Andrew Green
@naturespotter.bsky.social
Coordinator for Sawfly Recording Scheme of Great Britain. County Recorder of Sawflies for Bedfordshire. sawflies.org.uk
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"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."
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Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski
Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski
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October 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."
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What very much appears to be European Spruce Sawfly Gilpinia hercyniae, tapped from a spruce at the weekend. Apparently the first Kent record. #KentNature #sawfly #sawflies #Symphyta
September 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What very much appears to be European Spruce Sawfly Gilpinia hercyniae, tapped from a spruce at the weekend. Apparently the first Kent record. #KentNature #sawfly #sawflies #Symphyta
To transform the country and take on the populist right, Labour must heed the voices of its radical realists - and build a principled, practical, popular left alternative.
Join @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social and together we can bring that alternative to life.
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September 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
To transform the country and take on the populist right, Labour must heed the voices of its radical realists - and build a principled, practical, popular left alternative.
Join @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social and together we can bring that alternative to life.
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Join @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social and together we can bring that alternative to life.
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It is cheering to see two new hopes for democracy in the UK.
The new leader of the Green Party, @zackpolanski.bsky.social has set an agenda to improve democracy rather than dismantle it and Mainstream, a new alliance between centrists and the left in Labour.
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September 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It is cheering to see two new hopes for democracy in the UK.
The new leader of the Green Party, @zackpolanski.bsky.social has set an agenda to improve democracy rather than dismantle it and Mainstream, a new alliance between centrists and the left in Labour.
actionnetwork.org/forms/regist...
The new leader of the Green Party, @zackpolanski.bsky.social has set an agenda to improve democracy rather than dismantle it and Mainstream, a new alliance between centrists and the left in Labour.
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I revisited the Euura miliaris sawfly larva earlier today to find an ichneumon wasp working its way around them despite their efforts to defend themselves. Amazing how it holds its wings up to avoid being clobbered!
August 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I revisited the Euura miliaris sawfly larva earlier today to find an ichneumon wasp working its way around them despite their efforts to defend themselves. Amazing how it holds its wings up to avoid being clobbered!
This presumed braconidae fooled me into thinking it was a sawfly for a moment. Two females feeding on pollen/nectar of Canadian Fleabane. Eyes not as good as they used to be. 🙄
August 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This presumed braconidae fooled me into thinking it was a sawfly for a moment. Two females feeding on pollen/nectar of Canadian Fleabane. Eyes not as good as they used to be. 🙄
Was a pleasure to be there when you found it. Only the second British record since 1970.
When you feel something crawling on the back of your hand and look down to find what turns out to be one of the UK’s rarest Sawflies mistaking you for a Willow leaf it’s helpful to be standing a few feet away from a local and national Sawfly Recorder: the beautiful Arge enodis (Clophill Lakes, Beds)
August 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Was a pleasure to be there when you found it. Only the second British record since 1970.
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One of Britain's most formidable looking insects, a Tanner Beetle, sitting on the wall of a building at RSPB The Lodge today. #Cerambycidae
July 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
One of Britain's most formidable looking insects, a Tanner Beetle, sitting on the wall of a building at RSPB The Lodge today. #Cerambycidae
This parasitic wasp emerged yesterday from an overwintered Dolerus larva. IDed as probable Tryphon sp. by Max Parkhomenko on iNat.
April 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This parasitic wasp emerged yesterday from an overwintered Dolerus larva. IDed as probable Tryphon sp. by Max Parkhomenko on iNat.
It was a pleasure to introduce sawfly identification to workshop attendees @britentsoc.bsky.social yesterday alongside the immensely knowledgeable Andrew Halstead. Thanks to those who attended.
April 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It was a pleasure to introduce sawfly identification to workshop attendees @britentsoc.bsky.social yesterday alongside the immensely knowledgeable Andrew Halstead. Thanks to those who attended.
Interested in identifying sawflies? I'll be running an intro to sawflies workshop on the Cambridge/Beds border in June with Wildlifebcn
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Introduction to Sawflies with Andrew Green | Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants
Learn how to identify sawflies
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April 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Interested in identifying sawflies? I'll be running an intro to sawflies workshop on the Cambridge/Beds border in June with Wildlifebcn
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A reminder of the @norfolknats.bsky.social training workshop on sawflies I'm running on Sun 6th April. It's at Gressenhall (mid Norfolk). We still have a few places left so please get in touch ASAP if you'd like to attend. Will be focused on microscope-based ID to genus level (at least).
March 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A reminder of the @norfolknats.bsky.social training workshop on sawflies I'm running on Sun 6th April. It's at Gressenhall (mid Norfolk). We still have a few places left so please get in touch ASAP if you'd like to attend. Will be focused on microscope-based ID to genus level (at least).
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“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak.
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak.
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
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Great op-ed by our CEO, Martin Lines, on the SFI closure. 👇
Wrote this for @farmersguardian.bsky.social - 🚜 Defra’s sudden SFI closure has left farmers stranded, exposing how fragile farm support is. With no new scheme until 2026, many face tough choices. 🌾 @nffn is calling for an interim scheme-farmers can’t wait 18 months! ⏳ Govt must act now is.gd/MA7YYd
Martin Lines:
Mr Lines, chief executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, writes about Defra’s sudden SFI closure, how farm support payments are 'failing' farmers, the urgent action needed and why farmers can...
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March 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Great op-ed by our CEO, Martin Lines, on the SFI closure. 👇
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Dolerus madidus...a common early-spring sawfly associated with Juncus meadows and always one of the first sawflies to appear each year. East Yorkshire today. #sawflies #ento #yorkshiresawflies #ukwildlife #symphyta
March 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Dolerus madidus...a common early-spring sawfly associated with Juncus meadows and always one of the first sawflies to appear each year. East Yorkshire today. #sawflies #ento #yorkshiresawflies #ukwildlife #symphyta
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Sawfly season kicks off with Dolerus anthracinus and Claremontia brevicornis...species of chalk grassland found on the Yorkshire Wolds today. Very few county records for either, as they fly so early in the year, before most folk are out looking in their habitat. #symphyta #ento #yorkshiresawflies
March 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Sawfly season kicks off with Dolerus anthracinus and Claremontia brevicornis...species of chalk grassland found on the Yorkshire Wolds today. Very few county records for either, as they fly so early in the year, before most folk are out looking in their habitat. #symphyta #ento #yorkshiresawflies
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"Turnip sawflies use plant chemicals to shape their social lives! Discover how plant metabolites influence insect networks and fitness in our study." @Pragya_otulp, @ChemEcolCM, @LBrueggemann, @gaurav_Kbaruah, and @unibielefeld
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October 3, 2024 at 2:27 PM
"Turnip sawflies use plant chemicals to shape their social lives! Discover how plant metabolites influence insect networks and fitness in our study." @Pragya_otulp, @ChemEcolCM, @LBrueggemann, @gaurav_Kbaruah, and @unibielefeld
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Lindstedt et al. Gregarious, chemically defended pine sawflies as a new model to study cooperative interactions in an ecological context link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Gregarious, chemically defended pine sawflies as a new model to study cooperative interactions in an ecological context - Insectes Sociaux
One of the key challenges of evolutionary theory is to determine how cooperation is promoted in different environmental contexts. This is because the costs and benefits of cooperation can be difficult...
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December 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Lindstedt et al. Gregarious, chemically defended pine sawflies as a new model to study cooperative interactions in an ecological context link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I don't target sawflies but I try and identify any that I do come across. These four from a wet woodland last May. Details in alt text captions
#Symphyta #Tenthredinidae
#Symphyta #Tenthredinidae
December 3, 2024 at 7:22 AM
I don't target sawflies but I try and identify any that I do come across. These four from a wet woodland last May. Details in alt text captions
#Symphyta #Tenthredinidae
#Symphyta #Tenthredinidae
Fantastic body of work by Marko Prous, Andrew Liston, Spencer Moncton, Katja Kramp, Hege Vårdal, Veli Vikberg, Erik Heibo, and Marko Mutanen. Preempts the publication of their sawfly book later this year. Can't wait!
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West Palaearctic species of Euura Newman, 1837 (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae)
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March 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fantastic body of work by Marko Prous, Andrew Liston, Spencer Moncton, Katja Kramp, Hege Vårdal, Veli Vikberg, Erik Heibo, and Marko Mutanen. Preempts the publication of their sawfly book later this year. Can't wait!
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Finally, here's Tenthredo baetica (Mustard Sawfly), which had seemingly gone missing from the UK for much of the 20th century, before reappearing in 2019 (this specimen). Since then, it's proved pretty widespread! www.sawflies.org.uk/tenthredo-ba...
February 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Finally, here's Tenthredo baetica (Mustard Sawfly), which had seemingly gone missing from the UK for much of the 20th century, before reappearing in 2019 (this specimen). Since then, it's proved pretty widespread! www.sawflies.org.uk/tenthredo-ba...
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A few sawflies now starting to show up as preferring the Brecks (and Brecky north-west) in the county. This is Dolerus picipes, one of a suite of all-black species, nice to see an emerging picture regarding its ecology www.sawflies.org.uk/dolerus-pood...
February 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A few sawflies now starting to show up as preferring the Brecks (and Brecky north-west) in the county. This is Dolerus picipes, one of a suite of all-black species, nice to see an emerging picture regarding its ecology www.sawflies.org.uk/dolerus-pood...
Emerged today from its winter cocoon in damp sand, this rather wonderful Sciapteryx costalis soror (the Shady Sister) sawfly. Rarely seen due to their habit of skulking around at ground level.
February 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Emerged today from its winter cocoon in damp sand, this rather wonderful Sciapteryx costalis soror (the Shady Sister) sawfly. Rarely seen due to their habit of skulking around at ground level.
This shouldn't be so difficult to get done. We need this.
With 23 colleagues I've written to the Minister for School Standards asking for a meeting to discuss the status of the Natural History GCSE.
It will help inspire young people to engage with the natural world and equip them with knowledge & skills to help address some of the challenges we face.
It will help inspire young people to engage with the natural world and equip them with knowledge & skills to help address some of the challenges we face.
February 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This shouldn't be so difficult to get done. We need this.