Gary W Hartley
@garybugsyou.bsky.social
Writer: Bugs, biodiversity, farming and odd lit. The Observer, New Scientist, Scientific American, The Times, Farming Future Food etc.
Retired daft poetry guy. Perennially mildly-disappointed #lufc fan. Half-hearted groundhopper. gary at gwhartley dot com
Retired daft poetry guy. Perennially mildly-disappointed #lufc fan. Half-hearted groundhopper. gary at gwhartley dot com
And now for the top story on our bloodsucking neighbours.
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#nature #scicomm #bugsky #behaviour #mosquito
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#nature #scicomm #bugsky #behaviour #mosquito
Mosquitoes Have Personalities, Too
New experiments reveal that mosquito larvae range from shy to adventurous, with implications for pest management and ecology.
sciencespectrumu.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
And now for the top story on our bloodsucking neighbours.
sciencespectrumu.com/mosquitoes-h...
#nature #scicomm #bugsky #behaviour #mosquito
sciencespectrumu.com/mosquitoes-h...
#nature #scicomm #bugsky #behaviour #mosquito
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Give someone the gift of The Blizzard this Christmas 🎄🎅
Subscriptions, art prints and books - it's Christmas time at The Blizzard.
The perfect gifts for the thinking football fan
Find out more: theblizzard.co.uk/the-blizzard...
The perfect gifts for the thinking football fan
Find out more: theblizzard.co.uk/the-blizzard...
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Give someone the gift of The Blizzard this Christmas 🎄🎅
An optimistic one to start the week, on beavers being accidental pollinator conservation experts.
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #hoversky #rivers #water #nature
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #hoversky #rivers #water #nature
Where beavers return, pollinators follow: the quiet power of wild wetlands
Wild beavers are engineering habitats that supercharge insects humans struggle to protect.
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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If Red Bull GmbH are going to use my football club to advertise their brand, I’m sure as hell going to talk about what else they get up to. #lufc
The Devil Inside
While anxiety exists over what the future may bring, looming large over our football club is a brand that already overshadows and undermines much of what #LUFC is, and the great work that it does.
by @btngnrtn.bsky.social
While anxiety exists over what the future may bring, looming large over our football club is a brand that already overshadows and undermines much of what #LUFC is, and the great work that it does.
by @btngnrtn.bsky.social
The Devil Inside • The Square Ball
While anxiety exists over what the future may bring, looming large over our football club is a brand that already overshadows and undermines what LUFC is.
thesquareball.net
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If Red Bull GmbH are going to use my football club to advertise their brand, I’m sure as hell going to talk about what else they get up to. #lufc
A mean, wintry beauty in #Scarborough #Seasky
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A mean, wintry beauty in #Scarborough #Seasky
Non-native species: not all bad, it seems.
Could a new hitchhiking hero rescue some of Europe's most treasured trees?
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #scicomm #nature #wasps
Could a new hitchhiking hero rescue some of Europe's most treasured trees?
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #scicomm #nature #wasps
Europe’s beleaguered box trees could have an accidental saviour
An East Asian parasitoid wasp has quietly made itself at home in Europe — and could be nature’s answer to a devastating garden pest.
medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Non-native species: not all bad, it seems.
Could a new hitchhiking hero rescue some of Europe's most treasured trees?
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #scicomm #nature #wasps
Could a new hitchhiking hero rescue some of Europe's most treasured trees?
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #scicomm #nature #wasps
An astonishing clash of tone and content, bravo
🫁 Had a cough for more than 3 weeks or experiencing loss of appetite - it could be lung cancer, contact your GP.
Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance has teamed up with the Seadogs to tackle lung cancer this November – which is #LungCancerAwarenessMonth
More info 👉 https://loom.ly/FO1Wtcc
Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance has teamed up with the Seadogs to tackle lung cancer this November – which is #LungCancerAwarenessMonth
More info 👉 https://loom.ly/FO1Wtcc
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
An astonishing clash of tone and content, bravo
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Insect farming can produce a range of useful products from #protein to #biofuels, but Ben Brown, COO of @insectbiotech.bsky.social says the sector needs to be far savvier about what they're feeding their bugs on.
farmingfuturefood.com/insect-farmi...
#sustainablefood #feed #farming
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#sustainablefood #feed #farming
Insect farming needs to use true waste to be sustainable, says industry leader - Farming Future Food
InsectBiotech’s Ben Brown says insect farms must use true organic waste and low-energy setups to succeed.
farmingfuturefood.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Insect farming can produce a range of useful products from #protein to #biofuels, but Ben Brown, COO of @insectbiotech.bsky.social says the sector needs to be far savvier about what they're feeding their bugs on.
farmingfuturefood.com/insect-farmi...
