The clock on our cooker is currently set to show British Spider Time 😂 no idea how it made its way in there BAS

Fabulous to see the great progress being made at the National Seed Bank of Wales Garden Of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru - rare Welsh plant species collected and protected for the future. And an endangered moss being grown for reintroduction into the wild.

We're hiring!
Do you have the skills, experience & enthusiasm to become our new Wales Officer?
To help deliver our #NatureNetworks funded Priority Plants on SSSIs project ?
Check out the job description & apply before 21st April:
bsbi.org/wales-officer-…
#RhwydweithiauNatur

UK’s Butterfly Winners and Losers of 2023 Revealed - latest results from Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UKBMS shows mixed results for different species & highlights the importance of long-term monitoring.

butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/…

The early spring tachinids are now flying so this is a good point to launch the new Tachinidae on Flickr resource: flickr.com/photos/6307520…. Has photos of about 95% of the British species. Species accounts for even more. This is a truly fascinating fly group. Use alongside keys.

📢 You need a protocol for harvesting #biodiversity data from #Facebook ? 📷🦋

Have a look at our new paper led by Shawan Chowdhury Shawan Chowdhury (শাওন চৌধুরী) Universität Jena iDiv Biodiversity Research UFZ with Corey Callaghan Enrico Di Minin Moreno Di Marco & colleagues
#socialmedia Conservation Biology

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Bamboozled by a bee - thought I had a new species for a moment, then I realised it must be an 'intersex' stylopised Andrena fulva. Looks like a female but has male's white moustache and long mandibles. Last photo shows a proper female with black facial hair.
Steven Falk

One of our final year undergraduate project students is carrying out a survey on the effectiveness of scientific communication on the public perceptions of bees. If you're UK-based and have a spare 5min, please fill it out and share! #Pollinators #SciComm survey.napier.ac.uk/n/zz8md.aspx

Job alert! 📢🦋🌱 More great opportunities now available with Butterfly Conservation 🦋, including Wild Spaces Officer and Wales Marsh Fritillary Recovery Project Officer 👉butterfly-conservation.org/jobs

Pre-PhD: I'm not that clever

Post-PhD: I have a sophisticated grasp of precisely how stupid I am in multiple fields

Not enough conversation about Aptos replacing Calibri as the default font on MS Word. How does everyone feel?

Lots of red squares in Wales! Please get in touch with UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme if you can contribute.

Calling UK fungus recorders and group organisers! The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Biological Records Centre would love to hear how/why you collect & share records of UK fungi, for work supported by the Natural England Species Recovery Programme: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online-s…… #fungi #biologicalrecording

4 moths, 2 species last night in Bucks. Hebrew Character & Chestnut(?) with bonus caddisfly Stenophylax permistus? UK Moth Identification Martin Harvey

x2 Fungi ID Workshops just gone live for booking. Please note that these require full day participation 10am - 4pm, classroom based with outdoor element. For beginners and those wanting to build confidence.
#Fungal24 #biodiversity #conservation #Mycology2024

Pleasantly surprised to find this Purple Thorn waiting by the front door when I got back from a gig last night

#ICYMI - 🌟Join our team🌟

🪲Could you be our #CoalSpoilConnections Conservation Officer, working across the South Wales Valleys colliery spoil tips?
👇
buglife.org.uk/job/conservati…

Not for you? ❤️🔃with your family & friends, to help Wales' invertebrates. 

#BuglifeCymru #Wales

Join the Biological Recording Company and The Buzz Club to hear about the experiences and lessons learned with regards to citizen science through a range of invertebrate projects. Check out our Citizen Science Virtual Symposium for more info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/773643988997

‼️REQUEST‼️
Does anyone have photos of themselves prior to 2000 monitoring wildlife, with wildlife, birding or with nest boxes?

Thankyou!

Not what I was expecting when I went out mothing last night, but a quick sweep of the net through some rushes at dusk produced my first bee-fly of the year 😍 (also saw some lovely spring moths) #BeeFlyWatch