Dr Jill Whitelock

A fly on the edge of an ivy leaf against a blurred green background.

Fly time. 📷 #photography #Diptera

Hand-coloured printed illustration of a rose with a hoverfly larva on a leaf; also showing the adult fly.

Have you seen this one before, from Eleazar Albin’s ‘A natural history of English insects’ (London, 1720)? Scaeva(?) hoverfly and larva.

Thank you, that’s very kind. 😊

A glass light shade with the word ‘STAIR’ shining through a red painted area. Books on shelves are visible on the right of the photograph.

Library light.
#BlueskyArtShow #bright @theul.bsky.social

Can’t wait for this. 💚

First & last flies featured in #FliesofBritainandIreland – Wasp-banded Comb-horn Ctenophora flaveolata & Deer Warble Fly Hypoderma diana. Nearing completion due late Jan/early Feb 2026. Pre-order now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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A pale Daisy-like flower against a blurred green and orange background.

Aster, Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. 📷 #photography

It's such fantastic news that poet, writer and journalist Amy Levy's archive has been acquired by Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social. I wrote about her time as a student at Newnham College Cambridge here:
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Engraved title-page of vol. 2 of August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s ‘Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung’, with coloured illustrations of various insects.

Insects on the engraved title-page of August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s ‘Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung’ (Nuremberg, 1746-61), vol. 2. S391.c.74.1-4 @theul.bsky.social

Pink, green, blue and white light from the sun shining behind a tree.

Pretty lens flare, Autumn 2021.
#BlueskyArtShow #bright 📷 #photography

Close-up eye-level photograph of fungi amongst fallen leaves in grass.

Fungi where a tree used to be, outside @theul.bsky.social earlier this week. There were Bee orchids there earlier this year too. #FungiFriday 📷 #photography

The River Tees at High Force this morning after last nights heavy rain. There is some floodwater coming over the middle of High Force, but it had dropped considerably by the time I got there.

#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham

This humorous addition was spotted by one of our super volunteers in a building control plan for a house on Eaton Road in Norwich, dated March 1951. It seems that the grey watercolour for the window appears elephant-like and this has been emphasised with pencil. #HouseHisto ry #NorwichHistory

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Close-up photograph of a purple Sweet violet in grass, against a blurred green and brown background.

A Sweet violet flowering in Ely last weekend. #FlowersOnFriday 📷 #photography

A Cranefly resting on a blade of grass, against a blurred green background.

Cranefly resting on grass. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photography

A large yellowy orange and brown female Eristalis hoverfly on shaggy yellow Dandelion flower.

Eristalis hoverfly on a nice big Dandelion. #WildWebsWednesday

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Thank you! Yes, Ena needs to make a comeback (alongside Ivy, Ruby etc).

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A tiny green Leafhopper on a red Rose petal.

Leafhopper on a late flowering Ena Harkness rose. #MacroMonday 📷 #photography

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Sunlight shining through the petals of a purple Sweet violet, flowering in grass.

A pretty Sweet violet flowering in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Yellow flowers of Hedge mustard, Ragwort (with female Sphaerophoria hoverfly) and Lady’s bedstraw.

Autumn yellows. Hedge mustard, Ragwort with female Sphaerophoria hoverfly and Lady’s bedstraw. #WildflowerHour