How do you use the #NorthEast #GreenBelt and what are its benefits? As part of my PhD on #MultifunctionalGreenBelts I'm running a #survey where you can answer questions about the green belt using maps! Click the link to participate: mpt.link/greenbeltsurvey RTs welcomed!

Bumblebees can interact with inanimate objects as a form of play despite having no apparent incentive to do so, a team of UK researchers has found.

So happy to share that my #DamonBlue #butterfly photo, taken in Parco Gran Paradiso, won the student award for ‘Up-Close and Personal’ in the #CapturingEcology2022!🦋⛰️ Thanks to the British Ecological Society! britishecologicalsociety.org/capturing-ecol…

Capturing Ecology 2022 – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

Congratulations to Francesca Martelli 🌻 for winning the student award in the British Ecological Society #CapturingEcology2022 competition in the ‘Up-Close and Personal’ category!🦋⛰️ Geog & Env Sciences #BES2022

Even if I wasn't there, I'm so honoured that my photo was present at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Edinburgh! 🦋 #CapturingEcology #Closeup #butterfly #Polyommatusdamon #macrophotography

Born today, with the signature of 10 founders, at the wonderful Orto Botanico in Rome, Citizen Science Italia ETS. Another important step towards the Italian coordination of citizen science European Citizen Science Association, European Citizen Science #citizenscienceitalia #scienzapartecipata

Oh look 👀 British Ecological Society’s Niche magazine has arrived 📬, & winning the photo competition in the student ‘up close and personal’ category is Geog & Env Sciences’s very own Francesca Martelli 🌻, with a wonderful early morning 📸 of a Damon blue butterfly (Polyommatus Damon). Well done Francesca!

Our exhibition ‘Foraged codes’ is now open at Shieldfield Art Works 15th- 29th March This collaboration project between Jim Spendlove and I, combines science and illustration to give a visual representation of urban honeybee forage. Music: Less.people - Hoboken Provided by Lofi girl

Next Tuesday I’ll present my Geog & Env Sciences research at the @NEE_Naturalist's #1829talk program! Come and join the free event to find out how I am evaluating socio-economic factors affecting #urbanpollinators in #allotmentgardens and #residentialgardens 🐝 More details below👇

Today visiting the ‘Foraged Codes’ exhibition at Shieldfield Art Works, showing Beatrice Dale 's great work on flower pollen colours through Jim Spendlove beautiful illustrations! 🐝🌼

It was such a pleasure to share my urban #pollinators research tonight for the #1829talks series! 🏡🌸🐝 Thank you very much @NEE_Naturalist for the wonderful opportunity and to everyone for coming!

Tomorrow, for the first time, I will present our #Cacyreusmarshalli research at the 2023 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Symposium! 🌺 Come and join our session if you want to find out more about the one and ony #alien #butterfly species in Europe  🛸 🦋 rdcu.be/cUFk1

It was great to see so many international research this year at the #BCSymposium, and in particular attending Yasuhiro Nakamura's talk from the #JapaneseButterflyConservationSociety! 🦋🗾

Three years after my traineeship at BC Scotland, I met again with Polly and David at the #BCSymposium! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 So great to hear from their #butterflyconservation activities, as the #NorthernBrownArgus research - a declining Scottish butterfly that I was lucky to see in 2019!

Looking forward to sharing the first results of my PhD on Wednesay morning at the #BES2023 conference in Belfast! 🐝🪻 Come along to the "New perspectives on plants-#pollinators-people interactions in #cities" to hear about it 🌼 British Ecological Society

It was great to be invited to talk about the #LuxuryEffect on urban #pollinators and #flowers at the #BES2023 conferece, and to discuss new perspectives on plants-pollinators-people interactions in #cities! 🌼🐝 British Ecological Society

On Tuesday 13th (7 pm) I will talk about social factors affecting #pollinators in urban #allotments and #gardens at the Wildlife Gardening Forum webinar, together with Dr Tomos Siôn Jones presenting the GardenEscapers project! To join the online event, visit the link 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/pollinators-…