The Messy Ecologist
@themessyecologist.bsky.social
I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
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May is the perfect month to start our messy mission, remember to leave a messy patch of long grass this month and join #NoMowMay 🌷🪻🌱🌿🦋
Jessie Wainwright in 1974 was spreading the love of ‘weeds’ and Rewilding Britain from the start!
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July 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Jessie Wainwright in 1974 was spreading the love of ‘weeds’ and Rewilding Britain from the start!
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Today rather than our usual, I’m posting a photo of Dr Fortune Gomo, a fellow geographer who was murdered in my city this weekend. We need knives off the streets. Such a tragedy.
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Dr Fortune Gomo: Man charged over death of scientist in Dundee
Dr Fortune Gomo, who was originally from Zimbabwe, was pronounced dead at the scene in Dundee on Saturday.
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July 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today rather than our usual, I’m posting a photo of Dr Fortune Gomo, a fellow geographer who was murdered in my city this weekend. We need knives off the streets. Such a tragedy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Slugs munching your crops and flowers? Well don’t reach for the chemical sprays! Birds frogs toads beetles and hedgehogs all feed on slugs so encourage them instead 🐸🦔🪲🐦
July 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Slugs munching your crops and flowers? Well don’t reach for the chemical sprays! Birds frogs toads beetles and hedgehogs all feed on slugs so encourage them instead 🐸🦔🪲🐦
🌈Pride flag colour🌈:
💚Green: nettles 💚
Stinging nettles get a bad rep but they actually provide vital habitat and food for butterfly caterpillars in particular AND they even make great soup! 🌿🦋🐛
💚Green: nettles 💚
Stinging nettles get a bad rep but they actually provide vital habitat and food for butterfly caterpillars in particular AND they even make great soup! 🌿🦋🐛
July 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🌈Pride flag colour🌈:
💚Green: nettles 💚
Stinging nettles get a bad rep but they actually provide vital habitat and food for butterfly caterpillars in particular AND they even make great soup! 🌿🦋🐛
💚Green: nettles 💚
Stinging nettles get a bad rep but they actually provide vital habitat and food for butterfly caterpillars in particular AND they even make great soup! 🌿🦋🐛
Another wall flower showing ‘weeds’ can brighten up any area - even stone walls! Red valerian, great for attracting humming bird hawk moths
June 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Another wall flower showing ‘weeds’ can brighten up any area - even stone walls! Red valerian, great for attracting humming bird hawk moths
🌈Pride flag colour🌈:
💛Yellow dandelion💛
Often called weeds, dandelions are pioneering plants, growing in all sorts of locations often providing much needed colour to grey concrete paths. They are also great for pollinators 🐝🪰🦋
💛Yellow dandelion💛
Often called weeds, dandelions are pioneering plants, growing in all sorts of locations often providing much needed colour to grey concrete paths. They are also great for pollinators 🐝🪰🦋
June 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🌈Pride flag colour🌈:
💛Yellow dandelion💛
Often called weeds, dandelions are pioneering plants, growing in all sorts of locations often providing much needed colour to grey concrete paths. They are also great for pollinators 🐝🪰🦋
💛Yellow dandelion💛
Often called weeds, dandelions are pioneering plants, growing in all sorts of locations often providing much needed colour to grey concrete paths. They are also great for pollinators 🐝🪰🦋
The thistles are in bloom in our messy patch today and attracting plenty of attention from the local hoverflies! 💚🏴
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The thistles are in bloom in our messy patch today and attracting plenty of attention from the local hoverflies! 💚🏴
It’s World #Rainforest Day 🌳🌧️
Here in the UK we have temperate rainforests in each of the home nations! Home to over 500 species of mosses and lichens they support great biodiversity !
Here in the UK we have temperate rainforests in each of the home nations! Home to over 500 species of mosses and lichens they support great biodiversity !
June 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It’s World #Rainforest Day 🌳🌧️
Here in the UK we have temperate rainforests in each of the home nations! Home to over 500 species of mosses and lichens they support great biodiversity !
Here in the UK we have temperate rainforests in each of the home nations! Home to over 500 species of mosses and lichens they support great biodiversity !
😊Good news story:Tiree Twist moths thought to be extinct in England since 1952 and limited to the island of Tiree have been FOUND in Kent ! 💚
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June 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
😊Good news story:Tiree Twist moths thought to be extinct in England since 1952 and limited to the island of Tiree have been FOUND in Kent ! 💚
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
🧡Orange 🧡
🌈Pride month colour focus 🌈
Fox and cubs aka Orange Hawkweed is an invasive ‘weed’ common in UK gardens which can attract bees🐝 butterflies🦋 and hoverflies🪰 & other insects 🐞 introduced from
Southern Europe in 17th Century
🌈Pride month colour focus 🌈
Fox and cubs aka Orange Hawkweed is an invasive ‘weed’ common in UK gardens which can attract bees🐝 butterflies🦋 and hoverflies🪰 & other insects 🐞 introduced from
Southern Europe in 17th Century
June 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🧡Orange 🧡
🌈Pride month colour focus 🌈
Fox and cubs aka Orange Hawkweed is an invasive ‘weed’ common in UK gardens which can attract bees🐝 butterflies🦋 and hoverflies🪰 & other insects 🐞 introduced from
Southern Europe in 17th Century
🌈Pride month colour focus 🌈
Fox and cubs aka Orange Hawkweed is an invasive ‘weed’ common in UK gardens which can attract bees🐝 butterflies🦋 and hoverflies🪰 & other insects 🐞 introduced from
Southern Europe in 17th Century
What a great photo from
Andrew Kirby in Somerset of this wee swimming mole!
Andrew Kirby in Somerset of this wee swimming mole!
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What a great photo from
Andrew Kirby in Somerset of this wee swimming mole!
Andrew Kirby in Somerset of this wee swimming mole!
❌ Say no to plastic grass ❌
-creates plastic pollution
-loss of habitat
-loss of co2 sink
-inc flood risk
-inc carbon
-bad for soil, bugs, worms
Fake grass is the last thing we need in a biodiversity crisis which is why I’m calling for it to be phased out as we #messupbritain for nature 💚🐝🌻
-creates plastic pollution
-loss of habitat
-loss of co2 sink
-inc flood risk
-inc carbon
-bad for soil, bugs, worms
Fake grass is the last thing we need in a biodiversity crisis which is why I’m calling for it to be phased out as we #messupbritain for nature 💚🐝🌻
June 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
❌ Say no to plastic grass ❌
-creates plastic pollution
-loss of habitat
-loss of co2 sink
-inc flood risk
-inc carbon
-bad for soil, bugs, worms
Fake grass is the last thing we need in a biodiversity crisis which is why I’m calling for it to be phased out as we #messupbritain for nature 💚🐝🌻
-creates plastic pollution
-loss of habitat
-loss of co2 sink
-inc flood risk
-inc carbon
-bad for soil, bugs, worms
Fake grass is the last thing we need in a biodiversity crisis which is why I’m calling for it to be phased out as we #messupbritain for nature 💚🐝🌻
This week the messy patch in our garden has seen the cornflowers and poppies pop up! 🐝💚
June 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This week the messy patch in our garden has seen the cornflowers and poppies pop up! 🐝💚
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My garden is certainly messy. The grass in my ´wildflower meadow’ is about 6 ft high and the fruit and flowers are having to share their space with the weeds. I love it.🥰
June 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My garden is certainly messy. The grass in my ´wildflower meadow’ is about 6 ft high and the fruit and flowers are having to share their space with the weeds. I love it.🥰
June 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🌈Pride flag colour🌈:
❤️Red Poppies❤️
Did you know they don’t have nectar but rely on their vibrant red being great for attracting pollinators to their abundant pollen🐝
❤️Red Poppies❤️
Did you know they don’t have nectar but rely on their vibrant red being great for attracting pollinators to their abundant pollen🐝
June 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
🌈Pride flag colour🌈:
❤️Red Poppies❤️
Did you know they don’t have nectar but rely on their vibrant red being great for attracting pollinators to their abundant pollen🐝
❤️Red Poppies❤️
Did you know they don’t have nectar but rely on their vibrant red being great for attracting pollinators to their abundant pollen🐝
What a great wee guide 🌿
Absolutely agree - love a wallflower or a pavement plant!
