Neil Phillips Fantastic photo. My local site which supports almost 1500 invertebrates is under threat from 1000 houses. Please sign the Buglife petition to save this site. Defend the wildlife of Middlewick Ranges | 38 Degrees

#MarineMiles day 107 We are 4 hours from John O' Groats with under £500 away from £15k! This journey has been done unsupported with us carrying all our gear and tent on our backs. See below which shows the essentials we've taken with us. Pls donate gofund.me/dba07355

Some shots of (increasingly less) rare Lesser Emperor Dragonfly I got last month. I just published a video about how I got them and photographed other dragonflies in flight you can watch here: youtu.be/HXxdFicN05s British Dragonfly Society OM Digital Solutions Insect Week AES - amentsoc.org Royal Entomological Society

Funny how all these are NFU folk attacking the BBC for using a celebrity in Brian Mays documentary on Bovine TB and badgers didn't complain when Clarkson's Farm did a whole episode demonising badgers over bTB + claiming badger baiting no longer happens...

Southern Migrant Hawker Close up in flight I made a video about how I got them and photographed other dragonflies in flight you can watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=HXxdFi… British Dragonfly Society NorfolkPondsProject Freshwater Habitats Trust Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) OM Digital Solutions Essex Wildlife Trust BBC Essex

Rmember that even though Indy and Katie have finished their epic walk, you can still donate to this great cause!

Unfortunately yet another example of wildlife disturbance. Did you know you can report wildlife disturbance to Kent Police? More details on #OpSeabird here 👉 kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/police-an…

Something is going very, very wrong with woodland ride management by Forestry England in East Kent. The last few days have seen miles of rides full of flowers in FC owned blocks of Orlestone Forest SSSI shorn down to billiard table length like this.

Filming at a Hornets nest yesterday, I kept seeing the fly hanging round the entrance. I suspect its just Common Housefly Fannia canicularis? Sorry for poor camera work, it kept appearing when I was focusing on something else! Dr Erica McAlister Steven Falk Richard Jones

Just saw a post on the Weald to Waves project on Linkedin about a feasibility study on Red Backed Shrike reintroduction, which reminded me of this one that stopped off in Essex for a few day + one foggy morning dived into the hedge and came out with this Migrant Hawker Dragonfly!

Tony was a top man and he was more than happy to show me round when I started going to Regents Park on on lunchbreaks from studying at UCL (a few years ago now!) and had heaps of knowledge on birds He will be missed

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 🙏

Help needed: Daddy Longlegs Spider, Pholcus phalangioides, survey! UoN Life Sciences @ArachNottsMasters student, Ellie Clifton, would really appreciate your help with her short questionnaire on this species in your home. Find it at tinyurl.com/mtpt2s7f. Please RT

In the following thread, I look at what happened on one Dartmoor common a few years ago when @naturalengland tried to take action to ensure a taxpayer funded £1.4M agri-environment scheme delivered for nature. It’s a sorry tale, but it says a lot about Dartmoor …

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Just did this survey - took 2 minutes so please do it too :)

WILD BEAVERS! I saw wild. fricking. beavers! It was somewhat exciting, only a few brief views but it was wonderful

‘Always outsiders, always men, always white’: how women are changing the narrative of wildlife film-making theguardian.com/global-develop…

Mrs WJ spent time the other day watching the ants farming their aphids along #DiggerAlley RSPB Minsmere 🌍 It wasn't long before a little (I think) Pemphredon lugubris (Mourning Black Wasp) came along to spoil their day though! RSPB England RSPB

Raft Spider carrying her egg cocoon in her fangs. In my latest video, I talk all about these fantastic arachnids Watch it here: youtu.be/pt0m4J4ejjU BAS Nottingham SpiderLab AES - amentsoc.org SuffolkWildlifeTrust Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 RSPB Arne and Weymouth Wetlands Insect Week George McGavin Iolo Williams