#sustainablefood #feed #farming
farmingfuturefood.com/insect-farmi...
#sustainablefood #feed #farming
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wrote a little something on hot damselfly sex lives, if you're into that kind of thing
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #nature #scicomm #climatechange #insects
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #nature #scicomm #climatechange #insects
Heatwaves dampen damselfly sex lives
New research shows persistent temperature highs reduce damselfly mating, revealing how climate change disrupts insect reproduction.
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Wrote a little something on hot damselfly sex lives, if you're into that kind of thing
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #nature #scicomm #climatechange #insects
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #nature #scicomm #climatechange #insects
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Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
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"...and in the "French story of the year" category..."
77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market.
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...
77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market.
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...
"Il est coriace !" : cet homme de 77 ans a survécu trois jours au fond d’un ravin après une chute de 40 mètres à vélo
Un homme de 77 ans a été retrouvé sain et sauf mardi après avoir passé trois jours dans un profond ravin dans les Cévennes dans le département de la Lozère. Il avait chuté de 40 mètres en rentrant à v...
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"...and in the "French story of the year" category..."
77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market.
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...
77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market.
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...
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The last few years haven't been too kind to the insect #protein industry.
Speaking at a @royentsoc.bsky.social event, analyst Corentin Biteau said leaders have been overstating #sustainability and profitability all along, with a radical refocus needed
farmingfuturefood.com/analyst-warn...
#farming
Speaking at a @royentsoc.bsky.social event, analyst Corentin Biteau said leaders have been overstating #sustainability and profitability all along, with a radical refocus needed
farmingfuturefood.com/analyst-warn...
#farming
Analyst warns insect farming may be overstating its sustainability and profitability - Farming Future Food
Research finds insect farming’s impact depends on context, feed sources and regulation.
farmingfuturefood.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The last few years haven't been too kind to the insect #protein industry.
Speaking at a @royentsoc.bsky.social event, analyst Corentin Biteau said leaders have been overstating #sustainability and profitability all along, with a radical refocus needed
farmingfuturefood.com/analyst-warn...
#farming
Speaking at a @royentsoc.bsky.social event, analyst Corentin Biteau said leaders have been overstating #sustainability and profitability all along, with a radical refocus needed
farmingfuturefood.com/analyst-warn...
#farming
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Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI initiative to “discover it all, protect it forever.”
California’s grand insect census
California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level. Somewhere between the redwoods and the Salton Sea live perhaps 60,000,…
news.mongabay.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI initiative to “discover it all, protect it forever.”
Don't think I've ever seen a hairbrush lounging in a bush before, so here's the curio for your pleasure
#shrubbery #ispy
#shrubbery #ispy
October 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Don't think I've ever seen a hairbrush lounging in a bush before, so here's the curio for your pleasure
#shrubbery #ispy
#shrubbery #ispy
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“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.”
— @miquai.bsky.social
— @miquai.bsky.social
What Searching For Aliens Reveals About Ourselves | NOEMA
Looking for life beyond Earth changes the way we perceive life right here at home.
www.noemamag.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.”
— @miquai.bsky.social
— @miquai.bsky.social
Said a very grudging farewell to magnificent #Bosnia and Herzegovina last week, after a couple of months among the myriad mountains, meadows and sinkholes.
Met a whole bunch of interesting #conservation people, and I'm hoping to tell their stories soon.
#nature #scicomm #wildlife
Met a whole bunch of interesting #conservation people, and I'm hoping to tell their stories soon.
#nature #scicomm #wildlife
October 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Said a very grudging farewell to magnificent #Bosnia and Herzegovina last week, after a couple of months among the myriad mountains, meadows and sinkholes.
Met a whole bunch of interesting #conservation people, and I'm hoping to tell their stories soon.
#nature #scicomm #wildlife
Met a whole bunch of interesting #conservation people, and I'm hoping to tell their stories soon.
#nature #scicomm #wildlife
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Shell companies for snail farms. Just beautiful.
What the...
October 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Shell companies for snail farms. Just beautiful.
Bosnia's last warm days and it's a mad, colourful #pollinator sugar scramble.
#bugsky #buttersky #beesky #BiH
#bugsky #buttersky #beesky #BiH
October 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Bosnia's last warm days and it's a mad, colourful #pollinator sugar scramble.
#bugsky #buttersky #beesky #BiH
#bugsky #buttersky #beesky #BiH
"Well done for trying": the homeopathy of compliments when tentatively attempting a new language
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"Well done for trying": the homeopathy of compliments when tentatively attempting a new language
Utterly incredible story. The non-human world will not be subdued, despite our best efforts.
#nature #wetlands #plantsky
#nature #wetlands #plantsky
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Same story - 2 very different takes.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Same story - 2 very different takes.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.
Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.