3 days to go...can you help us record in Hull?! 🍃 All records collected during the City Nature Challenge are incorporated into our database and help local-decision making in our area: uk.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...
Deep dive into 50 years of butterfly data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme 📊🦋
The official results, plus fascinating talks on the latest developments in butterfly research and conservation, are now available to watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Aj...
#UKBMS50 #UKBRM
Amazing work by Humber Forest, recently planting their millionth tree!
By providing background ecological data, we are proud to help fulfil their aim of “planting the right tree, in the right place, for the right reason” 🌳
www.eastriding.gov.uk/news/article...
If you'd prefer to explore Hull's insect life, @thedeephull.bsky.social and East Park Animal Education Centre are holding a bug hunt weekend on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April - a fantastic family-friendly event! This is a free event but requires booking: www.thedeep.co.uk/events/bug-h... 🐜🪲
Join Hull Mammal Group to celebrate #MammalWeek and Hull City Nature Challenge with footprint tunnel recording at Humber Bridge Country Park on Saturday 25th April, 10:30 - 12:00. This is a free event but requires booking here: www.eastridingcoastandcountryside.co.uk/whats-on/eve... 🐁🐾
There are just 9 days to go until the Hull City Nature Challenge! Anyone can get involved, independently using @inaturalist.bsky.social to make records across Hull, or at one of the recording weekend's events including bug hunts and mammal recording. Details here: www.neyedc.org.uk/hull-cnc-2026
There’s still time to submit your records for PondNet Spawn Survey! 🐸
Freshwater Habitats Trust are collecting data on breeding frogs and toads. You can submit records of spawn spotted until 31st May:
freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/advice-resou...
📷 Common frog spawn found by Clare, Hassacarr LNR
Collage of invertebrates and Yorkshire Naturalists' Union logo
Join the YNU for their first Yorkshire Invertebrate Day and this coming Saturday, 18th April from 10:30am at YWT’s Potteric Carr Nature Reserve. It will be a day of snappy 20-minute presentations, formal and informal discussion and a chance to bring and view exhibits. Hope to see many of you there🪰🦗
Our team took advantage of the milder temperatures last night, with trapping sessions at Jubilee Pasture in Bugthorpe and Hagg Wood in Dunnington.
These under-recorded sites yielded a promising variety including these two Beauties #mothsmatter
Extreme weather events like this are often followed by weird and wonderful records. Have you ever found anything out of the ordinary? We'd love to hear about it!
Storm Dave produced an unusual record over Easter! This Black-throated Diver was spotted on a small pond in Flamborough. It had misjudged the size of the waterbody, unable to take off it was stranded without a food source. The diver was relocated to refuel and continue its journey.
📷David Aitken
Just over three weeks to go until the City Nature Challenge begins! Find out more and get involved in Hull City Nature Challenge on our website: www.neyedc.org.uk/hull-cnc-2026 and on iNaturalist: uk.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...
NEYEDC team members recently paid a visit to Park Wood Quarry on the Castle Howard estate to take some geological samples - an enjoyable chance to get out of the office and do some more unusual fieldwork! Read more on our blog: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...
The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust turns 80 this year and to celebrate they have launched The Wildlife Hero Awards. Do you know an individual, local group, school, business or professional that has gone above and beyond for wildlife? If so, you can nominate here: www.ywt.org.uk/wildlife-her...
Our Monad of the Month for March 2026 is TA2272, located near Flamborough in East Yorkshire. This series highlights under-recorded squares in our LERC area where we have few records. Could you record there? www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...
Fantastic! Thank you for the photos, really wonderful to see that little beauty. Hopefully there will be more (and when you've got your camera)!
More information and where to record your sightings can be found here dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch
Fingers crossed it's very soon! 🤞Hopefully they'll pose for a close-up, too...
A beautiful close-up of a Dark-edged Bee-fly, what a stunner! The lack of sightings of bee-flies this year was noted at the @ynuorg.bsky.social conference at the weekend. We hope to see more of these fluffy signs of spring during #BeeFlyWatch this season! @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
We had a fantastic day at the YNU conference this year! Thank you to the YNU and all the speakers for some fascinating insights and helping to spark some great conversations, both on the day and in future.
Simon especially thanks attendees for their lively engagement with his presentation "Success or not; you DECIDE", despite it being in the graveyard shift! 🦋
Our Director, Simon, would like to thank the @ynuorg.bsky.social YNU Lepidoptera Group for the hospitality at their Annual Meeting at Bramham on Sunday. The 2025 reports were fascinating and suggested some interesting patterns in the distribution of both butterflies and moths.
Details of the first event as part of this year's City Nature Challenge are now available on our website!: www.neyedc.org.uk/hull-cnc-2026
📍Alderman Kneeshaw Park
🕐11:00 - 15:00
📆Saturday 25th April
❓nature-based community event including a bug hunt and other family-friendly activities & recording
❗The UKCEH Biological Records Centre's National Recording Schemes Meeting 2026 is running this week, with the first part of the meeting TODAY at 14:00 and the second on Thursday at 18:15. For a full programme and registration, follow this link: www.brc.ac.uk/article/brc-...
The next instalment of 'Meet the YNU', where you can get to know the YNU Executive and section leads, is now live on the website: www.ynu.org.uk/about-the-yn....
You can also download a booklet of all the previous entries! ✏️
Supporting local recorders is part of our role at NEYEDC. We're always keen to get involved in recording projects across the region to lend our skills in data management, visualisation and analysis to compliment the field skills and expertise of our local recorders 🤝
The image shows a Reed Bunting, one of the surveyed birds. It is standing on a branch and has a black head, white neck and cheek, light rust and back wings, and a pale cream breast with strips of darker brown colour. It is looking towards the left of the image.
We were visited by one of our local recorders in the office this week in preparation for some exciting work analysing farmland bird transect survey data from the Wolds. Together our job will be to see what we can infer of their abundance, distribution, and habitat preference over a 13-year period 🪶
Quite the opposite - they seem very popular! 🐍
Wow!! Any tips for making an attractive garden for slow-worms?
Poster advertising a questionnaire for the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union's recording questionnaire
Can you help us with a recording questionnaire ahead of our annual conference on 21st March? If so, follow the link below: djcnjl-zcmp.maillist-manage.eu/click/12c1b6...