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Rory Dimond
@rdimond.bsky.social
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Environmental charity worker, wildlife gardener and volunteer. Avid entomology enthusiast. Mostly speaks about the smaller thigs (bees, wasps, flies, spiders etc.) on my local patch. He/Him.
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I am in love with Rosemary Mosco's latest cartoon.
rosemarymosco.com Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 15h
How to get into nature.
A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."
January 20, 2026 at 11:31 PM
rdimond.bsky.social
Tag yourself. I live in Gymnochaeta viridis!
naturebureau.bsky.social NatureBureau @naturebureau.bsky.social · 4d
THE WAIT IS NEARLY OVER: Just signed off the printer's proofs for our new guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland - due mid-Feb 2026. Pre-pub offer runs until 31 Jan - order your copy now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @rdimond.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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naturebureau.bsky.social
A selection of pages from our #FliesofBritainandIreland have just been spotted by this bee-fly - due mid-Feb 2026, the pre-pub offer runs until 31 Jan - order your copy now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @rdimond.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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naturebureau.bsky.social
Our new 416pp #FliesofBritainandIreland covering over 1300 species & with over 1500 photos is now being printed - due mid Feb 2026. You can still pre-order until 31 Jan bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
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January 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM
rdimond.bsky.social
The reason for my radio silence on socials lately. Coauthorship on a guide to one of the most diverse orders of insects is a lot of work it turns out! This is a monumental, beautifully illustrated book and I can't wait for people to see it. There is still time to preorder your copy this month!
naturebureau.bsky.social NatureBureau @naturebureau.bsky.social · Dec 11
RACING TO THE FINISH LINE Now that the introductory pages of our #FliesofBritainandIreland are being finalised the book is nearing completion - due Jan/mid-Feb 2026. Pre-order now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @gailashton.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @wildlifekate.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Was just talking yesterday about greenwashing by big corporates. Google (claiming to be sustainable) are planning to build a data centre on one of Britain's rarest habitats, home to many scarce specialist invertebrates - help Buglife fight this. Sign here: 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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August 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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gailashton.bsky.social
Saw this queen toda 💛🤍🖤

Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennechi)
#HertsSpiders
A female Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennechi) in her web in long grass.
August 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
rdimond.bsky.social
Today I was blessed with the experience of sharing my lunch with a Blue Long-horned Snailkiller fly (Sepedon sphegea) . Some people feed the pigeons... #Invertefest #FliesofBritainandIreland
August 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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An extraordinary ichnuemon wasp from the Norfolk #Brecks the other day - Amblyjoppa fuscipennis aka the Small Elephant-botherer. Presumably the English name is a reference to parasitising Small Elephant Hawkmoths, rather than actual Elephants! #TeamEnto
Amblyjoppa fuscipennis
August 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Female mason wasp Ancistrocerus scoticus building mud cells in relief carving on gravestone in St Agnes churchyard, Scilly
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Very pleased to have seen my first Yellow-faced Blowfly (Cynomyia mortorum) today on a Herts Invertebrate Project visit to Natural England's Hexton Estate. King of his chalky Hill chasing off the other less glamorous blowflies. #FliesofBritainandIreland #Entomology

@naturalengland.bsky.social
A large, dark fly squatting on chalky earth, facing right. It has a yellow head, red-brown eyes and a glossy, metallic green abdomen.
July 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.
July 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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naturebureau.bsky.social
Lesser Bulb Fly (Eumerus funeralis) a small hoverfly is common in our garden & develops in Spanish Bluebells, also seen on its leaves was the Large Narcissus Fly a bumblebee mimic #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
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May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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royentsoc.bsky.social
#InsectWeek is coming!

Insect Week is your annual chance to share and celebrate the fascinating world of insects. This year, we're Standing Tall for the Small and encouraging everyone to take action for insects.

#StandTallForTheSmall from 23-29 June 🐞🔽
www.insectweek.org
Stand Tall for the Small poser for Insect Week featuring a detailed close-up of a fly Get involved this Insect Week - Join an event near you, organise your own event, take some photos and enter them into our insect photography competition and more. Visit InsectWeek.org.
May 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
rdimond.bsky.social
Went to my local country park to look for solitary bees today and my first Brown Argus of the year was a nice bonus.
A small butterfly perched on a pebble with its wings closed, side-on and facing left. The body is blue-haired. The underwings are brown with white-rimmed black spots and edged in orange and white. The same butterfly on a different pebble from behind. The wings are parted showing the dark chocolate upperwing rimmed in orange and white.
May 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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exeter.ac.uk
New research from our Centre for Ecology and Conservation has found that the brain of a wasp is capable of remarkably sophisticated scheduling decisions.

Read the full article below.

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Wasp mums use remarkable memory when feeding offspring
Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, new research shows. Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to
news.exeter.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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naturebureau.bsky.social
Picture-winged Flies pages are now laid out for our NEW #FliesofBritainandIreland due Autumn 2025 - pre-order now at bit.ly/4dqQI8Z & save £££s on published price @gailashton.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social
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May 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
rdimond.bsky.social
Several Box Bugs and Common Green Shieldbugs, having a drink and enjoying each others company in a Winter Honeysuckle bush yesterday #Invertefest
A mating pair of Common Green Shieldbugs amongst yellow-green leaves. The partners are facing away from each other. A mating pair of light brown Box Bugs amongst yellow-green leaves. This couple are also facing away from each other in the classic heteroptera mating position. A light brown Box Bug tapping into the midrib of a leaf with its proboscis, facing bottom left. To its right, darkened sections of the leaf show where the sap has drained away, being diverted by the feeding bug.
April 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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A quality animal today on @me🦛 Animal #632 🐻
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 11

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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April 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Lords of the flies: the unsurpassed level of ecological diversity within dipteran migrants.

Read about it here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e... and in Biological Reviews here doi.org/10.1111/brv..... New research from @uniexecec.bsky.social with @willleohawkes.bsky.social & Myles Menz
Migrating flies vital for people and nature
Buzzing insects may be seen as pests – but globally, hundreds of fly species migrate over long distances, with major benefits for people and nature, new research shows. Bugs such as houseflies, fruitf...
news.exeter.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Colorful flies 🌈

Phasia hemiptera (Tachinid fly, Wanzenfliege)
Ectophasia crassipennis (Tachinid fly, Breitflügelige Raupenfliege)
Lucilia sericata (Green bottle fly, Goldfliege)
Myathropa florea (Batman hoverfly, Totenkopfschwebfliege)
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Happy Monday everyone, some verges not in site lines or pathways were mown last week, ugly looking brown dried plant debris, on the other side this delight full of #dandelions other wild flowers and #pollinators. Please like and retweet if you prefer the flowers 🙏🐝🐞🌼
April 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Spoiled for choice? Brimstone #butterfly at #AshlawncuttingLNR @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social @dandelionappre1.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
rdimond.bsky.social
Love this gorgeous new art installation local to me by Julia Fonnereau celebrating local #wildflowers , #butterflies and a #SolitaryBee! Though somewhat ironically on a carpark considering the title "You don't know what you've got til it's gone"! #WildlifeArt
A circular art print of butterflies on wildflowers with silver birch trees in the background. A closeup of the art piece showing a comma butterfly and solitary bee amongst wildflowers.
March 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Female True Bumblebee Identification Guides for Ireland (mostly).

Please feel free to share, print out and use to help ID the Irish bumblebees

CC BY-SA-NC 4.0
A bumblebee identification crib-sheet A bumblebee identification crib-sheet A bumblebee identification crib-sheet A bumblebee identification crib-sheet
March 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM