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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Jessie Wainwright in 1974 was spreading the love of ‘weeds’ and Rewilding Britain from the start! www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cgn...

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I’m very sorry, I didn’t know her personally but as a PhD student myself and a geography graduate from Dundee uni it’s unthinkable that this tragedy has happened.

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Today rather than our usual, I’m posting a photo of Dr Fortune Gomo, a fellow geographer who was murdered in my city this weekend. We need knives off the streets. Such a tragedy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dr Fortune Gomo: Man charged over death of scientist in Dundee

Dr Fortune Gomo, who was originally from Zimbabwe, was pronounced dead at the scene in Dundee on Saturday.

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Slugs munching your crops and flowers? Well don’t reach for the chemical sprays! Birds frogs toads beetles and hedgehogs all feed on slugs so encourage them instead 🐸🦔🪲🐦

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🌈Pride flag colour🌈: 💚Green: nettles 💚 Stinging nettles get a bad rep but they actually provide vital habitat and food for butterfly caterpillars in particular AND they even make great soup! 🌿🦋🐛

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Another wall flower showing ‘weeds’ can brighten up any area - even stone walls! Red valerian, great for attracting humming bird hawk moths

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🌈Pride flag colour🌈: 💛Yellow dandelion💛 Often called weeds, dandelions are pioneering plants, growing in all sorts of locations often providing much needed colour to grey concrete paths. They are also great for pollinators 🐝🪰🦋

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The thistles are in bloom in our messy patch today and attracting plenty of attention from the local hoverflies! 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s World #Rainforest Day 🌳🌧️ Here in the UK we have temperate rainforests in each of the home nations! Home to over 500 species of mosses and lichens they support great biodiversity !

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

😊Good news story:Tiree Twist moths thought to be extinct in England since 1952 and limited to the island of Tiree have been FOUND in Kent ! 💚 www.itv.com/news/meridia...

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

🧡Orange 🧡 🌈Pride month colour focus 🌈 Fox and cubs aka Orange Hawkweed is an invasive ‘weed’ common in UK gardens which can attract bees🐝 butterflies🦋 and hoverflies🪰 & other insects 🐞 introduced from Southern Europe in 17th Century

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

What a great photo from Andrew Kirby in Somerset of this wee swimming mole!

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

❌ Say no to plastic grass ❌ -creates plastic pollution -loss of habitat -loss of co2 sink -inc flood risk -inc carbon -bad for soil, bugs, worms Fake grass is the last thing we need in a biodiversity crisis which is why I’m calling for it to be phased out as we #messupbritain for nature 💚🐝🌻

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This week the messy patch in our garden has seen the cornflowers and poppies pop up! 🐝💚

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Louise Broad @lou65broad.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

My garden is certainly messy. The grass in my ´wildflower meadow’ is about 6 ft high and the fruit and flowers are having to share their space with the weeds. I love it.🥰

Looking through arching tree branches to an uncut area of very tall grass. Mown lawn in the foreground and a very prolific mid pink shrub rose with a variegated honeysuckle trying to smother it.

Blackcurrant bushes with branches weighed down with loads of ripe berries. Rhubarb leaves, rampant raspberry canes and other vegetation crowded around.

Roses in red, pink, white and apricot pushing their way through a jungle of wild grasses, foxgloves, tansy and cleavers. Tamarisk, deutzia, spires, flowering currant, forsythia, dogwoods, eucalyptus, lonicera along the back and a large cordyline on the left. Lawn in front.

Rose ´Lady Emma Hamilton’ pushing her way up through a nemisia shrub. The tiny white flowers contrasting beautifully with the stunning apricot roses.

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Lots of buzzing around our #messy grass patch today! 💚🌻🐝🌿 #MessUpBritain #LetItBloomJune

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🌈Pride flag colour🌈: ❤️Red Poppies❤️ Did you know they don’t have nectar but rely on their vibrant red being great for attracting pollinators to their abundant pollen🐝

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#TitliTuesday Still waiting to photograph my 1st Scottish #butterfly so here are those seen in the last week in #Lancashire. Red admiral, large skipper, speckled wood and a single perfect painted lady. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #butterflies

Left hand side red admiral above a painted lady.
Right hand side top to bottom two large skipper, a very fresh speckled wood and another red admiral.

