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@duleyp.bsky.social
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"Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous." Mon Mothma
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jemimasgarden.bsky.social
Make your Christmas cards even more special by slipping a packet of seeds inside 😊
Our packets of seeds are just the right size and will also make the wildlife happy🐝🦋🌱🦇🐛
Most are only £2 each, available from
www.jemimasgarden.co.uk
#MHHSBD
A purple Foxglove flower. The flowers are attached to an upright stem with mid-green leaves also appearing from the stem. The flowers have very pretty markings of dark reddish blobs inside a white ring inside each flower which are bell shaped. This is to help guide Bees to the top of the flower where the pollen is. The background is green consisting of grass and shrubs, trees and various plants.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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jemimasgarden.bsky.social
If you place an order for £25 (or over), between now and 18th December, I'll send you a voucher for £5 to be spent on any future order over £25.00.
The voucher can be used any time in the next year so perfect for using next spring 🐝 🦋 🌱
#MHHSBD
jemimasgarden.co.uk
A paper voucher entitling someone to £5 off their next order for £25 or over with Jemima's Garden. The voucher is a sample. The voucher is placed over a photograph of 6 different plants, all biennials. These are Clary Sage, Teasel, Foxglove, Hollyhock, Viper's Bugloss and Honesty.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
Opportunistic snap of a Fleecy Jumping #spider (Pseudeuophrys lanigera) which has taken up residence on our front door (least I think it is, corrections welcome!). It's tiny, about 2mm head to tail! Will try to get better 📸 on a day when I've more 🪫. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #arachnids
A close up photo of a spider on a white PVC door. Most of the frame is taken up with the white PVC which has a woodgrain effect embossed in to it. The spider is looking down from the top right corner of the frame. It is mainly dark brown with a light splodge down the middle of its abdomen, like a badly painted racing stripe. It's legs alternate in dark and light brown stripes. It has two large eyes at the front of its head.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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handle.invalid
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
What a fascinating set of data!
ukceh.bsky.social UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 7d
New analysis of 1960s land use maps, many created by schoolchildren and students, reveals fresh insights on the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by post-war agricultural intensification and urban growth in England and Wales.

www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c...

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#maps #LandUse
A split image showing Canford Heath, Dorset: left side features a 1960s land utilization survey map with color-coded zones; right side displays a present-day satellite view, highlighting urban development over former heathland. A historical land use map of Downham Market, Norfolk from the 1960s, shaded to show various land types like arable, urban, and woodland. Four digitised maps showing land cover changes in Wolverhampton, England from 1930 to 2020, highlighting shifts from broadleaved woodland and grassland to arable land and urban areas.
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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lgspace.bsky.social
Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as large ones – and when little green spaces join together with others, it creates a network of wildlife-friendly areas that benefits many different species.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...
Purple aubretia plant growing in a stone wall
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Climate change doesn’t stop at borders, and neither should we. The UK and EU must work together to protect our planet. Watch One Earth, One Team and see why cooperation matters: bsky.app/profile/euro...
europeanmovement.co.uk European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 7d
The UK has fallen behind the EU on climate policies, but cooperating with the EU could achieve cheaper bills, healthier communities, and a thriving natural world. As COP30 comes to a close tomorrow, we’re calling on the Government to team up with the EU to save our planet @carolinelucas.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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enepe.bsky.social
Lisière d'hiver
En arrière plan, un petit pont de pierre se cache entre les branches. À la surface du plan d'eau, les reflets des arbres se mêlent aux feuilles mortes et aux bois tombés dans l’eau. Tout autour, les arbres — certains dénudés, d’autres encore teintés des couleurs rousses de l’automne — enveloppent le paysage d’une douceur silencieuse.
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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rosariolebronentomology.com
Over the next few years I’ll be studying how our beloved pets might be unwittingly spreading pesticides into terrestrial ecosystems in the UK. The terrestrial impacts of this are not well characterized, and many of the affected organisms remain poorly studied. Great background here:
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Pet treatments could be harming freshwater life — Freshwater Biological Association
The FBA have produced a Scientific Info Note on how the use of flea treatment on pets could be causing problems in English rivers and lakes. Read more now.
www.fba.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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bug-gwen.bsky.social
Also a small nag to some of the AMAZING insect macro photographers that are joining us here: please don't forget to add alt-text to your photos! You can enable a reminder for that here:
A screenshot of Bluesky's accessibility panel, under settings. By clicking the "require alt text before posting", you'll be reminded if you forget alt text. You can also choose to display larger alt text badges, since the default size is small.
November 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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rosariolebronentomology.com
Spider mite up close. Thinking about a public-friendly UK intro to Acari, similar to other ID workshops but a bit trickier since these animals are so small. Would need a good host site, and if there’s interest, I may bring experts from the US. Thoughts? 🪲🪳 #invert #entomology
Scanning electron microscope image showing a spider mite in extraordinary detail on a plant surface. The mite’s oval body is covered in delicate, rippled lines, with fine sensory hairs extending in many directions. Each of its eight legs bends forward and ends in small pads and claws that press into the plant’s textured tissue. The background reveals a landscape of ridges, pores, and plant fibers, with one larger plant hair crossing the frame. The grayscale tones emphasize every contour and make the mite appear sculptural, showing the structure and complexity of an animal far smaller than a grain of sand.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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severnsidebirds.bsky.social
An eventful afternoon when a Penduline Tit was reported as being seen in the reedbed at Aust Warth. After a bit of detective work I realized the bird was actually seen on the pool next to Cake Pill at nearby Northwick Warth. Crappy pic but a full blown patch tick/1st record.
Red pin marks the pool and where seen. Plenty of parking nearby at Passage Rd off the A403 Penduline Tit in awful light at 4 20pm 1/30 s shutter speed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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cgatist.bsky.social
Thank you to the HCP who wrote to us about the real-world impact of our @decodemestudy.bsky.social study:
“I describe to all the patients I see with ME/CFS/FM this study as a key step in getting to new therapies whilst of course being realistic on expectations…I think even without treatment, knowing that what they have is a biological condition and not something ‘made up’ gives a lot of hope / relief. Similar to the paradigm shift as was seen with schizophrenia when everyone eventually realised it was a neurogenetic/neurodevelopmental condition.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
Arthropod Photo of the Week: November 5, 2025
Parasitoid wasp
Rhyssella sp.
Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae
By Christian Brockes (wildmacro.de), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
#arthropodPOTW
A close-up image of a black ichneumon wasp with long antennae and orange legs standing on a piece of wood, with a blurred green background.
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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rosariolebronentomology.com
A Tetragnatha, maybe a Shadow Stretch Spider? Beautiful animal. The golden mosaic patterning on the opisthosoma is incredible up close.

#ukwildlife 🌿 #bugsky
A close-up photograph of a slender long-jawed orb weaver spider (genus Tetragnatha) resting on a glossy green leaf. The spider has an elongated, narrow abdomen covered in a golden mosaic pattern that shimmers under the light. Its legs are very long, thin, and translucent, each marked with faint darker bands. The cephalothorax is pale and glossy, and the spider’s eyes form a small cluster near the front. Fine silk threads can be seen extending from the leaf surface. The background is a vivid, blurred green, emphasizing the delicate structure and coloration of the spider.
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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sarahdesigns.bsky.social
When I send orders I try to package them in a personal way, so that they're the kind of post that I'd like to receive.
#youwontgetthisfromtheretailgiants #attentiontodetail #everysalecounts #shopsmall
This is a photo of a blue tissue paper package containing greeting cards - it has a label illustrated with flowers. It's pictured lying on a brown envelope next to a business card and also a complimentary mini print which has a hand written note on the reverse.
