It’s the last few days of Soil at Somerset House! If you haven’t been, you really should. Wonderful exhibition, and thank you to the talented @jopearlceramics.bsky.social for the guided tour. These are her ceramics www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil

Bees exhibition at World Museum Liverpool is beautiful! Wonderful perspectives on pollination and the lives of bees. Go and see it. After all, bees are furry, vegetarian wasps. I wish it could visit us at NHM London.

A cold and breezy trip to lovely Hilbre island. Always good to see Purple Sandpipers. Very obliging of this Shag, to stand next to a Cormorant. @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social

@ionace.bsky.social and I identified and databased 6,600 UK ichneumonoids light-trapped by an amazing crew of moth trappers in 2024. Wonderful dataset. Recent highlights: first Rogas luteus for over 100 years and Enicospilus myricae, haven’t seen since I described it in 2016.

If I empty my (slightly out of control) sent emails folder, will future historians curse me? Probably not.

A lot of Darwin Tree of Life barcodes and a lot of genomes (1500). Which means a lot of cake.

Always nice to photograph mutillids for enquiries. The South African Smicromyrme praedatrix.

Random kestrel (dead frog)

Any random shape around you might actually be a wasp nest.