Really enjoying this by @graemelyons.bsky.social
I don't think I'll ever become a super-naturalist but I'll have fun trying!
#PanSpeciesListing
I don't think I'll ever become a super-naturalist but I'll have fun trying!
#PanSpeciesListing
February 18, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Really enjoying this by @graemelyons.bsky.social
I don't think I'll ever become a super-naturalist but I'll have fun trying!
#PanSpeciesListing
I don't think I'll ever become a super-naturalist but I'll have fun trying!
#PanSpeciesListing
This is already out of date (I am actually on 837 species) but have a look anyhow... #panspecieslisting #6000speciesin2026 #biologicalrecording @sussexwildlife.bsky.social analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2026/01/6000...
6000 species in 2026: Week 2 summary
I reached 774 species (12.9% of the challenge) by the 14th January, 372 of which are invertebrates (there's so much to see in mid winter) . ...
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January 18, 2026 at 3:42 PM
This is already out of date (I am actually on 837 species) but have a look anyhow... #panspecieslisting #6000speciesin2026 #biologicalrecording @sussexwildlife.bsky.social analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2026/01/6000...
Found some Wart Barnacles (Verruca stroemia) washed up on a piece of net yesterday. All of the larger individuals had Foraminiferans on them, mostly Lobatula lobatula which commonly lives on other species apparently - happy to see them in situ #panspecieslisting
January 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Found some Wart Barnacles (Verruca stroemia) washed up on a piece of net yesterday. All of the larger individuals had Foraminiferans on them, mostly Lobatula lobatula which commonly lives on other species apparently - happy to see them in situ #panspecieslisting
Lovely walk to Penicuik House Estate added a species I’ve definitely seen before (Maidenhair Spleenwort) and one that I’ve not noticed before (Broom Fork-moss). Also, though I’m not 💯 confident of either, Scaly Pelt Lichen and Black Witches’ Butter - happy to be corrected #panspecieslisting
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Lovely walk to Penicuik House Estate added a species I’ve definitely seen before (Maidenhair Spleenwort) and one that I’ve not noticed before (Broom Fork-moss). Also, though I’m not 💯 confident of either, Scaly Pelt Lichen and Black Witches’ Butter - happy to be corrected #panspecieslisting
Whilst unloading the moth trap at #RSPBLakenheathFen I was thoroughly distracted by this Ichnuemon Wasp, which I think is Eutanyacra picta, with only 1 confirmed UK record on the NBN atlas! #PSL #PanSpeciesListing
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Whilst unloading the moth trap at #RSPBLakenheathFen I was thoroughly distracted by this Ichnuemon Wasp, which I think is Eutanyacra picta, with only 1 confirmed UK record on the NBN atlas! #PSL #PanSpeciesListing
Mark Telfer and I only went and refound Aulonia albimana on the Isle of Wight two days ago! Quite possibly the best spider find of my life! Lots of other records too. analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/10/whit...
#spiders #Isleofwight #biologicalrecording #panspecieslisting
#spiders #Isleofwight #biologicalrecording #panspecieslisting
October 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Mark Telfer and I only went and refound Aulonia albimana on the Isle of Wight two days ago! Quite possibly the best spider find of my life! Lots of other records too. analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/10/whit...
#spiders #Isleofwight #biologicalrecording #panspecieslisting
#spiders #Isleofwight #biologicalrecording #panspecieslisting
Talk time at our Wicken Fen field meeting, with Richard Gallon on how to look for spiders in the variety of GB habitats and the one and only Graeme Lyons on the how and why of #PanSpeciesListing
October 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Talk time at our Wicken Fen field meeting, with Richard Gallon on how to look for spiders in the variety of GB habitats and the one and only Graeme Lyons on the how and why of #PanSpeciesListing
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Was very pleased to find this massive Stentor coeruleus in a pond in Edinburgh yesterday- it’s not often you see bright blue single celled organism that’s visible to the naked eye #protist #panspecieslisting
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Was very pleased to find this massive Stentor coeruleus in a pond in Edinburgh yesterday- it’s not often you see bright blue single celled organism that’s visible to the naked eye #protist #panspecieslisting
This Pandemis cinnamomeana was species 1000 for our small suburban garden. Barred hook-tip was 1001, would have been a nicer milestone. Species breakdown for anyone vaguely interested. #panspecieslisting @graemelyons.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This Pandemis cinnamomeana was species 1000 for our small suburban garden. Barred hook-tip was 1001, would have been a nicer milestone. Species breakdown for anyone vaguely interested. #panspecieslisting @graemelyons.bsky.social
Also, a lifer for me! #PanSpeciesListing
August 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Also, a lifer for me! #PanSpeciesListing
Nice to visit the local Sunflower 🌻 trail yesterday, plenty of #fungi to see. Probably the only one looking at leaf moulds as I went round, 5 species plus some arable weeds. 😁🌼🍄🟫 #panspecieslisting #widerscope #sunflowertrail ##mushrooms #leafmould
August 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Nice to visit the local Sunflower 🌻 trail yesterday, plenty of #fungi to see. Probably the only one looking at leaf moulds as I went round, 5 species plus some arable weeds. 😁🌼🍄🟫 #panspecieslisting #widerscope #sunflowertrail ##mushrooms #leafmould
A new miner for me, likely one I've overlooked or ignored in the past. On a tall Lombardy Poplar (or maybe a hybrid Black of some sort). Aulagromyza populi gallery mines with in-situ pupae. These examples show the mine moving from the underside to upperside. #diptera #agromyzidae #panspecieslisting
August 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A new miner for me, likely one I've overlooked or ignored in the past. On a tall Lombardy Poplar (or maybe a hybrid Black of some sort). Aulagromyza populi gallery mines with in-situ pupae. These examples show the mine moving from the underside to upperside. #diptera #agromyzidae #panspecieslisting
1/3 #speciesaday no. 642 is Musk Orchid (Herminium monorchis). Vulnerable, Nationally Scarce and Section 41. A diminutive yellow-green orchid of short, warm places on the Downs. Smells of honey when in flower. All my records are between 24th June and 1st August. #orchids #panspecieslisting #flowers
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
1/3 #speciesaday no. 642 is Musk Orchid (Herminium monorchis). Vulnerable, Nationally Scarce and Section 41. A diminutive yellow-green orchid of short, warm places on the Downs. Smells of honey when in flower. All my records are between 24th June and 1st August. #orchids #panspecieslisting #flowers
The main highlight from my Whetstone Leics. light trap last night was not a moth. Amongst the various non-leps was this leafhopper, the first VC55 record for Opsius stactogalus which is a Tamarisk feeder (no Tamarisk around my garden). A new one for me. #panspecieslisting #hemiptera #homoptera #bugs
July 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The main highlight from my Whetstone Leics. light trap last night was not a moth. Amongst the various non-leps was this leafhopper, the first VC55 record for Opsius stactogalus which is a Tamarisk feeder (no Tamarisk around my garden). A new one for me. #panspecieslisting #hemiptera #homoptera #bugs
In 2016, I did a psl big year. On 3 July I recorded spp no 1000. Roll on 9 yrs and my second psl big year. Last nights moth trap produced 7nfy, with Dark Spectacle being spp 2000 for the year. #panspecieslisting
July 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
In 2016, I did a psl big year. On 3 July I recorded spp no 1000. Roll on 9 yrs and my second psl big year. Last nights moth trap produced 7nfy, with Dark Spectacle being spp 2000 for the year. #panspecieslisting
Issus coleoptratus a Plant Hopper new to me...
#PanSpeciesListing
#PanSpeciesListing
June 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Issus coleoptratus a Plant Hopper new to me...
#PanSpeciesListing
#PanSpeciesListing
A new rust for me, though apparently common. Found several Buckthorn leaves with this at Ketton Quarry today, which readily keys to Puccinia coronata using the FSC AIDGAP British Plant Galls [Third Edition]. #fungi #panspecieslisting
May 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A new rust for me, though apparently common. Found several Buckthorn leaves with this at Ketton Quarry today, which readily keys to Puccinia coronata using the FSC AIDGAP British Plant Galls [Third Edition]. #fungi #panspecieslisting
Coleopteran early stage finds today: a leafmine on oak of Orchestes quercus [it was tenanted when collected but the larva evacuated in transit]. And a White Poplar leaf being skeletonised by as-yet unidentified larvae that I believe are from the Chrysomelidae. #coleoptera #panspecieslisting
![A skeletonised White Poplar [Populus alba] leaf. I believe these larvae are of one of the Chrysolmelidae. Ketton Quarry, Rutland (UK) 24/05/2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3wzmhvuxlksxeoaqo2es3ebr/bafkreia4zeoxpcpxw3hmrzlajmmkgxhnubjrrxvmbohjkjkhmu424p4gqe@jpeg)
May 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Coleopteran early stage finds today: a leafmine on oak of Orchestes quercus [it was tenanted when collected but the larva evacuated in transit]. And a White Poplar leaf being skeletonised by as-yet unidentified larvae that I believe are from the Chrysomelidae. #coleoptera #panspecieslisting
Sweet - a lucky swipe with my net at a UFO (that looked likely to be Coleopteran) this evening at Fosse Meadows in Leics. produced a spanking Ptinomorphus imperialis, a nice new beetle for me. #coleoptera #panspecieslisting
May 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sweet - a lucky swipe with my net at a UFO (that looked likely to be Coleopteran) this evening at Fosse Meadows in Leics. produced a spanking Ptinomorphus imperialis, a nice new beetle for me. #coleoptera #panspecieslisting
Been waiting for these to turn up; I've had a small Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis) colony in my Whetstone Leics. garden for a couple of years, this is the third and the tiny cleptoparasitic fly Cacoxenus indagator has appeared - new to me and the garden list. #diptera #panspecieslisting
May 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Been waiting for these to turn up; I've had a small Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis) colony in my Whetstone Leics. garden for a couple of years, this is the third and the tiny cleptoparasitic fly Cacoxenus indagator has appeared - new to me and the garden list. #diptera #panspecieslisting
2/2 A few other interesting beetles were found on fungi encrusted trunks and sap runs on felled birch stumps, including these: Glischrochilus quadriguttatus, Pediacus dermestoides and Corticeus unicolor. #panspecieslisting #coleoptera
April 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
2/2 A few other interesting beetles were found on fungi encrusted trunks and sap runs on felled birch stumps, including these: Glischrochilus quadriguttatus, Pediacus dermestoides and Corticeus unicolor. #panspecieslisting #coleoptera
1/2 Whilst out moth trapping last night, I was joined by Graham Finch (VC55 Coleoptera Recorder). I mentioned that one of the beetles I hoped to see at the site was Endomychus coccineus; a couple of hours later whilst we were looking over a busy trunk Graham found one! #panspecieslisting #coleoptera
April 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
1/2 Whilst out moth trapping last night, I was joined by Graham Finch (VC55 Coleoptera Recorder). I mentioned that one of the beetles I hoped to see at the site was Endomychus coccineus; a couple of hours later whilst we were looking over a busy trunk Graham found one! #panspecieslisting #coleoptera
Oh what a day. Ada requested "somewhere new". So we set off to @rspb.bsky.social Blacktoft Sands.
Lots of NFY including Garganey, but also Sand Martins and Willow Warblers. I also saw Water Voles and a Grass Snake! My first ever UK snake - both PSL ticks.
#YorkshireBirding #PanSpeciesListing
Lots of NFY including Garganey, but also Sand Martins and Willow Warblers. I also saw Water Voles and a Grass Snake! My first ever UK snake - both PSL ticks.
#YorkshireBirding #PanSpeciesListing
March 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Oh what a day. Ada requested "somewhere new". So we set off to @rspb.bsky.social Blacktoft Sands.
Lots of NFY including Garganey, but also Sand Martins and Willow Warblers. I also saw Water Voles and a Grass Snake! My first ever UK snake - both PSL ticks.
#YorkshireBirding #PanSpeciesListing
Lots of NFY including Garganey, but also Sand Martins and Willow Warblers. I also saw Water Voles and a Grass Snake! My first ever UK snake - both PSL ticks.
#YorkshireBirding #PanSpeciesListing
Out for a lovely sunny walk on the beach at Hunstanton today, and got caught out by not having my TG-6 to hand. The tiny specks trying to escape this tiny puddle on a rock are - I believe - springtails. And given the habitat, perhaps Anurida maritima .... #collembola #panspecieslisting
March 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Out for a lovely sunny walk on the beach at Hunstanton today, and got caught out by not having my TG-6 to hand. The tiny specks trying to escape this tiny puddle on a rock are - I believe - springtails. And given the habitat, perhaps Anurida maritima .... #collembola #panspecieslisting