November 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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jackdashby.bsky.social
Stellar's sea cows are fascinating for many reasons, not least because they were giant marine mammals that were first encountered by Europeans in 1741, & were driven to #extinction by 1768. I recently learnt they didn't have any finger bones (it's not just that they're missing from museum skeletons)
A Steller's sea cow skeleton in Vienna, with arrows drawn on the photo to point out the missing phalanges A Steller's sea cow skeleton in Vienna A Steller's sea cow skeleton in Vienna
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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lucibee.bsky.social
I live near a lovely small town of about 1600 people.

Every year, about 100,000 people show up and start reading books.
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24d
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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kristiellingsen.bsky.social
Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa
Most of a wolf spider, taken from directly above. The last segments of a few legs have been cut off by the frame. It is standing on holy salty sand, so the background looks like a solid slab of black specked beige. The spider is a mainly soft grey body with four black eyes showing. The abdomen is marked with a grey line and black rimmed blobs all over it. This made it incredibly hard to see if you weren't paying close attention. The legs are a more pinky white with diffuse black barring. If it was big enough people would be wearing the "pelt" as luxury coats. It's gorgeous. The same spider taken from a low angle, looking at the face slightly angled. This shows the female palps and the entire set of 8 black eyes. It also showed how the spider was right up on its "toes" ready for a fast get-away (or maybe the blinding white salt was hot to stand on). There is a bit of a shadow from the intense sunlight. Spider description is on the other photo.
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social
These parties today united to defeat Nigel Farage’s 10 minute rule bill to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Labour frontbench abstained, the Tories voted with Reform. Only these parties turned out in force. Will this get any/much coverage from BBC, ITV, Sky etc ?
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 29, 2025
Net-casting spider
Asianopis sp.
Araneae: Deinopidae
By Dennis Botterbusch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
#arthropodPOTW
Close-up of a spider facing the camera with a yellow egg sac beneath it, surrounded by soil and debris. The image shows fine details of the spider’s eyes, legs, and body texture.
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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rosariolebronentomology.com
Sunset on the coast today.
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A vivid photograph of a sunset along the Welsh coast. The foreground shows a dark rocky shoreline meeting a restless sea whose surface glimmers with streaks of reflected gold. The waves are small but persistent, each catching the warm light of the setting sun. The right side of the image is dominated by a sloping headland that rises steeply from the water, its surface dark and shadowed, creating a strong contrast with the bright horizon. Above the horizon, thick clouds fill the sky—heavy and textured in shades of deep grey and burnt orange. Near the center, the clouds part, revealing the sun half hidden behind them, glowing in intense amber and gold. Shafts of sunlight pierce downward through the openings, creating radiant beams that stretch across the water. In the far distance, faint outlines of the horizon blur into the haze of light. The overall atmosphere conveys both serenity and power: the meeting of sea, land, and light at the day’s end on the wild Welsh coast.
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
duleyp.bsky.social
Happened across a Noble False Widow #Spider in the garden, Steatoda nobilis. She'd set up home in the rotted out center of an old ivy trunk. Only had my #fairphone6 on me, but a good enough 📷 to share for #arachtober. #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife
A portrait photo of a large black spider. The majority of the frame is covered by light brown wood, in and out of focus. The spider is crouched on the left hand side of the frame with its legs stretched out across the frame to the right hand side. Its legs are a reddish brown, and are obscuring its head. Its large abodomen is predominantly black with some light white hairs around the edge, and white pattern, like an inverted Y, which is made up of small splodges, almost like mosaic tiles.
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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debrig63.bsky.social
I took these photos of a Green Elf Cup Fungi (Chlorociboria aeruginascens), it was only when putting them on the PC. I noticed this tiny Chthonius ischnocheles, the first I've ever seen around 1.5-2.5mm 😬
#Chthoniusischnocheles #falsescorpion #invertebrates #arachnid #macro
I took these photos of a Green Elf Cup Fungi (Chlorociboria aeruginascens), it was only when putting them on the PC. I noticed this tiny Chthonius ischnocheles, the first I've ever seen around 1.5-2.5mm
October 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM