Stephen Roughley
@stephenroughle3.bsky.social
Coding chemist, Scouser, amateur cornet/trumpet player, @CSDBrass, moths, uses same handle on xwitter. For stuff about KNIME see @DrKnimeNode http://mastodon.world/@SawstonMoth
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** BRANCH AGM TOMORROW **
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
Cambs & Essex: AGM & Members' Day 2025
For the first time since 2019, the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day will be taking place in-person. Please join us at Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm for an aft...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
** BRANCH AGM TOMORROW **
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
A reminder that the Cambridgeshire & Essex branch's AGM and Members' Day is in-person this year.
Foxton Village Hall on Saturday November 8th at 2pm
All Cambridgeshire & Essex BC branch members are invited to join us.
'Variations' - CSD Brass autumn concert is Sunday 23rd November at 3pm at At Luke's Church, Victoria road, Cambridge. Tickets and more details from www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/con...
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
'Variations' - CSD Brass autumn concert is Sunday 23rd November at 3pm at At Luke's Church, Victoria road, Cambridge. Tickets and more details from www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/con...
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The pariah formerly known as Prince
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The pariah formerly known as Prince
Cosmopterix scribaiella mines found on Common Reed at RSPB Fowlmere on Saturday - a rare moth in Cambs previously only recorded in 3 10km squares in the north east of the county around the Wicken Fen area
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Cosmopterix scribaiella mines found on Common Reed at RSPB Fowlmere on Saturday - a rare moth in Cambs previously only recorded in 3 10km squares in the north east of the county around the Wicken Fen area
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Cosmopterix scribaiella mines found on Common Reed at RSPB Fowlmere on Saturday - a rare moth in Cambs previously only recorded in 3 10km squares in the north east of the county around the Wicken Fen area
Fascinating video showing the story of the creation of the Kings College wildflower meadow on part of the college lawn
youtu.be/8Cywt01POXQ?...
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Science of King's College's wildflower meadows
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Fascinating video showing the story of the creation of the Kings College wildflower meadow on part of the college lawn
youtu.be/8Cywt01POXQ?...
@croughley.bsky.social
youtu.be/8Cywt01POXQ?...
@croughley.bsky.social
Finally crawled out of bed mid-morning (it's lurgy-season it would seem) - spotted a moth flying in between the rain (it's also looking a bit like monsoon season out there) - Silver Y - only my 6th this year... Also a female Eristalis pertinax on the next leaf over....
October 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Finally crawled out of bed mid-morning (it's lurgy-season it would seem) - spotted a moth flying in between the rain (it's also looking a bit like monsoon season out there) - Silver Y - only my 6th this year... Also a female Eristalis pertinax on the next leaf over....
Well that was a waste of the leccy... First blank since 19th February #teammoth #teamnomoths
October 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Well that was a waste of the leccy... First blank since 19th February #teammoth #teamnomoths
It's been a long time coming - wow, this is a huge moth! Clifden Nonpareil - 537th species of the year
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It's been a long time coming - wow, this is a huge moth! Clifden Nonpareil - 537th species of the year
Phyllocnistis asiatica (F) confirmed by dissection today from 12th June 2025 (to light) South Cambs., VC29. For more info on this relatively new to UK species see leafmines.co.uk/pdfs/newslet...
#teammoth
#teammoth
September 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Phyllocnistis asiatica (F) confirmed by dissection today from 12th June 2025 (to light) South Cambs., VC29. For more info on this relatively new to UK species see leafmines.co.uk/pdfs/newslet...
#teammoth
#teammoth
My late Grandfather-in-law (who I never met unfortunately) apparently used to comment that the most useful moth identification book would be one showing them from underneath, as that's all you ever saw of them on your windows. Here's a start - Gold Triangle (62.076 Hypsopygia costalis)
September 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My late Grandfather-in-law (who I never met unfortunately) apparently used to comment that the most useful moth identification book would be one showing them from underneath, as that's all you ever saw of them on your windows. Here's a start - Gold Triangle (62.076 Hypsopygia costalis)
And not been back to Germany since...
September 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
And not been back to Germany since...
I've had the Slender Burnished Brass (Thysanoplusia orichalcea, "ORI") out for a few weeks now (along with the NI Moth lure) - this morning was the first Plusia to give either more than a passing sniff... 6th Dewick's Plusia of the year. One of ths smartest Plusias to my eye #teammoth #mothmatters
September 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I've had the Slender Burnished Brass (Thysanoplusia orichalcea, "ORI") out for a few weeks now (along with the NI Moth lure) - this morning was the first Plusia to give either more than a passing sniff... 6th Dewick's Plusia of the year. One of ths smartest Plusias to my eye #teammoth #mothmatters
Following the Ni Moth earlier in the week, this morning opening the trap revealed Scarce Bordered Straw and Delicate #MigrantMothsUK #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Following the Ni Moth earlier in the week, this morning opening the trap revealed Scarce Bordered Straw and Delicate #MigrantMothsUK #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I think I dimly recall seeing this on the news
Said large iron chain was attached to said dredger, “and, with one sharp tug, the obstruction was freed. The workmen hauled in the chain, along with a large block of wood that was attached to the end of it, and knocked off for a tea-break”
The Day They Pulled The Plug - Issuu
Rod Auton, Publicity Officer for Chesterfield Canal Trust tells us about the day the Chesterfield Canal went down the plug...
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August 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I think I dimly recall seeing this on the news
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Good story! Reminds me of the time workers drove a piling into the bottom of the Chicago River, breaching the deep tunnel and flooding the basements of buildings in the Loop.
www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
A Comedy of Errors: How a Small Leak Became the Great Loop Flood of 1992
On the morning of April 13, 1992 as commuters were heading to their offices in Chicago’s Loop, fish were swimming in the basement of the Merchandise Mart. A strange flood was rising. But at street lev...
www.wttw.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Good story! Reminds me of the time workers drove a piling into the bottom of the Chicago River, breaching the deep tunnel and flooding the basements of buildings in the Loop.
www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: 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 oncestock car and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Loss in a landscape
Swift (3)
Roofing slate with gold.
Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.
I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…
Just like the uk government is doing to nature
Damage done needs facing.
Swift (3)
Roofing slate with gold.
Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.
I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…
Just like the uk government is doing to nature
Damage done needs facing.
June 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Loss in a landscape
Swift (3)
Roofing slate with gold.
Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.
I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…
Just like the uk government is doing to nature
Damage done needs facing.
Swift (3)
Roofing slate with gold.
Unfinished because I now have to face smashing it so I can then hold its broken shards up to the light.
I don’t want to
It’s beautiful
But it needs to be destroyed…
Just like the uk government is doing to nature
Damage done needs facing.
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June 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Argyresthia cupressella perched on a leaf on the Crab Apple tree next to my office door late morning. Thought it was NFG - nope! recorded one on 2nd June last year - consistent I guess... (Unlike Obsidentify which came up for 3 different Argyresthia sp. + Green-veined white from 4 photos!)
May 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Argyresthia cupressella perched on a leaf on the Crab Apple tree next to my office door late morning. Thought it was NFG - nope! recorded one on 2nd June last year - consistent I guess... (Unlike Obsidentify which came up for 3 different Argyresthia sp. + Green-veined white from 4 photos!)
Grapholita lobarzewskii to the FOR lure late yesterday afternoon
May 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Grapholita lobarzewskii to the FOR lure late yesterday afternoon
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We’re in the “Don’t Look Up” era.
Climate change is accelerating, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation while the planet burns.
Heat records are tumbling all over the planet on an almost daily basis
Climate change is accelerating, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation while the planet burns.
Heat records are tumbling all over the planet on an almost daily basis
May 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We’re in the “Don’t Look Up” era.
Climate change is accelerating, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation while the planet burns.
Heat records are tumbling all over the planet on an almost daily basis
Climate change is accelerating, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation while the planet burns.
Heat records are tumbling all over the planet on an almost daily basis
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![@ChuckWendig honestly do you blame it
New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth
[pic of jupiter]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreibcu7cukirtg2qzx7j5tox4c6255sid5nccd2a4evuhim6pqfplbq@jpeg)
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Given that we’re a nation of nature lovers, whose conservation charities are among the world's biggest membership organisations, Keir Starmer’s repeated attacks on voters who want to protect the living planet, calling us “time-wasting nimbys”, “blockers” and “zealots”, is frankly idiotic.
May 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Given that we’re a nation of nature lovers, whose conservation charities are among the world's biggest membership organisations, Keir Starmer’s repeated attacks on voters who want to protect the living planet, calling us “time-wasting nimbys”, “blockers” and “zealots”, is frankly idiotic.