Oliver E. Prŷs-Jones 🇺🇦🏴
@opj123.bsky.social
Naturalist, interested in bees, birds, pollinators https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/bumblebees-naturalists-handbooks-prys-jones-corbet
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Willow Tit at Llyn Brenig this morning. Visting feeders near the visitor centre, but also foraging in the trees nearby. #birdingWales @richardkbroughton.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Willow Tit at Llyn Brenig this morning. Visting feeders near the visitor centre, but also foraging in the trees nearby. #birdingWales @richardkbroughton.bsky.social
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We discuss various strategies for locating nests of the rare and endangered above-ground nesting bumblebee species Bombus muscorum. Although we did not find any nests, we were able to track bees marked with paper strips for up to 800 m.
@jki-research.bsky.social
@nabu.de
doi.org/10.1111/icad...
@jki-research.bsky.social
@nabu.de
doi.org/10.1111/icad...
Locating nests of endangered bumble bees: Lessons from field trials in northern Germany
Tracking bumble bees to find their nests using coloured strips of paper stuck to their thorax proved to be the most suitable method, while radio transponders were too heavy.
Tracking times of up to .....
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We discuss various strategies for locating nests of the rare and endangered above-ground nesting bumblebee species Bombus muscorum. Although we did not find any nests, we were able to track bees marked with paper strips for up to 800 m.
@jki-research.bsky.social
@nabu.de
doi.org/10.1111/icad...
@jki-research.bsky.social
@nabu.de
doi.org/10.1111/icad...
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Male Reed Bunting and Stonechat feeding on/from Reedmace at Gronant Dunes this morning. 46 species seen, including a female/immature Merlin, two Marsh Harriers and a flock of Sanderling that included a one-legged bird hopping along the beach! #birdingWales
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Male Reed Bunting and Stonechat feeding on/from Reedmace at Gronant Dunes this morning. 46 species seen, including a female/immature Merlin, two Marsh Harriers and a flock of Sanderling that included a one-legged bird hopping along the beach! #birdingWales
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Another angle on the Shorelark at Great Orme yesterday. It landed for a few minutes on the cairn above the cliffs from where it had a good view of the assembled birders! #birdingWales
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Another angle on the Shorelark at Great Orme yesterday. It landed for a few minutes on the cairn above the cliffs from where it had a good view of the assembled birders! #birdingWales
Amazing crabapple crop on Bryniau Clwyd this year @cofnod.org.uk Mostly unprotected trees in a heavily sheep grazed area. These two trees show how variable their fruit can be - suggesting even some isolated trees may be crosses with domestic apples. See:
www.rbge.org.uk/news/media-c...
www.rbge.org.uk/news/media-c...
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Amazing crabapple crop on Bryniau Clwyd this year @cofnod.org.uk Mostly unprotected trees in a heavily sheep grazed area. These two trees show how variable their fruit can be - suggesting even some isolated trees may be crosses with domestic apples. See:
www.rbge.org.uk/news/media-c...
www.rbge.org.uk/news/media-c...
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"will o' the wisp", methane from rotting vegetable matter in a marsh. Low-temperature oxidation leads to blue–violet chemiluminescence ignited by bubble electrical charge.
Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
October 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"will o' the wisp", methane from rotting vegetable matter in a marsh. Low-temperature oxidation leads to blue–violet chemiluminescence ignited by bubble electrical charge.
Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Work moth of the day today probably can’t get much better! Clifden Nonpareil Catocala fraxini, found first thing this morning when I nearly trod on it. #teammoth
September 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Work moth of the day today probably can’t get much better! Clifden Nonpareil Catocala fraxini, found first thing this morning when I nearly trod on it. #teammoth
Beautiful wee beetle - probably Fasta fastuosa, the dead-nettle leaf beetle. Pella, n. Italy.
September 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Beautiful wee beetle - probably Fasta fastuosa, the dead-nettle leaf beetle. Pella, n. Italy.
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Great spread and hugely positive review in the Irish Examiner this weekend of THE LIE OF THE LAND.
September 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Great spread and hugely positive review in the Irish Examiner this weekend of THE LIE OF THE LAND.
Slopes of Mt. Mottarone, north Italy. Few flowers now and few bbees (mostly probably B. pascuorum). This one a male.
September 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Slopes of Mt. Mottarone, north Italy. Few flowers now and few bbees (mostly probably B. pascuorum). This one a male.
In the woods above Stresa, north Italy. I think they may all be Amanita species.
September 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In the woods above Stresa, north Italy. I think they may all be Amanita species.
Hornet (Vespa crabro male) and Copper chaffer (Protaetia cuprea) in the hills around Stresa, north Italy.
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hornet (Vespa crabro male) and Copper chaffer (Protaetia cuprea) in the hills around Stresa, north Italy.
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Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Llyn Dulyan walk, with low water showing remains of the 1944 US air crash.
September 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Llyn Dulyan walk, with low water showing remains of the 1944 US air crash.
Bryniau Clwyd still purple topped in places - and males of B. terrestris an B. lucorum foraging in fair numbers.
September 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Bryniau Clwyd still purple topped in places - and males of B. terrestris an B. lucorum foraging in fair numbers.
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📢We’re delighted to announce that the Vice Chancellor has appointed @markjfbrown.bsky.social as Director of the University @zoologymuseum.bsky.social and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology.
Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/3UVHmey
Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/3UVHmey
August 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📢We’re delighted to announce that the Vice Chancellor has appointed @markjfbrown.bsky.social as Director of the University @zoologymuseum.bsky.social and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology.
Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/3UVHmey
Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/3UVHmey
Good walk round Grassholm Reservoir, Co. Durham.
August 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Good walk round Grassholm Reservoir, Co. Durham.
New gyne of Bombus lucorum (probably sensu stricto) perched sunning.
August 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New gyne of Bombus lucorum (probably sensu stricto) perched sunning.
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Queen of Garden Bumblebee at Watermill Cove, St Mary's, Scilly
August 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Queen of Garden Bumblebee at Watermill Cove, St Mary's, Scilly
@cofnod.org.uk Being used by swallows as we inadvertently flush insects on Ynys Enlli off the Llŷn Peninsula - after several days of near gale force winds that make foraging a challenge.
June 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
@cofnod.org.uk Being used by swallows as we inadvertently flush insects on Ynys Enlli off the Llŷn Peninsula - after several days of near gale force winds that make foraging a challenge.
@bsbibotany.bsky.social Has anyone else come across an almost complete lack of Bilberry flowers and fruit set this summer? A whole day walking the Tal y Fan Ridge in Eryri and no flowers - or Bilberry bumblebees - up here (the odd one on Marsh thistle lower down). Maybe the very dry May?
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@bsbibotany.bsky.social Has anyone else come across an almost complete lack of Bilberry flowers and fruit set this summer? A whole day walking the Tal y Fan Ridge in Eryri and no flowers - or Bilberry bumblebees - up here (the odd one on Marsh thistle lower down). Maybe the very dry May?
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Green Hairstreak on the slopes below Moel Famau yesterday - my first sighting in the local area & always lovely to see. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Green Hairstreak on the slopes below Moel Famau yesterday - my first sighting in the local area & always lovely to see. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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Male #Redstart in full voice this morning - good numbers singing in woodlands around the Clwydian Hills just now. Fabulous. #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Male #Redstart in full voice this morning - good numbers singing in woodlands around the Clwydian Hills just now. Fabulous. #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social