Frosty beauty at the ever improving Derbyshire Wildlife Trust site at Peak Village, Rowsley. Trialling accessible surface so everyone can enjoy the riverside. #volunteering

Hellooo! I’ve just landed on @bsky.app and wanted to say hi and find out who else is here! I’m Gail - I am a nature author, photographer and illustrator with a particular love for insects and their ecology, habitat and conservation 💚🪲

Moth found in London is a new species to science

Moth found in London by local resident is a new species to science from Australia

Today’s poem is called ‘Slow Puncture’.

‘The Exceedingly Tiny Bookshop’ my cartoon for today's Guardian Books. Let's all support good bookshops of any size, either locally or online.

If the Key to Lichens of North America (Brodo, 2016) is reliable, C. portentosa is confined to the west coast, but the similar Cladonia terra-novae is more widespread.

Temperate Paederus are mild, but some tropical ones have been tested as bioweapons (US Army has a defence plan) thanks to a symbiont that pumps pedarin into their haemolymph. Crush them & you get a nasty skin 'burn' a few days later, because it stops mitosis - also potential cancer treatment. Cool!

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Paederus species of rove beetle on the edge of a boardwalk. With water up to the boards, I couldn’t manage a dorsal view, but we’re fairly certain that it’s P. riparius. #ento

Dendrochronology xkcd.com/2847

Still looking. At this point, I’m open to anything that’s 1) Remote and 2) Paid. I’m smart, talented, and easy to work with. There’s gotta be something out there for me.

*Slime mould appreciation post* Slime moulds usually live as single celled organisms, but will occasionally perform a feat of cooperation - gathering together as a collective ‘organism’ to form structures such as fruiting bodies. They may resemble fungi, but are really a unique group of amoebozoa.🧪