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Wallflowers and Pavement Plants of Redland and Cotham
This week I took a stroll around Redland and Cotham, and took note of how colourful the walls and pavements have recently become. Redland and Cotham has some lovely stone walls which look even bett…
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June 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
What a great wee guide 🌿
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#TitliTuesday Still waiting to photograph my 1st Scottish #butterfly so here are those seen in the last week in #Lancashire. Red admiral, large skipper, speckled wood and a single perfect painted lady. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #butterflies
June 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
#TitliTuesday Still waiting to photograph my 1st Scottish #butterfly so here are those seen in the last week in #Lancashire. Red admiral, large skipper, speckled wood and a single perfect painted lady. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #butterflies
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It was performing a very good insect-attracting role, even on this rather overcast day, on this Barley crop headland in Dorset on Sunday. I'll be interested to see how many birds are drawn to the crop later in the year.
June 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It was performing a very good insect-attracting role, even on this rather overcast day, on this Barley crop headland in Dorset on Sunday. I'll be interested to see how many birds are drawn to the crop later in the year.
England~ the new planning and infrastructure bill will not strengthen ecological protection but will instead be ‘environmentally regressive’ this cannot happen during a biodiversity crisis. We must #MessUpBritain for nature 🐝🌹🦔🌻🐸🪻🦋💚
www.lancswt.org.uk/news/open-le...?
www.lancswt.org.uk/news/open-le...?
An open letter to all Members of Parliament across the 46 constituencies covered by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside | The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire Manchester an...
This matter is of such importance to me and, I know, to many of our members and your constituents, that I feel compelled to write to you all.
www.lancswt.org.uk
June 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
England~ the new planning and infrastructure bill will not strengthen ecological protection but will instead be ‘environmentally regressive’ this cannot happen during a biodiversity crisis. We must #MessUpBritain for nature 🐝🌹🦔🌻🐸🪻🦋💚
www.lancswt.org.uk/news/open-le...?
www.lancswt.org.uk/news/open-le...?
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🐙🌿🕷️ Ever see a spider yawn? Well, now you have. Okay, not yawn as in draw a big sleepy breath - spiders don't breathe with their face - but this one is stretching its chelicerae (mouthparts that end in the fangs) wide, making them look like a Yosemite Sam mustache. Also, it's grooming its eyes--
June 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🐙🌿🕷️ Ever see a spider yawn? Well, now you have. Okay, not yawn as in draw a big sleepy breath - spiders don't breathe with their face - but this one is stretching its chelicerae (mouthparts that end in the fangs) wide, making them look like a Yosemite Sam mustache. Also, it's grooming its eyes--
It’s probably no surprise that I love spying pioneering plants emerging from concrete, far better than removing #mess with chemical sprays! what’s better the first or second photo?🌻😊🐝
June 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It’s probably no surprise that I love spying pioneering plants emerging from concrete, far better than removing #mess with chemical sprays! what’s better the first or second photo?🌻😊🐝
Great to see @vadundee.bsky.social embracing mess for nature and creating these green spaces around the museum 🌿🌹🐝
It's a new month and we have lots of exciting events coming up!
From pride workshops, garden-inspired events to relaxing yoga, there's something for the whole family ☺️
Take a look: www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson
From pride workshops, garden-inspired events to relaxing yoga, there's something for the whole family ☺️
Take a look: www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson
June 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Great to see @vadundee.bsky.social embracing mess for nature and creating these green spaces around the museum 🌿🌹🐝
If you are a follower of our campaign to #MessUpBritain for nature, you might be interested in this newly published book by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Urban Plants, looks great! 🌻🌹🪻
June 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you are a follower of our campaign to #MessUpBritain for nature, you might be interested in this newly published book by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Urban Plants, looks great! 🌻🌹🪻