Laura Penny

A longhorn bee sipping nectar from a flower.

A longhorn bee, doing the splits whilst sipping nectar from a flower.

Had a lovely day at the Buglife pollinator workshop in Porth, learning more on how to ID pollinators for @pomscheme.bsky.social. The highlight was seeing Longhorn Bees, and finally getting some photos of these very busy insects 🐝 Thanks for a fab day out!

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It’s that time of year again - beetle time! 🪲 Some sprightly Teuchestes fossor dung beetles burrowing into my gloves. These beetles have impressive digging power 💪 All the better to break down those cow pats! 💩

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A large geotrupid dung beetle, held in my hand.

A herd of cows, looking at a bucket of dung which is about to be used for an experiment.

I’ve followed the herd over to Bluesky 👋 🐮 I’m Laura, 2nd year PhD student @uniexecec.bsky.social with the ECORISC CDT studying the effects of veterinary medicines on #dungbeetles (and their #microbiomes). I enjoy rummaging through cow 💩 for invertebrate treasures! 🐄 🪲

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