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One of my regulars 😍
January 27, 2026 at 10:06 PM
One of my regulars 😍
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Like many animals that hibernate, bumblebees must reach a certain weight to survive the winter 💪
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Like many animals that hibernate, bumblebees must reach a certain weight to survive the winter 💪
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷
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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
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Thames Water wants to block campaigners from speaking out against them?! Enough is enough. The Government must renationalise this failing water company. 38d.gs/tw_df
Thames Water wants to block campaigners from speaking out against them?! Enough is enough. The Government must renationalise this failing water company. Agree? Sign the petition today:
Join the push to renationalise Thames Water!
38d.gs
January 23, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Thames Water wants to block campaigners from speaking out against them?! Enough is enough. The Government must renationalise this failing water company. 38d.gs/tw_df
@rspbengland.bsky.social
Can I include the 8 Wrens who sleep in my bird box over night, in the big bird count ?
Can I include the 8 Wrens who sleep in my bird box over night, in the big bird count ?
January 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
@rspbengland.bsky.social
Can I include the 8 Wrens who sleep in my bird box over night, in the big bird count ?
Can I include the 8 Wrens who sleep in my bird box over night, in the big bird count ?
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Yes, but will anyone in power listen, and will they do anything significant about it?
It is almost certain they will not.
They will keep on about growth, growth, growth until it no longer matters and we become a short-lived blip on the timeline of Earth's history.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is almost certain they will not.
They will keep on about growth, growth, growth until it no longer matters and we become a short-lived blip on the timeline of Earth's history.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nature loss is a national security risk, intelligence groups warn
The degradation of ecosystems around the world threatens UK food security, a long-awaited report says.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Yes, but will anyone in power listen, and will they do anything significant about it?
It is almost certain they will not.
They will keep on about growth, growth, growth until it no longer matters and we become a short-lived blip on the timeline of Earth's history.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is almost certain they will not.
They will keep on about growth, growth, growth until it no longer matters and we become a short-lived blip on the timeline of Earth's history.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here's one of my regulars 😍
January 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Here's one of my regulars 😍
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some beautiful rove beetles for your Monday!
🤎Mycetoporine on grass, Oklahoma
💙brilliant metallic blue Plochionocerus sp, Ecuador
🖤coupled Stenus alacer in small creek, Oklahoma
🌈unbelievable Phanolinus sp, cloud forest, Ecuador
🤎Mycetoporine on grass, Oklahoma
💙brilliant metallic blue Plochionocerus sp, Ecuador
🖤coupled Stenus alacer in small creek, Oklahoma
🌈unbelievable Phanolinus sp, cloud forest, Ecuador
January 19, 2026 at 6:44 PM
some beautiful rove beetles for your Monday!
🤎Mycetoporine on grass, Oklahoma
💙brilliant metallic blue Plochionocerus sp, Ecuador
🖤coupled Stenus alacer in small creek, Oklahoma
🌈unbelievable Phanolinus sp, cloud forest, Ecuador
🤎Mycetoporine on grass, Oklahoma
💙brilliant metallic blue Plochionocerus sp, Ecuador
🖤coupled Stenus alacer in small creek, Oklahoma
🌈unbelievable Phanolinus sp, cloud forest, Ecuador
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Of course - it's bloody wrong....
Let’s get as many signatures as possible to end the Guga hunt before Wednesday!
January 19, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Of course - it's bloody wrong....
I don't believe this is a "rare" thing..
People just don't look with their eyes open !
People just don't look with their eyes open !
Is it not high time that we accepted that all animals have higher cognitive abilities than we previously assumed?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cow astonishes scientists with rare tool use
The discovery suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I don't believe this is a "rare" thing..
People just don't look with their eyes open !
People just don't look with their eyes open !
... can anyone tell me the difference between Hitler, Putin and Trump... as far as I can see, they all have the same agenda 😱
Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot Text RESIST to 50409🐸
@porpentina2017.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Hey Vance, do you smell the shit you’re slinging, because we all do. You’re a fucking idiot, just like your boss. What a complete asshole.
JD Vance: "I believe we're gonna have some very big announcements in the next couple of days. I don't want to get ahead of the president, but we believe there is a nationwide fraud ring that's rooted in illegal aliens and others taking advantage of the American welfare system."
January 8, 2026 at 9:53 PM
... can anyone tell me the difference between Hitler, Putin and Trump... as far as I can see, they all have the same agenda 😱
I know it's getting cold because of the number of Wrens I have in their winter roosting box... now 7 and all wanting to sleep on the bottom of the pile.
Volume up if you want to hear their twittering comms :-)
Video was too big to upload, so here they are:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDDH...
Volume up if you want to hear their twittering comms :-)
Video was too big to upload, so here they are:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDDH...
7 Snuggly Wrens 06-01-26
YouTube video by Jan Kitty Williams nee Clifford
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
I know it's getting cold because of the number of Wrens I have in their winter roosting box... now 7 and all wanting to sleep on the bottom of the pile.
Volume up if you want to hear their twittering comms :-)
Video was too big to upload, so here they are:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDDH...
Volume up if you want to hear their twittering comms :-)
Video was too big to upload, so here they are:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDDH...
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As someone who grew up in the countryside the Countryside Alliance has never represented me and my family and honestly fuck them
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
As someone who grew up in the countryside the Countryside Alliance has never represented me and my family and honestly fuck them
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No, they are only alienating a minority of entitled degenerates who think that chasing animals to exhaustion and throwing them live to be ripped apart by a pack of dogs is a bit of a laugh. This should have been confined to history just like bear baiting, dog fighting, and hare coursing long ago.
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
No, they are only alienating a minority of entitled degenerates who think that chasing animals to exhaustion and throwing them live to be ripped apart by a pack of dogs is a bit of a laugh. This should have been confined to history just like bear baiting, dog fighting, and hare coursing long ago.
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Swaddled in the finest #silk #evolution has provided, and watched over by their protective mother, c. 700 newly hatched Fen Raft #Spider -lings await emergence into a world that's left them globally #RedListed & vulnerable to extinction. #Dolomedes plantarius @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Swaddled in the finest #silk #evolution has provided, and watched over by their protective mother, c. 700 newly hatched Fen Raft #Spider -lings await emergence into a world that's left them globally #RedListed & vulnerable to extinction. #Dolomedes plantarius @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #Christmas
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social
Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social
Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
Good morning to you G...
I just found this tiny beautiful gem blue beetle but unsure what it is... and WOW... it can jump a very long way. About 4 inches 😃
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The webs of winter-active spiders, in all their amazing variety, are spectacularly highlighted by frost, as well as dew. For more information on the types of capture webs constructed by different groups and species of spiders, see our Factsheet 7 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
December 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The webs of winter-active spiders, in all their amazing variety, are spectacularly highlighted by frost, as well as dew. For more information on the types of capture webs constructed by different groups and species of spiders, see our Factsheet 7 at britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets.
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Did spiders go soot-black during the Industrial Revolution? 🕷️
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Did spiders go soot-black during the Industrial Revolution? 🕷️
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Join Geoff Oxford (British Arachnological Society) on Thu, 26 Feb 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE webinar as he revisits claims of industrial melanism in spiders. 🌍 🧪
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968443417...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Signed and posted on Facebook and Twitter.
The Guga “hunt” must end. Sign the petition: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Signed and posted on Facebook and Twitter.
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
I found this tiny jet black one today with white dots and unsure what it is.
You can see the tip of my little finger behind him for size...
Can you enlighten me please 😍
WOW... what I would give to see that 😀
From the BBC : an enormous (106 sq.m) spider’s web created by two spider species in a cave in Greece
www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
World's biggest spider's web discovered in cave
Scientists have studied what they believe is the world's biggest spider's web and found two species of spider are living side by side.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
WOW... what I would give to see that 😀
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Pumpkin Patch Tarantula!🕷️🎃
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Pumpkin Patch Tarantula!🕷️🎃
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
One of the most incredible spiders in the world, this Tarantula (Hapalopus sp.) lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon!🌳
When people think of Tarantulas, we mainly think of large, plain coloured spiders, but in the neotropics we enter a world of colour!🧡🖤
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social Good morning G. I take great care of the live mealworms I keep to feed my garden birds and notice that some of the material I give them, they've started pulling fluffy bits off and now seem to be putting it in certain places. Are they doing this for warm bedding?
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social Good morning G. I take great care of the live mealworms I keep to feed my garden birds and notice that some of the material I give them, they've started pulling fluffy bits off and now seem to be putting it in certain places. Are they doing this for warm bedding?
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
@britishspiders.bsky.social
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
I've been trying to get a good vid of this amazing sheet web, with my hand to show you it's size... not sure if the owner is still resident in my greenhouse, which I really should clean out but there's so many spiders calling it home, I don't have the heart...
Male Greater Spotted Woodpecker who had managed to prize out of the feeder a chunk of suet block and was very happily pecking at it until he spotted me at the window and just flew away with the remaining chunk in it's beak 😆
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Male Greater Spotted Woodpecker who had managed to prize out of the feeder a chunk of suet block and was very happily pecking at it until he spotted me at the window and just flew away with the remaining chunk in it's beak 😆
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social
I did wonder why the suet blocks were going so fast 😘 @rspb.bsky.social