Dr Will Leo Hawkes
@willleohawkes.bsky.social
🪰🐝Doctor of Insect Migration🦋🐞
🏴 Cofiwch y pethau bach
Conservation assistant at Buglife
⛰️Most content up a mountain
🏴 Cofiwch y pethau bach
Conservation assistant at Buglife
⛰️Most content up a mountain
Pinned
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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People have no idea how diverse spiders truly are.
The picture below shows this diversity by displaying the distribution of their eyes. Eyes are actually a quite helpful pointer to help you identify the potential family of a spider.
#spidersky #invertebrates
#spiders 🕷️🌿
The picture below shows this diversity by displaying the distribution of their eyes. Eyes are actually a quite helpful pointer to help you identify the potential family of a spider.
#spidersky #invertebrates
#spiders 🕷️🌿
September 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
People have no idea how diverse spiders truly are.
The picture below shows this diversity by displaying the distribution of their eyes. Eyes are actually a quite helpful pointer to help you identify the potential family of a spider.
#spidersky #invertebrates
#spiders 🕷️🌿
The picture below shows this diversity by displaying the distribution of their eyes. Eyes are actually a quite helpful pointer to help you identify the potential family of a spider.
#spidersky #invertebrates
#spiders 🕷️🌿
Tune in to my radio show at 5pm BST today to hear the fascinating Rosa Dyer from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social telling us all about her research into the usage of bird feathers by indigenous people of South America!
I'm so excited!
Listen live or catch up here: www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
I'm so excited!
Listen live or catch up here: www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
September 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Tune in to my radio show at 5pm BST today to hear the fascinating Rosa Dyer from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social telling us all about her research into the usage of bird feathers by indigenous people of South America!
I'm so excited!
Listen live or catch up here: www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
I'm so excited!
Listen live or catch up here: www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
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No, I’m not on Desert Island Discs! Recording session for BBC RADIO 4 Rare Earth on animal #migration with @willleohawkes.bsky.social @tomheap.bsky.social and @helenczerski.bsky.social Airs on Friday 19 September at 1200 GMT
September 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
No, I’m not on Desert Island Discs! Recording session for BBC RADIO 4 Rare Earth on animal #migration with @willleohawkes.bsky.social @tomheap.bsky.social and @helenczerski.bsky.social Airs on Friday 19 September at 1200 GMT
Very happy to be asked on Radio 4's Rare Earth today to talk all about animal (especially insect) migration alongside such great people.
The episode airs 19th September!
@tomheap.bsky.social @helenczerski.bsky.social @cuttlefisher.bsky.social
The episode airs 19th September!
@tomheap.bsky.social @helenczerski.bsky.social @cuttlefisher.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Very happy to be asked on Radio 4's Rare Earth today to talk all about animal (especially insect) migration alongside such great people.
The episode airs 19th September!
@tomheap.bsky.social @helenczerski.bsky.social @cuttlefisher.bsky.social
The episode airs 19th September!
@tomheap.bsky.social @helenczerski.bsky.social @cuttlefisher.bsky.social
Some beautiful moths from our moth trap on the Roseland Cornwall last week
1) a male Black Arches, he uses his antennae to sniff out females
2) Dusky thorn
3) Frosted orange
4) the eye of a scarce bordered straw
1) a male Black Arches, he uses his antennae to sniff out females
2) Dusky thorn
3) Frosted orange
4) the eye of a scarce bordered straw
August 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Some beautiful moths from our moth trap on the Roseland Cornwall last week
1) a male Black Arches, he uses his antennae to sniff out females
2) Dusky thorn
3) Frosted orange
4) the eye of a scarce bordered straw
1) a male Black Arches, he uses his antennae to sniff out females
2) Dusky thorn
3) Frosted orange
4) the eye of a scarce bordered straw
Reposted by Dr Will Leo Hawkes
Went to my local park to check red bartsia (bottom right) for its associate bee. No joy but plenty of other treasure about - common blue, small copper, green veined white, gatekeeper, small bath and speckled wood butterflies, emperor and common darter dragonflies + more. @willleohawkes.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Went to my local park to check red bartsia (bottom right) for its associate bee. No joy but plenty of other treasure about - common blue, small copper, green veined white, gatekeeper, small bath and speckled wood butterflies, emperor and common darter dragonflies + more. @willleohawkes.bsky.social
Last week I found 3 bee species I'd never seen before!
1) v rare Red Bartsia Bee, Melitta tricincta which has returned to sites in North Cornwall due to the work Buglife have been doing. 📸1,2
2) Blunthorn nomad, Nomad flavopicta 📸3
3) white zoned furrow bee, Lasioglossum leucozonium 📸4
1) v rare Red Bartsia Bee, Melitta tricincta which has returned to sites in North Cornwall due to the work Buglife have been doing. 📸1,2
2) Blunthorn nomad, Nomad flavopicta 📸3
3) white zoned furrow bee, Lasioglossum leucozonium 📸4
August 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Last week I found 3 bee species I'd never seen before!
1) v rare Red Bartsia Bee, Melitta tricincta which has returned to sites in North Cornwall due to the work Buglife have been doing. 📸1,2
2) Blunthorn nomad, Nomad flavopicta 📸3
3) white zoned furrow bee, Lasioglossum leucozonium 📸4
1) v rare Red Bartsia Bee, Melitta tricincta which has returned to sites in North Cornwall due to the work Buglife have been doing. 📸1,2
2) Blunthorn nomad, Nomad flavopicta 📸3
3) white zoned furrow bee, Lasioglossum leucozonium 📸4
Some dreamy insects (and a spider) from home in the Ceiriog Valley, North Wales last weekend.
1) Chrysotoxum arcuatum hoverfly
2) male red tailed bumblebee
3) marmalade hoverfly
4) a beautiful Garden cross spider
1) Chrysotoxum arcuatum hoverfly
2) male red tailed bumblebee
3) marmalade hoverfly
4) a beautiful Garden cross spider
August 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Some dreamy insects (and a spider) from home in the Ceiriog Valley, North Wales last weekend.
1) Chrysotoxum arcuatum hoverfly
2) male red tailed bumblebee
3) marmalade hoverfly
4) a beautiful Garden cross spider
1) Chrysotoxum arcuatum hoverfly
2) male red tailed bumblebee
3) marmalade hoverfly
4) a beautiful Garden cross spider
Perhaps the most beautiful rove beetle I have ever seen, Rhyncocheilus aureus, from the jungles of Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
August 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Perhaps the most beautiful rove beetle I have ever seen, Rhyncocheilus aureus, from the jungles of Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
A very beautiful Onocera semirubella in our moth trap near Falmouth, Cornwall yesterday.
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social @davegrundy.bsky.social
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social @davegrundy.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A very beautiful Onocera semirubella in our moth trap near Falmouth, Cornwall yesterday.
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social @davegrundy.bsky.social
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social @davegrundy.bsky.social
In April 1926 there were so many painted lady butterflies migrating through Palestine that cars had to stop to remove them from their radiators to prevent overheating.
From C. B. Williams' records.
Free Palestine always. What Israel is doing is truly evil.
🇵🇸🍉🦋
From C. B. Williams' records.
Free Palestine always. What Israel is doing is truly evil.
🇵🇸🍉🦋
August 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In April 1926 there were so many painted lady butterflies migrating through Palestine that cars had to stop to remove them from their radiators to prevent overheating.
From C. B. Williams' records.
Free Palestine always. What Israel is doing is truly evil.
🇵🇸🍉🦋
From C. B. Williams' records.
Free Palestine always. What Israel is doing is truly evil.
🇵🇸🍉🦋
A very fluffy buff tailed bumblebee on knapweed. The Roseland, Cornwall
August 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A very fluffy buff tailed bumblebee on knapweed. The Roseland, Cornwall
Reposted by Dr Will Leo Hawkes
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
A green eyed flower bee female - Anthophora bimaculata - found on the Roseland, Cornwall, this week.
