336 bee hotels registered so far!!

Let’s keep the number going up - the more hotels, the more our results can help the bees! 🌿🐝

Dave Goulson

This is a female Tenthredo zona, a Sawfly. It caught my eye as it looked like a vespoid wasp from a distance - nr Wanstead Park. Appears to be the first record for East London and possibly second London record (21iv24). Larvae feed on St John's Wort . Rose Stephens🕷🐝🕸🐒🦇🐻🦊 WREN Group

3 stages of the bizarre Wolfs-milk Slime Mould (Lycogala epidendrum), found in Glen Affric whilst guiding today

This is a male hairy footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes. They're full of spring energy and joyous to see buzzing around the forget-me-nots here in N Wales.

If you catch one, give him a sniff, he smells remarkably like AussieHair shampoo!

Cypriot earthworms are migrants!

As the island rose from the sea due to tectonic activity, no earthworms were on the island originally!

~5m yrs ago, the drying of the Med. sea briefly revealed previously undersea ridges. Earthworms could then cross this land reach the island!

It's my firm belief that most (if not all) animals have some level of consciousness. Perhaps plants etc. too?

22 yrs ago, while writing Mountains of the Mind, I studied George Mallory's original letters home from Everest in 1921, '22 & '24, in Magdalene College's archive.
Now they've digitised/published them all.
Fascinating, moving documents.
Open access here: magdalene.maxarchiveservices.co.uk/index.php/to-r…

Lovely new video featuring the bees of University of Warwick here: vimeo.com/932553984/34b6…. A great pleasure to be part of this. Lots of great conservation work going on at the university, showing that sensitive development can have substantial wildlife benefits.

It’s #EarthDay2024

One planet we call home. Let’s look after it’s life. Urban nature often gets overlooked but our green spaces in towns/cities are essential for much of our wildlife. Get lazy, get messy, get aquatic & provide habitats for the 1000’s of other cohabiting species

This is 'my' project for Buglife, the secretive and wonderful Scarce Yellow Sally that we have been surveying for over the last few weeks (and found at a few lovely sites along the Dee - one new this year). Currently doing eDNA sampling with Chester Zoo & @derbyuni

Rhingia campestris gravid ♀ today in Bengeo garden, used to be very common but has suffered significant decline locally in recent years. Species appears to be badly affected by summer droughts. BNA – Herts branch #climatechange

Jellyfish, Sea Cucumber and other marine life. And maybe sinister alien….

Illustration from from 'Historiæ naturalis de quadrupetibus', 1657 (engraving) - Johannes Jonstonus

Copy from NHM Library and Archives & featured in my & RagsandRuby new book #Metamorphosis

This is a *really* great pledge by Sadiq Khan - to make the Thames (and all London rivers) clean enough to wild swim in.

Other mayors & candidates take note: access to clean rivers needs to become the norm in England

Right to Roam

thetimes.co.uk/article/sadiq-…

Incredible fly!

I spent yesterday searching an area of ancient woodland near Henley, and was rewarded with finding one of our rarest and most spectacular Craneflies, Ctenophora flaveolata. Without doubt the highlight of my year so far. Dipterists Forum

To some folk this might seem a daft thing to get excited about, but I’ve been hoping to come across one of these Wren farthing coins for years, and today I was given one in my change from a visit to the shop - so pleased!

Nature fighting back against Shit Lawns: ivy leaved toadflax, herb robert, and lamb's lettuce all poking up through this 'garden' in London.

How many times can I say innaproprate things in the name of Diptera? listen to find out.....

Photographing pollinators on the Marsh Marigolds in my local town park just a few minutes from where I live. Ultimate mindfulness.

Fun podcast on all things migratory insects by my MoveInEurope (vogelwarte.ch/en/projects/mo…) colleague, Vogelwarte_Science's PostDoc, Dr Will Leo Hawkes.