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Posts by Laura Weldon PhD
Small yellow and brown bee,not bumble or honey but a pollen collector
Halictus app. Tiny bee, on my knee
#invertebrates #ukwildlife
blue bell without colouration
#Wildflowerhour #woodlandplants bluebell but white, fairly confident it’s not a hybrid as deep in the woods and nodding (not upright)
#Wildflowerhour #woodlandplants violets
That is lovely!
Large white flower with yellowish centre found in woodland
#Wildflowerhour #woodlandplants wood anemone
Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction.
We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s.
We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third.
And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.
A screen grab describing the scarcity of white blue bells
First one I’ve ever seen in woodland amongst the blue, I was lucky as a day later the wild garlic flowered and I wouldn’t have spotted it at all. I thought it might be unusual and had a quick Google where I found this ….
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
A white native blue bell uk
1 in 10000, @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #flower white bluebell amongst the blue
Quick walk waiting for the last qPCR run and to let the dog stretch her legs look at this..bats and sunset what an evening!
I second this vote I love that book
Brilliant work Matt and Lucy
🪵🌊 Just published! Our study on #LeakyBarriers in #NaturalFloodManagement, exploring on in-channel #Hydrology, #Sediment and #Ecology w Matthew Taylor, Anne Harrison, @laurabees01.bsky.social, Estefania Golob, @hjrobson2.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social
📖 Access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....
Copper butterfly with brown markings on white yarrow flower
Small copper butterfly on yarrow, #butterfly #ukwildlife #invetebrate
Small blue butterfly on grass and bracken
Common blue butterfly, Trellech wet meadows #ukwildlife #butterfly #invertebrates
Underside of an oak leaf smothered in small brown eggs of a wasp
Silk-button spangle gall wasp eggs, (fabulous name!) thousands of them along this hedge.Trellech wet meadows #invertebrate #ukwildlife
Small copper butterfly on red clover
Small copper butterfly on red clover, Trellech meadows in the Wye valley #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife
I would watch that!
We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Single brown patterned wing from a moth probably an underwing
Lost wing of an underwing #moth #Ukwildlife #invertebrate
Brown butterfly with closed wings against a lichen covered stone. Wall butterfly.
Wall butterfly (living up to its name), endangered on the GB red list (2022) #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife
Colourful flyer with details of a one day eDNA workshop with Heal rewild.
Calling all conservation orgs in the UK (SouthWest), come and improve your eDNA skills at the beautiful @healrewilding.org.uk, hope to see you there.
Not a Harebell but a Nettle-leaved Bellflower (Campanula trachelium) growing in a shady spot in our garden with one of our smallest bees - a Small Scissor Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) which is strongly associated with Harebells and other bellflowers. #WildflowerHour
One in focus striped yellow and black caterpillar resting vertically on the stalk of a ragwort plant
Cinnabar moth caterpillars resting on heavily grazed ragwort. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife