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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, I've sent them to Richard.

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James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · 1d

I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings.

Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??

See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Botanical Skills Webinars – Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

bsbi.org

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 1d

Palmer, P., Cann, A., Sexton, T., Fox, B., & Pitt-Miller, S. (2025) Spiders of the Rutland Water Lagoons: An Exploratory Survey. ISBN 979-8269245362
Learn more: ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/10/spid...
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 2d

The Biological Recording Company and the British Mycological Society are reviewing how fungi records in the Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland are verified and shared. Recorders are invited to join an online survey and workshop to help shape a new national verification protocol for fungi

The Fungi Verification Consultation Project

The Biological Recording Company and the British Mycological Society are reviewing how fungi records in the Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland are verified and shared. Recorders are invited to join an online survey and workshop to help shape a new national verification protocol for fungal data in the UK.

biologicalrecording.co.uk

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 3d

Field Damsel Bug, Nabis ferus.

#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Nabidae

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 3d

Of course it is! Thanks for the correction.

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 3d

Paroligolophus agrestis.

#Arachnids #Opliones #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of these around out there in the leaf litter at the moment.
Tachycixius c.f. pilosus nymph.

#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 5d

Can species-targeted conservation work for invertebrates?

Discover how the RZSS is saving the rare Dark Bordered Beauty Moth through innovative, stage-specific care and release efforts.

Join Dr Helen Roy for a FREE entoLIVE (4 Nov):

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1423945843...

@nbntrust.bsky.social

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 6d

Not the bees, we have interlopers. Red furry interlopers...

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 6d

My Ivy Bees have dug a bloody great 2 foot deep hole in the patch I prepared for them.

Either that or the foxes are back...

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 6d

It's in black and white ;-)

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 6d

Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn
One appears to be going to see Kraftwerk next year.
The #earworm continues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukU...

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Single version 1974)

YouTube video by EddieAlda

www.youtube.com

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 7d

Nice image. New kit?

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 7d

It's #WorldOctopusDay! These beauties from our collection are both by French pharmacist and naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800-65).

Octopus vulgaris - the common octopus, which can grow to 9kg and change colour to match its surroundings.