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Gary W Hartley
@garybugsyou.bsky.social
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Writer: Bugs, biodiversity, farming and odd lit. The Observer, New Scientist, Scientific American, The Times, Farming Future Food etc.
Retired daft poetry guy. Perennially mildly-disappointed #lufc fan. Half-hearted groundhopper. gary at gwhartley dot com
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thebaffler.com
“In the summer of 2012, the tule elk had suddenly and mysteriously started turning up dead, their emaciated bodies found rotting into the ground. That’s when the forty-year peace between the ranchers and conservationists started to go cold.”
Last Herd on Earth | Lauren Markham
In California, conservation-minded environmentalists go to war against organic milk producers.
thebaffler.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
The precariat heads to work in the tundra of the UK economy
#snow #winter #thenorth
Snowman keeling over on snowy street
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
Wrote something about utterly adorable spiders quietly annihilating disease-spreading mosquitoes.

medium.com/insectsandth...

#bugsky #spidersky #wildlife #cities
Could the world’s cutest spiders aid the fight against a tropical disease?
Brazilian research suggests jumping spiders are more than popular pets — they prey on mosquitoes linked to dengue transmission in cities.
medium.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
One for the #fungi fans.

#shroomscrolling
Fungi in forest, probably velvet shank
December 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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earthislandjournal.bsky.social
Israel’s war and occupation in Palestine has damaged vast amounts of cropland. In the West Bank, a social enterprise is equipping farmers with the resources they need to cultivate their lands and establish autonomy over food production. @pragathiravi.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
Hear he metamorphosed from Colin the Caterpillar

#moth #bugsky #badjokes
Screenshot of headline about Richard Moth
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
Deep-rooted fears of sharp objects and childhood injection experiences are hitting the public's perception of #insects.

medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #psychology #psysky #scicomm
Looking like a needle proves a jab against insect-positivity
New research shows that insects with needle-like bodies trigger the same deep-rooted fear and disgust as injections.
medium.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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stuartlawscomedy.bsky.social
Need a little help, have written a book (How To Get Your Book Published) and am looking for any contacts in publishing xx
December 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
more absolute filth in the pollination literature
Gottsberger's florid report (1991) on the pollination of Cyclanthaceae: "beetles arrived at the inflorescences, crawled around, copulated, gnawed on the staminodes, and frequently entered into the interior [...] there they "licked" on the stigmatic exudates"
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
What an absolute beast this is, even by the banger-laden standards of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social #booksky #reading
Copy of Zone by Matias Enard
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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deborahrosereeves.bsky.social
Raymond Carver, Rain
Rain by Raymond Carver Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social
"He will be required to continue attending matches at Elland Road." #lufc
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
And now for the top story on our bloodsucking neighbours.

sciencespectrumu.com/mosquitoes-h...
#nature #scicomm #bugsky #behaviour #mosquito
Mosquitoes Have Personalities, Too
New experiments reveal that mosquito larvae range from shy to adventurous, with implications for pest management and ecology.
sciencespectrumu.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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theblizzard.bsky.social
Give someone the gift of The Blizzard this Christmas 🎄🎅
theblizzard.bsky.social The Blizzard @theblizzard.bsky.social · Nov 20
Subscriptions, art prints and books - it's Christmas time at The Blizzard.

The perfect gifts for the thinking football fan

Find out more: theblizzard.co.uk/the-blizzard...
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
An optimistic one to start the week, on beavers being accidental pollinator conservation experts.

medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #hoversky #rivers #water #nature
Where beavers return, pollinators follow: the quiet power of wild wetlands
Wild beavers are engineering habitats that supercharge insects humans struggle to protect.
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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btngnrtn.bsky.social
If Red Bull GmbH are going to use my football club to advertise their brand, I’m sure as hell going to talk about what else they get up to. #lufc
thesquareball.net The Square Ball @thesquareball.net · Nov 20
The Devil Inside

While anxiety exists over what the future may bring, looming large over our football club is a brand that already overshadows and undermines much of what #LUFC is, and the great work that it does.

by @btngnrtn.bsky.social
The Devil Inside • The Square Ball
While anxiety exists over what the future may bring, looming large over our football club is a brand that already overshadows and undermines what LUFC is.
thesquareball.net
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
A mean, wintry beauty in #Scarborough #Seasky
Snowy greyness on Scarborough South Cliff Grey skies above grey sea Snowy stairs lead to the North Sea
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
Non-native species: not all bad, it seems.

Could a new hitchhiking hero rescue some of Europe's most treasured trees?

medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #scicomm #nature #wasps
Europe’s beleaguered box trees could have an accidental saviour
An East Asian parasitoid wasp has quietly made itself at home in Europe — and could be nature’s answer to a devastating garden pest.
medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
An astonishing clash of tone and content, bravo
scarboroughathletic.com Scarborough Athletic FC @scarboroughathletic.com · Nov 18
🫁 Had a cough for more than 3 weeks or experiencing loss of appetite - it could be lung cancer, contact your GP.

Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance has teamed up with the Seadogs to tackle lung cancer this November – which is #LungCancerAwarenessMonth

More info 👉 https://loom.ly/FO1Wtcc
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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farmingfuturefood.bsky.social
Insect farming can produce a range of useful products from #protein to #biofuels, but Ben Brown, COO of @insectbiotech.bsky.social says the sector needs to be far savvier about what they're feeding their bugs on.

farmingfuturefood.com/insect-farmi...

#sustainablefood #feed #farming
Insect farming needs to use true waste to be sustainable, says industry leader - Farming Future Food
InsectBiotech’s Ben Brown says insect farms must use true organic waste and low-energy setups to succeed.
farmingfuturefood.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
Here, have a morning moon in a sea of blue.
#timelinecleanse #skysky
Moon in blue sky
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
All #lufc fans are this pub dog right now.
#dogsinpubs
Depressed looking pub dog faces away from the screen
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
Wrote a little something on hot damselfly sex lives, if you're into that kind of thing

medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #nature #scicomm #climatechange #insects
Heatwaves dampen damselfly sex lives
New research shows persistent temperature highs reduce damselfly mating, revealing how climate change disrupts insect reproduction.
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
garybugsyou.bsky.social
The cup fate of #lufc sealed nice and early.
Headline 'Two sixth-tier sides guaranteed in FA Cup third round'
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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ftm.eu
Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.

Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM