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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 2d

Calling citizen scientists / mycologists, please consider helping ....

"This autumn, help Plantlife find Britain’s most colourful and important fungi – waxcaps."

#Fungi #Waxcaps

www.plantlife.org.uk/waxcapwatch/

Take part in Waxcap Watch 2025 - Plantlife

This autumn, help us find the UK’s grassland waxcaps. Knowing where waxcaps are thriving helps us to protect ancient meadows.

www.plantlife.org.uk

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Richard Wilson @ecology-digest.bsky.social · 2d

#Arachtober is a good month to remind folk my book #SpidersAndHarvestmenOfYorkshire by @naturebureau.bsky.social ought to be available to purchase by the end of the month.

It’s not too late to get a pre-publication offer here: www.naturebureau.co.uk/spiders-harv...

@britishspiders.bsky.social

Spiders & Harvestmen of Yorkshire – An Atlas naturebureau.co.uk

NatureBureau - one company, two passions. NatureBureau is a design and ecological consultancy, established more than 30 years ago. We combine ecological expertise with a distinctive style in graphic d...

www.naturebureau.co.uk

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 10d

UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer

Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.

www.bbc.co.uk

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Richard, could well be as a fair number still flying🙂

bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 14d

Anyone help with ID of these pupae would be appreciated, quite a few on various spp hedgerow plants #HumberheadLevels today #Lepidoptera #Butterflies

@rlewington2.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 23d

This was a massive distraction project, intended to draw attention away from the ongoing illegal killing on northern UK grouse moors.

Maybe now NE & Defra will put their (our!) money where it really needs to go - on ramped up enforcement.

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/16/g...

Good news! Natural England pulls the plug on ‘reintroduction’ of Hen Harriers to southern England

It’s been a long time coming, but today Natural England has announced it is finally pulling the plug on it’s project to ‘reintroduce’ Hen Harriers to southern England. It ma…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks Sudo👍 Yes, noticed that with some larger larvae which I knew to be Sawfly spp.

bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 24d

Looks spot on, thanks 👍

bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 24d

Wow, absolutely😊 thanks all, much appreciated👍

bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 25d

Wonder what 'predator' removed the end of this chrysalis to feed (?) on its contents? Hymenoptera spp perhaps? #HumberheadLevels #Parasitica @ianbeavis.bsky.social @suillia.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 25d

Suggestions for the ID of the little critter on this Alder leaf would be appreciated (zoom in to see), looks like might be a beetle larva? There are intriguing patterns created as well as just round holes in other nearby leaves. #Entomology #Coleoptera #HumberheadLevels @brianecambs.bsky.social

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 25d

Signs of Autumn, after the agricultural harvest there comes nature's offering in the #HumberheadLevels
Narrow rural roads with dykes either side with vast expanses of industrialised monocultures
Should it be farmed for #Food or #Energy? #Sustainability #Peat #Soils #Solar

Prunes spinosa aka Blackthorn or Sloe. Fruits used to make Sloe gin, the wood used for walking sticks & also the Irish Shillelagh!

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 27d

Liquid oozing from landfill + industrial waste + sewage - treated for pathogens then split, the solid part spread on farmland, the liquid part released into rivers - what could go wrong?

Our latest article out now:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms

Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

www.theguardian.com

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Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social · 29d

Government Ministers are set to decide on whether a new golf course should be built at Coul Links, which would cause irreversible damage to its incredible wildlife.

Sign our e-action and help save this precious habitat 👇

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#UKWildlife #BirdingScotland

A view out to a calm, blue sea over golden sands. There is tussocky dune grass in the foreground. Credit: Scott Leatham

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 27d

Toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on farms....

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms

Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

www.theguardian.com

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 28d

Great to meet up with staff from @mydoncaster.bsky.social Neighbourhood Team & introduce them to the volunteer led "Mire Emergency" project at Gomde, Lindholme where sphagnum is being propagated from local material, harvested & then when grown on sufficiently 'planted' out in damaged areas.

City of Doncaster Council Neighbourhood staff enjoying the benefits of the outdoor classroom at Lindholme to learn of the community conservation initiative delivering sphagnum propogation to help regenerate the local Moor.

City of Doncaster Council Neighbourhood team visit the "Mire Emergency" project at Gomde, Lindholme to see grassroots conservation delivering action.

Sphagnum doing well in the Mossery polytunnels at Lindolme. Local community initiative to help deliver recovery of damaged peatland. Key message to all was not to perpetuate destruction of peatlands by buying peat, but to go PEAT FREE.

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · Sep 9

An interesting #HumberheadLevels find, a female Southern Oak Bush-cricket found by a friend on her car earlier today. #Thorne #Doncaster #Yorkshire #Orthoptera
First recorded in UK in 2001 so a recent ish addition, a predator of Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner according to the literature!

Southern Oak Bush-cricket found in Thorne 09/09/2025

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

So please take a little time to send a message and stand up for nature, including Fonesca’s Seed Fly: action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270

Save Coul Links!

Your voice could help save this precious habitat from a new threat of development.

action.rspb.org.uk

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jul 29

🛑 Stop grouse shooting

📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice.

🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August

📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park

🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thanks, feedback much appreciated🙂

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · Aug 2

These little critters can inflict a quite painful 'bite', I can still feel it an hour after it pierced my finger 😒

Himacerus apterus aka Tree Damsel Bug in my #HumberheadLevels garden this afternoon🪳 #Nabidae

Himacerus apterus aka Tree Damsel Bug. Humbergead Levels garden.

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · Aug 2

Are there any #Sawfly #Symphyta experts able to confirm my thoughts that these are Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly in my #HumberheadLevels garden (mixed species hedge) this afternoon #Hymenoptera

Believe these to be Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly. Humberhead Levels garden hedge.

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · Aug 1

Weaker laws on chemical safety, anyone? No? Can't tempt you?

The government's fetish for slashing red tape continues.

On today's menu:
1. More biocides in rivers
2. More secrecy around decision making

Off the menu:
adopting the EU's new ban on hormone disrupting chemicals in children's toys

CHEM Trust @chemtrust.bsky.social · Aug 1

New deregulatory proposals to UK chemical regulations would:
🧪 Weaken vital chemical safety laws
🇬🇧🇪🇺 Increase divergence between UK and EU chemical regulation

A consultation on the proposed changes is open till 18th August, read more in our latest blog ➡️

Deregulatory proposals to UK chemical safety laws will remove vital consumer and environmental safeguards

Earlier this month, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) launched a public consultation on a package of deregulatory policy changes to chemicals regulation. If enacted, these changes will weaken vital…

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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · Jul 30

As well as Sarah's reply offering her observation see also youtu.be/vJdj5k47-SU?...

A nice surprise

YouTube video by The ramblings of an entomologist

youtu.be

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · Jul 29

Oil, acid, epoxy resin, heavy metals, plastics spewed from the burning wreck into the ocean, searing through local wildlife populations. Fish is a staple food + livelihood in this part of Sri Lanka: overnight, many families lost their livelihood + main source of food:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka

Scientists warn the damage to the environment after the 2021 X-Press Pearl disaster could be much more enduring.

www.bbc.co.uk

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