thank you so much @bsbibotany.bsky.social!! It is going to be such a fun event! I am looking forward to your awesome social calendar over the year too!

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Don’t miss the excellent @kitenet.bsky.social and his talk 50 Years of Soldierfly Recording 🪰 Join us at #NFBRConference2026 to uncover what 50 years of recording can reveal—from long-term trends to the future of monitoring and conservation. 🔗 Book: bit.ly/4sZO4iz
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Wow, what a fabulous #WildFlowerHour, so many different species coming into bloom right now: huge thanks to all of you who shared your lovely photos!
Have a great week plant-spotting & look out for the next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge set by the amazing @botanybeck.bsky.social

A wonderful #wildflowerhour this evening, huge thanks for sharing your gorgeous photos & for taking part in this week’s #cabbagefamily challenge! Keep a lookout for the next one and happy flower hunting! ☺️

Two lizards (one colourful red blue and brown lizard and one striped brown and cream) sitting amongst rocks and grass.

"As regards coloration, the species is one of the most beautiful." The Peloponnesian Lizard, Lacerta peloponnesiaca, illustrated by James Green in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1911). www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31251864

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Sometimes on trail cameras in Monks Wood NNR we detect these black feral cats, living totally wild in the wood for decades, maybe centuries, without any human interaction. Always black, very stocky, rarely seen. I found a dead kitten once. They live as Wild Cats, just as elusive, undocumented.

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It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour!
Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you spotted in bloom this week across Britain & Ireland, especially if they were in the Brassicaceae family for this week's #CabbageChallenge.
Let us know if you need any #WildFlowerID help!

Caterpillars are about! Elophila nymphaeata
(Brown China-mark) in its home made of pond weed leaf cut-outs and Eriocrania sangii (Purple Spring Jewel) in a leaf mine on birch on Dorset heathlands on Friday #teammoth @dorsetmoths.bsky.social

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve spotted flowering this week from across Britain & Ireland especially if they are members of the #cabbagefamily the theme of this week’s challenge! ☺️

Ooh even better!! Thank you!!

A close up of a section of Hazel leaf (underside) showing some glandular hairs along the central vein and some pale yellowy-green aphids.

A wider view of the underside of a Hazel leaf, with pale aphids quite visible against the slightly darker green leaf.

I spent some time checking fresh growth of Hazel for Large Hazel Aphid Corylobium avellanae, which has a preference for buds and new growth. I didn't find any, but there were plenty of Small Hazel Aphids Myzocallis coryli (influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Myzo...) on the undersides of the leaves.

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Ash dieback is having some odd disturbance effects in ancient woodland. The extra light under dying ash canopy is allowing these wild roses to go crazy, scrambling up the tree trunks to heights of 7 m, forming these funky columns.

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Are you wanting to get your copy of the awesome "The Biological Recording Handbook - Making Wildlife Count" signed, in person, by the wonderful author - @sarahwhild.bsky.social? Then join us at #NFBRConference2026 Book here: bit.ly/4sZO4iz (p.s. you can buy copy there too!) #BiologicalRecording

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Sound up for 'demand calls' of a female Marsh Tit. They give this call when demanding extra food from their male, when forming eggs or, like here, during regular breaks from incubation. It's a sure sign of a nest nearby. Used to be called 'begging call', but it's more like nagging, she's in charge!

It’s not rocket science… a bit of urban recording in #Shrewsbury yields Eruca sativa, Rocket #pavementplants #urbanbotany

A top-down view of the weevil, on a plain pale background. Its body is covered in scales, mostly dark, with several bright white patches.

Today's new species is courtesy of my wife ❤️, who found this very lovely weevil on her sandwich at lunchtime, & kindly passed it over to me: Mogulones asperifoliarum, which was likely carried in from the garden where it feeds on forget-me-nots & related plants. #beetles #weevils

A colour photograph of a printed colour chart. A table headed "Red" includes squares of varying shades of red. On each row are listed an animal, vegetable, and a mineral in which this colour appears in nature.

A photograph of a title page headed "Werner's nomenclature of colours."

Mark on Head of Red Grouse, Brown Disk of common Marigold, Precious Garnet -- What's your Werner Red colour today? Follow the link in our bio to see more of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours in our Digitised Special Collections. #NatureInArt

This Monks Wood #rewilding (natural colonisation) plot is 30 years old this year. It's taken that long for this single Bluebell to migrate 20m from adjacent ancient woodland to colonise the plot. But now it's here, joining the growing trees & shrubs: future ancient woodland in the making.

#BeeFlyWatch

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How to feed your garden birds without spreading disease Summer feeding should be paused because this is a time when natural food sources such as caterpillars, bugs and flies, are much more abundant.

We have just updated our guidance on what and when to feed garden birds: Feed seasonally. Feed safely.

To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds.

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Another paper supported by #GuardIAS has just been published: Reconsidering the role of introduced species in the
climate-affected and highly invaded eastern #Mediterranean.

#bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies

Springo! nature-walk checklist poster prompting finds like bluebells, birds, butterfly, stream, clouds, shell, buds.

Here's some ideas for things to look, listen and sniff on a spring nature walk!

I went for a very short walk this morning, and found two brand new hectad records!

Portuguese Laurel and Fritillary, both non-native, but it's important to record them appearing in wild places. #RecordSubmitted

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From the design inspiration, a plant list, the sculpture Dark Amber and more!
Thank you to Project Giving Back for sponsoring the garden.