Hannah Breach

Beautiful!

A 'mummified' Reed Dagger (Simyra albovenosa) larva, caused by parasitism by the braconid parasitoid Aleiodes rugulous."
#norfolkmoths #parasitiods

I couldn't watch this video (just too upsetting) but huge thanks to the people out there getting this evidence against these evil people who go out to enjoy causing other living creatures immense suffering. And breaking the law.

With regards to the zoo comment - this was about the increasing number of reintroductions, not just pelicans. It involves humans choosing a species, choosing the location, choosing mostly large, characterful species and using tourism to help justify it.

This made me smile but it's not a laughing matter. You've summed it up perfectly, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

But we need to have large habitats and a thriving ecosystem in the first place, which we don't in the UK, before any introductions should be considered, in my personal opinion.

Dalmatian pelican reintroduction & conservation The Dalmatian pelican could become an ambassador for wetland restoration in Britain. Learn how we can bring back this giant of the sky.

It's a new month, so lets spin the wheel and find out what species a rewilding company wants to introduce next, as we play "Let's turn Norfolk into a big zoo". Ooh, it's...Dalmation Pelican! www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/why-rewild/r... and pressreleasehub.pa.media/article/inte...

Norfolk Moths The Moths of Norfolk. In association with the Norfolk Moth Survey.

If I may make one request this year please do NOT use iNaturalist for recording moths in Norfolk. Please record directly on the website norfolkmoths.co.uk Thank you! #norfolkmoths #teammoth

Rare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs were recorded in hedgerows near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline

Cut blackthorn hedges less often = boost brown hairstreak butterflies. Really simple, cost-free (or even money-saving) measures can massively benefit wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very, very sad for that Hare and all the hundreds of others that have suffered that fate.
Well done for sharing this!

Portrait of the two sexes of the very rare & elusive Giant or Tawny Earwig which once occurred regularly in the Bournemouth area until its coastal habitat was lost to development in the first half of the 20th C. From William Lucas, Monograph of the British Orthoptera, Ray Society, 1920.

I've noticed a huge decline in Common Earwig numbers in our 3 acre garden in Norfolk. We don't use any pesticides and have made no changes to the habitat ant yet numbers have plummeted in the last 4 or 5 years. We are surrounded by arable farmland though...

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I love the spider and the Wren!

So very sad. 💔

Whilst felling trees around the garden pond this weekend discovered this Large White (Pieris brassicae) pupa 13 feet up a Willow (the pupa is safe and well!). I can't recall any of the species food plants growing nearby so it must have wandered a considerable distance.
#butterflies #overwintering

if you damage something man-made we call it vandalism if you damage something made by nature we call it progress

Accidentally brought this Diaea dorsata into the house today. It would be disingenuous of me to say I love all spiders (I am, sort of, working on it!) but I am fond of Crab Spiders and this species is particularly beautiful.
#greencrabspider #spider

Not the species we were looking for but for a slug Deroceras laeve (Marsh Slug) has a certain charm due to its diminutive size! This one was about 8mm long.
Also seen today a number of Deroceras agreste, Ruby Tiger
(Phragmatobia fuliginosa) & Drinker (Euthrix potatoria) larvae.
#slug #invertebrates

People just love planting trees, and sometimes there's no alternative.

But planted trees will NEVER create anything like the sheer diversity of forms of wild, self-seeded trees.

Only *nature* can do that.

Nightmare before Christmas: worst environmental regression in decades looms | The Wildlife Trusts Labour’s list of broken promises mounts

Labour seem determined to wreck what’s left of our natural world. So many broken promises.

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma....

Is invertebrate conservation in Great Britain best achieved by policies that increase species protection? - Journal of Insect Conservation Abstract We discuss proposals to extend the list of protected insect species in Great Britain and question whether existing species protection measures are appropriate for insects whose ecology is sub...

Discussion by Morris & Welch on problems and solutions for conserving invertebrates.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Homepage - Neotropical Birding and Conservation

New Neotropical Birding and Conservation website is up and running. If you want to help conserve the birds of the American tropics please consider joining, donating—or just spreading the word! @neobirdconserve.bsky.social neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org #ornithology

Shocking footage exposes the annual Guga Hunt

Skylark Lane and Swift Avenue markavery.info/2025/11/22/r...

RSPB finds bird populations falling while roads named after those birds are rising. Hmm - is that progress?

📷Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)

Some attractive leaf mines seen today in the Yare Valley.
A Beech leaf with Stigmella tityrella and Phyllonorycter messaniella mines. A Hazel leaf with what I believe is a Stigmella microtheriella mine.
#leafminers #teammoth #norfolkmoths

Giving autumn colours something extra; a Stigmella tityrella mine in a fallen Beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf.
#teammoth

Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Calvia quattuordecimguttata

Cream-spot Ladybird (Calvia quattuordecimguttata) seen today in the Yare Valley. #UKLadybirds