Happy #EarthDay2026 .
If you'd like to read the story about the biodiversity volunteers @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social from our alumni and students who volunteer with us, check outb this link :)
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Don't forgot to book your free ticket for the in person KBN meeting tomorrow during #EarthDay2026 @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social at our Penrhyn Road Campus.
Here's your link to book.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/32999012375
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Thank you to everyone who took part, hears to a great survey season ahead
Happy to report that the ground nesting mining bee colony is still in our grassland at our Knights Park Campus and spotted this beautiful ground beetle, one in the genus Harpalus, and lots of Holly Blue and Large White butterflies trying to distract volunteers from the
Some of the participants hope to use this method on their own sites if they are too far away too help in the uni sites, which all helps to get more people monitoring 🤩 During the practice counts outside, we found a new location for ground nesting solitary bees at our Penryn Rd Campus and...
Had a great day yesterday delivering the @ukceh Flower Insect Timed Count training @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social as we start the survey season up again monitoring our sites as part of this national monitoring scheme. 1/4 @kingstonunilib.bsky.social @kingstoneconomics.bsky.social
Firecrest calls = a very rapid and slightly louder call compared to Goldcrests (Regulus regulus)
On this years bird census survey in our woodland @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social our bird survey ecologist found a Firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) singing on the latest visit. These are rare but increasing in Kingston. This is one of our Firecrests 😀 @rspb.bsky.social
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Images of Wildlife from Kingston University which is part of our biodiversity blog banner
Read all about it. Find out who's won the @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social Winter Wildlife Photo competition. Follow the link to our blog: kingstonunibiodiversity.blogspot.com/2026/03/23-0...
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Dive right into @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social 2026 RSPB #BigGardenBirdwatch results 😀
Follow the link below
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Ever wondered why we dig out invasive species or do other work in our woodland? Read our latest Tree and Woodland Management Plan 2026-2030 that explains why we do what we do @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social and how this protects and enhances biodiversity:)
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Read all about it, the latest biodiversity events newsletter from @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social s biodiversity group. mailchi.mp/9e0577f787ea...
Lots for everyone to get involved with across out sites 😍@kingstoneconomics.bsky.social @kingstonunilib.bsky.social
One video from today's site checks at #KingstonHillCampus an hour or so after sunrise, this is a kind of smoking bench that didn't set off someone's asthma:) #winter @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social @kingstonunilib.bsky.social (a few photos too in the reply below)
Back in the north bit of our woodland again after 9 years, in the first event of the year, our small but mighty team got a large area clear. We back in 2 weeks to do more. Sign up via my eventbrite to join in 😀 @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social @kingstonunilib.bsky.social
Images of groups of volunteers and attendees from various KUBAG events in November
Read all about it, the latest biodiversity newsletter from @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social 's biodiversity group.
tinyurl.com/KUBAGWINTER Filled with events you can get involved with this December and January 😀 @kingstonunilib.bsky.social @kingstoneconomics.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
A collage of photos of volunteers working at the edge of our sports feilds, managing scrub for slow worms and brown hairstreak butterflies
It was a great day at our sports ground at #tolworthcourt on Saturday, lots of scrub scalloped around shrubby hawthorns and blackthorn trees. No slow worms spotted under the mats, but a kestrel hovering over head for some of it :)
Well be back here in the spring for one more session in 2026 🌟
Our next Kingston Biodiversity Network meeting is tomorrow (Wed 22nd Oct 6.30pm Penrhynrd campus. Clattern Lecture Theatre). Free to attend. Find out what different groups are up to in the area that you can help to help nature thrive. Talks on mink, water vole+river restoration
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A fantastic day with the volunteers working on the pond (currently dry) at our Kingston Hill Campus @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social check out the Instagram story for more photos :)
More and more stands are setting up for #Freshers2025 @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social @kingstonunilib.bsky.social @kingstoneconomics.bsky.social @ksaresearchhub.bsky.social @pomscheme.bsky.social @sosukcharity.bsky.social
Come join us and check out all of the activities you can get involved with 😀
Three weeks of chasing butterflies and moths and the results (for our sites are in). Read the latest blog on @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social #bigbutterflycount2025, with a lot of help from @kingstonunilib.bsky.social and others. Here's the link tinyurl.com/4mfu4kj3 😀
Back on the Hogsmill for more balsam bashes. Our last one will be at our Sports ground site @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social on the 20th of Aug. Sign up for a lovely afternoon pulling balsam using this Eventbrite tiny url tinyurl.com/4fbf99p6
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Hi folks don't forget to sign up to the July Kingston Biodiversity Network Meeting sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/kingston-b... @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social we've had a location change- this quick video shows you how to get to the room 😀Pls share and come along @kingstonunilib.bsky.social
Come with me and we'll see a world of pure imagination made real! A world of floristic difference from the monoculture of bamboo that had been here at KSA @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social @kingstonunilib.bsky.social
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Lots of balsam pulled today - check out the Instagram Post with lots more photos. Thanks again everyone, esp for working in this heat!
We're back again next month, one mid week session @KingstonSchArt
then a Sat session in Elmbridge Meadows. Join us 😀
Read all about it. The latest biodiversity newsletter from @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social
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Some of our #CityNatureChallenge results and details of the next #KingstonBiodiversityNetwork meeting with a talk by @fungiflowers.bsky.social you won't want to miss!
Some shots of the fantastic volunteers today as we cleared tonnes balsam from the right bank of the Hogsmill River and the channel 2. We got permission from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social to access the bank via their Sports Ground -thank you 😊
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Mating Cabbage Bugs on possible Wintercress species
Buff-tailed Bumblebee feeding on possible Wintercress species
And my OMG OMG OMG moment! Green Hairstreak Butterfly in the grass!
Hoverfly larva in a Dog Rose flower
Common Carder on a White Dead Nettle
7-Spotted Ladybird on a White Dead Nettle leaf
Back at Tolworth Court Sports Grounds, undertaking mosaic cutting and removal of stone of the woodies ruderal plant species in the meadow area as part of the management there. Avoiding the ant hills on the site as we go. Some of the different species spotted this morning:
by 23 observers (some repeating sites) recording 513 species so far. And that's only on our sites. Numbers contributing to the larger London cnc2025 to come post the verifications that were all still doing 😀
But today a short break from verifications for @pomscheme.bsky.social FIT-Counts
