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Leave the Leaves Fallen leaves are not waste, they are essential ecological infrastructure. www.naturespot.org/node/268638 Please share. #Leaves #Autumn #gardens #gardening #environment #nature #insects

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, what a guy. Ero cambridgei, what a spider. #Arachnids #Spiders #VC55

Lamentably, I have been neglecting spiders recently in favour of wasps (only so many hours in the day), but this weekend I'm catching up on a backlog of specimens such as this male Ero aphana from surveys in the summer. #Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #Mimetidae

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

What are earthworms actually doing beneath our feet? Meet the 6 functional groups of earthworms and discover how differences in their burrowing, feeding and casting behaviour influence the way they mix and transform our soils. Watch the 10-minute entoSHORT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeMJ...

Note to Self (for when I'm looking for this again): P.K.G. Williams (2026) AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons doi.org/10.48550/arX... #AI

Life's just a blur #ICM #Escalator #LongExposure #abstract #icmphotography #impressionistphotography #abstractphotography #creativephotography #camerapainting #photoart

John Lewis #ICM #Photography #Escalator #LongExposure #JohnLewis #icmphotography #impressionistphotography #abstractphotography #creativephotography #camerapainting #photoart

Flies are vital to ecosystems but remain under-recorded. Join David Brice and the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social on 27 October for a practical webinar exploring fly surveying methods, habitat assessment, identification and biological recording. Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989322708...

Perilampidae: Perilampid Hyperparasitoids: youtu.be/XBcMUzo5D1M?... #Wasps #Hymenoptera #video

Tardigrades: The Microscopic Animals with Survival Superpowers: youtu.be/fb4ttli0eCw?... #Tardigrades #Video

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

The Horseshoe Bat Fly Phthiridium biarticulatum is not extinct in the UK. Last recorded in 1959, it appears to be doing well on Lesser Horseshoe Bats in South West England. New paper out with Thomas Foxley, Emma Stone and @orlyrazgour.bsky.social. #bats #Diptera

Adelius spp. There are only 4 known UK species but I couldn't tell you which one this is :-) #Wasps #Hymenoptera #VC55 #Braconidae

Ages ago @vivschwarz.bsky.social told me about these bug-noculars, & I'm eternally friggin grateful (& also to Kitty for gifting me them!) If you like looking at bugs/lichen/things in rock-pools but have shitty eyesight? They're amazing.

Autumnal Pin Oak, Quercus palustris. #trees #leaves #sky #Autumn

Every time the sun comes out for 60 seconds the Asters are covered in pollinators. Common Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax. #Diptera #VC55 #flies #Pollinators

Dicyphus errans. #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Mididae

Ants are definitely not my thing, but for what it's worth, Roger's Ant, Hypoponera punctatissima. #Ants #Hymenoptera #VC55

Peace #flowers #roses #layers #PepVentosa

#People #Politics #Layers #AndyBurnham #PepVentosa

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Bees #Hymenoptera #Pollinators

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Gelis. I hate 'em. Can't identify them. What can you do with them? Turn them into funky disco wasps. #Wasps #Hymenoptera #disco

The Last Bean... except of course, it never is. There's always one hiding away that will be found, wizened and dried, when all the leaves fall off. I've looked, honest I've looked, but you can never, ever find the last bean.

Now available to download from my Blog! Print off your own set of bookmarks. Free for personal and non-commercial use. Also Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpion Bookmarks. arthropedia.co.uk/bookmarks/

Cheesy Garlic Chelsea Buns #food #baking #nom

🦇 AI species ID in bat surveying: useful tool or black box? Join our free webinar w/ @wildersensing.com to explore BatSense, AI-assisted species identification and human validation. See the workflow, practical applications & a real-world case study. 📅 19 Oct 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1993873818...

The Ghost of Summer '26 Collected in my garden during the summer for a project with photosensitive paper, one last breath of life for the remains before they go on the compost to be reborn in future years. #Photography #flowers #flatlay

They've finally arrived in #VC55. Firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus: www.naturespot.org/species/fire... #Bugs #Hemiptera #Pyrrhocoridae

144 million+ wildlife records are helping reveal how nature is changing across Britain. The newly published BRC Science Review 2026 demonstrates how biological recording and citizen science are transforming our understanding of biodiversity. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 1/

#Arachnids #spiders

cue AC/DC, Back in Black .... Oskoron spinosus, from the CA Sierra Nevada foothills named for Oskoron, King of Egypt (reigned 760-740 bce)

Shades of the New Forest. #Photography #Trees #Abstract #ICM #Autumn My parents used to have a carpet exactly like this...

Another excellent edition of the British Journal of Entomology and Natural History (if I say so myself). #Entomology #Insects #Bugs #Miridae #Psallus #VC55

"Can you identify this for me?" Sorry mate, you need a mycologist not an entomologist.

🦠 An animal living in the moss on your roof can survive in space! Tardigrades are microscopic survival experts. Join us on 20 Oct as Witold Morek explores the remarkable biology & genetics behind these tiny animals. 📅 20 Oct FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1978418044... @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Birch. #Photography #Trees #Abstract #ICM

Early frost? No, that's lichen on this stump in the New Forest. #Trees #Lichens

What's Old is New The New Forest Authority is doing a first rate job of managing an ancient landscape under intense tourist pressure - hats off to them. More: ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2026/10/what... #Landscape #Biodiversity #environment #nature #UKWildlife

Fox Moth larva, Macrothylacia rubi. #Moths #TeamMoth

Common Carders Clinging On Common Carder Bumblebees, Bombus pascuorum, seem to have had a pretty good year considering the weather. They're still clinging on as it gets colder. #Bees #Hymenoptera

🌳 Meet the No Parking Whitebeam, found only in one Devon valley and named after a “no parking” sign! With just ~110 known, it’s one of Britain’s remarkable endemic trees. Tomorrow with @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social 🌎 🧪 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977171059... @chiffchat.bsky.social

1777: No swallows or martins. Gossamer. Insects abound on the ivy-bloom, & on the late blowing annuals, & perrenials. A squirrel in my hedges. Insects retreat into the roof of my new building. Found the Sphinx atropos, or death's-head moth, a noble insect, of vast size: it lays it's eggs on the...

Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria. #fungi

My panel for this months #Photography group meeting, topic: #Shadows