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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 10h

The Speckled Wood is unique in its ability to spend the winter as either a chrysalis or a caterpillar 🐛💤

Letting your grass grow long and leaving some dead plants is a great way to support this beautiful species throughout its lifecycle.

📷: Iain Cowe, Bob Eade, Andrew Cooper

Speckled Wood butterfly resting on a yellow leaf

Green caterpillar with white stripes along its body, clinging to a dead plant stem

Speckled Wood chrysalis showing the brown and yellow speckled wings of the newly-formed butterfly inside.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 2h

#AshlawncuttingLNR work party today. Hedge trimming,path edge cut and raked off and the last section of grassy bank cut leaving plenty uncut of everything for shelter and overwintering life stages,seed etc.

A section of layed hedge gets a trim to encourage it to thicken up.

The last of our large grassland banks part cut and raked off.

View of the last of the large grassland banks from the top of the bank .Plenty of cover left until Springtime.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3h

Give this post a click it shows one reason why species conservation is so important. We're part of nature not just in it!!

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3h

Why we need to invest in basic science. Sometimes discoveries like these lead to important benefits for society!

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3h

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3h

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3h

I guess you mean the bird LOL

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3h

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

Pic credit to Barry Silverman

Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

And 2 of these :-). I reckon they look great in flight.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

Not my pic

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

Stanford Resy early doors has seen a pair of Ibis' lately. About 7 a.m. at Welford Rd end.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

Ever get the feeling you'rebeing watched? Long Tailed Tit at Brandon Marsh today....#bird

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

🤔we got a lot of Glossy Ibis'...

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

Makes a change from Rugby :-). How long before we see them this far North?

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

#Teamwork at Brandon Marsh S.S.S.I. Myxomycete and #fungus being connected.

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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · 9d

With less than 2 weeks until the UKBMS 50th Anniversary conference we're sharing details of the talks and speakers.

Joe Cooper from the BTO will join us to talk about how UKBMS data has been used to improve the design of housing developments.

Book your free place here ⬇️
buff.ly/Kg7X3tA

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 2d

On that note I'd like to see the spoil bank put back into the quarry pool. A dream... #quarryreset

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 2d

.. a steep climb to a steep bank up on "gun hill" good views but hard work and great to get this bit done. Pics show work beginning.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 2d

Rugby Group's 1st visit to Newbold Quarry saw us make a good start on our grassland management today. Info in ALT....

East spoil bank ridge after cutting and raking. Break time!

No pull cord on our new battery clearing saw! #sustainable

This gully is all that remains of the ammunition store for the anti aircraft gun that was installed on the highest point,gun hill,

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West Midlands Fungus Group @westmidsfungi.bsky.social · 3d

Fluorescence of a Russula under 365nm UV light #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #Fluorescent

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

I miss the many small bakeries we used to have in every settlement in England. Each had it's own speciality and all were handy for hungry travellers. My local used to let us use spare oven space too.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

I had to look in the "flying in your area at other times" section to i-record it! @keithwarmie.bsky.social .

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

Funny thing is there was b*ggerall there the other day and I went through about 50 Greylags but they were all Greylags. Maybe a numbers game? Didn't see the Smew at the Country Park today either....and left ny flask in the car!

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

I saw a Blue one,prob Holly when the Brown one flew across and landed briefly. Both unexpected but at first I thought it might be late Meadow Brown flying funny LOL.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

Passes the time.....

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