Laura Weldon PhD

Short wide brown and white barred feather

Red kite feather #Cotswolds

I second this vote I love that book

Brilliant work Matt and Lucy

The Use of Woody Dams in Natural Flood Management—Temporal Implications on In‐Channel Hydrology, Sediment Dynamics and Ecology The use of Natural Flood Management (NFM) interventions, and in particular woody dams, has become increasingly widespread over the last ca. 15 years. These interventions help to reduce flood risk dow...

🪵🌊 Just published! Our study on #LeakyBarriers in #NaturalFloodManagement, exploring on in-channel #Hydrology, #Sediment and #Ecology w Matthew Taylor, Anne Harrison, @laurabees01.bsky.social, Estefania Golob, @hjrobson2.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social

📖 Access here: doi.org/10.1002/rra....

Copper butterfly with brown markings on white yarrow flower

Small copper butterfly on yarrow, #butterfly #ukwildlife #invetebrate

Small blue butterfly on grass and bracken

Common blue butterfly, Trellech wet meadows #ukwildlife #butterfly #invertebrates

Red dragonfly resting on a stone

Common darter, #ukwildlife #dragonfly #invertebrates

Underside of an oak leaf smothered in small brown eggs of a wasp

Silk-button spangle gall wasp eggs, (fabulous name!) thousands of them along this hedge.Trellech wet meadows #invertebrate #ukwildlife

Small copper butterfly on red clover

Small copper butterfly on red clover, Trellech meadows in the Wye valley #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife

I would watch that!

We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Single brown patterned wing from a moth probably an underwing

Lost wing of an underwing #moth #Ukwildlife #invertebrate

Brown butterfly with closed wings against a lichen covered stone. Wall butterfly.

Wall butterfly (living up to its name), endangered on the GB red list (2022) #butterfly #invertebrates #ukwildlife

Colourful flyer with details of a one day eDNA workshop with Heal rewild.

Calling all conservation orgs in the UK (SouthWest), come and improve your eDNA skills at the beautiful @healrewilding.org.uk, hope to see you there.

Not a Harebell but a Nettle-leaved Bellflower (Campanula trachelium) growing in a shady spot in our garden with one of our smallest bees - a Small Scissor Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) which is strongly associated with Harebells and other bellflowers. #WildflowerHour

One in focus striped yellow and black caterpillar resting vertically on the stalk of a ragwort plant

Cinnabar moth caterpillars resting on heavily grazed ragwort. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife

Common carder bee on bird vetch
#bees #ukwildlife

Mostly white winged moth with brown markings and a striped abdomen

Clouded magpie moth. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife

Thanks Emma, hope all well with you!

How do we continue to promote join up between researchers and end users? How do we broaden scope of work? How do we work internationally? Share your thoughts before the end of the conference! #UKDNAWG25

Laura Weldon @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social tells us about impact of water chemistry on European #eel. Seasonal #eDNA sampling used to assess barriers to #eel movement. Higher phosphate levels associated with lower #eel detection #UKDNAWG25

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Buffy Smith @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social compared #iDNA and airborne #eDNA for #biodiversity in fragmented forest landscape. #iDNA more spatially sensitive. More domestic species detected with #iDNA than #eDNA tended to capture larger native mammals - differential shedding rates? #UKDNAWG25

We must be nearby we were walking the holloway Hells Lane!

Shiny smooth black leaf beetle on bare ground very rounded in appearance

Leaf beetle (Timarcha app) but not bloody nose beetle #invertebrates #ukwildlife #beetle

Medium sized brown butterfly with creamy white patches and distinctive dots on the wing, widespread in the Uk

Speckled wood #butterfly #ukwildlife #invertebrates

Large black beetle with huge abdomen, climbing through grass

Black oil beetle (male) uk south coast #ukwildlife #buglife #invertebrates

Common alderfly, canal-side walk today.

Get Off My Land Again! This has been quite a week.

After a hectic time working on the campaign to stop the export of elvers to Russia, and trying to get a book ready, Countryside Insider is back up and running with a new post about farming's missed opportunity to respond to the biodiversity crisis.
richardfleming.substack.com/p/get-off-my...

The covers of the BAS Factsheets

With spider activity increasing, we're looking at spider ID resources, starting today at the beginner's end of the spectrum with our 17 Factsheets on common and conspicuous species - freely available to read online or print from www.britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets. #spiders #arachnids #arachnology

Based on the science, diversity matters www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"...science has established the importance of diversity time and time again."