Laura Weldon PhD
@laurabees01.bsky.social
Environmental DNA e🧬scientist 🧪founder of theeDNAconsultancy.co.uk Harbours a fondness for bees, European eel, b&w collies and all things freshwater especially the River Severn.
Watch back talks from the BDS 2025 Annual Meeting.
Here, Laura Weldon, PhD (Founder, The eDNA Consultancy) discusses the applications of eDNA as a wildlife monitoring tool.🧬 @laurabees01.bsky.social
youtu.be/9HfzS6fOW8M?...
Here, Laura Weldon, PhD (Founder, The eDNA Consultancy) discusses the applications of eDNA as a wildlife monitoring tool.🧬 @laurabees01.bsky.social
youtu.be/9HfzS6fOW8M?...
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Quick walk waiting for the last qPCR run and to let the dog stretch her legs look at this..bats and sunset what an evening!
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Quick walk waiting for the last qPCR run and to let the dog stretch her legs look at this..bats and sunset what an evening!
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🪵🌊 Just published! Our study on #LeakyBarriers in #NaturalFloodManagement, exploring on in-channel #Hydrology, #Sediment and #Ecology w Matthew Taylor, Anne Harrison, @laurabees01.bsky.social, Estefania Golob, @hjrobson2.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social
📖 Access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....
📖 Access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....
The Use of Woody Dams in Natural Flood Management—Temporal Implications on In‐Channel Hydrology, Sediment Dynamics and Ecology
The use of Natural Flood Management (NFM) interventions, and in particular woody dams, has become increasingly widespread over the last ca. 15 years. These interventions help to reduce flood risk dow...
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🪵🌊 Just published! Our study on #LeakyBarriers in #NaturalFloodManagement, exploring on in-channel #Hydrology, #Sediment and #Ecology w Matthew Taylor, Anne Harrison, @laurabees01.bsky.social, Estefania Golob, @hjrobson2.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social
📖 Access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....
📖 Access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....
September 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Silk-button spangle gall wasp eggs, (fabulous name!) thousands of them along this hedge.Trellech wet meadows #invertebrate #ukwildlife
September 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Silk-button spangle gall wasp eggs, (fabulous name!) thousands of them along this hedge.Trellech wet meadows #invertebrate #ukwildlife
Small copper butterfly on red clover, Trellech meadows in the Wye valley #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife
September 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Small copper butterfly on red clover, Trellech meadows in the Wye valley #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife
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We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Wall butterfly (living up to its name), endangered on the GB red list (2022) #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife
August 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Wall butterfly (living up to its name), endangered on the GB red list (2022) #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife
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Calling all conservation orgs in the UK (SouthWest), come and improve your eDNA skills at the beautiful @healrewilding.org.uk, hope to see you there.
August 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Calling all conservation orgs in the UK (SouthWest), come and improve your eDNA skills at the beautiful @healrewilding.org.uk, hope to see you there.
Reposted by Laura Weldon PhD
Not a Harebell but a Nettle-leaved Bellflower (Campanula trachelium) growing in a shady spot in our garden with one of our smallest bees - a Small Scissor Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) which is strongly associated with Harebells and other bellflowers. #WildflowerHour
July 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Not a Harebell but a Nettle-leaved Bellflower (Campanula trachelium) growing in a shady spot in our garden with one of our smallest bees - a Small Scissor Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) which is strongly associated with Harebells and other bellflowers. #WildflowerHour
Cinnabar moth caterpillars resting on heavily grazed ragwort. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife
July 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Cinnabar moth caterpillars resting on heavily grazed ragwort. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife
July 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Clouded magpie moth. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife
July 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Clouded magpie moth. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife
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How do we continue to promote join up between researchers and end users? How do we broaden scope of work? How do we work internationally? Share your thoughts before the end of the conference! #UKDNAWG25
May 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
How do we continue to promote join up between researchers and end users? How do we broaden scope of work? How do we work internationally? Share your thoughts before the end of the conference! #UKDNAWG25
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Laura Weldon @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social tells us about impact of water chemistry on European #eel. Seasonal #eDNA sampling used to assess barriers to #eel movement. Higher phosphate levels associated with lower #eel detection #UKDNAWG25
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May 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Laura Weldon @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social tells us about impact of water chemistry on European #eel. Seasonal #eDNA sampling used to assess barriers to #eel movement. Higher phosphate levels associated with lower #eel detection #UKDNAWG25
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Buffy Smith @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social compared #iDNA and airborne #eDNA for #biodiversity in fragmented forest landscape. #iDNA more spatially sensitive. More domestic species detected with #iDNA than #eDNA tended to capture larger native mammals - differential shedding rates? #UKDNAWG25
May 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Buffy Smith @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social compared #iDNA and airborne #eDNA for #biodiversity in fragmented forest landscape. #iDNA more spatially sensitive. More domestic species detected with #iDNA than #eDNA tended to capture larger native mammals - differential shedding rates? #UKDNAWG25
April 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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April 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Common alderfly, canal-side walk today.
April 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Common alderfly, canal-side walk today.
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After a hectic time working on the campaign to stop the export of elvers to Russia, and trying to get a book ready, Countryside Insider is back up and running with a new post about farming's missed opportunity to respond to the biodiversity crisis.
richardfleming.substack.com/p/get-off-my...
richardfleming.substack.com/p/get-off-my...
Get Off My Land Again!
This has been quite a week.
richardfleming.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
After a hectic time working on the campaign to stop the export of elvers to Russia, and trying to get a book ready, Countryside Insider is back up and running with a new post about farming's missed opportunity to respond to the biodiversity crisis.
richardfleming.substack.com/p/get-off-my...
richardfleming.substack.com/p/get-off-my...