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Audrey Nicoll, MSP & LINK Nature Champion, highlighted key findings from our "Restoring Scotland's Waters" report, calling for a national strategy: catchment management, riparian woodland, & protecting water stores to boost resilience.
Read our full report here: www.scotlink.org/publication/...
The Scottish Government needs to take urgent action to save Scotlandโs waterโ a vital resource that sustains us and many important wildlife habitats. ๐ง๐ฐ
Our "Restoring scotland's waters" report calls for a stronger River Basin Management Plan for 2027.
Read report: www.scotlink.org/publication/...
Orchesella flavescens, one of the UK's largest springtails. It's an elongate springtail, with long antennae, often with a differing number of segments on each antenna (but with a maximum of six). It can be identified by the pattern consisting of parallel longitudinal dark lines running the length of the abdomen, contrasting against a paler ground colour. This is a relatively scarce woodland species.
Send me records: I am excited to be taking on the role of national springtail recorder. I have huge shoes to fill, but I hope to continue the progress Peter Shaw made in understanding the taxonomy and biology of the UK's #springtails.
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Light traps meet AI! ๐ฆ๐ค
Dr @abigaillowe.bsky.social (@ukceh.bsky.social) explores how farmers are using smart traps & AI ID tools to monitor moths and fill key gaps in UK biodiversity data.
Join our FREE webinar on 24th Nov.
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@mjopocock.bsky.social
Hundreds of people answered our call to write messages to MSPs about their love for Scotland's nature. Leslie's message is one of 40 collected in a little book that we've sent to every MSP. Read the 40 messages: www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/dear-msp-nat...
23.09.2025 08:45 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Two people standing in front a scientific poster
Great day at #Ento25 yesterday where I had a collaborative poster with Helen James from NMNI. A synthesis of fieldwork looking at under-explored Irish freshwaters to fill in species knowledge gaps. Thanks to NPWS for funding study and to many other contributors. www.royensoc.co.uk/wp-content/u...
11.09.2025 18:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Drinker (Euthrix potatoria), Oak Eggar (Lasiocampa quercus), and Dark Tussock (Dicallomera fascelina) caterpillars together with numerous Common Lizards (Zootoca vivipara) today at Flanders Moss NNR. Amazing place to visit - always loads of wildlife to see.
24.05.2025 15:20 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I think youโre right Dave, Siphonoperla torrentium.
16.05.2025 16:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Today we had a fantastic site visit in Stirling with a group of Nature Champion MSPs to learn all about how crucial bees are for our planet and lives!
Many thanks go to the Nature Champions for their keen interest in this important topic, @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social, Buglife and @stir.ac.uk๐
Was up early yesterday to help empty traps at a local site. Not many moths, but the ones that were there were cracking! Also got three #caddis species: Rhyacophila dorsalis, Glyphotaelius pellucidus, and Oxyethira flavicornis, and a #SextonBeetle Nicrophorus humator
12.05.2025 23:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Dinner with a view
10.05.2025 17:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Fantastic to deliver a workshop on #mayflies, #stoneflies and #caddisflies for @freshwaterbio.bsky.social. Humbling to be looked over by two of the great freshwater ecologist - TT Macan and Richard Chadd.
02.05.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Light traps set up beside a river
An adult caddisfly Rhyacophila dorsalis
An adult male stonefly Perlodes mortoni on a fencepost
The River Leven at Backbarrow
This week Iโm in the English Lake District to deliver a workshop for @freshwaterbio.bsky.social. Did a little light trapping for caddis tonight on the River Leven at Backbarrow. Several species flying plus lots of Perlodes mortoni males active at night
30.04.2025 22:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Fantastic week in the Burren with @hmbarber-james.bsky.social and other NMNI associates. Turloughs, marl lakes, temporary streams, holy wells and springs - freshwaters in the Burren are fascinating!
30.04.2025 22:25 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
A nice selection of adult stoneflies along the River Devon in Clackmannanshire. Protonemura meyeri (pictured), Leuctra hippopus, Brachyptera risi and Zwicknia bifrons.
23.03.2025 16:49 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
First sunset light trapping session of the year. Air temperature 11 degrees. No caddisflies, just a couple of small flies. Iโm getting impatient for spring!
22.03.2025 20:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Fantastic day today at the Irish Freshwater Sciences Association annual meeting in Belfast. Great selection of talks covering a wide range of topics from hydromorphology, biology, ecology, species recording, and water pollution effects.
21.03.2025 23:31 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Limnephilus sp. one of several that make a similar style of case
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The underside of a caddisfly specimen with the name โA. Freelandโ visible.
Agnes Morton (formerly Freeland) [1863 -1943], received very little credit for her entomological contributions - so Craig is working to set the record straight, and shine a spotlight on her work.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #TaxonomistAppreciationDay
A black and white photo of Agnes and Kenneth Morton, courtesy of the Morton family.
Craig Macadam examining the caddisfly collection at National Museums Scotland.
The brilliant @bugsymac.bsky.social has been digging into the collection & archives of The Mortons (Kenneth & Agnes) - Scotlands most prolific insect collecting couple.
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River Forth is your best bet for Megaloptera - all three species have been recorded upstream of Stirling. For other inverts in the area try Aberfoyle forests for wood ants and glowworms.
14.03.2025 00:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A stonefly on a fencepost
A stonefly on a fencepost covered in lichen
A Northern February Red stonefly on a fencepost
The endemic Northern February Red Stonefly (Brachyptera putata) on fenceposts along the River Spey. Males and Females out in numbers on this #fencepostfriday
28.02.2025 20:02 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
