Per Smiseth

Interested in a postdoc #evolutionary ecology? #ecopysiology? #molecular ecology?#ecotox? #birds? My group studies many aspects of responses to #environmental change. Happy to host MSCA applicants, we have 3 successful ones🙂 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...

Collection of mating ladybirds from yesterday’s visit to Grange Cemetery, #Edinburgh. Lots of aphids under sycamore trees. #ladybirds #spring #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Some of yesterday’s records from Grange Cemetery, #Edinburgh: Brindled Pug, male Early Reveller (Diurnea fagella), Eyed Ladybird & Buchananiella continua. #moths #ladybirds #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

Greater Thorn-tipped Longhorn Beetle (Pogonocherus hispidulus) found on gravestone in Cockpen & Carrington Parish Churchyard, Midlothian, on 11 March. New for me. #beetles #cerambycidae #longhornbeetles #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Striped Ladybird found yesterday on gravestone under Austrian Pine in Newington Cemetery, #Edinburgh. #ladybirds #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Another hour in Topsham Cemetery today and a few goodies: Beetles and Barkflies: looks like two new species for me. Names in Alt Texts

Female Dotted Border, male Pale Brindled Beauty & female Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis from Grange Cemetery, #Edinburgh, yesterday. The latter a non-native #barkfly originally from S America; 1st recorded in UK in 2016. #moths #psocodea #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Highlights from Newington Cemetery, Edinburgh, today: Sphaeriestes castaneus (Salpingidae), Striped Ladybird (Coccinellidae), Western Conifer Seed Bug (Coreidae) & Ectopsocus axillaris (Ectopsocidae). #insects #beetles #hemiptera #psocodea #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Rabocerus gabrieli, #Salpingidae, found today in Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh. Nationally scarce. Small (3-4mm) & active in winter. My 66th record from Edinburgh’s cemeteries (+1 from Perthshire). #beetles #coleoptera #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Mixed species clusters of overwintering ladybirds from today’s visit to Grange Cemetery, #Edinburgh. Hoping to learn more about these clusters this winter. #ladybirds #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Western Conifer Seed Bug (Leptoglussus occidentalis) on gravestone under Austrian Pine in Newington Cemetery, #Edinburgh, this afternoon. My 1st record of this non-native bug originally from North America. #Hemiptera #Coreidae #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Highlights from #Edinburgh cemeteries last week: Male Pale Brindled Beauty, Ocys quinquestriatus (nationally scarce), cluster of 2-spot, Harlequin, 10-spot & Cream-spot Ladybirds & Buchananiella continua with Anthocoris nemorum. #insects #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Grypotes puncticollis found today on gravestone under pine in Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh. 3rd Scottish record I think. Associated with pine. #leafhopper #GrypotesPuncticollis #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

My 1st ever record of an undescribed species of #Tephrochlamys. ID confirmed. Unlike other members of the genus, this species has a pair of presutural dorsocentral bristles. #Diptera #Heleomyzidae #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Happy New Year! My 1st records for #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity for 2026, all from my local Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh: Acericerus heydenii, cluster of Red-legged Shieldbug nymph, Orange & Harlequin Ladybirds & Acompocoris alpinus. #iRecord #ladybirds

Female Winter Moth walking across old spiderweb with Harlequin Ladybird hiding underneath. Spotted yesterday in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. #Moths #WinterMoth #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

✨ A huge thank you to everyone who joined us! 🍻 Special shout-out to our featured scientists: 🪲 @persmiseth.bsky.social , Lecturer in Animal Behaviour 🪰 @darrenobbard.bsky.social, Professor of Evoluntionary Genetics 🦋 Simon Martin, Royal Society University Research Fellow #ScienceCommunication

Cream-streaked Ladybird (Harmonia quadripunctata) from Warriston Cemetery, #Edinburgh, this morning. #Ladybirds #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Collection of #barkflies from today’s visit to Duddingston Kirk Graveyard, #Edinburgh: Blaste quadrimaculata, Elipsocus hyalinus, Valenzuela flavidus & Cerobasis guestfalica. #Psocoptera. #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Collection of #barkflies from today’s visit to Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh: Peripsocus milleri, Graphopsocus cruciatus, Cerobasis guestfalica & Valenzuela flavidus. #Psocoptera. #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Female Metylophorus nebulosus from Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh (VC83), this afternoon. A large (6-7mm) & attractive #barkfly. #Psocoptera #Metylophorusnebulosus #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Bagworm - possibly Lichen Case-bearer (Dahlica lichenella) - feeding on gravestone in New Calton Burial Ground, #Edinburgh. Initially mistaken for snail poo. #TeamMoth #Moths #Psychidae #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Dinocampus coccinellae cocoon guarded by 7-spot Ladybird found today on gravestone in New Calton Burial Ground, #Edinburgh. #Braconidae #Parasitoids #Ladybirds #Dinocampuscoccinellae #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Lime Flame (Chrysoclista lineella) from Greyfriars Kirkyard, #Edinburgh, this morning. 1 of 3 seen in this site. #TeamMoth #Moths #Chrysoclistalineella #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.