The little parasitic wasp Sapyga quinquepunctata investigating our garden bee-hotel yesterday; she's back-lit by the late afternoon sunshine. These wasps lay their eggs in the nests of Osmia mason bees. #WaspLove

Dorcus!

Schizophyllum commune 🤍🤍

there are no trans women competing in the olympics so 'gender critical' terfs have decided to attack a couple of cìs women boxers instead — for not looking feminine enough. the cult of J.K. Rowling isn't about women's rights. it's conservatism and misogyny dressed up as feminism.

My adoring worldwide minion-adjacent community. It. Is. Time. Within the next few hours I shall open, spreading my pungency far and wide to attract pollinators! Well... mostly horticulturists and botanists if I'm honest but those are acceptable substitutes.

Puss Moth, (Cerura vinula), on Gooseneck Loosestrife, from our #Yorkshire garden last night.

Just a Jewel Wasp washing along #DiggerAlley RSPB Minsmere 🌍 RSPB England RSPB

To JK Rowling and her ilk, protecting women’s sports is shaming a female Taiwanese boxer who has always competed as a woman and learned to box to protect her mother from domestic violence? We talk regularly about TERFs, but they’ve taken the “pro-beating women” stance here.

I keep thinking how 3 little girls were killed & more were hurt & traumatised, & instead of talking about their precious lives, we are being forced to focus on violent entitled white men burning cars & towns, who don’t give a shit about women’s & girls’ safety.

We see you media…

Nothing to see here, just the self appointed head of Twitching, followed diligently by 1000s of birders sharing dates for far right marches. But birding definitely doesn't have any issue with racism or inclusion...

This is why.

In the coming days TV news in particular will make sure that everything is decontextualised, neutered, detached from a wider conversation about why racism is a problem, and the pogroms will be recast as apolitical street violence — hooliganism — with no underlying cause

There are occasions when nuance is required and empathy has to be extended to both sides. Nazi riots isn’t one of them.

Free webinar with @timgardiner3 about his research into the decline of one of Britain's most iconic beetles in Essex BENHS Royal Entomological Society Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland Buglife AES - amentsoc.org eventbrite.co.uk/e/804017065687

ニョロニョロ出ていたエダナシツノホコリ 細かく枝分かれするナミウチツノホコリと違ってこちらは根元から分かれるだけのシンプルなつくり。 ちっこいマルトビムシが一匹、根元部分をモグモグとしておられる。

Social science is critical for conservation. But, very little conservation social science is being taught as part of conservation courses, and it is rare for those topics to be taught by social science and humanities faculty. Read on: academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

Curious behaviour from the Green Eyed Flower Bee (A. bimaculata) along RSPB Minsmere 🌍 #DiggerAlley Taking sand back underground after digging it all out! Steven Falk Buglife RSPB England RSPB

The lichens and moss covering the Islesford Dock are beautiful!