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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

2026 Sawfly season started for me today with 2 Sooty Grievers (Dolerus anthracinus) at Millington Pastures VC61. Associated with quality chalk grassland here and flies (very) early, so is it really as uncommon as 2 records in last 50 years suggests? @ynuorg.bsky.social #yorkshiresawflies #symphyta

An all black sawfly, Dolerus anthracinus (common name Sooty Griever) sits on a white sweep net bag. A rare sawfly in Yorkshire, associated with good quality chalk grassland and found here at Frendal Dale in Millington Pastures, East Yorkshire.

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suedancey.bsky.social @suedancey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Very excited to get this superb book in my morning post. Everyone should have one! #NFBR #NBN

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

What very much appears to be European Spruce Sawfly Gilpinia hercyniae, tapped from a spruce at the weekend. Apparently the first Kent record. #KentNature #sawfly #sawflies #Symphyta

A green caterpillar with white longitudinal stripes and a yellowish head with dark markings. Amongst brown conifer needles on a piece of white fabric.

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

To transform the country and take on the populist right, Labour must heed the voices of its radical realists - and build a principled, practical, popular left alternative. Join @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social and together we can bring that alternative to life. www.mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved

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Get involved | Mainstream Labour

Mainstream is the home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It is cheering to see two new hopes for democracy in the UK. The new leader of the Green Party, @zackpolanski.bsky.social has set an agenda to improve democracy rather than dismantle it and Mainstream, a new alliance between centrists and the left in Labour. actionnetwork.org/forms/regist...

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Mainstream is the home for Labour's radical realists. For everyone who knows that to transform the country and win again in 2029, Labour must offer the country a popular, principled and practical lef...

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Ellen Wilson @ellenwilson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I revisited the Euura miliaris sawfly larva earlier today to find an ichneumon wasp working its way around them despite their efforts to defend themselves. Amazing how it holds its wings up to avoid being clobbered!

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This presumed braconidae fooled me into thinking it was a sawfly for a moment. Two females feeding on pollen/nectar of Canadian Fleabane. Eyes not as good as they used to be. 🙄

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Was a pleasure to be there when you found it. Only the second British record since 1970.

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Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

One of Britain's most formidable looking insects, a Tanner Beetle, sitting on the wall of a building at RSPB The Lodge today. #Cerambycidae

A head on view of a large black beetle with very long serrated antennae

A top down view of the same beetle, showing the all black wing cases and legs

A close up on the head and jaws of the beetle, showing the large mandibles.

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This parasitic wasp emerged yesterday from an overwintered Dolerus larva. IDed as probable Tryphon sp. by Max Parkhomenko on iNat.

Parasitic wasp from a Dolerus sawfly larva

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It was a pleasure to introduce sawfly identification to workshop attendees @britentsoc.bsky.social yesterday alongside the immensely knowledgeable Andrew Halstead. Thanks to those who attended.

Introduction to sawflies workshop opening slide with examples of sawfly species

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Interested in identifying sawflies? I'll be running an intro to sawflies workshop on the Cambridge/Beds border in June with Wildlifebcn www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

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Introduction to Sawflies with Andrew Green | Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants

Learn how to identify sawflies

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Andy Musgrove @andymus.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A reminder of the @norfolknats.bsky.social training workshop on sawflies I'm running on Sun 6th April. It's at Gressenhall (mid Norfolk). We still have a few places left so please get in touch ASAP if you'd like to attend. Will be focused on microscope-based ID to genus level (at least).

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak. Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social

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nffn.bsky.social @nffn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Great op-ed by our CEO, Martin Lines, on the SFI closure. 👇

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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Dolerus madidus...a common early-spring sawfly associated with Juncus meadows and always one of the first sawflies to appear each year. East Yorkshire today. #sawflies #ento #yorkshiresawflies #ukwildlife #symphyta

The sawfly Dolerus madidus. A male, so all black apart from a red band round the middle segments of the abdomen. The light is catching its fringe of pale hairs as it clings to a Juncus rush stem.

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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Sawfly season kicks off with Dolerus anthracinus and Claremontia brevicornis...species of chalk grassland found on the Yorkshire Wolds today. Very few county records for either, as they fly so early in the year, before most folk are out looking in their habitat. #symphyta #ento #yorkshiresawflies

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

"Turnip sawflies use plant chemicals to shape their social lives! Discover how plant metabolites influence insect networks and fitness in our study." @Pragya_otulp, @ChemEcolCM, @LBrueggemann, @gaurav_Kbaruah, and @unibielefeld

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Sam Thomas @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social · 12/02/2023

I don't target sawflies but I try and identify any that I do come across. These four from a wet woodland last May. Details in alt text captions #Symphyta #Tenthredinidae

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fantastic body of work by Marko Prous, Andrew Liston, Spencer Moncton, Katja Kramp, Hege Vårdal, Veli Vikberg, Erik Heibo, and Marko Mutanen. Preempts the publication of their sawfly book later this year. Can't wait! europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...

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West Palaearctic species of Euura Newman, 1837 (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) | European Journal of Taxonomy

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Andy Musgrove @andymus.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Finally, here's Tenthredo baetica (Mustard Sawfly), which had seemingly gone missing from the UK for much of the 20th century, before reappearing in 2019 (this specimen). Since then, it's proved pretty widespread! www.sawflies.org.uk/tenthredo-ba...

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Andy Musgrove @andymus.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A few sawflies now starting to show up as preferring the Brecks (and Brecky north-west) in the county. This is Dolerus picipes, one of a suite of all-black species, nice to see an emerging picture regarding its ecology www.sawflies.org.uk/dolerus-pood...

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Emerged today from its winter cocoon in damp sand, this rather wonderful Sciapteryx costalis soror (the Shady Sister) sawfly. Rarely seen due to their habit of skulking around at ground level.

