Wildlife camera traps can capture the most unexpected scenes, like this orangutan acting like nobody's watching.

Urban bees are often early bees says a new study: jeffollerton.co.uk/2024/08/27/urb… #bees #pollinators #ecology #urbanecology Steven Falk Brigit Strawbridge Dr Kit Prendergast Api:Cultural

Bumblebee expert and Bumblebee Conservation Trust founder Dave Goulson and co provide an overview of the #citizenscience work of The Buzz Club in this blog. biologicalrecording.co.uk/2024/05/16/cit…

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 285. #bumblebees have five eyes. They have two large apposition compound eyes - one on either side of the head. On the upper front of the head they also have three small simple single-lens eyes called ocelli. #bees

Anthracite Beefly in my Whitstable garden along with the long staying Shrill Carder. Steven Falk Ian Beavis Steve Reynaert 🇺🇦 David B Seasalter birder

📢 Latest news 📢 During the past 5 years, over 30 insect species have been found in Ireland for the first time. Many of these have been recorded by our fantastic citizen science network. You can read more about these exciting discoveries here: biodiversityireland.ie/newly-discover…

A few tickets still available for this Sunday

Brown Argus, enjoy ! (aberration form ) also normal markings on the mating ones. 💙💙💙🦋 ..and a Small Heath Landguard Ranger Landguard Bird Obs BC Suffolk Branch Butterfly Conservation 🦋 SuffolkWildlifeTrust RSPB Will Brame Iolo Williams .and a Willow Warbler going through the Tamarisk !💙

2/x At Warburg, nice images of the robberfly Choerades marginatus, the hoverfly Ferdinandea cuprea, the parasite fly Gymnosoma rotundatum and a particularly nice portrait of the Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus).

A haze of Devil's-bit Scabious flowers at one of the best sites in the UK to see the Small Scabious Mining Bee Andrena marginata and especially its rare cuckoo the Silver-sided Nomad Bee Nomada argentata. St Julian's Park, Newport, Wales. Thanks Liam Olds

Yesterday, I posted about a cheap fire pit I purchased to turn into a bird bath..... nearly 200 trail cam clips later, it's safe to say it's a big hit! I will mount a live stream camera on here tomorrow! I'm amazed how much it was used today! #GwylltHollow

We'll be launching the pre-pub offer on our #FliesofBritainandIreland at AES Annual Exhibition, Kempton Park Racecourse on 28 Sept. Come & see us & get a glimpse of some of the pages from the book on Naturebureau/Pisces Publicatiions stall Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟

A new ID guide is now available for all 27 species in the robberfly family (Asilidae) in the UK. Download the PDF from dipterists.org.uk/soldierflies-a… A very big thank you to the large number of people who have made their photos available 🙏

Another amazing resource from the Soldierfly recording scheme.

Devastating news for Scotland's internationally important breeding seabird populations as five seabird species are added to the UK Red List including common gull, Leach's storm petrel and Arctic tern ⬇️

Another ID guide emerges 😊 covering 4 UK horsefly species in Atylotus, a genus of gorgeous grey, green & golden flies. Thanks as ever for 📸 Steven Falk, Malcolm Storey, Tanyptera Project, Paul Brewster, Peter Brash & Rob Wolton. Download from dipterists.org.uk/soldierflies-a… #soldierflies