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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing crabapple crop on Bryniau Clwyd this year @cofnod.org.uk Mostly unprotected trees in a heavily sheep grazed area. These two trees show how variable their fruit can be - suggesting even some isolated trees may be crosses with domestic apples. See:
www.rbge.org.uk/news/media-c...

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Philip Amies @amiesphilip.bsky.social · 10d

"will o' the wisp", methane from rotting vegetable matter in a marsh. Low-temperature oxidation leads to blue–violet chemiluminescence ignited by bubble electrical charge.

Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

"will o' the wisp", a light over a marsh, a started traveller

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Richard Sutton @rjsutton1975.bsky.social · 20d

Work moth of the day today probably can’t get much better! Clifden Nonpareil Catocala fraxini, found first thing this morning when I nearly trod on it. #teammoth

Clifden Nonpareil, a large grey moth with impressive blue and black hind wings

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · 21d

Beautiful wee beetle - probably Fasta fastuosa, the dead-nettle leaf beetle. Pella, n. Italy.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 25d

Great spread and hugely positive review in the Irish Examiner this weekend of THE LIE OF THE LAND.

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · 24d

Slopes of Mt. Mottarone, north Italy. Few flowers now and few bbees (mostly probably B. pascuorum). This one a male.

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · 25d

In the woods above Stresa, north Italy. I think they may all be Amanita species.

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · 26d

Hornet (Vespa crabro male) and Copper chaffer (Protaetia cuprea) in the hills around Stresa, north Italy.

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · Sep 8

Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great video. Out of iterest which IR camera did you use?

Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Sep 5

Llyn Dulyan walk, with low water showing remains of the 1944 US air crash.

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Sep 4

Bryniau Clwyd still purple topped in places - and males of B. terrestris an B. lucorum foraging in fair numbers.

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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢We’re delighted to announce that the Vice Chancellor has appointed @markjfbrown.bsky.social as Director of the University @zoologymuseum.bsky.social and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology.

Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026.

Read more: bit.ly/3UVHmey

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Aug 25

Good walk round Grassholm Reservoir, Co. Durham.

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Aug 13

Locally it's proving a good fruiting year for crabapples.

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Aug 6

New gyne of Bombus lucorum (probably sensu stricto) perched sunning.

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · Aug 1

Queen of Garden Bumblebee at Watermill Cove, St Mary's, Scilly

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Jun 30

@cofnod.org.uk Being used by swallows as we inadvertently flush insects on Ynys Enlli off the Llŷn Peninsula - after several days of near gale force winds that make foraging a challenge.

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Jun 4

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Has anyone else come across an almost complete lack of Bilberry flowers and fruit set this summer? A whole day walking the Tal y Fan Ridge in Eryri and no flowers - or Bilberry bumblebees - up here (the odd one on Marsh thistle lower down). Maybe the very dry May?

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Mike Pollard @mikepnature.bsky.social · May 22

Green Hairstreak on the slopes below Moel Famau yesterday - my first sighting in the local area & always lovely to see. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Mike Pollard @mikepnature.bsky.social · May 2

Male #Redstart in full voice this morning - good numbers singing in woodlands around the Clwydian Hills just now. Fabulous. #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · May 5

Wild garlic looking splendid at Y Graig @cofnod.org.uk

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · May 1

"Industrial bottom trawling tears the seabed with such force the trails of destruction can be seen from space”

"Sharks and turtles that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, Attenborough says, may not survive industrial trawling"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

The celebrated presenter warns of ‘modern day colonialism at sea’ as he highlights the destruction caused by overfishing and bottom trawling

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @opj123.bsky.social · Apr 27

15 brimstone butterflies counted in half an hour today along Wendover canal near Wilstone reservoir. In this courtship flight the female has a slightly damaged forewing @savebutterflies.bsky.social