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AmyM
@mudandworms.bsky.social
Happiest in the garden trying to grow stuff 🌱, fiddling 🎻, spotting tiny treasures 🐝 (or BIG ones 🦅!), upcycling & repairing clothes ✂️🧵🪡or giving Keen Greens some extra spin at school🌍💚
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DYK so-called “sustainable” #palmoil is a #greenwashing lie that still causes #deforestation?🤯 Learn how to #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife this #Halloween 🎃👻🪦 Instead enjoy #palmoilfree and #vegan treats and #candy @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2023/10/18/h...
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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#StopDeforestation🔥🌲🫁🌳🪚🪾🪓🪵🪹
#BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🛢️🌴🍦🌴🍫🌴💄🌴🧴
#makehalloweenpalmoilfree 🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
#Halloween 🎃👻
#GlobalBoiling🥵🔥🌍🔥
#KeepItInTheGround 🛢️⛽🪨⚒️👑⛏️💎
#stopgreenwashing 🍫🤢💄🤢🧴🤢
#ExctinctionIsForever 🦖🦕🦤...🦧🦜🐆🧑‍🍼??
#BiodiversityCrisis 🦧🌳🦍🐅🐘🦜🐝🦋
#DavidAttenborough💔 #GreenPlanet 🌍
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Now we get to go further - powering some iconic venues from our wind and sun mills -  a proper green milestone for the world of live entertainment.
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🌳🤩💚✨😎!
September 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Because I need to be reminded of how this book, Wild Folk, (which is still fighting to survive) was worth making.
Turn down the lights, turn up the volume for a sublime moment. The words of Jackie Morris read by Jerome Flynn put together with music by Dougal Abbott. This is balm for the soul. (Stained glass by me!)
September 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Well this broke up the doom scroll
Some hopeful weekend reading.

“This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”
‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Absolutely!
Ask anyone in the New Forest lucky enough to savour www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/exh... until mid Jan.

Plus stewardingthesoil.co.uk featuring @georgemcgavin.bsky.social & @jakefiennes.bsky.social on 25th Oct which marries art, wildlife & farming & supports @nffn.bsky.social 💚🚜🐝
September 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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🌴🔥 #News: Tropical tree planting delivers optimal #climate cooling! Up to 0.8°F cooling in central Africa vs heating effects in northern regions ☠️ Protect tropical forests NOW! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Spotted!! 🤩
🦅 above the house, being bothered by a buzzard 😎

(You’ll need to zoom in to see them, but if you could see it clearly, the eagle would look like this photo from Google 😁)
September 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@tamsintheshed.bsky.social I’m savouring ‘Wild Folk’ alongside

mirandarutter.com/album/280898... (complete with a smattering of @samsweeney.bsky.social )

A perfect pairing 🎻🐦‍⬛🎻🪗

@brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social have you discovered Bird Tunes yet? 🎶
Bird Tunes
A newly composed suite of tunes inspired by birds and birdsong. All tunes composed by Miranda Rutter and recorded by Miranda (fiddle & viola), Rob Harbron (concertina & harmonium) and Sam Sweeney (fi...
mirandarutter.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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What do wasps eat? First molecular data for native zone Vespula Yellowjackets.

So happy to see this out, finally!
Started in 2018.. or maybe 2017.. 🫣involving @uclcber.bsky.social MRes (Ben Bellekom) and MSci (Georgia Law) students @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@dr-bob-brown.bsky.social
New short communication! 📄

Drinkwater, @waspwoman.bsky.social et al. used metabarcoding to analyze the gut contents of 554 wasp larvae, revealing their diverse diet and their role as predators 🐝
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000...

#SocialInsects #WaspEcology #ArthropodRegulation #NativeEcosystems #Vespula
August 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
SPOTTED! 🤩
Fabulous 5 page (!) article about St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery’s imminent “Life of the Fields” exhibition in Lymington.

@georgemcgavin.bsky.social & @jakefiennes.bsky.social at linked event stewardingthesoil.co.uk in Oct, along with Carry Akroyd, “Meadow Flowers and Turbines”.
August 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
✨Bird Tunes 💿 arrived today ✨
Wonderfully fabulously brilliant! 😍🎻
Miranda Rutter brings 'Bird Tunes', her exquisite suite of folk tunes with birdsong at their core, to this year's Kings Place Folk Weekend 🐦🎵 with the wonderful Rob Harbron in concertina!

🎟️ kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/folk/miranda-rutter-rob-harbron/

🎞️ ‘Blackbird Schottische’ at FolkEast 2023
August 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Bob’s back! 🐝
Does anyone in the South of England have a wasp nest in their garden they would wish removed anytime in the next five weeks? This research led by Dr Bob Brown @dr-bob-brown.bsky.social, is helping with control of invasive wasps in New Zealand.
August 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Monday! ☀️

Top start to the week with @samsweeney.bsky.social and scuttling sandpipers on R3 around 140 mins in & at the end.
🎶🎻🪗🎻

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Live from Slimbridge Wetland Centre
Classical music and sounds of nature from Radio 3's tour of Gloucestershire and Somerset.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I finally got around to mowing our overgrown lawn and discovered bees in it. I stopped mowing immediately obviously, but I’m not sure what to do with them. Are they mining bees? Should I get a specialist to move them? Any advice welcomed as I haven’t a clue and want the best for them.
August 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Martin Down 🦋🐝🌞🐑
Butterflies, bees, linnets, stonechats…
August 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love where we live 🌳🌻
August 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Well that was lovely! 🌞🍹
Flower farm Friday 🌻
August 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Up the creek…
Incredibly quiet & still water on the Isle of Wight.
August 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Can anyone tell me what’s wrong with these beetles? Six dead or moribund beetles in a small stretch of footpath
August 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Life of the Fields 🚜 tonight’s excitement!

aaand… less than 2 months until this gem opens www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/exh...

! Look out for October’s stewardingthesoil.co.uk event starring @georgemcgavin.bsky.social & @jakefiennes.bsky.social supporting @nffn.bsky.social 💚🤩🪲
July 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“What we all need to do is open our eyes and think a little bit more about stuff. If we all do that, that's what will make a difference.”💚 Gemma Metheringham
July 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM