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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PoMS reaches another key milestone with publication of our modelling paper and blog on the eve of the last day of our 10th survey season!! 👏🎉 Thanks as ever to all the volunteers, partners and funders who have made this possible 🙏 🌟 More details below!

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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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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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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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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It was buzzing at the #BeesNeedsWeek Science Festival at RHS Wisley. Visitors discovered how easy it is to support pollinator science by spending 10 minutes counting pollinating insects on flowers 🐝🌼 Take time in nature with your own FIT Count for @pomscheme.bsky.social ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

Three people look at ragwort flowers to count pollinators

Two people bend down to look at ragwort flowers

Table of information leaflets about various insects

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Ciarán Byrne @kiwibyrne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Collected these two 7-spot pupae last week near Clonegal, Co. Carlow. An hour later, 4 x larvae appeared in the pot. Presumed phorid larvae, they have since pupated. Hopefully some adults will emerge in the coming days. A healthy 7-spot Ladybird emerged from the second pupae.

Two ladybird pupae on green leaves with white larva nearby.

Two white larvae that emerged from ladybird pupa.

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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust @bbowt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🪰 We’re celebrating the UK’s flies! Flies don’t always get the appreciation they deserve. They play hugely important roles in our ecosystems, but they’re also amazing in their own right. They can be beautiful, colourful and wonderfully weird.

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

NEW: a "Quick Guide" to FIT Counts (pdf) is now available from the PoMS website, providing a summary of how to do the counts and how to recognise the insect groups. This is a welcome addition to our more detailed guides, which are of course still available as well! ukpoms.org.uk/news/quick-g...

Images of the two pages of the new Quick Guide to Flower-Insect Timed Counts - the first page outlines the FIT Count method, and the second page provides tips on recognising the insect groups that we ask you to count

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Great to be partnering with National Garden Scheme on The Big British Garden Survey to reveal the wildlife thriving in our gardens 🦋🐞. Record what you see and help build a national picture of UK #biodiversity. Join in: ngs.org.uk/the-big-brit... 🧪 @abigaillowe.bsky.social

Butterfly on flower and headline The Big British Garden Survey

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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

UKBMS results out today! Results from fifty years of butterfly monitoring! The UKBMS data reveals declines in 33 species over the last 50 years. Check out the full story below butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo... And the full 2025 statistics can be found here: jncc.gov.uk/our-work/off...

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Fifty years of data reveal specialist butterflies disappearing across UK

An extraordinary dataset of over 44 million records from 782,000 volunteer surveys has revealed what has happened to the UK's butterflies as the national landscape has changed over the past 50…

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British Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Our new Atlas of UK spider, harvestmen and pseudoscorpion records is now online at britishspiders.org.uk/atlas. It gives access to 1.6 million records and is constantly updated with data submitted and verified via irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-records.

GB hectad distribution map for Argiope bruennichi from the new SRS Atlas

GB hectad distribution map for Erigone welchi from the new SRS Atlas

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Welcome to the new season for #pollinator FIT Counts! Our latest e-news was sent out this morning - read it here mailchi.mp/7e658beeba40... and subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe As soon as the weather is warm enough we hope that you will enjoy watching and counting insects on flowers with us.

Two people carrying out a FIT Count in a flowery meadow, using a quadrat made out of tape to mark out the target flowers for the count. One person is using the FIT Count app, the other has a paper recording form on a clipboard.

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New projections of British biodiversity under plausible climate & land-use futures Severe futures have 12-20% birds, butterflies, plants going extinct & major changes to ecosystems More sustainable scenarios only decrease & do not stop loss; but require urgent action www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In his blog post, @robboyd.bsky.social talks about his paper 'Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data' 🌍 🧪 Read the blog and find the full article 👇 buff.ly/a7UROJJ

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Robin Boyd: Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in E…

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Nadine's wildlife allotment is one twenty gardens in the 2016-2026 "Best of the Best" competition of Gardener's World magazine. Public voting is open to 27 March for UK residents www.gardenersworld.com/news/gardens...

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Gardens of the Year 2026 - Best of the Best

Be a part of our 10-year Gardens of the Year anniversary by voting for your favourite garden from 2016–2026, with a chance to win a £100 Crocus voucher to spend on your plot

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

🦗 This #WorldWildlifeDay, discover Britain's grasshoppers, crickets & allied species in a brilliant new field guide! It's co-written by our former colleague Björn Beckmann with recording scheme coordinator Peter Sutton. Allied species are earwigs, stick insects, mantids and cockroaches 🪳 🧪 1/

Illustrations of grasshopper, cricket and earwig on the front cover of a book called Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Allies of Great Britain and Ireland

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VC40Ladybirds 🐞 @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

On Friday, I found this 24-spot Ladybird (Subcoccinella 24-punctata), with what looks like a Tachinid egg on it. I know Medina separata attacks the Coccinellidae, but they usually lay eggs under the elytra. This ladybird also has a white substance on the face (+ a baby springtail on the pronotum...)

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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What better for #FlyFriday than a phantastic phebruary phorid lurking outside a rabbit burrow at @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Cali Heath reserve in East Yorkshire, UK today?! @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I am working with #citizenscientists this weekend in the @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social entomological collection, to screen insects for the presence of ectoparasitic microfungi. This project is supported by @msafungi.bsky.social. #TeamLaboul #Laboulbeniales

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Cambridge Natural History Society @cnhs1857.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Hesperomyces virescens. This moss-looking fungi is has infected this Harlequin ladybird. It is sometimes called the Green Beetle Hanger. Spotted in Cambridge today.

