I did three major insect surveys in 2023. One of these was Ufton Fields SSSI/LNR in Warwickshire. We recorded over1,000 insect species at this former limestone quarry, 55 with conservation statuses. You can find out more here: researchgate.net/publication/37…

If you encounter a trap or anything else that seems dubious, contact the Environment Agency via their hotline on 0800 80 70 60.

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Water Shrew looking busy today- Cirencester.
#WildCiren BTO GLOS Mammal Society

Just laying out the Craneflies pages for our Guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland to be published next year. Here's just 4 of the pages showing the spectacular comb-horn craneflies. Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister Dipterists Forum BBO Wildlife Trust Chris Packham

The Trust made a splash on the Cranborne Chase this winter 💦.

Blocking this historically perched and channelised reach of winterbourne will encourage it to spill into the floodplain, re-wetting meadows and creating new complex ephemeral channels.

#DeathTrap for Otters, Water Shrews & other wildlife.

Illegal #Crayfish trap left in and abandoned for at least 6 months on the River Trent in Staffordshire. No trap tag, no Otter guards... reported to Environment Agency incident number. There may well be others acting as #GhostNets

Last year Nigel Jones and I had 8 days surveying insects in Upper Deeside between Muir of Dinnet NNR and Mar Lodge Estate. The report describing where we went and the circa 600 species we found can be found here: researchgate.net/publication/37…

1/3 Ragwort is a much maligned plant yet it is really important to a whole range of insects who benefit from its nectar and pollen and for other insects it provides food for their early stages. Butterfly Conservation 🦋

📻 Learning from the river: restoring the Danube

🌊 We're delighted to share the new episode of the MERLIN Podcast, which follows the ambitious restoration work taking place along the banks of the Danube River in Austria

📢Tune in: freshwaterblog.net/2024/04/09/mer…

The enigmatic Sussex Tiger Cranefly Nephrotoma sullingtoniensis, only known from one site in the UK until Graeme Lyons & Alice Parfitt found two new sites last year. This one among a fair few on Sunday at Alice's site Hurston Warren and c. 20 days earlier than found last year.

Time for a clear indication from Government that licence applications for free-living beavers will be favourably received Defra UK Natural England. Beaver Trust The Wildlife Trusts gov.uk/government/new…

One small (10 acres) wood in East Anglia is now holding back an additional 3 million litres of water thanks to a single family of beavers.

And they’ve done it in 5 years.

They are one of many solutions we know work but are reluctant to implement. players.brightcove.net/1995276282001/…

Giulio Biondi Tim Sykes ventured deep into nooks and crannies across the South Downs to bother aquatic invertebrates lurking in our hidden headwaters, then Jamal Kabir 🦋 Kieran Gething found the story in the data: specialist species galore! Great to see this out 🙌🍻

New in Hydrobiologia: Movement patterns of Japanese #crayfish revealed by long-term tracking with a passive integrated transponder tag system doi.org/10.1007/s10750… rdcu.be/dC5eX

#ICYMI ~ join our team & deliver our #WestMidlands Crayfish partnership project

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The steep valley woodlands of the Ure Gorge at Hackfall nr Masham are arguably unique in Yorkshire for their geological complexity and very humid conditions, which result from a combination of the river gorge location and myriads of springs.

An anastomosing, meandering and braided river flow exactly parallel to each other, deep inside the Congo rainforest: 0°35'35.97'Z, 17°18'14.59'O. This satellite image highlights that totally different river types can arise in a single, uniform environment.

1/2 #speciesaday no. 232 is Ctenophora flaveolata. Vulnerable. Another Batesian mimic, saproxylic cranefly. Larvae in big old pulpy Beech trees. This is the female. Would love to see ornata one day though.