📢 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS ipbes invites nominations for individuals with a passion for biodiversity to participate in its youth workshop in December. This is a chance to learn, engage & explore pathways for a sustainable future. 📋 Apply/nominate today! 🌐 ipbes.net/ipbes-youth-wo…

We are delighted to launch our Organisational Membership scheme 🪲 This option enables organisations to provide RES membership to their staff team at a discounted rate. We encourage partners & supporters across academia, NGOs & industry to join us 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/organisational…

Nature managed by #IndigenousPeoples and local communities is under increasing pressure. 🌏🌿 On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, check out our new infographic & discover how crucial they are to preserving #biodiversity. ⤵️ - ipbes #GlobalAssessment 📚 ipbes.net/global-assessm…

Our Discover & Learn hub is full of activities to keep the kids amused this #SummerHolidays 🦋🔍 Why not head out with the family and see how many of these summer butterflies and flowers you can spot? Download the spotter sheet 👉 butrfli.es/3nbazVw

On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, let's remember that ⬇️ Local knowledge & practices can enhance #nature conservation, restoration & sustainable use.🦙 - ipbes #GlobalAssessment ipbes.net/global-assessm…

Discover a wide range of #InvasiveAlienSpecies via this ipbes infographic👇

🐝#Pollinators are responsible for much more than food-crops. From biofuels to medicines, we rely on pollinators in much of our daily lives.🐝 Check out a few facts about pollinators from the ipbes #PollinationAssessment Read the Report here⤵️ ipbes.net/assessment-rep…

Having got my first moth trap in 2018, this morning I caught my 500th macro species: Little Thorn. What it's doing out in Devon in August I don't know, but thanks to UK Moth Identification for reassuring me I wasn't hallucinating (as well as years of generous ID help). Onwards... #TeamMoth

Amongst the Micro species were adults and a larva of Stethorus pusillus (Dot Ladybird) and a good sized colony of Clitostethus arcuatus (Horseshoe Ladybird) with 8 adults, incl mating pair and 5 larvae seen. #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

🌿 With #biodiversity in rapid decline, ipbes is working tirelessly to inform global action through science for the protection of our ecosystems & nature's contributions to people. 👉 ipbes.net

#WaspConcern continues! I chatted with BBC Norfolk BBC Nottingham BBC Humberside BBC Lincolnshire BBC Cumbria BBC Somerset & BBC Radio 5 Live, today about why so few wasps, why it matters, & how Big Wasp Survey is monitoring wasps. More on wasps here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/endle… UCL News

Wednesday’s ‘good sized colony’ of Clitostethus arcuatus (Horseshoe Ladybird) was blown way out of the water this afternoon, when I found in excess of 70! It was absolutely extraordinary! Think there’s around 45 just in my tray (+ a pupa & seeds!) #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

Surveying for #LadybirdAtlas2025 yesterday in O00, a hectad with no ladybird records turned up Heather Ladybird & Hieroglyphic Ladybird early on in a few sweeps of wet heath near Granabeg. 7-spot, 10-spot, 14-spot, 22-spot, & Larch ladybirds also from hectad around Ballyknockan.

The first proofs for my next guide to spiders have arrived and I’m really pleased with them, which is unusual for me!

Unbelievably the only Ladybird spotted today on Martin Down

18-spot Ladybird (Myrrha octodecimguttata) tapped from Scots Pine along Blessington Lake at Valleymount, Wicklow last week. #LadybirdAtlas2025

JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are advertising an 18-month research assistant position to investigate the drivers of insect biodiversity change, working on the fabulous GLITRS Project (glitrs.ceh.ac.uk). DM to discuss further details, or apply here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

#DYK that #InvasiveAlienSpecies are one of the five most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss? 🤔 Learn more about this global environmental threat that has severe local impacts! Read the #IAS ipbes Assessment or watch 1 of our summary videos ipbes.net/ias

Good news!📢 After over 2 decades, a giant pangolin, a species believed to be extinct, has been rediscovered in Senegal They are threatened by poaching & habitat loss, but this discovery revives hopes for the species’ survival in west Africa The Conversation Africa theconversation.com/giant-pangolin…

A blustery mooch this pm in NW Shrops, with 15 species seen, incl Stethorus pusillus (Dot LB), Scymnus suturalis (Conifer LB), a new S. auritus (Oak LB) still with ‘wax’ from the pupa, and Clitostethus arcuatus (Horseshoe LB), just the 1 this time!! #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird