🕸️Our world is made of an invisible web.

Loss of species weakens this web & can alter an entire ecosystem, & this affects us too.

Take pollinators for example. Without them, most of our food wouldn't exist.

Food and Agriculture Organization's work to protect #biodiversity
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Silver Y moths (Autographa gamma) in an East Lothian field today. Seem to be a lot of these this year. #Moths BC Scotland BC East Scotland

Dagger fly or Dance fly (Empis tessellata) having lunch in an East Lothian field today. #Diptera

A very handsome, juvenile male Broad Bodied chaser (Libellula depressa). Taken this morning at an East Lothian pond. Good to meet up with, and learn from, Alan Brown. #Odonata #Dragonflies BDS Scotland British Dragonfly Society

The very hairy caterpillar of the Garden tiger moth
(Arctia caja) found in an East Lothian field this morning. #Moths BC East Scotland BC Scotland

Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major) carefully directing her eggs into the burrows of ground nesting bees. Shot last week in Saltoun Big Wood, East Lothian. #BeeFlies

Evacuation from Vovchansk continues. People cry because Russians burned their city down. Some people refuse to go because they can’t leave their relatives who are missing

It’s painful to watch, but there's no other way to get a sense of what people went through because of Russia

Pheasant Back mushrooms (Polyporus squamous) aka Dryad’s Saddle. Found today at two locations along the Water of Leith at Currie. #Fungi #Mushrooms

#GeneralElection

The Iberian Lynx population has doubled in last 3 years. Politicians, including the PP (the Spanish conservative party) are calling it magnificent news & state that they must continue the #conservation effort. In Britain our version of PP don't even want Swift bricks...

Horrible, dull, wet day today. Perfect to seek out roosting Orange-tip butterflies (Anthocharis cardamines). No worries about them flying off either. Found this one on a garlic mustard plant in Blinkbonny along the Water of Leith. #Butterflies BC East Scotland BC Scotland Water of Leith Conservation Trust

Spotted a caterpillar on the heather on Torduff Hill, Bonaly yesterday evening. Using the heather as cover but actually reaching down to feed on Blaeberry. Possibly larva of The Pheonix moth? (Eulithis prunata). #Moths BC East Scotland BC Scotland

St Mark's fly (Bibio marci) aka hawthorn fly seen roosting on heathers in Leadburn Community Woodland south of Penicuik. #Bibio

Several larvae of the Oak Eggar moth (Lasiocampa quercus) seen yesterday evening feeding on heathers in Leadburn Community Woodland. #Moths BC East Scotland BC Scotland

Up on Torduff Hill, Bonaly again this evening looking for Green Hairsteak butterflies (Callophrys rubi). Lots of mating pairs. #Butterflies BC East Scotland BC Scotland

Bella Donita holding an Israeli official to account in January on Sky News, it was her last ever appearance.

Like Sangita Myska she was cancelled.

RT the hell out of this, we can't let the Media get away with this.

Snout fly (Rhingia campestris) aka Heineken fly (as it reaches the parts of the flower other flies cannot reach). Seen this evening on the flowers of Water Avens at Leadburn Community Woodland. #Diptera

Common snipe fly (Rhagio mystaceus?) also known as the down-looker fly from it's habit of perching head down on trees and fence posts as this one was doing. Seen at Leadburn Community Woodland this evening. #Rhagionidae

A male Scorpion fly (Panorpa sp) seen this evening at Leadburn Community Woodland. #ScorpionFlies #Mecoptera

Bog beacon (Mitrula palidosa) lighting up the aquatic vegetation in the ponds at Saltoun Wood, East Lothian. #Fungi #Mushrooms