My wonderful supervisor rescuing a Kestrel chic. What a legend!

Some thoughts from me and others on insect decline & the role of pesticides theguardian.com/environment/ar… Dept of Zoology @cambridge_uccri

Marbled whites are on the wing

For #insectweek I would like to introduce an amazing migration story of a parasitoid wasp who follows her host moths on migration! This is an Obtusodonta equitatoria wasp who lays her eggs in Noctuid moths. While I was in the Pyrenees we would trap large numbers of Noctuid

Seeing lots of other lovely insect life while walking my transects like these lovely Tiger craneflies

Want to do a PhD on why buzz pollination evolves? I will be recruiting a PhD student this Autumn (4 years, fully funded). The official ad will come at the end of summer. if you are interested in the studentship please email me so I can send you the full ad when available.

Mr Hemmings day of Dance in Sat in Abingdon. Hope you can make it! 😀

First small skipper of the year on todays transect 😀

Got very excited to see this comma feeding on bramble on my transect today. Only my second of the year so far...

Fully-funded PhD on moth trapping, automated ID, climate extremes & predator responses, with David Roy 🐛 and me at University of Exeter CEC in Cornwall. Deadline ** 29 July **. Please share! exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

I've just signed this, and would urge everybody to do so. We don't need to spray poisons in our streets and parks. Pls RT pesticidecollaboration.org/go-pesticide-f… #GoPesticideFree PAN UK

Our Pavement Plants guide is now available for free download on the Natural History Museum website!

Small heaths from todays transects nicely finishing off the week 😀

Feeling very autumnal all of a sudden on my transects and rain stopped fieldwork today (hoping for sun tomorrow)

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 semifinal team Stamen to That University of Reading. For a reminder sign up at forms.office.com/e/Aw2uJn5vWq Streamed live on the day, then recorded YouTube youtube.com/@BotanicalUniv…… Dr M still going wild! UoR BioSci Alastair Culham Vikki Rose Joshua Ajowele

The phenomenal time at #BUC2024 Botanical University Challenge University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum with our fantastic speakers, attendees, and partners! Great fun with Dr M still going wild! trying his hand at freshwater plants and BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland FISCs. Thank you to the fantastic Lauren Baker for her organisational brilliance!

12 days away, and subject to change, but this is the most promising chart for a spell of warm southerly air, that I've seen in a long while! [chart for 16:00 on 22/9] #insectmigration

Caterpillar people of twitter, are we happy that the caterpillar I found in my trap last night is indeed orange swift or am I completely out? #caterpillar #mothcaterpillar #caterpillaridentification

The 2025 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Moth Recorders' Meeting is open for booking! The meeting will be held online via Zoom on Saturday 25th January 2025. The programme for the day is being drawn up. To book you place visit butterfly-conservation.org/moths/uk-moth-…

Tuyvae douglasboyesi - a newly described moth from Colombia. dx.doi.org/10.57800/fauni…: "dedicated to a young and enthusiast British entomologist, Douglas Boyes Dr Douglas Boyes, who left us too early" Sadly missed by us all NCL Network Ecology UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @DarrenMarkEvans @RichardFoxBC