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Graeme Lyons

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Freelance entomologist specialising in reserve management, conservation grazing, rewilding & farming. 2nd place pan-species listing. Spiders. Bugs. Grew up below poverty line. AuDHD. Writing this https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan-species-listing

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · Aug 17

Some frustrating news from the Pelagic the Publishers, the book launch has been put back from 21st October to 27th January next year! Gutted but nothing I can do about it. The book is over 400 pages though, it appears someone couldn't shut up once they started. pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...

Pan-Species Listing

Pan-species listing is a brilliant method to keep track of a lifetime of natural history sightings. A personal list, not just of birds but including every moth, beetle, lichen, sea-spider, liverwort, ...

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to Maria Corina Machado for her work opposing authoritarianism in Venezuela. This is what true leadership and fighting for social justice looks like

#Antifa #Resistance #BadAssWomen

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 22h

Not by me!

Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 2d

Mark Telfer and I only went and refound Aulonia albimana on the Isle of Wight two days ago! Quite possibly the best spider find of my life! Lots of other records too. analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/10/whit...

#spiders #Isleofwight #biologicalrecording #panspecieslisting

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 2d

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Two spiders that I seem to find if I'm NOT looking for them:
Antistea elegans is a spider I've wanted to find on the Bucks section of the R. Chess, having years ago seen Doug Marriott's records for it on the Herts side

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 2d

Well that would have been a useful image to see along with the epigyne!

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 2d

I think this looks more like cristatus. It's much broader than high, with large gaps above. The bottom is very broad and flat. flavipes is usually always about as broad as it is high and fits neatly into the hole, with small gaps above.

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 7d

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Me: I don't have a favourite UK spider

Also me: 😍

#Arachtober

Ero tuberculata, a rather scarce Pirate Spider is found mainly on mature heathland on tall heather and gorse, but sometimes also in houses. It searches out the webs of other spiders in order to feed on the occupants

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 8d

A write up of an incredible few days at Menai with at least 15 nudibranchs (eight were lifers) and some very talented young naturalists that showed them to us!

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 8d

It was lush. There were several on there around Gorey, so they must surely be breeding now.

Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 9d

2/2 I have 23 records, almost of all of which are from the Weald where the are more large, beatable oak trees.

Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 9d

1/2 #speciesaday no. 648 is Phaeostigma notata. One of our four species of snakefly (all four in different genera) and the one I record most frequently, (though never common) typically by beating oaks in the spring/early summer. All my records are between 5th May and 13th July, most in May - June.

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 10d

2/2 I have eight records from three sites. It is common in one area of Old Lodge and Graffham Common but I also saw it at Hoyle Farm in 2023.

Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 10d

1/2 #speciesaday no. 647 is Orchesella flavescens. A scarce and rather striking springtail that I only see on acidic woodland sites in Sussex. It was also my 350,000th record entered into my Recorder 6 database! This was from Graffham Common on 31st August. I am very behind with #speciesaday!

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 12d

Lots of amazing invertebrates away from the rock pools on Jersey too! analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/09/one-...

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 15d

A random encounter at a refurbished farmhouse - I wondered what this little orange blob moving slowly across the floor was. As soon as I saw the distinctive dash, the game was up! Oonops domesticus, new to the Lizard Peninsula @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 23d

A cracking two day trip to the Ecrehous! analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 24d

Getting out of the car in Camborne:

Cake collection....3 minutes.

Badumna longinqua count....5

It's as easy as...errrm...cake?

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 25d

A rather epic blog about the amazing rock pools of Jersey, including a whole load of awesome nudibranchs.

"Look sir, dorids"

So I have just got back from the longest holiday I have had in a decade. Ten days on Jersey. After really getting the bug last September, I ...

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 25d

Surprised to see adult Pirata last week, amazed that it's P. tenuitarsis! Same reserve as the last time I saw it 3years ago, but an isolated Sphagnum mire at the other end of the very well worked site. Incredibly localised species. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

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Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social · 26d

Good to finally get across to the border and do a bit of conifer wood bashing in Devon. Didn't take me long to find the mossy habitat for Centromerus serratus. It was accompanied by the usual Saaristoa firma and Porrhomma pallidum. @britishspiders.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · Aug 31

#speciesaday no. 646 is Poophagus sisymbrii (ha ha, he said poop). A contender for the most stupid name of any weevil. Not scarce but weirdly my only records of this are from this year at Broughton Sanctuary in Yorkshire, where it's common in a water-cress filled ditch.

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · Aug 31

Didn't see any up there! I know what you mean though. I can't go out in shorts anyway as I am allergic to the grass.

Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · Aug 30

The night of the 11th/12th July was a very warm tropical night with lots of wanderers. The trap was full of unusual by-catch as well, so I am not surprised we had some unusual things turning up. How scarce is KBA up there then? Is that not spreading as fast as Tree-lichen Beauty?

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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · Aug 30

Excellent, great news!

Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · Aug 30

I should add we were not acting as verifiers here, just collating other's records so I can only vouch for my own. If someone said they'd seen something, we took their word for it.