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David Kleijn @davidkleijn.bsky.social · 2d

Intensifying grassland management leads to massive loss of arthropod species. However, total arthropod numbers remain more or less stable. Many losers, few winners. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 1d

I shall have to pay attention to the weather. And try and get hold of the full paper!

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting reference you've found there.

Personally, I'm struggling earwig-wise. So hot and dry this year, I wonder if they've been keeping hidden in cooler, damper spots. And despite repeated searching, have only found one specimen of one species other than Common.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for earwigs at Goodnestone Gardens in East Kent yesterday (with head gardener's permission). Only found Common Earwig,but this included several macrolabic males with big pincers. Also enjoyed the lovely gardens & café. #Goodnestone #Dermaptera #KentNature

A male Common Earwig with much larger than normal pincers (macrolabic form).

Maggie inkcap fungi growing on woodchip mulch in a plant bed.

A new area of amazing, 'jungle'-style planting.

'Birdwatcher Bill'. One of a number of sculptures around the garden.

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 3d

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · 2d

The Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail - one of a series of photographs I commissioned whilst working on the Back from the Brink project so that people could actually *see* some of our most threatened and beautiful species.

📷: Alex Hyde/Back from the Brink

Little Whirlpool Ramshorn Snail on a fingertip

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Are we the bad guys? How did newts, bats and now snails become the unlikely poster children of an anti-growth narrative? A healthy, functioning natural environment is not a luxury — it’s essential to economic resilience, public health, and wellbeing.

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Newts, bats and snails against a red background

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 4d

A Southern Green Shieldbug from scrub in the Rainham Dock East part of Riverside Country Park in Rainham (Kent) yesterday. #bugs #Truebugs #Hemiptera #KentNature

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 5d

Craig Bennett, CEO of the Wildlife Trusts: “It is... shocking to hear the chancellor boast allowing people with privileged access to try & circumvent some of the processes that have been put in place by parliament, & to hear how she just dismisses ecological science as if it somehow doesn’t matter.”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’ Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, “we have a good relationship”. The government has been working on planning reforms that nature experts say put wildlife at risk. The reforms could include discarding the EU-derived habitats regulations that protect rare animals, and adding more pro-building amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill, which is going through parliament. Continue reading...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

We always knew that Labour cares about little else other than keeping private developers happy.

But here's proof showing off to JP Morgan despite destruction of some of the "rarest creatures in our country."

Let's make that description Labour votes.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 8d

A good thread here.

Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 9d

More ill thought out 'conservation' translocations 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/... - so much to unpack here #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧵

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities

Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 11d

Cor. Great song.

Great tash.

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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · 11d

We've been engaging farmers with moth monitoring from the Chilterns to Pembrokeshire. Using portable bucket traps and an AI based app - farmers love uncovering hidden biodiversity!

Read my blog here:
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

@ukceh.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

Engaging farmers in moth monitoring to support biodiversity

UKCEH has recently been working with farmers to monitor biodiversity on their land using innovative equipment and simple recording methods to make moth trapping accessible to all. What started in the ...

www.ceh.ac.uk

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Kent Field Club @kentfieldclub.bsky.social · 12d

Not long now till the Kent Wildlife Conference. Have you booked your (very reasonably priced) place? Ten speakers, covering bees, botany, beavers and much more, plus lunch and refreshments all included. Let's all meet IRL!

Book now at tinyurl.com/kentwildconf.

#KentWildlife

Kent Wildlife Conference

Saturday 25th October Kent Wildlife Conference 10am to 4pm. At the Darwin Conference Suite, Darwin College, University of Kent. Register by scrolling down and clicking the 'Register' button. Or...

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 13d

Also from Castle Coote yesterday, this smart-looking Short-winged Conehead male. What it was doing right out on the saltmarsh, I'm not sure. #Orthoptera #ukorthoptera #KentNature

A green bush-cricket with short brown wings which only reach about half-way along its abdomen. Its pointed head (to the left) explains why it is called a 'conehead'.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 13d

... thanks FOR allowing ... (D'oh!)

Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 13d

And many thanks to @kentwildlife.bsky.social was allowing access to this normally closed site.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 13d

On yesterday's @kentfieldclub.bsky.social meeting at Castle Foote on the North Kent coast, I was really pleased to find the rare ground bug Henestaris halophilus in numbers across the saltmarsh. Habitat shot has notes in alt text. #bugs #truebugs #Hemiptera #KentNature @britishbugs.bsky.social

A small, brown bug on the fabric of an insect net. Its head, with eyes on protruding stalks, is lower left.

A stretch upper saltmarsh sward, consisting of a mix of grasses and fairly low-growing Sea-purslane. The bug was swept easily from this vegetation. However, it was not found where Sea-purslane grew in dense, shrubby, single-species stands.

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 15d

Male & female Stripe-winged Grasshoppers seen last week at Crickley Hill CP in Gloucs. Males are less strikingly marked than females (though with redder tails) but the very broad forewing with elongated cells in the dark central area and a prominent white 'stigma' can be seen in both sexes.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 17d

Some of the seven Spurgebug nymphs on the front wall of the house this pm. Presumably must be Dicranocephalus medius as we're on the North Downs in Kent. #bugs #truebugs #Hemiptera #KentNature

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 17d

See also 'Bee of the Bird of the Moth' by the above-mentioned.

Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 17d

NYC's finest with one of the greatest invertebrate-themed songs ever.

They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 17d

TMBG on Kimmel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pnO...

They Might Be Giants – Doctor Worm

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18d

Labour haven't learned any lessons from the past and are looking to involve private finance in the building of new 'neighbourhood health centres'.

And Reform can't wait to sell off our precious NHS.

Only the Green Party stands for a health service run for people, not profit.

NO PLACE FOR PRIVATE PROFIT
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · 18d

Excited to get my copy of Endemic by @bsbicountries.bsky.social today. Not because *ahem* I'm in the chapter on Interrupted Brome, but because of the many other spp & subsp to explore - some of which (like Great Orme's Graylings) I realise I've already seen without realising their significance.

Cover of a book: 'Endemic - Exploring the Wildlife Unique to Britain' by Kames Harding-Morris.

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