Brilliant news, well done National Trust - now lets have this in ever county! National Trust to plant 1,200 hectares of flower-filled grassland in Devon theguardian.com/environment/20…

Lesser bulb flies (Eumerus) aka roundfaces. A small but growing British genus of bulb, root and tuber-attacking hoverflies with one familiar garden species that attacks daffodils (E. funeralis). More here: flickr.com/photos/6307520…

Yay. I remember seeing this lovely moth when it was down to a single bush. Well done Butterfly Conservation Forestry England #mothsmatter bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

The UK Government has broken the law – it has failed to publish its nature recovery targets on time. We need these targets to restore nature – fast. wildlifetrusts.org/news/protectio… (1/3)

More bees late in the season or emerged confused. Andrena flavipes Yellow legged mining 1,2 and 3 and a Ashy mining Andrena cineraria on hardy chrysanthemum. N. Gloustershire 31/10/22 Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌍

This is a very special Hornet Robberfly: it was seen by Mary Ratcliffe on Saturday 30 Oct (latest ever sighting) in the north Wales vice-county Denbighshire (new for the vice-county) 😯🤩

What a strange autumn. I have a fresh batch of Small Garden Bumblebees B.hortorum in the garden & just found a female Hairy-footed Flower-bee A.plumipes, a species usually active in early spring Brigit Strawbridge Steven Falk Bumblebee Conservation Trust Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

As it's #Halloween , here are some appropriately named colliery spoil invertebrates 🎃 Beddau Beast (Cranogona dalensi), Maerdy Monster (Turdulisoma cf helenreadae) and Ghost Slug (Selenochlamys ysbryda)

Boycott plastic grass!

A very successful search for Rugged Oil Beetles (Meloe rugosus) tonight with Jenny Greenwood and the Wildlife Trust trainees. We got to 36 in the end!

Rubbish shot of stylopised Andrena scotica found in the garden today. only 5 months early. Had an out-of-season Osmia bicornis too

It's been worth the battle for improved grassland management at one of Rhondda Cynon Taff C.B.C RCT Local Nature Partnership LNP Cemeteries. Just 1 season in, and the rare Clavaria zollingeri - Violet Coral turns up. Another win for Nature 👌

Really enjoyed filming with Emma Williams here Garden Of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru today. It's for Fondazione Capellino, a non-profit foundation dedicated to safeguarding #biodiversity . The film is about the value of grassland #fungi in Wales, especially on coal spoil. Also features AberMycol

📢ICYMI📢Last week we launched our new map that revealed the extent of Britain's surviving fragments of temperate rainforest and showed that 20% of Britain has a climate suitable for temperate rainforest!

Check out the interactive map here👉map.lostrainforestsofbritain.org

It's that time of year again - Western Conifer Seed Bugs are seeking hibernation sites and are much more frequently encountered. Please do continue to submit all sightings of this species to iRecord if possible