Brian Eversham

Author interview with Peter Sutton: Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Allies of Great Britain and Ireland The Bloomsbury Wildlife Guides series has consistently set the standard for invertebrate identification, combining practical, readable text with meticulous illustrations by Richard Lewington. The late...

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Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality and soul.

We are laying out The Fenland Flora by Owen Mountford & Jon Graham - this landmark 1600-page 2-volume set is due for publication this Autumn. Pre-publication offer will start late Spring @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
Watch this space for updates on progress

Fragaria vesca, Wild Strawberry, Invert Associates
Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera.
📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora
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Cambridgeshire MP to introduce bill to protect UK chalk streams The 10-minute bill is set to go before Parliament on 25 February.

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Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out? Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be discovered

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?

And I should have said, if you like it, buy the book! bsky.app/profile/grae...

What is Pan-Species Listing (PSL)?

A challenge to record every UK species you’ve seen in your lifetime – across ALL wildlife groups. It’s holistic, flexible & grows with your skills.

Join our FREE entoLIVE with Graeme Lyons on 13 May to learn more.

Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977266072...

Ulmus , Elm, seedlings 10 days after germinating, from Bedford Purlieus DSC_7156

Very similar to British elms too www.flickr.com/photos/clado... (still need to identify the parent tree!)

The Church of England is still treating gay people as second-class citizens Bishops voted 34-0 to block gay couples from being blessed in standalone ceremonies. At what point do we call this discrimination?

The Church of England is still treating gay people as second-class citizens, and at what point do we call this discrimination, writes Alan Rusbridger

This is such an excellent book full of great tips. Should be used widely.

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility." from "Deep in Admiration" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Screenshot of my (Steve Dudley) Bluesky profile with the 'search posts' window open

I've just discovered you can search a user's posts on Bluesky! How long has this been a thing I haven't known about? In case you've missed it too, click on the three dot icon in a user's profile and select 'search posts'. Works a treat as long as you can remember which user you want to search!

Delayers keep saying that decarbonisation will hamper economic growth

Yet the data keep showing that the net zero economy is the engine of UK economc growth

📢 Job Alert: Monitoring officer

I am looking for an experienced ornithological fieldworker to join the team this spring to lead on the monitoring of Black tailed godwits at WWT Welney.

Closing date: 6 March 2026

Apply ➡️

vacancies.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/77...

I'm doing a talk on my book at Exeter Street Hall (opposite the Chimney House) in Brighton next Wednesday night. It's only £2 entry and I am selling the book at a discount. Hope to see some of my Brighton friends there!

What a wonderful place to spend your working days!

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

A woman on a bench in a garden writing in a notebook, with the title Unearthing the Past: How to Write a Nature Memoir

Would you love to write a memoir on your experiences in nature or your life in the garden?

On 19 March, I'm leading a memoir workshop (10-4) in the beautiful surroundings of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. Do come & join us!

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/education-le... #naturewriting #memoir #Cambridge

Green metallic insect hiding inside a drilled hole in a wooden block.

Shieldbug chillin' out in a part-used #beehotel tube. (Birch shieldbug? I think.)
A creature actually using a bee hotel as a *hotel*?! :P

Cladonia rei, slowly P+ yellow-orange, Grimston Warren, Norfolk DSC_4495

It's a fantastic site, isn't it? I think there are Cladonias there that are not present on Roydon Common: I'm pretty sure @lewissaunders.bsky.social and I had C. rei there - www.flickr.com/photos/clado... Pd reaction stopped at mustard yellow, unlike subulata.

Me too. My copy has various bits of RES handbook keys summarised in the margins from my student days when I could borrow library copies but didn't own many. So it gradually became an ID guide.

I wondered about that, but it's so different in style and coverage, a very good read but not a field guide... I also thought about the French/German equivalent (Haupt & Haupt, 1998, 2000), but it has merely 'over 300 photos', so a good family intro but not going to get anywhere near species.

My 1970s edition of The Penguin Dorothy Parker.

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

Mine arrived today too - looks absolutely superb! Not often we see a book which has no predecessors - something completely new.

The true cost of Ecuador’s perfect roses: how the global flower trade poisons workers Many farmers in the Andes rely on growing blooms for export, but high water usage and risky pesticides threaten Indigenous communities

The costs of Ecuador’s perfect roses also include a sudden rush to extract peat from the Paramo Highlands. I have been in greenhouses where people are spraying pesticides with no PPE at all. Very worrying. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Work Party - Brampton Wood - Feb 2026 Please come along and join us for essential conservation work supporting the Black Hairstreak, one of the UK's rarest species. Everyone is welcome, no experience is necessary!We will be layering Black...

@bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
Workparty for Black Hairstreak THIS SUNDAY, 22nd Feb
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Job Opportunity! Three weeks remain to apply.
#Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity