings resting on stone

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A great thread on the invertebrate life sustained by just one common plant, Red Campion, Silene dioica. Here's a picture of the Lychnis moth I took a couple of days ago - we need to support our ordinary, common plants

A picture of the Lychnis moth on a wooden background. Moth is mottled brown with white outlined markings on its wings

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Parasitoid wasp Ichneumon stramentor. It lays eggs in the larvae of the Large Yellow Underwing and Setaceous Hebrew Character moths. The wasp larvae hatch and eat the moth larvae from inside...

Black and yellow wasp on white background

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Orange Underwing moth seen today on the edge of woodland near Sheffield. I normally see these flying around at the top of trees, so this is the first time I've seen one up close!

Brown triangular moth, resting on dried muddy ground with mottled brown and white forewings spread showing bright orange underwings

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

First butterfly of the year in the garden, and it's a Speckled Wood!

Brown and orange butterfly on green leaves

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

March Moth Alsophila aescularia arrived a little earlier than it's designated month... This is a male moth - female March Moths are wingless

Male March moth, a brown triangular shaped moth with zig zag black line down the middle of each wing

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

1947 Farnham plan suggests replacing parking with green infrastructure. 2025: the parking is still there with cars.

1947 photo of street of historic buildings with space for car parking but no cars

Screenshot of Google Maps street view of historic street with cars parked in font

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Here's a #bluebug for #bluemonday. Alder Leaf Beetle Agelastica alni - once thought extinct in the UK, but making a rapid comeback

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Fascinating lecture from Mike Barrett @wwf-uk.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk on global biodiversity loss and policy implementation. Set out the real failure to act, set meaningful targets or show anywhere like sufficient ambition.

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Nice, early winter moths after last night's mild weather. Mottled Umber, and the total unit that is the December Moth!

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Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

@kierachapman.bsky.social talking about the value of ecological reporting at the @bsbibotany.bsky.social conference

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