Martin Harvey
@kitenet.bsky.social
Mostly insects and biological recording, UK-based (he/him)
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Check out this write-up on sound producing Grasshoppers in Europe, and their availability on XC www.researchgate.net/publication/... . #bioacoustics #grasshoppers #orthoptera
(PDF) A list of sound producing European grasshoppers and the availability of their sounds in Xeno-canto
PDF | On Dec 8, 2025, Baudewijn Odé and others published A list of sound producing European grasshoppers and the availability of their sounds in Xeno-canto | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Check out this write-up on sound producing Grasshoppers in Europe, and their availability on XC www.researchgate.net/publication/... . #bioacoustics #grasshoppers #orthoptera
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It's our last newsletter of 2025! Catch up with recent stories, including:
🤝New alliance of National Research Organisations
🌱Grassland toolkit for farmers
🔥Thoughts from COP30
☀️Flash droughts forecasting
and more!
Read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/ppiobgrmcv 🧪
🤝New alliance of National Research Organisations
🌱Grassland toolkit for farmers
🔥Thoughts from COP30
☀️Flash droughts forecasting
and more!
Read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/ppiobgrmcv 🧪
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It's our last newsletter of 2025! Catch up with recent stories, including:
🤝New alliance of National Research Organisations
🌱Grassland toolkit for farmers
🔥Thoughts from COP30
☀️Flash droughts forecasting
and more!
Read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/ppiobgrmcv 🧪
🤝New alliance of National Research Organisations
🌱Grassland toolkit for farmers
🔥Thoughts from COP30
☀️Flash droughts forecasting
and more!
Read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/ppiobgrmcv 🧪
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“Lichens of Britain & Ireland” by Rebecca Yahr and Frances Stoakley is finally available for purchase. This has been a much needed ID guide for beginners to intermediates and the publication is finally here!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lichens-o... #bloomsbury #lichens
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Lichens of Britain & Ireland” by Rebecca Yahr and Frances Stoakley is finally available for purchase. This has been a much needed ID guide for beginners to intermediates and the publication is finally here!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lichens-o... #bloomsbury #lichens
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Always love to find the gorgeous Zicrona caerulea (Blue Shieldbug) #Heteroptera #Shieldbug #Asopinae
December 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Always love to find the gorgeous Zicrona caerulea (Blue Shieldbug) #Heteroptera #Shieldbug #Asopinae
A great diversity of invertebrates from the garden today, using a beating tray on ivy and a mixed hedge: bugs, beetles, a fly pretending to be a beetle, moths, springtails, spiders, woodlice and more - so much life! #ento
December 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A great diversity of invertebrates from the garden today, using a beating tray on ivy and a mixed hedge: bugs, beetles, a fly pretending to be a beetle, moths, springtails, spiders, woodlice and more - so much life! #ento
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Another campaign to go peat free, it only takes a second, please sign (link in comment below). Such an easy step we could take to address both climate and biodiversity crises.
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Another campaign to go peat free, it only takes a second, please sign (link in comment below). Such an easy step we could take to address both climate and biodiversity crises.
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Ooh! Advance copies of Buzz just arrived. Smug face for the rest of the day. Publication May 2026.
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Ooh! Advance copies of Buzz just arrived. Smug face for the rest of the day. Publication May 2026.
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Not #spiders but #Pseudoscorpions, mini-marvels of the #arachnid world. For more information on their quirky lives, see our factsheet 8 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
December 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Not #spiders but #Pseudoscorpions, mini-marvels of the #arachnid world. For more information on their quirky lives, see our factsheet 8 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
These tiny but gorgeous #fungi were a highlight of today's walk. The apps are very sure they are Steely Bonnet, Mycena pseudocorticola, no idea if their confidence is justified 🤔
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
These tiny but gorgeous #fungi were a highlight of today's walk. The apps are very sure they are Steely Bonnet, Mycena pseudocorticola, no idea if their confidence is justified 🤔
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Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)
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Collection of #insects found on gravestones in Comely Bank Cemetery, #Edinburgh, on 15 December, part 1: Tetratoma fungorum, female Mottled Umber & Cream-streaked Ladybird … #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Collection of #insects found on gravestones in Comely Bank Cemetery, #Edinburgh, on 15 December, part 1: Tetratoma fungorum, female Mottled Umber & Cream-streaked Ladybird … #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.
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Interested in finding out about recording plants in bloom for the #NewYearPlantHunt? Join @bsbibotany.bsky.social for a webinar this evening ⬇️🌼
Join us at 7pm tomorrow 16 Dec for a webinar on #NewYearPlantHunt: Citizen Science in a Changing Climate.
We'll cover what the Plant Hunt is, where & when it happens, who takes part, how it works - and why it's important.
Join us to get ready for your Hunt:
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
We'll cover what the Plant Hunt is, where & when it happens, who takes part, how it works - and why it's important.
Join us to get ready for your Hunt:
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
December 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Interested in finding out about recording plants in bloom for the #NewYearPlantHunt? Join @bsbibotany.bsky.social for a webinar this evening ⬇️🌼
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Very pleased to announce that my recent paper in Oecologia "Trophic generalism in the winter moth: a model species for phenological mismatch" won the journal's 2024 Ehleringer Prize for student research! 🏆
You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇
link.springer.com/journal/442/...
You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇
link.springer.com/journal/442/...
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Very pleased to announce that my recent paper in Oecologia "Trophic generalism in the winter moth: a model species for phenological mismatch" won the journal's 2024 Ehleringer Prize for student research! 🏆
You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇
link.springer.com/journal/442/...
You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇
link.springer.com/journal/442/...
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When I was 17yo I did an independent project at school in Leatherhead on #insects and their mouthparts.
I didn’t like sport but was left with the keys to the biology lab, prep room and a large Zeiss photomicroscope.
I would spend hours working on specimens and then wet-printing the photographs.
I didn’t like sport but was left with the keys to the biology lab, prep room and a large Zeiss photomicroscope.
I would spend hours working on specimens and then wet-printing the photographs.
December 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
When I was 17yo I did an independent project at school in Leatherhead on #insects and their mouthparts.
I didn’t like sport but was left with the keys to the biology lab, prep room and a large Zeiss photomicroscope.
I would spend hours working on specimens and then wet-printing the photographs.
I didn’t like sport but was left with the keys to the biology lab, prep room and a large Zeiss photomicroscope.
I would spend hours working on specimens and then wet-printing the photographs.
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A refreshingly positive 'good news' story by M.S. Warren, S. Rich, and N. Haywood regarding the fortunes of the Silver-studded Blue over 50 years at Studland Heath National Nature Reserve, Dorset, UK. Detailed article at www.dispar.org/reference.ph... @martinswarren.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A refreshingly positive 'good news' story by M.S. Warren, S. Rich, and N. Haywood regarding the fortunes of the Silver-studded Blue over 50 years at Studland Heath National Nature Reserve, Dorset, UK. Detailed article at www.dispar.org/reference.ph... @martinswarren.bsky.social
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Interested in moth trapping?
Wondering which trap to use? Or if different bulbs collect different species?
Using 100k samples from @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social our new paper looks at these questions and more! With with Bill Kunin and @katatrepsis.bsky.social
#mothsmatter #teammoth
Wondering which trap to use? Or if different bulbs collect different species?
Using 100k samples from @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social our new paper looks at these questions and more! With with Bill Kunin and @katatrepsis.bsky.social
#mothsmatter #teammoth
Effect of bulb type on moth trap catch and composition in UK gardens
We analyse 10 years of records Garden Moth Scheme (GMS) to estimate the effect of bulb and trap type on the number of moths caught by moth traps. We find that brighter, higher wattage bulbs collect ...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Interested in moth trapping?
Wondering which trap to use? Or if different bulbs collect different species?
Using 100k samples from @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social our new paper looks at these questions and more! With with Bill Kunin and @katatrepsis.bsky.social
#mothsmatter #teammoth
Wondering which trap to use? Or if different bulbs collect different species?
Using 100k samples from @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social our new paper looks at these questions and more! With with Bill Kunin and @katatrepsis.bsky.social
#mothsmatter #teammoth
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Hello! 👋 Thought I'd better introduce myself as I'm new on here. I'm a Sussex-based ecologist that loves enacting change for the good of nature & people. If you like to hear positive conservation stories you might like my Wandering Ecologist Podcast. Please tune in on your usual podcast provider 🎧🐛
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hello! 👋 Thought I'd better introduce myself as I'm new on here. I'm a Sussex-based ecologist that loves enacting change for the good of nature & people. If you like to hear positive conservation stories you might like my Wandering Ecologist Podcast. Please tune in on your usual podcast provider 🎧🐛
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Not long now until our 15th #NewYearPlantHunt!
From 1 - 4 January, let's head out and see how many wild or naturalised plants we can find in bloom.
Resources to help us:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
The data we collect will deepen our understanding of how our plants are responding to a changing climate.
From 1 - 4 January, let's head out and see how many wild or naturalised plants we can find in bloom.
Resources to help us:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
The data we collect will deepen our understanding of how our plants are responding to a changing climate.
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not long now until our 15th #NewYearPlantHunt!
From 1 - 4 January, let's head out and see how many wild or naturalised plants we can find in bloom.
Resources to help us:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
The data we collect will deepen our understanding of how our plants are responding to a changing climate.
From 1 - 4 January, let's head out and see how many wild or naturalised plants we can find in bloom.
Resources to help us:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
The data we collect will deepen our understanding of how our plants are responding to a changing climate.
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The annual Presidents Award is made by @bsbibotany.bsky.social & @wildflowersociety.bsky.social Presidents to "the most useful contribution to the understanding of the flowering plants & ferns of Britain & Ireland".
The 2025 Award goes to Alys Fowler for her book Peatlands:
bsbi.org/about/news/p...
The 2025 Award goes to Alys Fowler for her book Peatlands:
bsbi.org/about/news/p...
December 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The annual Presidents Award is made by @bsbibotany.bsky.social & @wildflowersociety.bsky.social Presidents to "the most useful contribution to the understanding of the flowering plants & ferns of Britain & Ireland".
The 2025 Award goes to Alys Fowler for her book Peatlands:
bsbi.org/about/news/p...
The 2025 Award goes to Alys Fowler for her book Peatlands:
bsbi.org/about/news/p...
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A great collective effort by many colleagues and external collaborators, led by the wonderful Jodey Peyton.
The process involves a systematic examination by experts to identify species that could establish in a new region and threaten biodiversity, ecosystems or human health.
New study led by Jodey Peyton published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New study led by Jodey Peyton published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
2/2
Assessing the success of a horizon scanning approach in predicting invasive non‐native species arrival
We conclude that horizon scanning provides a rapid, affordable and successful mechanism to predict the arrival of high-risk INNS. We highlight the importance of citizen science, including biological ....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A great collective effort by many colleagues and external collaborators, led by the wonderful Jodey Peyton.
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Losses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Losses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe
Ongoing environmental change has caused significant modifications in the diversity, abundance and community composition of insects across Central Euro…
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December 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Losses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Evidence is vital for tracking #biodiversity progress. The new UK Biodiversity Indicators from JNCC and Defra show more of these are static or declining.
UKCEH contributes analyses of trends - big thanks to all citizen scientists whose data help make it possible!
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
UKCEH contributes analyses of trends - big thanks to all citizen scientists whose data help make it possible!
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Evidence is vital for tracking #biodiversity progress. The new UK Biodiversity Indicators from JNCC and Defra show more of these are static or declining.
UKCEH contributes analyses of trends - big thanks to all citizen scientists whose data help make it possible!
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
UKCEH contributes analyses of trends - big thanks to all citizen scientists whose data help make it possible!
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