Blooming lovely

The #BigButterflyCount is here! Can you help Butterfly Conservation 🦋 monitor our butterflies & moths? In your garden, the park, out on a walk… Download the app & get out for the count! 🦋 bigbutterflycount.org

Edna has her Monday morning face… Macleay's spectre or the Australian walking stick insect Extatosoma tiaratum can reproduce through sexual reproduction producing eggs that hatch in 4 months, or when no males are present, lay eggs without fertilization & these can take up to 9

We have mammoth expert Dr Steven Zhang from University of Helsinki on site today. A great opportunity to discuss one of the mammoth teeth found on the Hills Quarry Products dig… #tuskforce #FestivalOfArchaeology

Who doesn’t love an ammonite? Great to chat with Murray Edmunds at the Hills Quarry Products dig site about these truly iconic fossils… #TuskForce #Jurassic

A focus on Gryphaea with Richard Forrest. These are one of our most commonly found fossils at the Hills Quarry Products dig site… #TuskForce

It’s been a very exciting morning on our Hills Quarry Products dig in Gloucestershire - we now have a Neanderthal hand axe! Archaeologist & flintknapper, Will was on site to identify this incredible find made by UoB Palaeobiology’s Research Associate Jacob Quinn… #TuskForce

Get a wiggle on folks! This is a great opportunity to learn more about earthworms… 🪱🪱🪱🪱 #RegenAg #SoilHealth

What is fossilisation & why are we seeing soft material such as wood coming out of the Jurassic site at the Hills Quarry Products dig? Palaeontologist Nigel Larkin has some answers… #tuskforce #FossilFriday

Discussing yet another find from our Hills Quarry Products dig with Dr Steven Zhang from University of Helsinki… #tuskforce #FossilFriday

I was interviewed by the awesome Sally-Ann Spence FRES FLS about doodling at the dig. Just two Sallys chatting #drawingfinds #PaleoArt & the relationship between art and science! @the_hills_group Also i love this caption on the screenshot! #tuskforce #illustration #writing

Great to be able to discuss the use of technology including drones & pXRF with Royal Agricultural University Professor of #archaeology & cultural heritage Mark Horton at the Hills Quarry Products dig site in Gloucestershire. It is exciting to be able to collect critical data in such detail from areas

We keep digging up surprises at the Hills Quarry Products dig & geologist Dr. Neville Hollingworth takes us through the most recent… #tuskforce

On a still & warm summers evening I’m out hunting for one of our most iconic insects to spot at night, the glow worm. Not a worm at all but a beetle. The flightless females glow brightly, producing a chemical reaction called bioluminescence & do so to attract the flying males.

Farmer and entomologist Sally-Ann Spence says dung beetles could be a farmer’s best employee. On the latest Farming Focus episode, she and soil health expert Joel Williams discuss the importance of managing livestock below ground. Listen here: cornishmutual.co.uk/news-advice/fa…

Resilient farming starts from the below the ground & managing the soil biota, from bacteria to #DungBeetles, is crucial for sustainable food production… Great discussion with Joel Williams & Peter Green Cornish Mutual 🐄🐏💩🪱🦠🍄‍🟫🪲🌱🌾 cornishmutual.co.uk/news-advice/fa…

What do earthworms and soil fungi have in common? Find out from soil health expert Joel Williams and dung-beetle obsessed farmer Sally-Ann Spence on this week’s bonus episode of Farming Focus. Tap the link to tune in: cornishmutual.co.uk/news-advice/fa…

This poo has quite the view - just over 2000 metres up in the Italian Alps… #EuropeanDungathon