Look at those green eyes!!
These bees also have a much higher pitched buzz than other species.
Look at those green eyes!!
These bees also have a much higher pitched buzz than other species.
August 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A green eyed flower bee female - Anthophora bimaculata - found on the Roseland, Cornwall, this week.
Look at those green eyes!!
These bees also have a much higher pitched buzz than other species.
Look at those green eyes!!
These bees also have a much higher pitched buzz than other species.
A blue bee! This is the blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa tumida.
I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
So full of beauty.
I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
So full of beauty.
August 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A blue bee! This is the blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa tumida.
I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
So full of beauty.
I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
So full of beauty.
A meadow brown butterfly amongst the knapweeds on Roseland, Cornwall yesterday.
August 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A meadow brown butterfly amongst the knapweeds on Roseland, Cornwall yesterday.
The beautiful moth diversity from Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
Look at those Malaysian moon moths!
Look at those Malaysian moon moths!
July 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The beautiful moth diversity from Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.
Look at those Malaysian moon moths!
Look at those Malaysian moon moths!
As an insect conservationist, these are my absolute favourite messages to receive!
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
As an insect conservationist, these are my absolute favourite messages to receive!
The mantises of Trus Madi jungle in Borneo were gorgeous. Here is a little Pachymantis species.
When boxer mantises encounter one another, they wave their forearms displaying the patterned interior faces to each other. This is believed to be a way of preventing the same species eating each other!
When boxer mantises encounter one another, they wave their forearms displaying the patterned interior faces to each other. This is believed to be a way of preventing the same species eating each other!
July 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The mantises of Trus Madi jungle in Borneo were gorgeous. Here is a little Pachymantis species.
When boxer mantises encounter one another, they wave their forearms displaying the patterned interior faces to each other. This is believed to be a way of preventing the same species eating each other!
When boxer mantises encounter one another, they wave their forearms displaying the patterned interior faces to each other. This is believed to be a way of preventing the same species eating each other!
So small!!
Revisando en detalle unas fotos, descubro a una diminutísima polinizadora 😍 cuya obsesión por las flores de / Limonium / era inversamente proporcional a su tamaño 😅
¿Alguna posibilidad de identificación @txaverius.bsky.social @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social ?
¿Alguna posibilidad de identificación @txaverius.bsky.social @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social ?
July 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
So small!!
Reposted by Dr Will Leo Hawkes
Revisando en detalle unas fotos, descubro a una diminutísima polinizadora 😍 cuya obsesión por las flores de / Limonium / era inversamente proporcional a su tamaño 😅
¿Alguna posibilidad de identificación @txaverius.bsky.social @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social ?
¿Alguna posibilidad de identificación @txaverius.bsky.social @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social ?
July 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Revisando en detalle unas fotos, descubro a una diminutísima polinizadora 😍 cuya obsesión por las flores de / Limonium / era inversamente proporcional a su tamaño 😅
¿Alguna posibilidad de identificación @txaverius.bsky.social @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social ?
¿Alguna posibilidad de identificación @txaverius.bsky.social @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social ?
Pigeons are so great. Here is one nesting in a drainage grate in Falmouth (there's a hole to the outside they can crawl through)!
July 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Pigeons are so great. Here is one nesting in a drainage grate in Falmouth (there's a hole to the outside they can crawl through)!
If you look carefully, you will see that not all leaves are as they seem...
The incredible camouflage of Xantia borneensis, the sickle bearing katydid, deep in the Trus Madi jungles of Borneo.
The incredible camouflage of Xantia borneensis, the sickle bearing katydid, deep in the Trus Madi jungles of Borneo.
July 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
If you look carefully, you will see that not all leaves are as they seem...
The incredible camouflage of Xantia borneensis, the sickle bearing katydid, deep in the Trus Madi jungles of Borneo.
The incredible camouflage of Xantia borneensis, the sickle bearing katydid, deep in the Trus Madi jungles of Borneo.