Liam Olds
@olds_liam
Freelance entomologist & founder of @collieryspoil. Conservation Officer @BuglifeCymru. Organiser of @OilBeetlesUK. Obsession with #brownfields and wild #bees.
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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…
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…
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 💚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌍
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)
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!
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