Rory Dimond
@rdimond.bsky.social
Environmental charity worker, wildlife gardener and volunteer. Avid entomology enthusiast. Mostly speaks about the smaller thigs (bees, wasps, flies, spiders etc.) on my local patch. He/Him.
Was just talking yesterday about greenwashing by big corporates. Google (claiming to be sustainable) are planning to build a data centre on one of Britain's rarest habitats, home to many scarce specialist invertebrates - help Buglife fight this. Sign here: 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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August 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Was just talking yesterday about greenwashing by big corporates. Google (claiming to be sustainable) are planning to build a data centre on one of Britain's rarest habitats, home to many scarce specialist invertebrates - help Buglife fight this. Sign here: 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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August 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Today I was blessed with the experience of sharing my lunch with a Blue Long-horned Snailkiller fly (Sepedon sphegea) . Some people feed the pigeons... #Invertefest #FliesofBritainandIreland
August 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today I was blessed with the experience of sharing my lunch with a Blue Long-horned Snailkiller fly (Sepedon sphegea) . Some people feed the pigeons... #Invertefest #FliesofBritainandIreland
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Female mason wasp Ancistrocerus scoticus building mud cells in relief carving on gravestone in St Agnes churchyard, Scilly
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Female mason wasp Ancistrocerus scoticus building mud cells in relief carving on gravestone in St Agnes churchyard, Scilly
Very pleased to have seen my first Yellow-faced Blowfly (Cynomyia mortorum) today on a Herts Invertebrate Project visit to Natural England's Hexton Estate. King of his chalky Hill chasing off the other less glamorous blowflies. #FliesofBritainandIreland #Entomology
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July 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Very pleased to have seen my first Yellow-faced Blowfly (Cynomyia mortorum) today on a Herts Invertebrate Project visit to Natural England's Hexton Estate. King of his chalky Hill chasing off the other less glamorous blowflies. #FliesofBritainandIreland #Entomology
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Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.
July 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.
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Lesser Bulb Fly (Eumerus funeralis) a small hoverfly is common in our garden & develops in Spanish Bluebells, also seen on its leaves was the Large Narcissus Fly a bumblebee mimic #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
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May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Lesser Bulb Fly (Eumerus funeralis) a small hoverfly is common in our garden & develops in Spanish Bluebells, also seen on its leaves was the Large Narcissus Fly a bumblebee mimic #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
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#InsectWeek is coming!
Insect Week is your annual chance to share and celebrate the fascinating world of insects. This year, we're Standing Tall for the Small and encouraging everyone to take action for insects.
#StandTallForTheSmall from 23-29 June 🐞🔽
www.insectweek.org
Insect Week is your annual chance to share and celebrate the fascinating world of insects. This year, we're Standing Tall for the Small and encouraging everyone to take action for insects.
#StandTallForTheSmall from 23-29 June 🐞🔽
www.insectweek.org
May 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#InsectWeek is coming!
Insect Week is your annual chance to share and celebrate the fascinating world of insects. This year, we're Standing Tall for the Small and encouraging everyone to take action for insects.
#StandTallForTheSmall from 23-29 June 🐞🔽
www.insectweek.org
Insect Week is your annual chance to share and celebrate the fascinating world of insects. This year, we're Standing Tall for the Small and encouraging everyone to take action for insects.
#StandTallForTheSmall from 23-29 June 🐞🔽
www.insectweek.org
Went to my local country park to look for solitary bees today and my first Brown Argus of the year was a nice bonus.
May 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Went to my local country park to look for solitary bees today and my first Brown Argus of the year was a nice bonus.
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New research from our Centre for Ecology and Conservation has found that the brain of a wasp is capable of remarkably sophisticated scheduling decisions.
Read the full article below.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Read the full article below.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Wasp mums use remarkable memory when feeding offspring
Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, new research shows. Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to
news.exeter.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New research from our Centre for Ecology and Conservation has found that the brain of a wasp is capable of remarkably sophisticated scheduling decisions.
