How to create a basket from tree branches.

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When you go down to the woods today...

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Join the Scottish #OilBeetleHunt in 2024!

🔎Scottish records of #OilBeetles on iRecord more than doubled last year thanks to the combined effort of the Scottish Oil Beetle Hunt & surveying by the Species on the Edge team.
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If you'd like to learn how to take images like this absolute cracker by Paul Fraser 🐟, Paul will be running a series of macro photography daytrips in Scotland for us throughout the spring and summer. Dates and details on our website: mariposanature.com/calendar

Daddy or Jenny Long Legs ...I'm team Daddy lol 😆

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I'm happy to announce that I'll be collaborating with Stephen Ritz and Green Bronx Machine

Can't wait to see how my photography fits in with the 'Let's Learn with Mr Ritz' show on PBS

#macro #photography #nature #wildlife #insects #animals #earth #love #education

🖤 Anyone spotting #OilBeetles over the weekend?

✅ If so don't forget to record your finds via OilBeetlesUK, you can do so here
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coleoptera.org.uk/meloidae/home

#⃣ Use #OilBeetleHunt hashtag to share on socials too! Great job Bex 👌🪲🐌🦋🐜

It's cold outside, so here's a little jumper (Euophrys petrensis).

#macro #macro photography #spider #salticidae #nature #wildlife #jumpingspider #wildlife #animals #love

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Great image from Paul!

Book on his macro workshops with us this coming summer…

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Another gorgeous image from one of our macro masters! If you'd like to join Paul for a macro photography workshop this summer, he's running days for us at two locations in Scotland at weekends during May - August. Dates and locations on our website:

mariposanature.com/calendar

Pink to make you wink. What a beautiful Pink Crab Spider. In times of low insect prey abundance, they can utilise pollen and nectar.

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#macro #spider #flower #nature #wildlife #pink

I had to get a photo out on #WorldWildlifeDay

I absolutely love the colours of this Skipper Butterfly 🦋

#macro #macro photography #wildlife #butterfly #butterflies
#nature #insect #animal #love

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My first Ladybird of 2024... woo hoo!! Spring is almost upon us 😊

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#ladybird #beetle #insect #wildlife #outdoors #scotland #photography

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In Scotland, Paul Fraser 🐟 will be running macro photography workshops at two different sites each month during May-August. Guests can choose either Cashel Forest... (12 May, 9 June, 20 July, or 10 August)

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Two of the finest British photographers of the new wave of macro photography, Paul Fraser & Lee Frost, will be collaborating with us to offer macro workshops in Scotland and England this spring and summer! (2/2)

Full details on our website:
mariposanature.com/calendar

#WildlifeWednesday is here!

🐝 Today we're talking #bees . This is the beautiful Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum), one of our social bees which nests in cavities, old birds' nests & mossy lawns.

👅Just look at that tongue & 'cheeky' face!

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We're absolutely delighted to welcome a new face to our team - award-winning macro photographer, Buglife ambassador, and qualified ecologist Paul Fraser. Paul's images are exquisite, and we'll shortly announce a series of macro photography workshop dates where you can join him...

One of my favourite Flower Crab Spiders from last years trip to Dorset 💜🤍

#macro #macro photography #nature #spider #crabspider #purple #white #wildlife #outdoors

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#WildlifeWednesday is here!

🌊Today we meet the endemic, enigmatic, Northern February Red (Brachyptera putata) & relaunch our annual #CitizenScience project The Hunt for the #NorthernFebruaryRed !

🪰A small, native, stonefly, which is brown in colour.

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The goal of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure. 🧠

The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question.