🌱 ■ Natural History GCSE ■ 🌱 Exam board Brand Changed have opened a consultation on a potential Natural History GCSE. A knock out opportunity to introduce more students to the joys of the natural world. Pls input your views and RT so others can too! teach.ocr.org.uk/naturalhistory

Looking at #plankton through the microscope camera with Dave Conway...so much amazing marine life living on the seaweed! #DToLBioblitz #MBABioblitz @MarClim_UK The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey

That's a wrap on another #BioBlitz a wonderful celebration of biodiversity with friends old and new. #DToLBioBlitz #MBABioBlitz MBA - Marine Biological Association Darwin Tree of Life Little Sparta Trust @_Seasearch

It’s #InsectWeek22! To celebrate we will be sharing images, videos and research focused on these amazing creatures. You can also explore the beauty of insects in our new 3D online macro photography exhibition: bit.ly/3zX9xkf

Violet sea-snail, Janthina janthina I think Jack S ? It creates a bubble raft to float at the surface. I have never seen such a thing before and wonder how often they are recorded.

The moth trap was particularly verdant today! #mothsmatter (Green arches, Common emerald, v-pug and a - not so green - green pug I think!)

That's a wrap! 19 years at MBA - Marine Biological Association comes to an end . One last look at the view before the next chapter begins and I start training as a secondary Biology teacher! 🥲

Youngest found this yesterday in some boarder shrubs, Plymouth. Trying to figure out what it might be. It seems to have been 'vacated'. Thinking maybe a moth cocoon? 10mm X 18mm. Thought you may know Barry Henwood Richard Comont? 🐛🦋?

There is very little that is as rewarding as helping someone suddenly understand something they did not understand a moment before. I also very much enjoy when someone else does it to me.

How about this for camouflage? Poplar Hawk-moth caterpillar on a poplar sapling at Fenn's Moss (Denbighshire), found by the eagle-eyed Tony Jacques.

A juvenile Shag (?) joined me for a while to see what it could find in the rock pools. No sound (to cut out the wind noise) but you will have to trust me, it had very 'slappy' feet!

This is special! Easily the best underwater footage of UK bluefin tuna we've ever seen. Filmed by @Wildislands_ in the Channel Islands.

Today is #NationalPoetryDay, the theme? The Environment💚 To celebrate this day we would like to share a #poem written by Natural England Norfolk and Suffolk's very own Fiona Tibbitt, accompanied by a beautiful #illustration created by Jack S 💚 So grab a coffee, sit back & be transported🌅

The mycelium network 🍄 It has been grown in a transparent bowl so we can see the whole organism🤯 The mushrooms you see are just the fruit of what lays underneath and what isn't visible to our eyes🍄 Magic! #UKFungusDay Photo by Aimee Cornwell (insta: peggyfarmandforage)

Fantastic fisheries research from Environment Agency BBC News - Ancient eel migration mystery unravelled bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

The larvae of the angled sunbeam butterfly have a strange shape. When they get angry or startled, they instantly shoot tentacles from the two protrusions on their back and swing them around.

BABY OCTOPUSES!

The #BigButterflyCount 2023 has officially started! 🦋 Our butterflies and moths need our help more than ever. This is why we are urging everyone to get out for the Count to help us conserve them! 💚 Get involved 👉 bigbutterflycount.org #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

Severed starfish arm, growing a new starfish! (Species Asterias rubens) MBA - Marine Biological Association