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This shouldn't be so difficult to get done. We need this.

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Zoë Simmons @pselaphacus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I don't have anything more than a glancing knowledge of hymenoptera, but I sure do appreciate how beautiful they are #hymenoptera #bee #museum #collection #entomology

A shiny bee with black head and thorax. Hints of metallic shine can be seen on these parts. The abdomen is a rich greenish-gold and minute fringes of hair adorn the edge of each segment. There is a large handwritten label under the specimens and the words 'Xylocopa ornata' can just be picked out. There is further text suggesting that the identifier thought this an odd specimen, with characters placing it (seemingly) somewhere between the species ornata and metallica

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The bittersweet moment of discovering my grandmother's nature teaching books whilst clearing my big sister's house. Level 1 book. 1/3

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I don't think our insect illustrators are at risk from Google's Gemini AI. I asked it to draw a sawfly on a flower and this is what it produced.

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This healthy looking fox has been barking in the meadow recently.

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Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Sawfly eggs on a gray birch leaf, found in my yard back in May.

A leaf with numerous oblong, whitish eggs laid end to end along the midrib and lateral veins.

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Great day surveying #earthworms on farms in the Chilterns. We surveyed two fields on each farm, giving the farmer the choice of what they’d like to see compared. Farm 1 wanted to see 3rd yr cover crop vs 1st yr. Farm 2 was ploughed vs min till. 🧪 🚜 🌍 #ecology #soils #invertebrates #agriculture

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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

2024 was a good year for getting to grips with #sawflies on Larch, and so next year can be all about adding some more dots to the distribution maps, as they're so poorly recorded in Yorkshire up to now. 🙂 #ento #yorkshiresawflies #symphyta #ukwildlife

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Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

One of the absolute highlights of my year was stumbling across this magnificent sawfly, Tenthredo baetica, at Hexton back in May. The first Hertfordshire record of a species that seemed to be extinct in the UK as recently as 2019. #Sawfly #Symphyta #Insect #UKWildlife

A head on view of a wasp like insect on a cow parsley flower. The insect is black and yellow, with bright yellow legs and orange looking wings.

A side on view of the same insect, showing the orange wings in more detail, and giving a view of the abdomen which has orange markings shading into yellow.

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Some rainy afternoon musings on whether it makes sense to talk about "garden rewilding". youtu.be/JW0goeznrH4

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What is "Garden Rewilding"?

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Pretty sure Nature Friendly Farming Network have joined us... nffn.bsky.social

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Clare Boyes @pickeletto.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Been at the Natural History Museum today to see this moth which has been named in Douglas's honour. Thanks to Alessandro Giusti for describing and naming it. Good to see @flygirlnhm.bsky.social too!

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I can't bare any more Musk drivel, what an absolute arse. So goodbye Twitter & 36k followers. I am simultaneously trying Bluesky and Threads, hello everybody. Follow me if you are into bees, insects, wildlife gardening, pesticide research, regenerative farming, rewilding, etc... 😊

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 15/11/2024

I’ve set up a “sister” pack to this called Biological Recording (UK) that is for organisations involved in recording and natural history training. It’s small currently as there aren’t many organisations that have made the jump yet. go.bsky.app/RboM6sR

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Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org · 14/11/2024

Some exciting news for our first post - Strawberry Hill has been saved! This unique rewilding site is home to half of Bedfordshire's nightingales. Today we can announce you've helped us raise an amazing £1.5million and the site's future is safe. Thank you everyone who gave, we're so grateful.

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Strawberry Hill saved! £1.5m raised to purchase and protect unique rewilding site for nature | Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants

A former farm left to rewild for decades has been saved for generations to come following one of the Wildlife Trusts’ largest ever public fundraising appeals.

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Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Over 50 accounts in the UK Naturalists starter pack now :) go.bsky.app/DeyPecR

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Allan Watt @allanwatt.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Diversity of sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) within commercial Sitka spruce plantation forests in Wales – 60 species recorded, including potential future pests: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #insects #entomology

Yellow pan trap used to collect adult sawflies placed on a post in a spruce forest.

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Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

A surprise on the school run yesterday was finding this Cassida nebulosa ambling up a wall. Possibly the first Bedfordshire record of a fairly scarce species. Impossibly endearing like all tortoise beetles. #UKWildlife #BugSky #Invertebrates #Coleoptera

A side on view of a tortoise beetle, Cassida nebulosa. The beetle is yellow-green with lots of small black spots, and has the entire head and body encased in a tortoise-like shell.

A top down view of a tortoise beetle, Cassida nebulosa. The beetle is yellow-green with lots of small black spots, and has the entire head and body encased in a tortoise-like shell.

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Mark Skevington🦋🦊🟢 @whetstoneskev.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

This is the commoner sawfly mine on Alder around here, Fenusa dohrnii. The larva is much less clearly marked than the Heterarthrus vagans I posted previously, and you may need to squint and use imagination to see the pale yellowy brown ventral spots. #sawflies #hymenoptera #ukwildlife

An Alder leaf [Alnus glutinosa] showing three tenanted leafmines of the sawfly Fenusa dohrnii. Whetstone, Leics. 09/10/2024.

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

A Tachinid parasitoid emerged from the larva of a Brulle's Knucklehorn sawfly, Cladius brullei yesterday. Suspected Bessa species going to Chris Raper, NHM for ID.

Tachinid parasitoid from a Cladius brullei sawfly larva

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Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Larva of the sawfly Euura pedunculi, Sallow Pea-galler, make pea-shaped galls on broad-leaved willows and sallows. Still some around at this time of year as well as vacated galls.

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Larva of Euura pedunculi, Sallow Pea-galler - head detail

Gall of Euura pedunculi, Sallow Pea-galler

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