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🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England!

4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September.

Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk.

Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪
January 9, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Bombus terrestris workers (3+) out and active in Malvern today, busily collecting pollen and nectaring on Mahonia
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Found this Bombardier Beetle (Brachinus crepitans) in a spiderweb in the garden this morning - bet the spider got a bit of a shock!
August 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
National Allotment Week felt like as good a time as any to restart blogging, with a piece I wrote earlier about the value of allotments for bumblebees: insectrambles.blogspot.com/2025/08/bees...
Bees and Allotments
[I wrote this for my local allotment newsletter, and it felt like as good a place as any to restart blogging!] I joined the allotmenteering ...
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August 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Out in Monmouthshire today running bumblebee ID training for the Wye Valley National Landscapes team and volunteers. One of the highlights was this striking yellow-tailed male Forest Cuckoo bumblebee Bombus sylvestris - very early!
May 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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International Women in Science Day, celebrating the amazing Royal Horticultural Societies Science and Collections Team www.rhs.org.uk/science/arti.... @hayleyento.bsky.social
Celebrating women in science
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February 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM