AJCann
@ajcann.bsky.social
Gentleman Scientist. Ancora imparo.
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
Secretary, Leicestershire & Rutland Entomological Society: https://leicestershirerutlandentsoc.blogspot.com
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Leicester
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
Secretary, Leicestershire & Rutland Entomological Society: https://leicestershirerutlandentsoc.blogspot.com
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Leicester
It's stabilimenta all the way at the moment. Just when you thought you seen it all - fake megaspiders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
Spider Art or Survival? 🕷️ The Mystery of Cyclosa's Fake Spiders | Video Abstract
YouTube video by Wildlife Messengers
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It's stabilimenta all the way at the moment. Just when you thought you seen it all - fake megaspiders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
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Next lecture: 13 November 19.30 in Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University. Free entry.
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
The Roman Small Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland - LAHS
lahs.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Next lecture: 13 November 19.30 in Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University. Free entry.
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
The very beautiful and always very welcome Aphanus rolandri.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The very beautiful and always very welcome Aphanus rolandri.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
iRecord is currently offline.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
iRecord is currently offline.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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We’re excited to announce the launch of Glo i Natur CIC - a new community interest company dedicated to protecting, restoring, and celebrating the unique biodiversity and heritage of South Wales’ coal spoil sites. 🌿
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We’re excited to announce the launch of Glo i Natur CIC - a new community interest company dedicated to protecting, restoring, and celebrating the unique biodiversity and heritage of South Wales’ coal spoil sites. 🌿
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
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🌿 A new chapter begins.
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌿 A new chapter begins.
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
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Meet Phalangium opilio, one of the UK’s most common harvestmen! 🕷️
Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Meet Phalangium opilio, one of the UK’s most common harvestmen! 🕷️
Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
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The latest BDS Journal is available online, where you can also access previous issues 👉 british-dragonflies.org.uk/bds-journal/
BDS Journal - British Dragonfly Society
Image: Broad-bodied Chaser by Bruce Hyde
british-dragonflies.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The latest BDS Journal is available online, where you can also access previous issues 👉 british-dragonflies.org.uk/bds-journal/
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1776: Flies abound. They stay long after the hirundines are withdrawn. Tipulae sport in the air.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1776: Flies abound. They stay long after the hirundines are withdrawn. Tipulae sport in the air.
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Nighthawks 2025
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Nighthawks 2025
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Good Vibrations?
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/11/whil...
#Arachnids #Spiders
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/11/whil...
#Arachnids #Spiders
Good Vibrations?
While I'm yet to catch up with the Wasp Spider, Argiope bruennichi , I have long puzzled over the stabilimentum, a structure produced these ...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Good Vibrations?
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/11/whil...
#Arachnids #Spiders
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/11/whil...
#Arachnids #Spiders
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🎃 Happy Halloween, from the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎃 Happy Halloween, from the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
Been looking for a fresh specimen of Leucauge sarawakensis for a long time! Each time we found one, someone walked into its web. Hence, the ex situ shots.
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Who's my fuzzy friend? Why it's Botryobasidum aureum.
Thanks to @norwichbirder.bsky.social
#Fungi #FungiFriends #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Thanks to @norwichbirder.bsky.social
#Fungi #FungiFriends #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Who's my fuzzy friend? Why it's Botryobasidum aureum.
Thanks to @norwichbirder.bsky.social
#Fungi #FungiFriends #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Thanks to @norwichbirder.bsky.social
#Fungi #FungiFriends #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Big swarms of Giant Willow Aphids, Tuberolachnus salignus, on the same tree they use every year.
#Bugs #Sternorrhyncha #VC55 #Aphids
#Bugs #Sternorrhyncha #VC55 #Aphids
October 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Big swarms of Giant Willow Aphids, Tuberolachnus salignus, on the same tree they use every year.
#Bugs #Sternorrhyncha #VC55 #Aphids
#Bugs #Sternorrhyncha #VC55 #Aphids
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The national recording scheme for Soldierflies, Horseflies, Robberflies, Bee-flies, Snipeflies, Stiletto-flies, Hunchback-flies, Water-snipeflies, Awl-flies, Windowflies and Wood-soldierflies. Info and ID guides at dipterists.org.uk/soldierflies... - please add your records to iRecord!
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM
The national recording scheme for Soldierflies, Horseflies, Robberflies, Bee-flies, Snipeflies, Stiletto-flies, Hunchback-flies, Water-snipeflies, Awl-flies, Windowflies and Wood-soldierflies. Info and ID guides at dipterists.org.uk/soldierflies... - please add your records to iRecord!
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