Read the full article below.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Read the full article below.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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Picture-winged Flies pages are now laid out for our NEW #FliesofBritainandIreland due Autumn 2025 - pre-order now at bit.ly/4dqQI8Z & save £££s on published price @gailashton.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social
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May 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Picture-winged Flies pages are now laid out for our NEW #FliesofBritainandIreland due Autumn 2025 - pre-order now at bit.ly/4dqQI8Z & save £££s on published price @gailashton.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social
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Several Box Bugs and Common Green Shieldbugs, having a drink and enjoying each others company in a Winter Honeysuckle bush yesterday #Invertefest
April 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Several Box Bugs and Common Green Shieldbugs, having a drink and enjoying each others company in a Winter Honeysuckle bush yesterday #Invertefest
A quality animal today on @me🦛 Animal #632 🐻
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 11
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#metazooa
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 11
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#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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April 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A quality animal today on @me🦛 Animal #632 🐻
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 11
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#metazooa
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 11
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#metazooa
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Lords of the flies: the unsurpassed level of ecological diversity within dipteran migrants.
Read about it here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e... and in Biological Reviews here doi.org/10.1111/brv..... New research from @uniexecec.bsky.social with @willleohawkes.bsky.social & Myles Menz
Read about it here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e... and in Biological Reviews here doi.org/10.1111/brv..... New research from @uniexecec.bsky.social with @willleohawkes.bsky.social & Myles Menz
Migrating flies vital for people and nature
Buzzing insects may be seen as pests – but globally, hundreds of fly species migrate over long distances, with major benefits for people and nature, new research shows. Bugs such as houseflies, fruitf...
news.exeter.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Lords of the flies: the unsurpassed level of ecological diversity within dipteran migrants.
Read about it here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e... and in Biological Reviews here doi.org/10.1111/brv..... New research from @uniexecec.bsky.social with @willleohawkes.bsky.social & Myles Menz
Read about it here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e... and in Biological Reviews here doi.org/10.1111/brv..... New research from @uniexecec.bsky.social with @willleohawkes.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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Colorful flies 🌈
Phasia hemiptera (Tachinid fly, Wanzenfliege)
Ectophasia crassipennis (Tachinid fly, Breitflügelige Raupenfliege)
Lucilia sericata (Green bottle fly, Goldfliege)
Myathropa florea (Batman hoverfly, Totenkopfschwebfliege)
Phasia hemiptera (Tachinid fly, Wanzenfliege)
Ectophasia crassipennis (Tachinid fly, Breitflügelige Raupenfliege)
Lucilia sericata (Green bottle fly, Goldfliege)
Myathropa florea (Batman hoverfly, Totenkopfschwebfliege)
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Colorful flies 🌈
Phasia hemiptera (Tachinid fly, Wanzenfliege)
Ectophasia crassipennis (Tachinid fly, Breitflügelige Raupenfliege)
Lucilia sericata (Green bottle fly, Goldfliege)
Myathropa florea (Batman hoverfly, Totenkopfschwebfliege)
Phasia hemiptera (Tachinid fly, Wanzenfliege)
Ectophasia crassipennis (Tachinid fly, Breitflügelige Raupenfliege)
Lucilia sericata (Green bottle fly, Goldfliege)
Myathropa florea (Batman hoverfly, Totenkopfschwebfliege)
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Happy Monday everyone, some verges not in site lines or pathways were mown last week, ugly looking brown dried plant debris, on the other side this delight full of #dandelions other wild flowers and #pollinators. Please like and retweet if you prefer the flowers 🙏🐝🐞🌼
April 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Happy Monday everyone, some verges not in site lines or pathways were mown last week, ugly looking brown dried plant debris, on the other side this delight full of #dandelions other wild flowers and #pollinators. Please like and retweet if you prefer the flowers 🙏🐝🐞🌼
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Spoiled for choice? Brimstone #butterfly at #AshlawncuttingLNR @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social @dandelionappre1.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spoiled for choice? Brimstone #butterfly at #AshlawncuttingLNR @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social @dandelionappre1.bsky.social
Love this gorgeous new art installation local to me by Julia Fonnereau celebrating local #wildflowers , #butterflies and a #SolitaryBee! Though somewhat ironically on a carpark considering the title "You don't know what you've got til it's gone"! #WildlifeArt
March 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Love this gorgeous new art installation local to me by Julia Fonnereau celebrating local #wildflowers , #butterflies and a #SolitaryBee! Though somewhat ironically on a carpark considering the title "You don't know what you've got til it's gone"! #WildlifeArt
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Female True Bumblebee Identification Guides for Ireland (mostly).
Please feel free to share, print out and use to help ID the Irish bumblebees
CC BY-SA-NC 4.0
Please feel free to share, print out and use to help ID the Irish bumblebees
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March 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Female True Bumblebee Identification Guides for Ireland (mostly).
Please feel free to share, print out and use to help ID the Irish bumblebees
CC BY-SA-NC 4.0
Please feel free to share, print out and use to help ID the Irish bumblebees
CC BY-SA-NC 4.0
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The Wildlife Garden Directory is celebrating its first anniversary! If you're a wildlife friendly gardener, why not join and connect with people who need your skills? And if you're looking for help in your garden, use the directory to find a wildlife-gardener: wildlifegardendirectory.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The Wildlife Garden Directory is celebrating its first anniversary! If you're a wildlife friendly gardener, why not join and connect with people who need your skills? And if you're looking for help in your garden, use the directory to find a wildlife-gardener: wildlifegardendirectory.org.uk
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🚨 #InsectResearch Ethics Survey – Your Input Matters 🦗
We're gathering views on #InsectWelfare in UK research. If you're involved in UK #InsectResearch, we want to hear from you!
Read more and share your thoughts 🔽
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#EthicsInScience #InsectEthics #AnimalResearch
We're gathering views on #InsectWelfare in UK research. If you're involved in UK #InsectResearch, we want to hear from you!
Read more and share your thoughts 🔽
buff.ly/T3xgWvv
#EthicsInScience #InsectEthics #AnimalResearch
March 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🚨 #InsectResearch Ethics Survey – Your Input Matters 🦗
We're gathering views on #InsectWelfare in UK research. If you're involved in UK #InsectResearch, we want to hear from you!
Read more and share your thoughts 🔽
buff.ly/T3xgWvv
#EthicsInScience #InsectEthics #AnimalResearch
We're gathering views on #InsectWelfare in UK research. If you're involved in UK #InsectResearch, we want to hear from you!
Read more and share your thoughts 🔽
buff.ly/T3xgWvv
#EthicsInScience #InsectEthics #AnimalResearch
Yes we should inspire children to value and protect wildlife, but these are false dichotomies. There's massive overlap in the venn diagram of kids who like bugs and dinosaurs (I'm one of them!) and those who like unicorns and ponies. It's not an either or. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead | Isabel Losada
Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Yes we should inspire children to value and protect wildlife, but these are false dichotomies. There's massive overlap in the venn diagram of kids who like bugs and dinosaurs (I'm one of them!) and those who like unicorns and ponies. It's not an either or. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Try making a clay hotel for hairy-footed flower bees. They are just emerging from hibernation, so now is the perfect time.
youtu.be/UJSK12ArWP4
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Make a hotel for hairy-footed flower bees!
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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March 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Try making a clay hotel for hairy-footed flower bees. They are just emerging from hibernation, so now is the perfect time.
youtu.be/UJSK12ArWP4
youtu.be/UJSK12ArWP4
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The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social & the #RoyalHorticulturalSociety are championing hoverflies! Finally the light is shining on the Diptera, highlighting the pollinating adults, & the predatory/decomposer larvae within Syrphidae
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...
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Wild about Gardens campaign asks us all to become hoverfly heroes | The Wildlife Trusts
Humble hoverfly needs our help, say Royal Horticultural Society and The Wildlife Trusts
www.wildlifetrusts.org
March 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social & the #RoyalHorticulturalSociety are championing hoverflies! Finally the light is shining on the Diptera, highlighting the pollinating adults, & the predatory/decomposer larvae within Syrphidae
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social