Dr Amy Roberts
@ar387.bsky.social
PhD Biosciences (ecological systematic reviews & statistics), macro & astro photo, maker, renewables (living off grid), natural history (esp. Lepidoptera & Odonata), collect real paper books & journals.
From 🏴 Live 🏴. She/her 🏳️⚧️
From 🏴 Live 🏴. She/her 🏳️⚧️
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Blood donation 🩸 done, new sticker to add to the laptop.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Blood donation 🩸 done, new sticker to add to the laptop.
While waiting for new front tyres to be fitted. I walked into Montrose for 1st time
Ink and Quill bookshop is awesome www.facebook.com/share/1BfYCe... purchased a couple of books, as always want to keep indie bookshops open.
Also Montrose has a great vinyl record shop
Ink and Quill bookshop is awesome www.facebook.com/share/1BfYCe... purchased a couple of books, as always want to keep indie bookshops open.
Also Montrose has a great vinyl record shop
October 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
While waiting for new front tyres to be fitted. I walked into Montrose for 1st time
Ink and Quill bookshop is awesome www.facebook.com/share/1BfYCe... purchased a couple of books, as always want to keep indie bookshops open.
Also Montrose has a great vinyl record shop
Ink and Quill bookshop is awesome www.facebook.com/share/1BfYCe... purchased a couple of books, as always want to keep indie bookshops open.
Also Montrose has a great vinyl record shop
Later they went for ice-creams
August 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Later they went for ice-creams
The new Viking invasion of Scotland started very differently to the last. Firstly they came to Aberdeen on the ferry and next posed for photos.
August 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The new Viking invasion of Scotland started very differently to the last. Firstly they came to Aberdeen on the ferry and next posed for photos.
Just trying out Gemini image generation model have put the query in the Alt text. Some nice creations of Martian lepidoptera, asked for butterflies and it's labelled up moths.
August 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just trying out Gemini image generation model have put the query in the Alt text. Some nice creations of Martian lepidoptera, asked for butterflies and it's labelled up moths.
Digging the turf off my driveway and spotted this caterpillar which was in the root layer near white clover, vetch and yellow rattle.
Help needed to identify species, think it's a moth species, thanks. #caterpillar #lepidoptera #teammoth #IDneeded
Help needed to identify species, think it's a moth species, thanks. #caterpillar #lepidoptera #teammoth #IDneeded
August 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Digging the turf off my driveway and spotted this caterpillar which was in the root layer near white clover, vetch and yellow rattle.
Help needed to identify species, think it's a moth species, thanks. #caterpillar #lepidoptera #teammoth #IDneeded
Help needed to identify species, think it's a moth species, thanks. #caterpillar #lepidoptera #teammoth #IDneeded
Here is the larvae of a Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) again double life size. This was actually a tiny 6mm in body length. Clearly see the "striped pyjamas" diagnostic feature even when this small. #dragonflies #odonata #macro
August 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Here is the larvae of a Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) again double life size. This was actually a tiny 6mm in body length. Clearly see the "striped pyjamas" diagnostic feature even when this small. #dragonflies #odonata #macro
Been a week since "Dragons on the Bog" training @britishdragonflies.bsky.social photos using Canon R6 and TTARTISAN 100mm F2.8 Macro 2X life size manual lens for 1st time
Got some great close ups of diagnostic features of the Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) larvae unedited
#dragonfly #odonata #macro
Got some great close ups of diagnostic features of the Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) larvae unedited
#dragonfly #odonata #macro
August 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Been a week since "Dragons on the Bog" training @britishdragonflies.bsky.social photos using Canon R6 and TTARTISAN 100mm F2.8 Macro 2X life size manual lens for 1st time
Got some great close ups of diagnostic features of the Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) larvae unedited
#dragonfly #odonata #macro
Got some great close ups of diagnostic features of the Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) larvae unedited
#dragonfly #odonata #macro
Taking a lunch break from the @britishdragonflies.bsky.social training at Corrour and the station house café has done a special menu for us with a damselfly printed on it. #corrour #bds #dragonfly
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Taking a lunch break from the @britishdragonflies.bsky.social training at Corrour and the station house café has done a special menu for us with a damselfly printed on it. #corrour #bds #dragonfly
Corrour train station is the highest railway station in the UK, on the stunning West Highland Line. The Station House is accessible only by train or a twenty-mile walk. #TrainSpotting #Corrour
July 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Corrour train station is the highest railway station in the UK, on the stunning West Highland Line. The Station House is accessible only by train or a twenty-mile walk. #TrainSpotting #Corrour
Up at Corrour on the blanket bog with @britishdragonflies.bsky.social training course larvae surveying for White Faced Darter, Azure Hawker (and other species)
July 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Up at Corrour on the blanket bog with @britishdragonflies.bsky.social training course larvae surveying for White Faced Darter, Azure Hawker (and other species)
Made a moth trap over the weekend out of an old bucket, funnel, tall bedside lamp. Did about an hours mothing 21-06-25 results 15 micro moths plus macros were Map-winged swift (x2), The clay, Bee moth and Silver-grounded carpet (x2). Still haven't ID'ed number 2 on the pic
#moth #teammoth
#moth #teammoth
June 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Lightning on the horizon striking out at sea, about 40 miles from me.
June 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Lightning on the horizon striking out at sea, about 40 miles from me.
This week's new additions to the collection, found in various charity shops and online. Butterfly, Dragonfly and Moth altas / guides and also some old Naturalist journals
May 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This week's new additions to the collection, found in various charity shops and online. Butterfly, Dragonfly and Moth altas / guides and also some old Naturalist journals
I really want to learn book binding so I can tidy up all my latest editions to the personal ecology/entomology library
May 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really want to learn book binding so I can tidy up all my latest editions to the personal ecology/entomology library
This made a thud against my patio window yesterday. I still need to identify, so please do comment if you know. (Angus region of Scotland)
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This made a thud against my patio window yesterday. I still need to identify, so please do comment if you know. (Angus region of Scotland)
Stephen Corcoran - Northern Damselfly habitat network project #BDSSC2025
April 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Stephen Corcoran - Northern Damselfly habitat network project #BDSSC2025
Surveyed 38 sites 25 void of species and 7 new sites ND and 3 WFD new sites - between Nairn and Cairngorm NP #BDSSC2025
April 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Surveyed 38 sites 25 void of species and 7 new sites ND and 3 WFD new sites - between Nairn and Cairngorm NP #BDSSC2025
Genevieve Tomkins (recorded talk) searching for new sites of the Northern Damselfly and White faced darter #BDS #dragonfly #scotland #BDSSC2025
April 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Genevieve Tomkins (recorded talk) searching for new sites of the Northern Damselfly and White faced darter #BDS #dragonfly #scotland #BDSSC2025
Absolutely great visit to the #Gridserve electric forecourt at Stevenage this morning. Had a Costa while charging.
January 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Absolutely great visit to the #Gridserve electric forecourt at Stevenage this morning. Had a Costa while charging.
Playing as Cheung Shing Mars corporation (for the first time) achieved my 1st 200+ win on medium AI and against Helion too (a card we take out of our in-person games). Also had greenery production at 32 and MC production at 93 ! #TerraformingMars
January 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Playing as Cheung Shing Mars corporation (for the first time) achieved my 1st 200+ win on medium AI and against Helion too (a card we take out of our in-person games). Also had greenery production at 32 and MC production at 93 ! #TerraformingMars
Finally playing #TerraformingMars online and for the first time the entire planet was terraformed. Also, I was so far behind on TR rating that didn't think that I would be able to come back. It pays to have a good engine of blue and green card points.
January 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Finally playing #TerraformingMars online and for the first time the entire planet was terraformed. Also, I was so far behind on TR rating that didn't think that I would be able to come back. It pays to have a good engine of blue and green card points.
Currently, over lunch watching a webinar from David Agassiz on "How many Moths and Butterflies? The importance of taxonomy" hosted by the brilliant The Biological Recording Company biologicalrecording.co.uk will likely appear on their YouTube channel soon
January 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Currently, over lunch watching a webinar from David Agassiz on "How many Moths and Butterflies? The importance of taxonomy" hosted by the brilliant The Biological Recording Company biologicalrecording.co.uk will likely appear on their YouTube channel soon
So managed to get out the other night with new telescope #SeestarS50 this is the very first stack out of it, think might need to calibrate as stars look a bit misaligned. This is the M31 Andromeda nebula
#M31 #AndromedaNebula #Astrophotography
#M31 #AndromedaNebula #Astrophotography
January 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
So managed to get out the other night with new telescope #SeestarS50 this is the very first stack out of it, think might need to calibrate as stars look a bit misaligned. This is the M31 Andromeda nebula
#M31 #AndromedaNebula #Astrophotography
#M31 #AndromedaNebula #Astrophotography