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Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Call out to anyone with UK records of Sphaeroceridae not on NBN/iRecord. Looking at getting the best distribution possible for a new key, I realise this will be a 'best possible', but more the merrier. Please share @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @respublications.bsky.social

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 16/01/2026

Turning wildlife sightings into powerful data 🐝🌿 Every iRecord submission supports research and conservation nationwide. Join iRecord 101 with @earthwormuk.bsky.social Brown (Thu 2 Apr 2026) and learn how to get started or level up. 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1734876575... @ukceh.bsky.social

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

iRecord and other Indicia websites seem to be down at the moment, an unexpected side-effect of IT maintenance at UKCEH, due to be completed by c. 9.30 this evening

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A convergent ladybird (named for the converging white lines behind the head) sets in on a herd of milkweed aphids (Arizona, June 2025). I love a well-composed shot of textbook bug behavior.

Portrait orientation macro photograph showing a slender-leaved plant with flower buds at the top, its stem lined with plump yellow aphids, and a large beetle, orange with black spots, just above the aphids. The sky behind them is unfocused and partly cloudy.

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Day 11 of #InsectAdvent - its Saturday night so XMAS PARTY (maybe romance..) Lets put on some perfume. This female Megaselia (Phoridae) releases from her dorsal abdominal glands, a fragrance so strong the males just have to immerse themselves in it @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

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BES ALDER Network @besaldernetwork.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Attending #BES2025? Join the ALDER, REED, & EDGE networks for our triple festive social 🎄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 📍: Roxy Lanes, Edinburgh 🕐: 19:30 Wednesday 17th Dec We hope to see you there! 😁 More info: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-... @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Francesca Mancini @francescamancini.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you are attending #BES2025 and are interested in #biodiversity monitoring in the UK, come to our lunchtime workshop on creating a UK Biodiversity Observation Network.

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Come and work with members of the @pomscheme.bsky.social team on this exciting NEW PhD opportunity! Full details below ⬇️🐝🪰🐞

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

An unexpected outage for iRecord and other Indicia systems this weekend means that you won't be able to add records to the websites. It is still possible to add records to the iRecord apps, but you won't be able to upload them until this is fixed 😞

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

📣 Read the latest UKCEH Biological Records Centre newsletter for updates on national recording schemes, wildlife recording practices, new tech & more! 🔗 Get the new edition, past issues or subscribe here: buff.ly/aJJ9LaY #wildlife #BiologicalRecording @jncc.bsky.social

Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) sitting on yellow flowers

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Have you seen lots of ladybirds flying around? Maybe some have come into your house? At this time of year, ladybirds are moving around looking for a good place to spend the winter. On warmer, sunny days, large numbers may be seen flying in search of a suitable habitat 🐞 1/

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Dark taxa are extremely diverse organisms that remain largely undescribed due to small size, subtle differences, & few experts. Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz.... by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social

A dark, hairy gall midge fly on a white sheet. It has long legs and antennae and a red neck.

Quiz results showing I'm a gall midge or cecidomyiid

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Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#Ento25 our workshop: how to use taxonomic keys had a lot of enthusiasm, ‘some’ frustration #whatisit but with genuine engagement. Featuring test keys: Orthoptera & Dermaptera & of course Carabidae handbook with www.royensoc.co.uk/publications... with specimens from www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe

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FunDive: Monitoring and mapping fungal diversity for nature cons @fundive-fungi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🍄Microfungi on insects🍄 Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

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Robin Hutchinson @robin-hutchinson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Exciting visit from a Ruby-tailed wasp during my @pomscheme.bsky.social lunchtime FIT Count!

A ruby-tailed wasp walking over a hogweed flower

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A stunning celebration of Scottish hoverflies from @scottshanks.bsky.social 😊👏#InsectWeek @royentsoc.bsky.social

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

As @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek begins, we’re excited to share the latest @pomscheme.bsky.social annual report 🐝🪰🪲 Explore this year’s findings and help us welcome The RHS as a new PoMS partner! 👏🏼 Planting a variety of flowers and creating diverse habitats is key for pollinators 🌼 🧵🧪 1/

Front cover of UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme Annual Report 2024, including image of Variable Nomad Bee, Nomada zonata
© Steven Falk and logos of UKCEH, JNCC and PoMS

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The sun is shining for #FITcounts this weekend! On Sunday @pomscheme.bsky.social team enjoyed introducing families to the insect life on our community meadow, as part of The Springline Project @chilternsnl.bsky.social #MendtheGap We’d love to hear of other community events where you are 🐝☀️

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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A nonconformist upwards-facing Downlooker Snipefly 😂 @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social

A Downlooker Snipefly sitting on a Hawthorn leaf in a non-typical posture with head upwards

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ukladybirds.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It is such a pleasure to be with you all - I am having a wonderful time immersed in the worlds of entomology and mycology (a perfect pair) during this fabulous workshop on cryptic fungi - thank you so much for inviting me @ukceh.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Ladybird lab at the Cryptic Fungi workshop going swimmingly! We were looking for Hesperomyces, a small fungus on ladybirds we caught yesterday. #VisegradFund #TeamLaboul

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GLiTRS @glitrs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉 We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜 "Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa A summary 🧵 below (1/7)

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The @ukceh.bsky.social PoMS team enjoyed their first FIT Counts of 2025 during the sunshine at lunchtime today! Great to be back in action again, look forward to seeing everyone's results during the coming months.

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1. A FIT Count taking place on a grassy area outside the UKCEH reception entrance, and adjacent to the reception signboard.
2. A person's hands holding the FIT Count app while watching insects of a group of flowers within a quadrat.
3. Two people watching insects during a FIT Count on a blackthorn hedge.
4. Close up of a solitary bee (Andrena flavipes) on a dandleion flower.

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