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It was performing a very good insect-attracting role, even on this rather overcast day, on this Barley crop headland in Dorset on Sunday. I'll be interested to see how many birds are drawn to the crop later in the year.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🐙🌿🕷️ Ever see a spider yawn? Well, now you have. Okay, not yawn as in draw a big sleepy breath - spiders don't breathe with their face - but this one is stretching its chelicerae (mouthparts that end in the fangs) wide, making them look like a Yosemite Sam mustache. Also, it's grooming its eyes--

A macro photo looking into the face of a pale yellow-green jumping spider atop bright blue fabric, with out of focus greenery in the background. The spider has a patch of bright orange hairs atop its head. One of its large central eyes looks black and the other green, which is from the internal reflective parts of the eyes being aimed in two different directions -- one not reflecting light, the other reflecting nearby greenery. The blue fabric is from a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap, which is this spider's favorite team.

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

* hint * I prefer the one with life 😉

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It’s probably no surprise that I love spying pioneering plants emerging from concrete, far better than removing #mess with chemical sprays! what’s better the first or second photo?🌻😊🐝

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Great to see @vadundee.bsky.social embracing mess for nature and creating these green spaces around the museum 🌿🌹🐝

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

If you are a follower of our campaign to #MessUpBritain for nature, you might be interested in this newly published book by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Urban Plants, looks great! 🌻🌹🪻

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Love the pun even if it is a sombre message Malcolm!

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Melody Hamby Goss @melodygoss111.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We each in this world of hostility towards the innocent, the hungry, the forgotten must embrace those most forgotten and that which makes our world whole. Our environment, our wildlife, our climate. Without which we wouldn't exist.

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

What strikes me is at the moment we have such a diversity of biodegradable options and yet there doesn’t seem to be an over all strategy with some places offering plastic and others cardboard , I thought we were meant to be ended single use plastic ?

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

For sure and I have no issue with sections at road junctions etc however for the miles and miles of straight road it’s a perfect easy win for nature to let it bloom for pollinators and small mammals to connect across intensive land uses 🦔🐝😊

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Another of my aims to #MessUpBritain is to encourage the end of regular rural road verge cutting. In a biodiversity crisis can we afford to continue this obsession with Neat and tidy, even on rural roads? Let’s inc connectivity and help restore biodiversity 🌿🌹🦋🌻

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It does make me wonder… if a company like McDonalds can see the environmental benefits of switching to cardboard lids rather than polluting plastics … why can’t Greggs?

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Amazing thanks for sharing the story fascinating!!

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

2/2 however plastics don’t biodegrade and cause serious microplastic pollution, we have made progress on plastic straws and other coffee chains have switch to paper so why not greggs ?

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

1/2 On #BoardOfPlastic, Iv been in talks with Greggs, they say “board lids significantly increase packaging weight, require more energy and water to produce, and reduce the number of units per pack—resulting in a higher carbon footprint and increased delivery”

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

As it’s #WorldEnvironmentDay I’m sharing my recent campaign calling on all coffee chains to switch from plastic to biodegradable cardboard coffee lids. All litter is bad but plastic doesn’t biodegrade and pollutes our messy spaces. Let’s make change together ♻️🥤☕️🧋

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay Here in the UK we’re one of the most nature depleted countries in the world but we CAN change that and messaging up Britain for nature by embracing and encouraging messy spaces is one such way! stateofnature.org.uk?fbclid=IwZXh...

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State of Nature 2023 - report on the UK’s current biodiversity

The State of Nature 2023 report uses data from biological monitoring and recording schemes to provide a benchmark for the status of wildlife in the UK.

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Wee Pond Project @weepondproject.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Well the recent rain in the East of Scotland may have dampened those summer BBQs but they sure helped top up my garden’s Wee Pond 💧🐸🌿 #WeePondProject

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Messy spotlight : Moles (Talpa europaea for Latin buffs) These little animals are remarkable- just look that those claws! They don’t feed on plants they in fact eat grubs which would damage plant roots and they aerate garden soils and improve drainage 👏😊

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Some great wee messy spaces left next to the mown grass in Nicolson Square garden in @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social Showing we can have both recreational short and messy long grass! 🌿🌱 #MessingUpBritain #Mess #Nature

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Great achievement by @lesswastelaura.bsky.social to get a ban made official, I see these vapes discarded in amongst the wildflowers and long grass all the time!

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Looking fantastic and some excellent photos

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