AJCann
@ajcann.bsky.social
Gentleman Scientist. Ancora imparo.
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
Secretary, Leicestershire & Rutland Entomological Society: https://leicestershirerutlandentsoc.blogspot.com
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Leicester
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
Secretary, Leicestershire & Rutland Entomological Society: https://leicestershirerutlandentsoc.blogspot.com
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Leicester
This Male Walckenaeria acuminata may be common but its a fantastic looking spider, since getting into Linys this Genus is so fasinating. And its great that the male and female of this species can be Identified with a hand Lens.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Want to see what wildlife gets up to off-camera? 🦡📷
Camera traps offer a non-invasive way to study animals using motion & heat sensors.
Join our Introduction to Camera Trapping webinar with Sammy Mason, @mammalweb.bsky.social, on 22nd Jan 2026.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1723620849...
Camera traps offer a non-invasive way to study animals using motion & heat sensors.
Join our Introduction to Camera Trapping webinar with Sammy Mason, @mammalweb.bsky.social, on 22nd Jan 2026.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1723620849...
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Want to see what wildlife gets up to off-camera? 🦡📷
Camera traps offer a non-invasive way to study animals using motion & heat sensors.
Join our Introduction to Camera Trapping webinar with Sammy Mason, @mammalweb.bsky.social, on 22nd Jan 2026.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1723620849...
Camera traps offer a non-invasive way to study animals using motion & heat sensors.
Join our Introduction to Camera Trapping webinar with Sammy Mason, @mammalweb.bsky.social, on 22nd Jan 2026.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1723620849...
By checking the antennal colours of the Hairy Shieldbugs Dolycoris baccarum I found at RSPB Rainham Marshes yesterday, I found a Vernal Shieldbug Peribalus strictus. The former has black and white banded antennae, while the latter has obvious orange on antennal segments 1 and 2.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Rethinking land use and crop choices is vital for resilience, sustainability and future food security 🌾.
Read more about our rice trials: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/rice-t...
#food #farming
Read more about our rice trials: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/rice-t...
#food #farming
Rice takes root in British soil for the first time
Rice is being grown in the UK for the first time. This is part of a wider trial within the AgZero+ project that brings together UKCEH scientists and farmers to grow rice and other food, bioenergy and ...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Rethinking land use and crop choices is vital for resilience, sustainability and future food security 🌾.
Read more about our rice trials: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/rice-t...
#food #farming
Read more about our rice trials: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/rice-t...
#food #farming
Fed up with autumn leaf backgrounds yet? Let's go green.
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Fed up with autumn leaf backgrounds yet? Let's go green.
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Nigma walckenaeri.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #green #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
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Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats?
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats?
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
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It’s no surprise that SUVs (or ‘wankpanzers’) are are a danger to the public.
Next time you are in a car park next to one of those pristine 5L pickups (never been near mud) stand in front of it. In a collision it will hit you from head to pelvis, full blunt force, whole body trauma.
Next time you are in a car park next to one of those pristine 5L pickups (never been near mud) stand in front of it. In a collision it will hit you from head to pelvis, full blunt force, whole body trauma.
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It’s no surprise that SUVs (or ‘wankpanzers’) are are a danger to the public.
Next time you are in a car park next to one of those pristine 5L pickups (never been near mud) stand in front of it. In a collision it will hit you from head to pelvis, full blunt force, whole body trauma.
Next time you are in a car park next to one of those pristine 5L pickups (never been near mud) stand in front of it. In a collision it will hit you from head to pelvis, full blunt force, whole body trauma.
It's stabilimenta all the way at the moment. Just when you thought you seen it all - fake megaspiders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
Spider Art or Survival? 🕷️ The Mystery of Cyclosa's Fake Spiders | Video Abstract
YouTube video by Wildlife Messengers
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It's stabilimenta all the way at the moment. Just when you thought you seen it all - fake megaspiders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyS...
#Arachnids #Spiders #video
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Next lecture: 13 November 19.30 in Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University. Free entry.
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
The Roman Small Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland - LAHS
lahs.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Next lecture: 13 November 19.30 in Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University. Free entry.
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
The very beautiful and always very welcome Aphanus rolandri.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The very beautiful and always very welcome Aphanus rolandri.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
iRecord is currently offline.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
iRecord is currently offline.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
This has taken #NatureSpot offline with it. Sorry, this is beyond our control.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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We’re excited to announce the launch of Glo i Natur CIC - a new community interest company dedicated to protecting, restoring, and celebrating the unique biodiversity and heritage of South Wales’ coal spoil sites. 🌿
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We’re excited to announce the launch of Glo i Natur CIC - a new community interest company dedicated to protecting, restoring, and celebrating the unique biodiversity and heritage of South Wales’ coal spoil sites. 🌿
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
Follow our journey from coal to nature: gloinatur.org
#GloiNatur #NatureRecovery
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🌿 A new chapter begins.
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌿 A new chapter begins.
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
After 10 years of raising awareness of coal spoil biodiversity, the Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative is evolving into Glo i Natur CIC - continuing the same mission with new opportunities ahead.
➡️ Follow @gloinatur.bsky.social - this account will shortly be replaced 💚
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Meet Phalangium opilio, one of the UK’s most common harvestmen! 🕷️
Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
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Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Meet Phalangium opilio, one of the UK’s most common harvestmen! 🕷️
Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
Males have striking horn-like chelicerae, as in the photo.
Join our UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December 2025. 🌎 🧪
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
@britishspiders.bsky.social
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The latest BDS Journal is available online, where you can also access previous issues 👉 british-dragonflies.org.uk/bds-journal/
BDS Journal - British Dragonfly Society
Image: Broad-bodied Chaser by Bruce Hyde
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November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The latest BDS Journal is available online, where you can also access previous issues 👉 british-dragonflies.org.uk/bds-journal/
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1776: Flies abound. They stay long after the hirundines are withdrawn. Tipulae sport in the air.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1776: Flies abound. They stay long after the hirundines are withdrawn. Tipulae sport in the air.
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Nighthawks 2025
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Nighthawks 2025
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Good Vibrations?
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
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#Arachnids #Spiders
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
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#Arachnids #Spiders
Good Vibrations?
While I'm yet to catch up with the Wasp Spider, Argiope bruennichi , I have long puzzled over the stabilimentum, a structure produced these ...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Good Vibrations?
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/11/whil...
#Arachnids #Spiders
Still puzzling over the role of the stabilimentum ...
ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/11/whil...
#Arachnids #Spiders
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🎃 Happy Halloween, from the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎃 Happy Halloween, from the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!