Mark Brown
@markjfbrown.bsky.social
Bees, ants, parasites, and pollinator conservation for work. Professor at Royal Holloway University of London. Nature, opera, fantasy novels, family, and reading for play 🐜 🐝 🦠 🏳️🌈
Fantastic phenotypic plasticity - flowering blackberries in the last week of October!
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Fantastic phenotypic plasticity - flowering blackberries in the last week of October!
Always nice to have an excuse for a lab lunch off campus - thanks @morganmorrison73.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Always nice to have an excuse for a lab lunch off campus - thanks @morganmorrison73.bsky.social
Apple robots at work @restpoll.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Apple robots at work @restpoll.bsky.social
Industrial apple washing @restpoll.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Industrial apple washing @restpoll.bsky.social
Pink Lady apples in smart fresh storage - they can keep for a year in this low oxygen low temperature environment - this is one way we have apples in supermarkets all year round
October 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Pink Lady apples in smart fresh storage - they can keep for a year in this low oxygen low temperature environment - this is one way we have apples in supermarkets all year round
This is a lot of Gala apples 🍎 🍏
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is a lot of Gala apples 🍎 🍏
The Cambridge crew living their best lives and enjoying the @restpoll.bsky.social 🍎 🍏 production tour @camzoology.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @globalfoodcamb.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Cambridge crew living their best lives and enjoying the @restpoll.bsky.social 🍎 🍏 production tour @camzoology.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @globalfoodcamb.bsky.social
Fascinating to learn about the integration of biodiversity with apple production in Spain as part of the RestPoll Living Labs @restpoll.bsky.social AGM
October 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Fascinating to learn about the integration of biodiversity with apple production in Spain as part of the RestPoll Living Labs @restpoll.bsky.social AGM
I think I need to water my office-friend 🌵…
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I think I need to water my office-friend 🌵…
Valley of the Butterflies in Rhodes is really Valley of the Moths, but a nifty way to get the punters in. There were still enough tiger moths their today, at the end of the season, to give some idea of what a natural spectacle it must be at its peak
September 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Valley of the Butterflies in Rhodes is really Valley of the Moths, but a nifty way to get the punters in. There were still enough tiger moths their today, at the end of the season, to give some idea of what a natural spectacle it must be at its peak
This morning’s catch - possibly Distoleon annulatus and a lovely praying mantis
September 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This morning’s catch - possibly Distoleon annulatus and a lovely praying mantis
My husband rescued this beautiful ant lion adult from the pool (we’re on holiday in Lardos, Rhodes) - web resources aren’t great, so species ID help much appreciated. Have given it a tree to camouflage against, so hoping it makes it until tonight when it can fly again 🤩
September 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
My husband rescued this beautiful ant lion adult from the pool (we’re on holiday in Lardos, Rhodes) - web resources aren’t great, so species ID help much appreciated. Have given it a tree to camouflage against, so hoping it makes it until tonight when it can fly again 🤩
Really enjoying the Mediterranean snakelocks anemones 🤩
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Really enjoying the Mediterranean snakelocks anemones 🤩
A lovely nest of Messor 🐜 getting their day started #AntsAtWork IYKYK
September 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A lovely nest of Messor 🐜 getting their day started #AntsAtWork IYKYK
Very cool (pun intended) fanning behaviour by Vespa orientalis nesting in the wall of the medieval Hospital of the Knights of St John in Rhodes #socialinsects @waspwoman.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Very cool (pun intended) fanning behaviour by Vespa orientalis nesting in the wall of the medieval Hospital of the Knights of St John in Rhodes #socialinsects @waspwoman.bsky.social
Could swimming pools act as a vast landscape-scale pan-trap network?
August 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Could swimming pools act as a vast landscape-scale pan-trap network?
I do love a good carpenter bee 🥰
August 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I do love a good carpenter bee 🥰
Excited to be in Brussels with @planbee.bsky.social to talk about pollinators 🐝 and pesticides and ways forward for biodiversity
July 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Excited to be in Brussels with @planbee.bsky.social to talk about pollinators 🐝 and pesticides and ways forward for biodiversity
Thoroughly enjoying seeing our garden table becoming a home for a population of leaf-cutter bees 🥰
June 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thoroughly enjoying seeing our garden table becoming a home for a population of leaf-cutter bees 🥰
A very bad video (it was windy… 🤣) of a shrill carder bumble bee queen foraging - sound on for the shrill buzz! @rhulbiology.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A very bad video (it was windy… 🤣) of a shrill carder bumble bee queen foraging - sound on for the shrill buzz! @rhulbiology.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
Another great day of fieldwork with the beautiful shrill carder bee 🤩 @rhulbiology.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Another great day of fieldwork with the beautiful shrill carder bee 🤩 @rhulbiology.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
Loving the benefits of nature restoration on our beautiful campus @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Loving the benefits of nature restoration on our beautiful campus @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social
Lovely bee orchids on @royalholloway.bsky.social campus @rhulbiology.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Lovely bee orchids on @royalholloway.bsky.social campus @rhulbiology.bsky.social