Snap, I just noticed them in my garden today

Nice thread James, they look like cool beetles despite being invasive

Lovely start to the day to scroll through this, I enjoyed the plants and invertebrates as well as the fish. Thank you Nicola.

Pigs in the paddock next door were feeling playful despite the heat

Many young professional ecologists are extremely committed to learning plant ID. Amongst other reasons getting a good FISC score is an important way to demonstrate competency and be given more responsibility.

It's difficult to know what to make of a statement like that without being there. Recognising a beech from 20m away is different to having chance to look at features close up, you need to see things a lot of times to move from identification to recognition.

In our household they are called the bossy bee as they are so territorial with any other flying insects around lambs ear plants.

Yes there were plenty of these last weekend. When I first went there about 25 years ago I seem to remember seeing oxlips in little cages to protect them but they are doing well at the moment.

all the shithole countries

Great to see this series. I've started with the beaver episode and impressed by all the work Matt and others have done to make it a reality.

Gotcha

Where abouts in the gardens Roger?

Or were seals following the drones around and outwitting humans and AI?

From the abstract the effect of the council stopping herbicide use looks interesting.